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The UN’s nuclear watchdog has approved plans by Japan to release more than 1m tonnes of water from the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the ocean, despite objections from local…

In the early 20th century, Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla dreamed of pulling limitless free electricity from the air around us. Ever ambitious, Tesla was thinking on a vast scale, effectively looking…

The government looks set to break its flagship £11.6bn climate and nature funding pledge for developing countries, an internal government document seen by the BBC says. The document details how the…

Central and Eastern European countries display low ambitions with their National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs), raising concerns about the region’s ability to meet EU climate goals, campaigners…

If the EU wants to meet its boosted renewables targets it needs to “beef-up” its Net-Zero Industry Act – in part through the introduction of non-price criteria in wind power tenders including…

COP28 host the United Arab Emirates said it will aim to triple its renewables base by 2030 backed by $54bn of investments. The UAE, which presented an updating energy strategy stressing clean energy…

UAE renewables group Masdar is set to take a major stake in Iberdrola’s Baltic Eagle offshore wind project in German waters, it was claimed today (Wednesday). Masdar will buy a share of up to 49% in…

A turbine blaze in Germany was indirectly caused by ramping the ageing machine up and down due to negative electricity prices in the nation's power market, the managing director of the wind farm…

The pioneering SeaTwirl vertical axis floating wind turbine (VAWT) has bagged its first commercial deal. SeaTwirl said it has secured an agreement that includes a smaller-capacity version of its…

An ageing wind turbine collapsed and crashed into a corn field at Gescher in Germany’s North-Rhine Westphalia state. Emergency services early Tuesday found the D4 turbine from no longer existing…

Big changes in society can only occur when people have enough vision, energy and determination to meet the challenge. Hugh Saddler, who died aged 79 on 29 June after a long illness, had a profound…

Cutting oil and gas production would be "dangerous and irresponsible", the boss of energy giant Shell has told the BBC. Wael Sawan insisted that the world still "desperately needs oil and gas" as…

World temperature records have been broken for a second day in a row, data suggests, as experts issued a warning that this year’s warmest days are still to come – and with them the warmest days ever…

  All eyes are on Brussels where the European Commission is hard at work deciding the EU’s 2040 climate target, where the executive must balance demands for restraint by leaders with calls for extra…

Queer members of Just Stop Oil issued Pride in London with a set of demands this week, arguing that “the climate crisis is the biggest threat to LGBTQ+ rights, due to social collapse”. This comes…

Just Stop Oil protesters have disrupted London’s Pride march in protest over the event accepting sponsorship money from “high-polluting industries”. A number of protesters were arrested after…

In the countdown to the mid-century’s EU net zero deadline, it will be crucial to ensure that strategic sectors remain globally competitive. And there is no time to lose, 2050 is only one investment…

Germany’s Green Agriculture Minister Cem Özdemir has warned against polarising debates around agriculture and climate policy while criticising attempts to torpedo green legislation at the EU level.…

As temperatures in the Chinese capital are forecast to creep back up to record-breaking heights this weekend, activists are hoping that overheated Beijingers will start thinking about the causes of,…

Zac Goldsmith has resigned as a minister, accusing Rishi Sunak of being “uninterested” in the environment – but No 10 claimed he quit after being told to apologise for undermining the parliamentary…