Bitcoin rise could leave carbon footprint the size of London's.
Research estimates cryptocurrency will consume as much energy as all datacentres globally. The surge in bitcoin’s price since the start of 2021 could result in the cryptocurrency having a carbon footprint the same as that of London, according to research.
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Is this the end of forests as we've known them?
Trees lost to drought and wildfires are not returning. Climate change is taking a toll on the world’s forests - and radically changing the environment before our eyes
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Biden backs plans for first large-scale offshore wind farm in US.
The Vineyard Wind project would create 800 megawatts of electricity, enough to power 400,000 homes in New England.
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Meeting climate goals could save millions in tropics from ‘intolerable heat’
Keeping global temperatures to 1.5C could stem deadly increases in heat and humidity, study says. Meeting the world’s climate goals could prevent millions living in the tropics from facing episodes of “intolerable heat”, a new study finds.
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National Trust launches ‘worst case scenario’ map showing impact of climate crisis on UK heritage sites
Stark warning from charity highlights risks to properties, monuments and landscapes in Britain as planet heats up.
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US climate envoy John Kerry warns UK government coal has ‘no future’ amid growing concern over Cumbria mine
Mr Kerry warns UK ministers coal is ‘dirtiest fuel in the world’ amid international concern over Cumbrian mine.
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Majority of directors from UK’s top banks ‘have links with big polluters’.
Nearly 80% of directors on the boards of five of the UK’s largest banks have connections to highly polluting industries.
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Green spending makes up less than a fifth of Covid recovery funds, says UN
‘Governments today haven’t been spending as green as they should,’ the report’s author told The Independent.
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10 years after Fukushima, safety is still nuclear power’s greatest challenge.
Ten years ago, on March 11, 2011, the biggest recorded earthquake in Japanese history hit the country’s northeast coast.
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Exotic crystals of 'ice 19' discovered.
Scientists have identified the 19th form of water ice. The exotic, four-sided crystals of this rare ice variety, now dubbed ice XIX, form at ultra-low temperatures and ultra-high pressures.
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Biden DOI Reverses Trump Rule That Stripped Migratory Bird Protections.
On Monday the Biden administration restored protections for migratory birds from accidental, industry-caused deaths.
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Tesla Is Building a Giant Battery in Texas to Back up Grid.
Almost a decade after moving into the electric vehicle industry, Elon Musk's Tesla is supersizing its plans to bring its battery technology into the power storage game.
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Coalition Says Healing 'Broken Relationship With Nature' Key to Stopping Next Pandemic
As the World Health Organization stresses the need for continued measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus in the face of a global
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Youth Climate Activists Change Legal Strategy.
A group of youth climate activists who sued the U.S. government in 2015 are changing tactics in their fight to force the feds to address climate change.
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UK Government announce funding for Women in Innovation scheme on International Women’s Day
Forty female innovators have been backed by the UK Government to drive forward their novel innovations and business ideas to help the UK build back better from the pandemic and meet its climate change ambitions.
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Goldman Sachs joins UN Principles for Responsible Banking with new net zero target.
Goldman Sachs will be joining the UN principles for Responsible Banking as it announces new net zero target.
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Making sense of climate collaboration.
Investors are increasingly working together in response to climate change—this type of collaboration is extremely powerful. Investors are now recognised as critical players to catalyse global decarbonisation.
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Running Hot: Accelerating Europe’s Path to Paris.
Oliver Wyman’s latest research with CDP Europe analyses data from nearly 1,000 of the largest companies in Europe, worth around 80% of the region's market capitalization. It looks at the progress made by companies in reducing emissions and their transition plans to net zero.
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Biden Is Betting His Whole Climate Agenda on Infrastructure.
With the latest round of stimulus, clean energy advocates have been told yet again that it’s not their turn.
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China’s Dirty Recovery Will Make Curbing Climate Change Tougher.
China’s economy roared back from the pandemic on a plume of greenhouse gas emissions, raising questions over how the nation will balance new growth targets with its climate change goals.
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