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Siberian temperatures hit June record, fires spread.

Temperatures in Arctic Siberia soared to a record average for June amid a heat wave that is stoking some of the worst wildfires the region has ever known, fresh EU data showed on Tuesday (7 July).

Climate

UN sustainability goals could be a smokescreen for further environmental destruction.

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) of the United Nations, supposed to reconcile environmental protection with socioeconomic development, are actually failing to protect biodiversity, according to a new stu

Climate

Mya-Rose Craig: ‘Young people need to see someone like them who is into nature’

The 18-year-old birder and environmentalist on improving diversity in her field and how the pandemic has affected the natural world .

Environment

EU Energy System Integration and Hydrogen Strategies: no climate neutrality without renewables-based electrification.

With today’s presentation of the EU Energy System Integration Strategy and the EU Hydrogen Strategy, the EU sets course for a greener future by promoting direct electrification across the whole economy and the use of renewable hydrogen in hard-to-abate sectors.

Energy

Secretary-General António Guterres : Let us embrace the vast opportunity of a clean energy future.

I thank Dr. Fatih Birol and the International Energy Agency for convening this summit. It is vital that we bring sharper focus on the need to transition away from fossil fuels and toward a clean energy future -- a future that protects people and planet and promotes prosperity.

Energy

OLADE and IRENA Put Renewables at Heart of Post-Pandemic Economic Recovery in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Accelerating renewables could bring 3 million jobs to Latin America as region battles COVID-19.

Climate

Global temperatures likely to hit at least 1C warming for next five years.

Experts say new climate data shows how close world already is to breaching 1.5C Paris agreement pledge. There is a one-in-five chance annual global temperatures will be at least 1.5C warmer than in pre-industrial times in the next five years, experts have said.

Climate

'Landscape of fear': what a mass of rotting reindeer carcasses taught scientists.

When 323 reindeer were killed by lightning on a remote Norwegian plateau, their bodies were left for nature to take its course.

Environment

Spreading rock dust on fields could remove vast amounts of CO2 from air.

It may be best near-term way to remove CO2, say scientists, but cutting fossil fuel use remains critical.

Environment

Protecting 30% of planet could bolster economy, study says.

Scientists claim widespread conservation can bring rewards if right policies are followed.

Environment

Earth's magnetic field changes 10 times faster than once thought.

New simulations visualized the field's shifting flows over 100,000 years.

Creating a five-year window into future climate.

Providing annually-updated five-year climate predictions at global and continental scales is the focus of a new international science collaboration co-ordinated by the WMO and led by the UK’s Met Office.

Technology Solutions

How Botswana's Sudden Elephant Deaths Impact the Species.

When an elephant dies in the wild, it's not uncommon to later find its bones scattered throughout the surrounding landscape.

Environment

Renewable Natural Gas Isn't a Green Solution for Climate Change.

Natural gas is a versatile fossil fuel that accounts for about a third of U.S. energy use.

Energy

IRENA Innovation Week 2020: 5-8 October 2020

The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) invites you to save the date for the third edition of IRENA Innovation Week – a virtual gathering of policymakers,

Energy

Renewables offer coal-dependent European countries a low-cost transition option

With the energy transition in Europe at a significant crossroads and the European Union looking to increase its climate ambitions to a 55% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by the end of the decade, decarbonising Europe’s remaining coal-reliant countries has the potential to create billions i

Energy

Siberian temperatures hit June record, fires spread.

UN sustainability goals could be a smokescreen for further environmental destruction.

Mya-Rose Craig: ‘Young people need to see someone like them who is into nature’

EU Energy System Integration and Hydrogen Strategies: no climate neutrality without renewables-based electrification.

Secretary-General António Guterres : Let us embrace the vast opportunity of a clean energy future.

OLADE and IRENA Put Renewables at Heart of Post-Pandemic Economic Recovery in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Global temperatures likely to hit at least 1C warming for next five years.

'Landscape of fear': what a mass of rotting reindeer carcasses taught scientists.

Spreading rock dust on fields could remove vast amounts of CO2 from air.

Protecting 30% of planet could bolster economy, study says.

Earth's magnetic field changes 10 times faster than once thought.

Creating a five-year window into future climate.

How Botswana's Sudden Elephant Deaths Impact the Species.

Renewable Natural Gas Isn't a Green Solution for Climate Change.

IRENA Innovation Week 2020: 5-8 October 2020

Renewables offer coal-dependent European countries a low-cost transition option

PacifiCorp issues RFP for 4,338MW of new renewable energy, battery storage capacity.

EIA: 2020 U.S. coal production will fall to 501 million tons, 29% drop from 2019.

Three projects, three wins: flurry of decisions shows U.S. pipelines becoming ‘unbuildable’.

CO2 in Earth's atmosphere nearing levels of 15m years ago.