CSIRO signs up for 100 per cent solar power with Garnaut’s Zen Energy.

Australia’s major scientific research organisation, the CSIRO, has turned to solar to power its operations in Victoria, NSW and the ACT, via a long term energy contract with the Ross Garnaut-led retailer Zen Energy.

‘Apocalyptic’ fires are ravaging the world’s largest tropical wetland.

Infernos in South America’s Pantanal region have burnt twice the area of California’s fires this year. Researchers fear the rare ecosystem will never recover.

Britain's oil and gas rigs most polluting in North Sea, says report.

Release of CO2 from UKCS rigs was much greater than Norwegian and Danish regions. Britain’s oil and gas rigs are the most polluting in the North Sea oil basin, according to industry data, with enough unwanted gas burned off every year to heat a million homes.

How our warmer oceans are contributing to climate breakdown.

A more stable ocean sounds idyllic, but it creates a dangerous feedback loop for our warming planet. Humans have made the oceans more stable, and the result will be more extreme weather and the acceleration of climate change.

New super-enzyme eats plastic bottles six times faster.

Breakthrough that builds on plastic-eating bugs first discovered by Japan in 2016 promises to enable full recycling. A super-enzyme that degrades plastic bottles six times faster than before has been created by scientists and could be used for recycling within a year or two.

Australia’s fossil fuel industry will collapse within 20 years, Mike Cannon-Brookes says.

Atlassian billionaire tells Q+A panel China’s move to become carbon neutral by 2060 spells doom for Australia’s coal and gas production.

Revealed: BP And Shell Back Anti-Climate Lobby Groups Despite Pledges.

An Unearthed and HuffPost investigation identified at least eight trade associations the companies failed to disclose in transparency reports. Earlier this year, oil giants BP and Royal Dutch Shell assessed the climate lobbying done by trade associations they have been involved with, an

Major solar proposal can diversify economy and reduce power cost for Botswana.

5 gigawatt plan could reverse the flow of power in southern Africa A proposed 5 gigawatt (GW) solar power program to be de

New Study Shows a Vicious Circle of Climate Change Building on Thickening Layers of Warm Ocean Water.

Global warming is deepening blankets of warmer water that alter ocean currents, hinder absorption of carbon, intensify storms and disrupt biological cycles. Near the surface of the ocean, global warming is creating increasingly distinct layers of warm water that stifle seawater circulat

Green-Kenya: We've Turned 6 Years !!

Time flies, we've turned 6 years today!!...it seems like yesterday when we celebrated the day we decided to follow our vision, We are yet again celebrating our 6th anniversary today.

Solar Mamas Brighten Rural Malawi.

LILONGWE, MALAWI - A group of Malawi women is changing lives in villages that have long lived without power by installing and maintaining solar equipment in homes and schools.  The women, known as the Solar Mamas, were trained in India as solar engineers, with sponsorship from charities.  The sol

Kenya's Maasai gather for once-in-a-decade ceremony to turn warriors into elders.

Maparasha Hills, KenyaThousands of Maasai men clad in red and purple shawls and with their heads coated in red ocher gathered this week for a ceremony that transforms them from Moran (warriors) to Mzee (elders).

Will We Be Able to Reverse Trump’s Climate Damage?

When he talks about the Trump administration, David Doniger likes to say: "Imagine where we'd be if they knew what they were doing." The climate lawyer and senior advisor to the NRDC Action Fund spends his days defending the environment from the U.S.

40% of world’s plant species at risk of extinction.

Race against time to save plants and fungi that underpin life on Earth, global data shows. Two in five of the world’s plant species are at risk of extinction as a result of the destruction of the natural world, according to an international report.

Floating solar power could supply 'almost half' of global electricity demand: NREL

US researchers calculate as much as 10,600TWh in annual power generation potential from water-top PV installed on hydro-dam reservoirs.

PARIS REINFORCE September 2020.

The Arctic hasn’t been this warm for 3 million years – and that foreshadows big changes for the rest of the planet.

Every year, sea ice cover in the Arctic Ocean shrinks to a low point in mid-September.

Nigeria's pioneering gas flaring plan risks going down in flames.

UGHELLI, Delta State, Nigeria (Reuters) - Jonah Gbemre often has no electricity, but he says his home is permanently lit at night by the flames of waste gas being “flared” near his home town in Nigeria’s Delta State.

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General Electric abandons Lamu coal power plant deal in policy shift

American conglomerate General Electric (GE) will walk away from an agreement to build Lamu’s 1,050-megawatt coal-fired power plant as it shifts to renewable energy.