Incorporating solar harvesting into the side of buildings could enhance energy sustainability.
Research demonstrates the potential of a solar unit that can hang on the outside of a structure. If builders could incorporate solar harvesting into the siding of a building, the amount of energy from the grid that a structure would need may significantly decrea
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Report: Existing solutions could prevent catastrophic climate change.
The nonprofit Project Drawdown analyzed the potential impact of a range of technologies and practices. It’s possible to avoid catastrophic climate change by ramping up solutions that already exist today.
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Project to transform understanding of effects of climate change on mental health.
A team of researchers, designers, policy experts and educators at two of Imperial’s Global Institutesare transforming our understanding of how the challenges affecting our planet also affec
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Floods in Evia, Greece Leave 5 Dead – a Baby Among Them – and 2 Missing
The storm system Thalia that hit Greece left five people dead – with one baby among them – and two missing, on Evia on Sunday, while many areas of the island suffered serious damages from the flood.
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UK weather: a month's rain could fall in two hours as heatwave breaks.
Fears of flash flooding in parts of country, while experts warn extreme heat could become the norm. Over a month’s worth of rain could fall within two hours on parts of Britain this week, causing flash flooding, while an ongoing heatwave is set to break records.
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UK weather: 36.4C recorded on hottest August day for 17 years.
Expert warns of health implications of climate emergency as Britons flock to beaches.
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Covid-19 lockdown will have 'negligible' impact on climate crisis – study.
Drop in emissions was a blip, say scientists, and a green recovery is vital to halt global heating.
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Floating wind farms – the power source of the future.
Giant turbines operating from anchored rafts can harness strong offshore winds. Offshore wind farm potential is enormous. They are no longer limited to shallow water but can operate from anchored rafts - and the size and output of the turbines keeps increasing.
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India plans to fell ancient forest to create 40 new coalfields.
Narendra Modi’s dream of a ‘self-reliant India’ comes at a terrible price for its indigenous population.
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Oil spill off Mauritius is visible from space.
The Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius is on the brink of an environmental catastrophe after a bulk carrier struck a coral reef off its coast in late July, an accident that has led to a large o
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Kiribati's president's plans to raise islands in fight against sea-level rise.
Exclusive: Taneti Maamau says Kiribati will seek support from China and other allies to elevate islands from the sea, partly through dredging.
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Kenya: Weather Alerts At Risk As Kenya's Radio Stations Struggle Amid Virus Downturn
As advertising disappears amid the coronavirus downturn, radio stations helping farmers adapt to climate shifts could disappear
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Secretary-General's message on the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples.
COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on more than 476 million indigenous people around the world. Throughout history, indigenous peoples have been decimated by diseases brought from elsewhere, to which they had no immunity.
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Amazon fires rage in early August as fears of mass blazes mount.
HUMAITA, Brazil (Reuters) - Fires in the Brazilian Amazon have surged so far in August, government data on Friday showed, outstripping the same period of 2019 and renewing concerns about the destruction of the world’s largest rainforest, which is a critical bulwark against climate change.
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Arctic Lows.
The 2020 melting season still has at least another month to gnaw away at Arctic sea ice, but it has already consumed a lot. In July, the ice cover spanning the Arctic Ocean reached a record-low extent for this time of year.
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Energy and the Military: Leading by Example
PITTSBURGH: As the world demands more energy, nations face the often-competing pressures to increase energy access and affordability, protect the environment, and assure energy security.
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Coronavirus: Disposable face masks creating new plastic pollution crisis, experts warn.
UK volunteers have seen a "massive" rise in the amount of single use masks discarded on beaches, high streets, canals and rivers. Single use personal protective equipment (PPE) is significantly adding to the already serious plastic pollution crisis, experts have warned.
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Calls for Woodside to pay $200m to clean up moribund Timor Sea oil site it ran until 2016.
Review recommends ‘trailing liability’, where owners remain liable for decommissioning sites after selling them.
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