Climate crisis threatens future of global sport, says report.
Study says heatwaves, fires and floods, and rising sea levels pose major threat over coming years.
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Latino Voters Worried About Climate Change Could Swing 2020 Election.
President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden are in a dead heat in Texas, a state that has swung Republican in every presidential election sinc
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3rd open call - 13th International Conference on "Energy and Climate Change" (organized by KEPA-UNAI Hub for SDG7). / 7-9 Oct. 2020
Welcome to the 13th International Scientific Conference on Energy and Climate Change website. PROMITHEASnet – the Energy and Climate Change network, as the organizer, invites you to this three-days event.
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Siberian town records highest-ever temperature in the Arctic Circle.
The 38 degrees Celsius reading is 18 degrees warmer than the average June high temperature. A north-eastern Siberian town looks to have set a record for the highest temperature ever documented in the Arctic Circle.
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Mediterranean’s first floating offshore wind farm to be located off Sicily.
The Strait of Sicily is set to become the home of a 250-MW floating wind park, the first of its kind in the Mediterranean, Italian daily Il Sole 24 Ore reports.
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COP Bureau Reschedules UNFCCC Subsidiary Body Meetings to 2021.
Bonn - At a virtual meeting yesterday, the Bureau of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC decided to postpone the UN Climate Change meetings of the Subsidiary Bodies (SB52) until next year.
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Noose landmark in Namibia sparks a furore.
Petition launched to have Henties Bay tourist attraction removed and put in a museum. Windhoek — In Namibia’s coastal fishing village of Henties Bay the main tourist attraction is a noose hanging from a dead tree.
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UK: 50 MW liquid air energy storage facility.
Highview Power partners with Carlton Power to build a 50 MW liquid air energy storage facility with a minimum of 250M Wh in Greater Manchester, United Kingdom.
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How did wildlife groups start collaborating in the destruction of nature?
We need strong campaigns to confront environmental collapse. Instead, we get weakness and complicity.
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Climate Assembly UK say steps to aid economic recovery should drive progress to net zero target.
An overwhelming majority of Climate Assembly UK members say Government, employers and others should support changes to the economy and lifestyles which help achieve the UK’s net zero emissions target.
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Barcelona Opera House Reopens With Concert for 2,292 Plants.
A Barcelona opera house played its first concert since mid-March to an unusual audience: 2,292 plants.
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Judge Blocks California From Putting Cancer Warning on Roundup.
A federal judge in California ruled on Monday that the state cannot put a cancer warning on the label of the popular herbicide Roundup, as
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Reusable Cups, Bags and Containers Can Be Safe During COVID-19, Scientists Say.
The response to the global pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus has seen many states and countries reverse course on their efforts to reduce the ubiquity of single-use plastics. Now, it seems single-use plastics are a mainstay of the front lines in the fight against spreading COVID-19.
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How an Environmental Justice Documentary Is Building Solidarity in the Midst of the Racial and Health Crisis
A soon-to-be-released feature film exemplifies how independent media initiatives can be powerful tools for social and environmental justice organizing.
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Mercury Pollution Found in Deepest Part of Ocean.
Plastic isn't the only human pollutant infiltrating the deepest corners of the ocean.
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IRENA Puts Energy Transformation at Heart of Sustainable Recovery Agenda.
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 24 June 2020 — Governments can align immediate economic stimulus needs with medium to long-term decarbonisation and sustainable development objectives by targeting policy measures and public spending towards the energy transformation, a new report
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France’s Neoen to build big battery storage unit in Finland, will enable greater wind generation
French renewable energy company Neoen, one of the world’s fastest-growing independent producers of renewable energy and the owner of the Tesla big battery in South Australia, is to build a 30MW/30MWh battery storage project in Finland, the largest such project in Scandinavia.
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Oil, gas, coal could lose two-thirds of value by 2070, says study.
Business in oil, gas and coal is becoming increasingly unprofitable as global fossil reserves could lose around two-thirds of their value in the next 50 years, plummeting from around $39 trillion to $14 trillion, according to a study published on Thursday (4 May) by British think tank Carbon Trac
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Firms start to believe in a battery afterlife.
By 2040, one out of every three passenger cars around the world is predicted to be electric-battery powered. But the power packs that drive those vehicles do not last forever, so what will become of them once they lose their charge?
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Climate action is key to fighting pandemics.
A recovery that doesn’t protect the planet will be a disaster for health. I should know – I’m a doctor at the centre of Italy’s COVID-19 crisis, writes Roberto Romizi.
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