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Digging in: a million trees planted as villages and schools join climate battle.

Community forest projects have seen a surge in volunteers keen to reduce CO2 emissions by creating new woodlands.

Climate

Snow blankets Hawaii volcanoes in stunning satellite image.

It's the second-largest area of snow cover since current records began.

Environment

Lloyds Banking Group on its way to planting 10 million trees by 2030.

Lloyds Banking Group has announced the first 1 million of 10 million trees have been planted across the UK in partnership with the Woodland Trust.

Environment

The Chicago plant that sparked a hunger strike amid environmental racism claims.

A metal recycling plant is due to open on the polluted Southeast Side months after the same firm shut a metal scrapyard in a white, affluent part of town. Trinity Colón grew up believing everyone had asthma.

Environment

Bendable concrete and other CO2-infused cement mixes could dramatically cut global emissions.

One of the big contributors to climate change is right beneath your feet, and transforming it could be a powerful solution for keeping greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere.

Energy

Mexico was once a climate leader – now it's betting big on coal.

As the climate crisis worsens, Andrés Manuel López Obrador plans to buy nearly 2m tons of thermal coal from small producers.

Climate

UN says lack of proper infrastructure planning is costly and hurts COVID-19 recovery, climate action, and SDGs.

New UN guide shows how governments can use long-term infrastructure planning starting today to save money, increase efficiency, and promote sustainability<

Climate

Total 100GW renewables target to put oil giant in green power top league.

Supermajor confirms figure is now official 2030 goal as it accelerates pace of wind and solar activity.

Energy

The Greek island where renewable energy and hybrid cars rule.

Female Mayors at the forefront of green development in the Mediterranean

Energy

Kenya's locust hunters on tireless quest to halt ancient pest.

In Kenya, the Food and Agriculture Organization has teamed up with the company 51 Degrees, which specializes in managing protected areas, and has rejigged software developed for tracking everything from poaching to injured wildlife or illegal logging, to hunt locust swarms.

Climate Environment

The rich really do get richer, study shows. Here’s why.

It's all about taking risks: you don't need to take them when you're rich. Few topics are as polarizing as wealth. Everyone has an idea of how it should be spread and what’s not right in society, how some people have too much money and some have too little.

Environment

How Recycling is the Biggest Brainwash of the Century.

4 reasons why you should quit it today Most of the world associates recycling with environmentally-friendly.

Environment

How the Warming Arctic Helped Drive a Deep Freeze Into Texas.

The sub-zero temperatures causing blackouts across the southern U.S. are connected to climate change.

Energy Climate

Ship Giant Maersk Bids Farewell to New, Fossil-Fuel Only Ships.

A century after the global shipping fleet ran largely on coal, the world’s largest shipping line is taking a historic step toward not using fossil fuels for propulsion.

Energy

Rare snow covers Acropolis of Athens in dazzling white blanket.

Unusual weather blanketed the Acropolis with snow on Tuesday (Feb. 16), turning the iconic site in Athens into a scene from a holiday card.

Climate

PM2.5 air pollution behind an estimated 160,000 deaths in world’s 5 biggest cities in 2020.

Jakarta, Indonesia, 18 February 2021 – PM2.5 air pollution was behind approximately 160,000 deaths in the world’s five most populous cities in 2020, according to a Greenpeace Southeast Asia analysis of IQAir data from a live

Climate

Power outages across the Plains: 4 questions answered about weather-driven blackouts.

1. The Plains states have a lot of wild weather. Why is this cold wave such a problem for utilities? The central U.S. has freezes, heat waves, windstorms, droughts and floods. All of these events stress the electric grid, pipeline networks, roads, rail and waterways.

Energy

Digging in: a million trees planted as villages and schools join climate battle.

Snow blankets Hawaii volcanoes in stunning satellite image.

Lloyds Banking Group on its way to planting 10 million trees by 2030.

The Chicago plant that sparked a hunger strike amid environmental racism claims.

Bendable concrete and other CO2-infused cement mixes could dramatically cut global emissions.

Mexico was once a climate leader – now it's betting big on coal.

UN says lack of proper infrastructure planning is costly and hurts COVID-19 recovery, climate action, and SDGs.

Total 100GW renewables target to put oil giant in green power top league.

The Greek island where renewable energy and hybrid cars rule.

Kenya's locust hunters on tireless quest to halt ancient pest.

The rich really do get richer, study shows. Here’s why.

How Recycling is the Biggest Brainwash of the Century.

How the Warming Arctic Helped Drive a Deep Freeze Into Texas.

Ship Giant Maersk Bids Farewell to New, Fossil-Fuel Only Ships.

Rare snow covers Acropolis of Athens in dazzling white blanket.

PM2.5 air pollution behind an estimated 160,000 deaths in world’s 5 biggest cities in 2020.

Power outages across the Plains: 4 questions answered about weather-driven blackouts.

World's largest iceberg disintegrates into 'alphabet soup,' NASA photo shows.

Bermuda's hurricanes are twice as strong as they were six decades ago.

Greenhouse gas emissions from raw material production ‘doubled in 20 years’.