Ice melt in Alaska threatens to unleash unprecedented 'mega-tsunami,' scientists warn.
A giant, catastrophic tsunami in Alaska triggered by a landslide of rock left unstable after glacier melting is likely to occur in the next two decades, scientists fear - and it could happen within the next 12 months.
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Sea-Level Rise Takes Business Toll in North Carolina's Outer Banks.
North Carolina's Outer Banks are dotted with vacation beaches and historic communities. But the sweeping water views do not only draw tourists. They give locals a front row seat to sea-level rise.
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Prizing localism and rejecting globalisation: Better for health, the environment and happiness?
deas of changing how we shop, eat and measure national success are catching on in Australia and elsewhere – inspired by one influential woman, writes Damien Cave
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GREENPEACE AFRICA: New logging scandal in Cameroon’s forest.
It’s honestly disheartening that time and time again Indigenous People and local communities in Cameroon have to fight for the same issue - the end of forest destruction.
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Green recovery would cut global emissions by 7% and create millions of jobs.
If all major nations developed strong plans for a green recovery from Covid-19, global annual emissions would be 7% lower in 2030 than in 2019 and millions of new jobs would be created in sectors including energy, transport and materials.
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EDF Renewables buys 4.5GW pipeline of solar projects located in the U.S.’ PJM market.
EDF Renewables North America has acquired a pipeline of more than 20 US solar assets from project developer Geenex Solar, totaling more than 4.5GW of capacity.
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Trump asked Exxon for money. Period.
Trump has long preferred a mob-like form of communication which lives and dies on plausible deniability.
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Climate Action Tracker: The case of Switzerland.
Switzerland is in the process of completely revising its CO2-Act, its key piece of climate change legislation. The current draft is stronger than the version that the National Council failed to adopt in December 2018.
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Between Covid, climate change and the budget, no wonder many women are rethinking having babies.
Josh Frydenberg has urged women to have more children - but there was nothing in the budget to encourage them to do so.
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World Bank Called Out for Continued Investments in Fossil Fuels.
The World Bank has come under fire by a leading European NGO over some of its loans and grants.
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Building Electrification: A Key to a Safe Climate Future.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is clear: in order to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the world must dramatically reduce its carbon emissions and prevent global war
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All roads lead to Paris: Looking ahead to the low-carbon transition
The need to respond to climate change is triggering perhaps the largest and fastest economic transition since the Industrial Revolution.
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ENGIE launches innovative retrofit solution to decarbonise UK homes.
ENGIE has announced the launch of an innovative whole house retrofit solution; in a bid to combat the threat posed by existing housing stock to the accomplishment of the UK’s net zero carbon ambitions.
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LSE: Green jobs can boost recovery and help deliver “levelling-up”.
New report by Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment focuses on six key areas that should be at the heart of a sustainable recovery plan to ensure long-term growth.
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10 million snowblowers? Last-ditch ideas to save the Arctic ice.
Some of the solutions sound fantastical – but their proponents argue that there are precious few other options.
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Polluted air killing half a million babies a year across globe.
State of Global Air report says indoor air quality causing two-thirds of the deaths and affecting health in the womb.
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Doe your bit: Japan invents bags deer can eat after plastic-related deaths.
The famed deer that roam the city of Nara, in Japan, no longer face
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75 ways Trump made America dirtier and the planet warmer.
In the past four years, Trump has shredded environmental protections for American lands, animals and people. "I want crystal clean water and air."
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Restoring seagrasses can bring coastal bays back to life.
A century ago Virginia’s coastal lagoons were a natural paradise. Fishing boats bobbed on the waves as geese flocked overhead. Beneath the surface, miles of seagrass gently swayed in the surf, making the seabed look like a vast underwater prairie.
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