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DTE retires last unit of River Rouge coal-fired plant.

DTE Energy has retired the last operating unit of its River Rouge coal-fired power plant along the Detroit River, a facility that came online in 1956 and entered commercial operation in 1958.

Energy

Shale gas producers push ESG goals on investor calls.

Across the board, pure-play shale gas producers are increasingly talking about environmental, social and governance issues in analyst and investor calls, according to an S&P Global Market Intelligence analysis of company call transcripts.

Energy

EU Parliament reps call on countries to stop funding Arctic gas project.

Members of the European Parliament from France, Germany and Italy are calling on those countries’ governments to stop their state-backed investors from chipping in to fund the second natural-gas plant located on Russia’s northern coast on-line.

Energy Climate

Great apes predicted to lose 90% of homelands in Africa, study finds.

Global heating and habitat destruction may together devastate humanity’s closest relatives.

Climate Environment

Ugandan mobile app helps connects farmers with markets, knowledge to boost yields

It was Bwanika Charles’ teenage passion for agriculture that drove him to venture into growing cereal crops, mainly maize, on a rented piece of land in his home district of Masaka back in 2014.

Technology Solutions Environment

Ivory Coast's cocoa mid-crop threatened as dry spell drags on.

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - An unusual dry spell persisted across most of Ivory Coast’s cocoa-growing regions last week, fuelling farmers’ fears that the April-to-September mid-crop could be depleted.

Environment

UN: Tackling Biodiversity & Climate Crises Together and Their Combined Social Impacts

Global Experts Identify Key Options for Solutions First-Ever Collaboration between IPBES and IPCC Selected Scientists

Climate Environment

Any Reform of Federal Oil and Gas Leasing Must Include Environmental Justice

Drilling and refining has often come at the expense of Black communities, engulfing our neighborhoods with massive amounts of toxic pollution.

Climate

‘Never, ever give up’, Mckibben says, as TC energy cancels keystone XL

It took nearly five months, after U.S. President Joe Biden dealt a death blow to the Keystone XL pipeline on his first day in office. But Calgary-based pipeliner TC Energy finally, formally cancelled the project this week, acknowledging that a decade-long fight has come to an end.

Energy

Extremophiles could hold clues for climate change-tackling technologies.

Microscopic organisms known as extremophiles inhabit some of the last places on Earth you might expect to find life, from the extreme pressures of the ocean floor to freezing ice caps. Understanding how these microbes survive by interacting with different metals and gases is opening up ne

Environment

350,000 people in famine conditions in Ethiopia’s Tigray

Millions more across Tigray require urgent food and agriculture support to avert further slide towards famine, an analysis says.

Environment

Ramaphosa Cuts Red Tape to Ease Blackouts Hobbling South Africa

South Africa’s government will allow private investors to build their own power plants with up to 100 megawatts of generating capacity without requiring a license, in a bid to address the nation’s failing electricity supply.

Biggest polluting power plant in Europe to close by end of 2036

Poland plans to close Europe’s most polluting power plant by the end of 2036, a draft document published by local authorities said on Tuesday, after energy group PGE (PGE.WA) scrapped plans to develop an open-pit coal mine to support it.

Energy

Investors worth $41 trillion ask G-7 to end fossil fuel support.

A coalition of investors overseeing a combined $41 trillion of assets have called on world leaders to set more ambitious greenhouse gas emissions targets and end support for fossil fuels.

Energy

Kenya Looks to Maintain Zero Rhino Poaching Record.

Kenya's Wildlife Service says that for the first time in 21 years, not a single rhinoceros was poached in the country’s national parks in 2020. To maintain the progress, it is conducting the first ever wildlife census and placing mobile container housing in parks for rangers.

Environment