How sub-Saharan Africa can rethink its approach to agriculture.
In response to the economic devastation caused by the coronavirus pandemic, most sub-Saharan governments are developing economic recovery plans.
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Hidden Scars - The Landmine Crisis in north-east Nigeria.
Boko Haram conflict leaves north-east Nigeria facing severe landmine emergency North-east Nigeria is facing a landmine emergency which is having a devastating impact on people in the region.
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Lloyd's of London steps back from coal in first climate change policy.
LONDON (Reuters) -Lloyd’s of London is scaling back its exposure to coal and oil sands, the commercial insurance market said in its first sustainability report on Wednesday, in a reversal of its traditional hands-off approach to climate change strategy.
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Bluewaters coal-fired power station written off as worthless as renewables rise.
The owners of Australia's newest coal-fired power station have written down the value of the asset to zero, wiping out a $1.2 billion investment in the face of an onslaught of renewable energy.
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Air pollution a cause in girl's death, coroner rules in landmark case.
Coroner says failure to reduce pollution levels to legal limits was factor in death of Ella Kissi-Debrah, who had severe asthma. A coroner has made legal history by ruling that air pollution was a cause of the death of a nine-year-old girl.
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Call for energy giant AGL to face criminal charges over coal ash spill.
Conservationists allege company has breached its environmental licence 52 times at its NSW Bayswater power station site in the past five years
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Starlings' aerial antics behind mystery of Scots' power outages.
Walk at dusk reveals murmurations bouncing networks’ electricity cables and switching off the lights.
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Will the Mediterranean become too hot for tourists?
Late-summer temperatures may prove unbearable for some visitors, posing threat to vital holiday industry.
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‘No immediate decline in sight’ for global coal-fired power demand, says IEA.
Covid pandemic has driven the largest drop in coal use since the Second World War, but consumption is likely to rise again in 2021.
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Urgent action needed to measure air pollution worldwide.
Beijing has shown how regular objective monitoring can lead to big improvements in air quality.
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Wood burners triple harmful indoor air pollution, study finds.
Wood burners triple the level of harmful pollution particles inside homes and should be sold with a health warning, says scientists, who also advise that they should not be used around elderly people or children.
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Windfarms in Great Britain break record for clean power generation.
Forty per cent of Friday’s electricity was generated in windfarms thanks to blustery winter weather. Blustery winter weather helped Great Britain’s windfarms set a record for clean power generation, which made up more than 40% of its electricity on Friday.
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Move of Rohingya Refugees Poses Environmental and Human Rights Concerns.
On December 4, about 1,600 Rohingya traveled across the Bay of Bengal in seven navy boats from Chattogram to Bhasan Char. Bangladesh plans to move 100,000 families to the island.
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The world's largest iceberg has just broken in two.
The new iceberg is the size of a small city. The main iceberg is the size of a state. The world's largest iceberg has just broken in two, with a chunk of ice about the size of Queens and the Bronx combined splitting off from the main berg.
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PWC: World needs to cut carbon intensity five times faster to hit the 1.5°C Paris Agreement target.
A decarbonisation rate of 11.7% per year is now required to keep warming within 1.5°C, according to new analysis from PwC.
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It takes a lot of energy for machines to learn – here’s why AI is so power-hungry.
This month, Google forced out a prominent AI ethics researcher after she voiced frustration with the company for making her withdraw a research paper.
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Beyond good intentions, to urgent action: Former UNFCCC leaders take stock of thirty years of international climate change negotiations.
The authors, who have all held senior positions in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) secretariat, take critical stock of what has been achieved since the negotiations were launched 30 years ago in December 1990.
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Unsafe levels of radiation found in Chernobyl crops.
The effects of the explosive 1986 disaster can still be seen in nearby crops.
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