A clutch of university degrees could have led to a cosy job in Paris. Instead, Ermann Zannou decided he could do more by living closer to the country of his birth, Benin. So he set up Green Ker in…
Heavy rain and flooding in southern Egypt has left three people dead and more than 500 others hospitalized from scorpion stings, state-run media reported.
Downpours, hail and thunder in the province…
Analysis released at Cop26 climate summit shows Australia’s per capita emissions from coal power nearly double those of China
Australia has the highest greenhouse gas emissions from coal power in…
Marking its participation at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, the Gulf Organisation for Research & Development (GORD) announced the launch of Green Events Tool (GET) developed…
16 November - The fourth WHO global tobacco trends report released today, shows that there are 1.30 billion tobacco users globally compared to 1.32 billion in 2015. This number is expected to drop to…
COP26 has come to an end in Glasgow after two weeks of meetings on climate change and the environment and with a deal on the table.
Around 40,000 people from around the world are estimated to have…
Global energy storage installations will reach a cumulative 358GW by the end of 2030 according to the latest forecast from research company BloombergNEF (BNEF).
BNEF forecasts 358GW/1028 gigawatt-…
Schemes such as carbon trading favored by polluting nations lead to ecologically destructive projects like biofuels and dams.
Indigenous communities facing an upsurge in land grabs, water shortages…
Climate activists have used their bodies, rope and glue as part of ‘destructive action’ to block part of the coal supply chain in the Hunter.
Two climate activists shut down activity at the world’s…
New study reveals huge declines in once common species amounting to loss of one in six birds since 1980
There are 247m million fewer house sparrows in Europe than there were in 1980, and other once…
On 30 September, EDF Group and its Chilean partner AME, in a 50/50 joint venture, finalised the financing of Chile's largest solar plant with a capacity of 480 MW. With this project, which is…
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Terror attacks on gold mining operations in Burkina Faso are becoming a regular occurrence. For VOA, reporter Henry Wilkins looks at the impact the attacks are having on the lives of…
JOHANNESBURG — Like many nations hit by COVID-19, South Africa has seen rising unemployment and hunger since the onset of the pandemic. One school - the Green Business College - is tackling those…
Fiona Harvey dissects the wording of the draft version of the document
The draft text is the most important document that will emerge from the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow. Unlike the last major…
For 12 years Didier Ndabahariye has been ferrying passengers around the streets of Kigali - one of the thousands of motorbike taxi drivers, known locally as motos.
Recently, he switched his usual…
It is known as the resource curse: assets that should bring wealth and stability but instead lead to corruption and poverty. And for Nigeria, oil is the culprit
In Nigeria, oil has been more of a…
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