American energy corporation the Williams Companies was facing yet another setback in its attempts to build a natural gas pipeline in New York.
After a years-long battle, state regulators and…
A new analysis of observed temperatures shows the Arctic is heating up more than four times faster than the rate of global warming. The trend has stepped upward steeply twice in the last 50 years, a…
Thousands of firefighters are continuing to battle wildfires in Portugal, Spain and France, as a heatwave shows no sign of easing.
In northern Portugal, a pilot died when his waterbombing plane…
Makers of the €250,000 Lightyear 0 hope to convince drivers it can be a viable climate-friendly alternative
Winding past the ochre-coloured plateaux of the Bardenas Reales natural park in northern…
The hot weather hitting Europe this week is set to reduce power output from France’s fleet of nuclear reactors, risking even higher electricity prices as the continent endures its worst energy crunch…
Faced with demographic growth that makes road traffic and access to housing difficult in Africa, the African Development Bank (AfDB) recommends that African cities drive sustainable urbanization…
A couple of months ago 250,000 people came together to take part in the biggest ever investigation into household plastic. Now we can finally reveal the investigation results – and they are …
While the effects of climate change are hitting Africa's ecosystems hard, the continent's metropolises were in conclave in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, to discuss resilience mechanisms. The event was…
In Benin, the subsidiary of the French group Bolloré Transport & Logistics has just planted 3,000 trees in the locality of Togbin-Adounko located 27 km from the capital Porto-Novo. The initiative…
In Tanzania, eight brewing companies are joining forces to form the Polyethylene Terephthalate Recycle Company (PETCO). The initiative will collect and recycle 12.5 million tons of plastic waste in…
As part of the second phase of the Afri-Plastics initiative organized by Nesta Challenges, 10 African start-ups have been selected to present their sustainable solutions for plastic waste management…
This is a moving and disturbing story (‘Every year it gets worse’: on the frontline of the climate crisis in Bangladesh, 5 July) – a wake-up call to all of us about the direct environmental and…
In Namibia, the French nuclear giant Orano wants to equip its Erongo seawater desalination plant with a 5 MWp solar photovoltaic plant. The group has just signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with…
The third edition of the Med'Innovant Africa competition is launched. The initiative organized by Euroméditerranée, a French public urban development institution, targets the innovations of African…
The government is failing to enact the policies needed to reach the UK’s net zero targets, its statutory advisers have said, in a damning progress report to parliament.
The Climate Change Committee…
The African Union has launched the African Single Electricity Market (AfSEM) which will one day become the world’s largest continent-wide energy trading programme.
The initiative is meant to…
Oral contraceptives for squirrels are working, research has found, and the government hopes they can be used to keep populations down in the UK.
Grey squirrels are an invasive species in the UK,…
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