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Transforming waste heat into clean energy.

Do you feel the warmth coming off your computer or cell phone? That's wasted energy radiating from the device. With automobiles, it is estimated that 60% of fuel efficiency is lost due to waste heat. Is it possible to capture this energy and convert it into electricity?

Technology Solutions

Native Renewables: Powering Up Tribal Communities.

An organization focused on increasing energy independence for American Indians is helping to bring light, jobs and new opportunities to tribal communities.

Energy

UN Secretary: "We cannot allow runaway climate change. We need to protect the lives of all people and we need to protect our planet.

UN chief praises New Zealand premier’s ‘admirable’ response to Christchurch attacks.

Climate

Global Warming: How Hot, Exactly, Is it Going to Get?

The latest climate models are giving disturbing answers.

Climate

These Days, It’s Not About the Polar Bears.

Climate science has struggled mightily with a messaging problem. The well-worn tactic of hitting people over the head with scary climate change facts has proved inadequate at changing behavior or policies in ways big enough to alter the course of global warming.

Climate

Their Islands Are Being Eroded. So Are Their Human Rights, They Say.

Indigenous Australians from low-lying islands in the Torres Strait argue that the government, by failing to act on climate change, has violated their fundamental right to maintain their culture.

Climate Environment

Tidal wave of MPs call for step-change in state support for marine renewables.

91 MPs have signed a letter urging Energy and Clean Growth Minister Claire Perry to introduce new policies to support wave and tidal stream technologies

Energy

Renewable Energy: NIMASA prepares for Nigeria beyond crude oil – Dakuku.

The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, has emphasised its readiness to develop policies that will see to a smooth transition from the regime of intense wet cargo operations, which is the major source of income for the maritime sector in Nigeria, to the inevitable era of r

Energy

Could Beer Brewed With Wind Power Help Save the Planet? Budweiser and Enel Green Power have the answer.

During the Super Bowl in February, a commercial showed a Budweiser beer wagon drawn by eight Clydesdale horses rambling down a dreamy country lane past the whirling blades of a wind farm. With Bob Dylan’s 1960s anthem “Blowin’ in the Wind” playing in the background, the message was hard to miss.

Environment

Scientists Get Closer Look at Weird Algae That Are More Efficient Than Solar Panels.

When you've been surviving in all sorts of environments for billions of years, you pick up a few tricks for harvesting light as efficiently as possible – and now long-living, light-emitting microalgae could be about to help us develop the next generation of solar panels.

Technology Solutions

Why the Indian Ocean is spawning strong and deadly tropical cyclones.

The Indian Ocean has made its mark on the global news cycle this year. In March, tropical cyclone Idai made headlines as one of the most severe storms to have made landfall in Mozambique.

Climate

Zimbabwean Villagers Resist a Chinese Company's Mining Project.

HARARE, ZIMBABWE - Zimbabwe has clamored for outside investment in recent years, but villagers north of the capital are resisting a Chinese mining project they say will spoil the environment and fail to bring them much benefit.

Environment

Construction of Ghana’s biggest power bulk supply point begins.

Construction of Ghana’s biggest power Bulk Supply Point (BSP) at Pokuase in the Ga West district has commenced. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo cut the sod to mark its beginning.

Energy

One-million-barrel capacity onshore terminal project in Nigeria approved.

Construction of a one-million-barrel capacity onshore terminal in Nigeria has been approved by the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR).

Energy

Eight EU Countries Will Demand Decarbonization By 2050 At Sibiu Summit.

A planned ‘Future of Europe’ summit of European Union national leaders starting in Sibiu, Romania tomorrow was supposed to chart a course for the EU following Brexit.

Energy

Botswana teams up with World Bank on renewable energy.

Botswana has partnered with the World Bank to develop a renewable energy strategy that would allow the country to be more independent on energy supplies. For years, Botswana has been relying on neighbouring countries like South Africa, Mozambique and Namibia for electricity.

Energy