This White Paint Could Reduce the Need for Air Conditioning.
What if paint could cool off a building enough to not need air conditioning? Purdue University engineers have created white paint that can keep surfaces up to 18 degrees Fahrenheit cooler than their ambient surroundings – almost like a refrigerator does, but without consuming energy.
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Winners of the 2020 UN Global Climate Action Awards Announced.
Bonn, Germany - The recipients of the 2020 United Nations Global Climate Action Awards were announced today, shining a light on some of the best examples of what people across the globe are doing to combat climate change in a year that has cast darkness upon so many.
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What are Trump’s plans to fight climate change?
Donald Trump’s reelection could have a lasting impact on the fight against the climate crisis, scientists say.
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Trump stripping protections from Alaska’s Tongass forest, one of the world’s largest temperate rainforests.
The Tongass spans more than 25,000 square miles (64,750 sq km) in southeast Alaska and is one of the largest intact temperate rain forests in the world.
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How Amy Coney Barrett’s appointment to Supreme Court could impact climate crisis fight for decades.
Last minute Trump pick seals conservative domination of America’s highest court, causing shockwaves through environment movement.
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Climate crisis: Plumes of methane stretching ‘hundreds of kilometres’ rising from Arctic seabed.
First documented evidence of large-scale release of potent greenhouse gas from region may have ‘serious climate consequences’
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Economic calculus matters: Is coal the right choice?
Replacing coal or abandoning new coal-based power plants is a no-regret strategy that would only benefit us.
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Tory MPs are right: the north needs a renaissance – but it's got to be green.
Places hollowed out by deindustrialisation could be at the forefront of an environmental revolution.
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Germany's solar share to reach 10% for the first time in 2020.
Solar federation BSW warns of new hurdles to expansion being erected as part of amendment to country’s renewables legislation.
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BP Signals Imminent Hydrogen and Offshore Wind Plays.
Potential investments in offshore wind and hydrogen are on the near-term horizon, says CEO Bernard Looney. BP is readying offshore wind bids during the next six months with heightened hydrogen activity also in the pipeline, the oil major’s CEO, Bernard Looney, said Tuesday.
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One thing you can do: Vote
The United States is the world’s second-largest emitter of planet-warming greenhouse gasses and the presidential election next week will have a big impact on the extent to which those emissions are curbed, if they are at all.
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More than 200,000 tonnes of plastic leaking into the Mediterranean each year.
Report estimates there is already 100 million tonnes of plastic in the sea, with rate of pollution set to rise.
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International legal experts head to Africa to support courts in poaching fight.
Before the scheme, only 24 per cent of wildlife crime prosecutions in Kenya ended in conviction, writes Abbianca Makoni.
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Banks lent $2.6tn linked to ecosystem and wildlife destruction in 2019 – report.
Lack of policies regulating impact on natural world means finance industry effectively bankrolling biodiversity loss, analysis finds.
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Deluged by floods, America’s ‘oldest city' struggles to save landmarks from climate crisis.
St Augustine, Florida, was founded in 1565 by Spanish explorers. Flooding has been a threat for centuries and is worsening with rising tides.
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As U.S. Election Nears, Polling Shows 82 Percent of Voters Support 100 Percent Clean Energy Transition.
With an estimated 66 million ballots already cast and only a week to go until Election Day, new polling released Tuesday shows the vast majority of U.S.
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South Korea vows to go carbon neutral by 2050 to fight climate emergency.
South Korea relies on coal for about 40% of its electricity generation, with renewables making up less than 6%. South Korea’s president, Moon Jae-in, has declared that the country will go carbon neutral by 2050, bringing it into line with other major economies.
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The world's banks must start to value nature and stop paying for its destruction.
As a new report spells out how financial institutions contribute to biodiversity loss, the clamour is growing for a new approach.
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Amazon removes 'eco' badge from flushable wipes and Donald Trump toilet paper.
Environmental campaigners raise concerns over sustainability of some eco-friendly items.
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Scientists Say Methane Release Is Starting in Arctic Ocean. How Concerned Should We Be?
Arctic Ocean sediments are full of frozen gases known as hydrates, and scientists have long been concerned about what will happen when and if the
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