When wind turbine blades reach the end of their usefulness, most are sawed into transportable pieces and hauled to landfills, where they never break down. Because of the resources and energy that go…
Exclusive: first factory production means recharging could soon be as fast as filling up petrol or diesel vehicles.
Batteries capable of fully charging in five minutes have been produced in a…
New York (CNN Business)Europeans got more of their electricity from renewable sources than fossil fuels for the first time last year, according to an annual report from Ember and Agora Energiewende…
Sales increase 43% globally in 2020 as plunging battery costs mean the cars will soon be the cheapest vehicles to buy.
Electric vehicles are close to the “tipping point” of rapid mass adoption…
This study empirically evaluated the effect of climate variability on the healthcare status and catastrophic health expenditure of the food crop farmers in Southwest, Nigeria.
Cross-sectional data…
Finland’s electric taxi service Nopea Ride expects to more than triple its fleet in Kenya's capital this year, helping to reduce emissions from Nairobi's notorious traffic. Environmental experts say…
A new report by the European Investment Bank has stated that the European Union is a global leader in green innovation, but claims the COVID-19 crisis is putting the investment needed to drive green…
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has previously said he won’t be dictated to by other countries on climate policy.
The combined pressure of Joe Biden’s new environmentally-focused administration in the…
GHGSat, the global leader in high-resolution greenhouse gas monitoring from space, has successfully completed the launch of its third satellite, GHGSat-C2 (“Hugo”), which launched aboard a SpaceX …
As president Cyril Ramaphosa launches an initiative to deliver net zero emissions, campaigners prepare to confront trade unions over coal.
Environmental campaigners in South Africa are hoping to…
We must do more to combat effects of global heating on housing, says climate expert.
Substantial work still needs to be done to protect houses from flood damage and to ensure homes do not…
US scientist Thomas Lovejoy says the rainforest’s rich biodiversity has been undervalued compared to economic activities such as farming and mining.
The Amazon will be transformed into a “highly…
The race to host the 2032 summer Olympics looks set to be one of the most fiercely contested in history. So when the Lapland town of Salla announced its intention to vie with Jakarta, Istanbul and…
Chris Barker says more cars of any kind are bad news for pollution, while Dr Robin Russell-Jones believes British entrepreneurs can rise to the challenge of ‘green growth’.
Royal Dutch Shell Plc faces the latest ruling in a long-running legal dispute with Nigerian farmers who say the energy giant is responsible for oil leaks that have polluted their villages.
The case…
Large UK study found small pollution rise associated with more cases of age-related macular degeneration.
Small increases in air pollution are linked to an increased risk of irreversible sight loss…
In 2010, world leaders agreed to 20 targets to protect Earth's biodiversity over the next decade. By 2020, none of them had been met. Now, the question is whether the world can do any better once new…
The world's largest desert rarely sees snow like this.
On Tuesday (Jan. 19), one of the world's driest places awoke to an otherworldly dusting of frost.
In the Sahara Desert of northwestern Algeria…