Summer of the cannibal rats! Hungry, aggressive, highly fertile – and coming to our homes.
With restaurants closed and less food discarded on UK streets, rats have had to find new places to feed. Luckily for them, people are eating more in their houses, flats and gardens …
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Southeast Asian nations face a simple choice – lock in costly coal or invest in renewables.
Market design failures and poorly conceived incentives burden consumers with high power prices and unstable supply. Southeast Asia is young.
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Germany’s RWE, E.ON complete asset swap, RWE Renewables now a leading global green energy firm.
The major asset swap between RWE and Eon has completed, with RWE Renewables now taking on Innogy’s operations to make the new company one of the largest renewables players.
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Latest solar auction in India gets record-low price, strong interest from foreign companies.
The Solar Energy Corporation of India’s (SECI) latest auction saw a record low bid of ₹2.36 (~$0.0313)/kWh.
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Petrol sold to Nigeria from Europe 'dirtier' than black market 'bush' fuel.
Samples from illegal refineries in Niger delta found to be of a higher quality than imported petrol in new analysis.
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Democrats to unveil bold new climate plan to phase out emissions by 2050.
Report to outline aim to reduce emissions to 88% of 2010 levels Huge sums for public transport and proposals for green vehicles
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Terrawatch: unearthing snow's 'Fukushima layer'
Chinese glaciologists have found the freeze-thaw process has concentrated discharge from the disaster.
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Likelihood of 40C temperatures in UK is ‘rapidly accelerating’.
Such deadly heat may become regular occurrence later this century, scientists find. The likelihood of the UK experiencing deadly 40C temperatures for the first time is “rapidly accelerating” due to the climate crisis, scientists have found.
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17 μέτρα για τη μείωση των πλαστικών απορριμμάτων στην Ελλάδα από το WWF Ελλάς.
Η Ελλάδα έχει πολύ δρόμο να διανύσει για να περιορίσει αποτελεσματικά την πλαστική ρύπανση, όπως προκύπτει από νέα έκθεση του WWF Ελλάς, ενόψει της διαβούλευσης για την ενσωμάτωση της οδηγίας της ΕΕ για τα πλαστικά μιας χρήσης.
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Scientists Say New Strain of Swine Flu Virus Is Spreading to Humans in China.
A new study warns that the strain of H1N1, common on China’s pig farms since 2016, should be “urgently” controlled to avoid another pandemic.
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Are New Extreme Global Warming Projections Correct?
For the past year, some of the most up-to-date computer models from the world's top climate modeling groups have been "running hot" – projecting that global warming may be even more extreme than earlier thought.
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$10bn of precious metals dumped each year in electronic waste, says UN.
A fast growing mountain of toxic e-waste is polluting the planet and damaging health, says new report.
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UK gives go-ahead to giant windfarm project off Norfolk coast.
1.8GW Vanguard project gets greenlight, with approval on 2.4GW Hornsea 3 expected in autumn
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Revealed: legislators’ pro-pipeline letters ghostwritten by fossil fuel company.
Letters by key legislators including North Dakota’s governor written by officials of MDU Resources, a subsidiary of WBI Energy.
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Big nations aid fossil fuels more than clean energies amid pandemic, researchers find.
US, Russia are among many G20 nations helping coal, oil and gas more than clean energy as part of recovery packages, a major study will show.
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Arizona reels as three of the biggest wildfires in its history ravage state.
Extreme weather has contributed to the vast blazes – with the pandemic complicating the emergency response
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60% of fish species could be unable to survive in current areas by 2100 – study.
Warming water temperatures lower water oxygen levels, putting embryos and pregnant fish at risk, researchers say
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Fossils hit ‘turning point’ as Shell follows bp in declaring stranded assets.
The coronavirus pandemic may have produced a tipping point in the transition off fossil fuels, with two colossal fossils declaring in the last two weeks that they will downgrade the value of their own assets by as much as US$39.5 billion.
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Enel to launch hydrogen business as part of green drive.
MILAN (Reuters) - Europe’s biggest utility Enel is set to launch a green hydrogen business next year to speed up its plans to become a carbon-free power producer by 2050.
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Evicted by Climate Change: New CARE report calls for urgent gender transformative response to climate displacement.
The international aid organization CARE is launching a new report highlighting the causes and consequences of climate-induced displacement and the urgent need for a gender-transformative response.
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