New greenfield housing still designed around cars, report finds
Housing developments on former farmland are adding hundreds of th
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Climate change-induced extreme winter drought devastates crops in Spain and Portugal
Roofs peeking out of the water have become common every summer at the Lindoso reservoir in northwestern Spain. In parched years, parts would appear of the old village of Aceredo, submerged three decades ago when a hydropower dam flooded the valley.
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Climate change threatens Hadrian's Wall treasures in England
Archaeologists at Hadrian's Wall in northern England say global warming could soon ruin undiscovered Roman artefacts.
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Biden’s Biggest Idea on Climate Change Is Remarkably Cheap
It’s one of the most cost-effective climate policies the U.S. has ever considered, according to a new analysis. Over the past year, my climate reporting has had a few preoccupations. They include:
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Polar bear inbreeding and bird 'divorces': Weird ways climate change is affecting animal species
Species are adapting to warmer global temperatures, some in unusual ways. The world's biodiversity is constantly being threatened by warming temperatures and extreme changes in climate and weather patterns.
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Help Dixon to plant 1 million trees in Uganda
”The difference between a dreamer and a visionary is that a dreamer has his eyes closed and a visionary has his eyes open” Dixon Bahandagira.
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PRESS RELEASE: New Dates for MENA Climate Week 2022 Announced | UNFCCC
UN Climate Change News, 14 February 2022 – New dates for the first-ever Middle East and North Africa Climate Week, MENACW 2022, have been announced.
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Climate change will be expensive. Who should pay?
Global poll finds widespread agreement that companies must shoulder more of the cost in combating carbon emissions.
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Ageing Safari-1 Reactor to be replaced by new multipurpose reactor in South Africa
South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (Necsa) issued a request for information (RFI) for a new multipurpose nuclear research reactor on Sunday (MPR) that is meant to replace the organizati
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Europe’s biggest banks provide £24bn to oil and gas firms despite net zero pledges
Investments to drill new oil wells and tap gas reserves were made within a year of signing up
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Almost 40% Of All Ship Cargoes Are Oil, Coal And Gas
Three years ago, after my presentation on the changes in the automotive sector away from gasoline and diesel to electric cars and autonomous driving, a lady in the audience stood up.
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World spends $1.8tn a year on subsidies that harm environment, study finds
Research prompts warnings humanity is ‘financing its own extinction’ through subsidies damaging to the climate and wildlife
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How bad is Storm Eunice – and is it a result of climate breakdown?
A rare red warning has been issued as back-to-back storms sweep the UK
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The great greenwashing scam: PR firms face reckoning after spinning for big oil
A comprehensive study confirms that oil companies are largely all talk and no action when it comes to clean energy initiatives
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Oil firms’ climate claims are greenwashing, study concludes
Most comprehensive scientific analysis to date finds words are not matched by actions
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Prepare for mass migration to cities in climate crisis, UK mayors warn
Sadiq Khan and Marvin Rees call for action as major report launched during UN Migration Week
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Yale, Stanford and MIT’s fossil fuel investments are illegal, students say
Novel legal strategy argues that top schools including Princeton and Vanderbilt are legally obliged to put the public interest first
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US west ‘megadrought’ is worst in at least 1,200 years, new study says
Human-caused climate change significant driver of destructive conditions as even drier decades lie ahead, researchers say
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News Corp claims coal and gas moratorium would be a revenue ‘black hole’. How much would it really cost?
Grattan Institute energy experts say News Corp’s eye-watering figures on the projected costs and job losses of an improbable moratorium are ‘inflated’
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Tory MPs fear that net zero is hurting poor people. Ignore their crocodile tears
The Net Zero Scrutiny Group claim green levies are a burden, yet their own party is cutting spending on energy efficiency
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