Urban green spaces like parks with lawns and trees have well-known benefits for people who live in cities. They help improve air quality, manage floods, reduce noise and keep temperatures down. The …
HURUNGWE, ZIMBABWE - The impact of the pandemic has increased wildlife poaching around Zimbabwe’s national parks, as people who lost their jobs hunt the animals for food. To help protect the animals…
The giant tortoise, one of nature's vegetarians. Or is it?
This video shows the astonishing moment an Aldabra giant tortoise hunts and kills a noddy tern chick.
It's the first time this behaviour…
U.S. thermal coal producers watched their domestic customer base shrink in 2020 as utilities continued to announce coal-fired power plant closures and transition to less expensive renewable and…
Global study calls for urgent action to prevent ecosystem collapse, with farming the biggest cause of die-off
Between a third and half of the world’s wild tree species are threatened with extinction…
The average global citizen loses 2.2 years of life with the current levels of air pollution, with residents in the most polluted cities lose up to five years of their lives, according to a new study…
Government to open more coal mines to boost power supply and jobs, but plan sparks fears over harm to wildlife and rising carbon emissions
In contrast to the growing number of countries seeking to…
SA, like most of Sub-Saharan Africa, stopped using leaded petrol in 2006
Leaded petrol, a staple of motoring for nearly a century but blamed for more than 1-million premature deaths annually, has…
Dirty air is a far greater killer than smoking, car crashes or HIV/Aids, with coal burning the leading cause
Air pollution is cutting short the lives of billions of people by up to six years,…
State power minister Satyendar Jain on Sunday said that Delhi government is planning to create a 600 MW network of ‘power banks’ around the national capital on the lines of the 10 MW ‘Battery Energy…
U.S. coal production bounced back in the first half of 2021 from early pandemic lows set in the first half of 2020, but average quarterly employment in the sector has not similarly recovered.
Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd., which supplies almost all South Africa’s electricity from coal-fired power plants, is considering spending 106 billion rand ($7.2 billion) on wind and solar energy by 2030.…
Rooftop solar systems are going to have such an impact in coming years that they will meet up to 77 per cent of total grid demand on occasions within five years, sending minimum operating demand down…
Most of New Orleans went dark on Sunday after Hurricane Ida took out transmission lines and forced power plants offline. It was an all too familiar scene in a city that has often lost power during…
Exclusive: research finds small rise in exposure to air pollution leads to higher risk of needing treatment
Exposure to air pollution is linked to an increased severity of mental illness, according…
Many European countries reported their highest annual average temperatures last year
Europe experienced its hottest year on record by a wide margin last year, data shows.
Temperatures across the…
Climate low priority for government as UK drops over 2 per cent of GDP on military every year
The government’s budget for this year directs just 0.01 per cent of the UK’s GDP towards fighting the…
The IPCC is unequivocal: we must take urgent action to curb global heating and prevent catastrophe. Will our policymakers and the Cop26 conference be up to the task?
At the end of the 60s sci-fi…
‘It’s a horrible combination – together, the wildfires and Covid-19 make us even sicker’
Wildfire smoke is linked to at least 19,000 additional cases of Covid-19 on the West Coast, and 700…
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