African governments face more immediately pressing economic needs than zero emissions. But meeting those needs and growing the continent’s economies will depend on their energy systems evolving,…
National oil champions are likely to fill the gap left by private-sector players—meaning emissions won't shrink as fast as the supermajors.
When Exxon Mobil Corp. decided to get out of a big oil…
Tulip-shaped ‘eco-art’ turbines address common complaints about noise, danger to wildlife and ugliness.
Tulips and flowers could help harness the power of the wind, after a green energy company came…
Fishing communities fear for future as oil, plastic and toxic chemicals devastate ecosystem.
Until last week Lucien Justin, the chair of the Jude Watta fisheries committee in Wattala, near Sri Lanka…
Designed to optimise energy production for a floating wind power plant
Designed for easy operations and maintenance
Elevator based turbine installation – all heavy operations…
Research based on ice-thickness data from ESA’s CryoSat and Envisat missions along with a new model of snow has revealed that sea ice in the coastal regions of the Arctic may be thinning twice as…
The project in Wyoming – the country’s top coal-producing state – is a small advanced reactor with salt-based storage that could boost output.
Power companies run by billionaire friends Bill Gates…
Bank of England to examine risks rising temperatures and sea levels could pose for financial system
UK banks will for the first time be forced to reveal their exposure to the climate crisis,…
In spite of green rhetoric, money has piled into aviation and car industries since start of pandemic, report finds.
The nations that make up the G7 have pumped billions of dollars more into fossil…
Plaintiffs want court to order Mario Draghi’s government to adopt more ambitious climate policies
Environment campaigners in Italy are suing the government for failing to sufficiently tackle the…
Female genital mutilation has revived under Covid but activists are pushing hard to save girls at risk.
It was when the phone started ringing with calls from worried mothers in Somalia that Ifrah…
Investments in developing markets need to reach $1 trillion by 2030, up from just $150 billion last year, according to a new IEA report.
As the world’s richest economies invest in new and cleaner…
Kenya's Wildlife Service says that for the first time in 21 years, not a single rhinoceros was poached in the country’s national parks in 2020. To maintain the progress, it is conducting the first…
Analysis shows significant risk of cascading events even at 2C of heating, with severe long-term effects.
Ice sheets and ocean currents at risk of climate tipping points can destabilise each other…
New data comes amid warning that world’s growing awareness of coal exports’ impact risks further damaging Australia’s reputation on climate.
Emissions from coal mined in Australia but exported and…
Millions more across Tigray require urgent food and agriculture support to avert further slide towards famine, an analysis says.
Some 350,000 people in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region are facing…