Egypt secures US$253M from AfDB to finance Electricity and Green Growth Support Programme.
EGYPT – Egypt has secured a US$253 million loan from the African Development Bank (AfDB) to finance Egypt’s Electricity and Green Growth Support Programme (EGGSP).
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South pole warming three times faster than rest of the world, our research shows.
Dramatic change in Antarctica’s interior in past three decades a result of effects from tropical variability working together with increasing greenhouse gases
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Park staff in England tell of litter chaos as 'Super Saturday' looms.
Forums speak of hundreds of tonnes of plastic and other waste discarded by public.
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US to join summit on global green recovery from Covid-19 crisis.
Exclusive: IEA chief warns rebound in emissions would be missed economic opportunity.
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Utilities in western U.S. announce coal plant closures, new renewable energy investments.
Coal continues to disappear from the western United States. Two utilities in the region announced plans Friday to close their coal stations — the latest in a series of moves by Western power companies to shutter the former workhorses of their electric fleets.
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U.S. shale pioneer Chesapeake Energy files for bankruptcy.
Chesapeake Energy, the poster child of the U.S. shale revolution, filed for bankruptcy protection on Sunday. The move comes as the company and industry more broadly has been rocked by a drop in oil and gas prices amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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NTT, Japanese telecom giant, planning $9.3 billion investment in green energy, transmission assets.
NTT will enter the renewable energy market and invest more than 1 trillion yen ($9.3 billion) by 2030 to set up its own transmission network, Nikkei learned on Monday.
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Fitch Solutions: Global installed solar capacity will climb 125% in next 10 years.
Solar energy capacity addition is set to expand 125 per cent globally over the next decade as countries switch from fossil fuels to greener alternatives, according to a study by Fitch Solutions.
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Cooking up a solution to Uganda’s deforestation crisis with mud stoves.
Badru Kyewalyanga’s home-produced cooking devices use less wood and mean villagers are breathing cleaner air.
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Shooting of Zimbabwe workers by Chinese mine owner shows 'systemic' abuse, watchdog says.
Harare, Zimbabwe (CNN)The shooting of two Zimbabwean workers by a Chinese boss shows the "systematic and widespread" abuse that locals face in Chinese mining operations, says the Zimbabwe Environmental Law Society (ZELA).
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Getting closer to a much better count of Africa’s lions.
African lions are one of the world’s favourite animals. But their numbers have been shrinking over the past century, especially over the past 30 years.
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Russian mining giant admits pumping wastewater into Arctic tundra.
Norilsk Nickel suspends workers at metals plant who dumped the water in ‘flagrant violation of operating rules’
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How do you deal with 9m tonnes of suffocating seaweed?
Across the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean, scientists are developing alternative sustainable solutions to the golden tide of Sargassum
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Emmanuel Macron pledges €15bn to tackle climate crisis.
Emmanuel Macron has promised an extra €15bn (£13.7bn) for measures to combat the climate crisis over the next two years and a referendum on whether to introduce the cr
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UK should prioritise green projects to kickstart economy, says IMF.
Chief economist tells committee that coronavirus recovery is an opportunity to create jobs and greener planet
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Hundreds of elephants dead in mysterious mass die-off.
Botswana’s government is yet to test the remains of the dead animals in what has been described as a ‘conservation disaster’
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Exclusive: water firms discharged raw sewage into England's rivers 200,000 times in 2019.
Untreated effluent flowed into waterways for more than 1.5m hours, data shows.
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Australia: Carbon capture and storage is a poor investment.
More money and emissions spent on projects than in storing carbon Australia is pondering carbon capture and storage despite poor outcomes from the only two projects operating world-wide and a lack of revenue generated in lieu of a carbon price, finds
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