Big Oil’s Undemocratic Advantage You’ve Probably Never Heard Of.
Why Joe Biden needs to restore shareholder democracy in the US. We can’t waste any more time addressing the global warming issue we’re facing. The amount of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the atmosphere are rising to dangerous levels.
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How Can Consumers Help Solve the Climate Crisis?
In 2015, Parties to the UNFCCC adopted the Paris Agreement, to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by keeping the global temperature rise this century well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels, and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C.
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Vestas Launches 15 MW Offshore Wind Turbine.
Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas has introduced the V236-15.0 MW offshore wind turbine.
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Solar geoengineering: Could reflecting away the sun’s rays help to tackle global heating?
As the climate crisis escalates, some have called for more research into technologies that could reflect away the sun’s rays in order to limit temperature rise. Daisy Dunne looks at the technical, social and political
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Vales Point coal plant drops controversial bid for government funding.
The Morrison government put the $8.7m upgrade project on its energy underwriting program shortlist before the last election.
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Tough air pollution targets needed to cut health inequalities, say MPs.
Cross-party committee says deprived groups contribute least but suffer most from dirty air. The government must set tough new air pollution targets to reduce the stark health inequalities suffered by disadvantaged communities, a cross-party committee of MPs has said.
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What would a ‘Green New Deal’ for a post-pandemic world economy look like?
Analysis: What policies do we need to see implemented by politicians, what actions from business, what changes in our own everyday lives? Ben Chu explains
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Activist Catherine Flowers: the poor living amid sewage is 'the final monument of the Confederacy'.
In rural Alabama where Martin Luther King marched for civil rights, Flowers has waged a long fight for environmental justice.
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Shell Claims It Reached Peak Oil Production in 2019.
Fossil fuel giant Shell says it has already reached peak oil production.
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How Global Warming Can Cause Europe's Harsh Winter Weather.
As Germans shiver through double-digit negative temperatures and more than 80 centimeters (30 inches) of snow in parts of the country, climate science deniers have taken to social media to argue that global warming is a hoax.
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Why oil giants are swapping oil rigs for offshore windfarms.
The fossil fuel giants need to find new ways to reduce emissions, generate growth and maintain their share price. The world’s biggest oil companies are no stranger to UK waters, but by the end of the decade they will be running more offshore wind turbines than oil rigs.
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EPA to Amazon: Stop Selling Illegal Pesticides.
For the third time in three years, the U.S. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has ordered Amazon to stop selling illegal pesticides.
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Youth Climate Advocates Vow to Take Landmark Case to Supreme Court, Following 9th Circuit Rejection.
For the second time in as many years, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday rejected a landmark climate lawsuit brought by a group of young people — who say they will now take their case to the United States Supreme Court.
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Science Moms Look to Enlist Other Moms to Tackle Climate Change.
Air quality scientist Tracey Holloway wants her children, nine month old Henry and 11 year old Peter, to be able to look back at the 2020s as the time when the U.S. and the world turned a corner on tackling climate change.
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Shell to expand gas business despite pledge to speed up net zero carbon drive.
Energy firm seeks to grow operation by 20% but offset expansion via carbon capture and ‘nature-based solutions’.
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UK Considers Banning Bottom-Trawlers in Marine Protected Areas.
In a possible victory for UK oceans, four key areas of the seabed off England may soon be off-limits to bottom-trawlers.
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Pharmaceuticals Pollute the Ganges.
Studies increasingly point to the presence of pharmaceutical and personal care products in urban stretches along the Ganges River, which originates pristine in the Himalayas but is heavily polluted with industrial effluents and domestic sewage when it empties into the Bay of Bengal.
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We're on a collision course with the planet. But with public support, that can change.
Smart, activist states could prove as effective at handling the biodiversity crisis as they have at tackling the pandemic
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From tree planting to CO2-sucking machines: How could ‘negative emissions’ help to tackle the climate crisis?
Removing CO2 from air will likely be needed if the world is to meet its climate goals, writes Daisy Dunne, but our options for achieving ‘negative emissions’ each come with a unique set of challenges.
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500+ scientists tell EU to end tree burning for energy.
"Regrowth takes time the world does not have to solve climate change”, they write.
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