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Plans to build the world’s largest offshore wind farm using the world’s most powerful turbines have been taken up a notch after GE announced its newly upgraded 13MW Haliade-X units would be used for…

New Zealand could be the first country in the world to require its major financial institutions to report on the risks posed by the climate crisis.

Elephants may have ingested toxins produced by bacteria found in waterholes. Hundreds of elephants died in Botswana earlier this year from ingesting toxins produced by cyanobacteria, according to…

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Sea ice minimum has fallen below 4m sq km for the second time in 40 years as the climate crisis rapidly transforms the region. Rising temperatures in the Arctic shrank the ice covering the polar…

Records show relatively even contributions to Coalition and Labor as Morrison government announces ‘gas-led recovery’ of economy. Some of the biggest players in Australia’s gas sector have made more…

Many parts of the Earth’s climate system have been destabilised by warming, from ice sheets and ocean currents to the Amazon rainforest – and scientists believe that if one collapses others could…

Charity says world’s fast-shrinking carbon budget should be used to improve lot of poorest. The wealthiest 1% of the world’s population were responsible for the emission of more than twice as much…

A company steeped in oil and gas production may not find it easy to convince investors of its environmental credentials.

Now is a time for courage. It will take sacrifices from everyone for us all to survive, the president of the Marshall Islands writes. My country joined the United Nations nearly 30 years ago, in…

Διπλό ρεκόρ, εθνικό και ευρωπαϊκό, σημείωσαν οι ανανεώσιμες πηγές ενέργειας την περασμένη εβδομάδα στην Ελλάδα. Σύμφωνα με τα επίσημα στοιχεία του ΑΔΜΗΕ, τη Δευτέρα 14 Σεπτεμβρίου οι ΑΠΕ (αιολικά,…

WindEurope chief executive Giles Dickson says floating offshore wind has “huge growth potential, is no longer a niche technology,” and commercial-scale projects are ready to be built.

A media watchdog analysis found that just 15% of broadcast news segments over a September weekend made the connection to climate breakdown. Most news coverage of the wildfires raging in California,…

Wind and solar PV could attract more investment than any other power generation source in the Asia Pacific region in the next decade as the two technologies become cost-competitive with coal by 2030…

Take a look at some of the light-hearted images of wildlife submitted by finalists from this year’s Comedy Wildlife Photography awards

Sandbag walls set and water being pumped out of ruins of Al-Bajrawiya - site of Meroe pyramids, a World Heritage Site. Rising Nile floodwaters are threatening to swamp an ancient archaeological site…

If I asked you, what is the most common form of plastic pollution, what would you say? Plastic bottles? Straws?  While these are good guesses, they are not the correct answer. Cigarette butts are…

By early June, emissions had mostly returned to the levels of the same period in 2019, a UN report found. The Covid-19 pandemic will deliver an unprecedented annual drop in global greenhouse gas…

*This story was originally published on CBS News on September 9, 2020. All data and statistics are based on publicly available data at the time of publication.

Britain needs to step up and become a global leader in climate action, creating a number of green jobs and boosting productivity to help the economy recover from the coronavirus pandemic, the CBI…