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An ambitious research effort for integrating photovoltaics into infrastructures and buildings can become a driving force of Italy’s energy transition.

Ugandans have always eaten a lot of bananas. Now a local start-up reckons it can extract even more value from overlooked parts of the crop. TexFad is using natural banana fibre to produce…

Could climate change be the next big James Bond mission and villain? MI6 will begin monitoring other countries to ensure they are playing fair on their climate commitment pledges.

Industry-led and UN-convened Net Zero Banking Alliance also announced today, co-launched by the UNEP Finance Initiative and the Financial Services Taskforce of the Sustainable Markets Initiative

21 April, New York -- The world is at risk of losing many of the benefits the ocean provides, warns the latest United Nations assessment on the state of the world’s ocean, which was released today,…

The following is a contributed article by Tony Seba and Adam Dorr, founder and research fellow, respectively, at RethinkX. For the past 10 years, there has been a conventional energy bubble…

In India, poor and marginalized communities face the dual challenges of low socioeconomic development and extreme vulnerability to climate change. Although there have been significant improvements in…

Climate change's toll on agriculture, disease and physical infrastructure, as well as redirected government spending, among other issues, could cause the global economy to lose $23 trillion, 10…

  UK government to set in law world’s most ambitious climate change target, cutting emissions by 78% by 2035 compared to 1990 levels for the first time, UK’s sixth Carbon Budget will incorporate…

Globally, only one in 50 new cars were fully electric in 2020, and one in 14 in the UK. Sounds impressive, but even if all new cars were electric now, it would still take 15-20 years to replace the…

Group accuses banks of playing ‘deadly role’ in climate crisis.

When U.S. companies build military weapons systems, electric vehicle batteries, satellites and wind turbines, they rely heavily on a few dozen “critical minerals” – many of which are mined and…

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has forecasted that global CO2 emissions will rise by 5 per cent in 2021   The International Energy Agency (IEA) has forecasted that global CO2 emissions will…

Unlike other oil-producing states, much of the drilling in California takes place in residential neighborhoods, often in Spanish-speaking communities. Despite mounting complaints about pollution from…

The Bitcoin cryptocurrency has made it easier to become a millionaire in Kenya, appreciating more than 1,200 per cent since March last year to hit an all-time-high of Sh6.9 million last week, but…

A new study of Greenland's glacial rivers has important implications for how scientists might model future ice melt and subsequent sea level rise.

The continent's annual temperature was warmer than the next five warmest years, which were all also in the last decade. 2020 was the warmest year on record in Europe, a major climate study has found…

It could be a game changer, but for now, it's still early days. The method is more efficient than wind or solar energy, the company says.

Massive melting of glaciers has tilted the planet’s rotation, showing the impact of human activities The massive melting of glaciers as a result of global heating has caused marked shifts in the…

The skies over Beijing turned yellow and air pollution soared to severe levels as a giant cloud of sand and dust particles rolled into the city, propelled by strong winds from the north of China. It…