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14 05 2021 | 09:52

Fireplaces and stoves are bigger polluters than traffic.

Increases in wood burning have offset gains in other areas, including cleaning up exhaust fumes.

14 05 2021 | 09:48

As the Climate Warms, Could the U.S. Face Another Dust Bowl?

Improved agricultural practices and widespread irrigation may stave off another agricultural calamity in the Great Plains. But scientists are now warning that two inescapable realities — rising…

14 05 2021 | 09:43

India to build six nuclear reactors with the help of France’s EDF.

French multinational energy company EDF has submitted its offer to provide assistance in the construction of some six nuclear reactors in the Indian province of Maharashtra. The French binding…

13 05 2021 | 07:23

We can’t stop rising sea levels, but we still have a chance to slow them down.

Despite pandemic-enforced isolation, scientists from around the world have produced a vital climate change forecast.

13 05 2021 | 07:19

Cutting methane emissions is quickest way to slow global heating – UN report.

Fossil fuels, cattle and rotting waste produce greenhouse gas responsible for 30% of global heating. Slashing methane emissions is vital to tackling the climate crisis and rapidly curbing the…

13 05 2021 | 07:16

Investing in coal power would be an expensive mistake.

The UK has enormous capacity to increase its energy supply from offshore wind. Australia too has vast potential for wind and solar power. Wherever you are on the planet, the last 12 months have been…

13 05 2021 | 07:12

Corporate climate action: through a glass, darkly.

With the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow less than 200 days away, countries accounting for more than two-thirds of global GDP have now committed to net-zero emissions by the middle of the century.…

13 05 2021 | 07:08

Targets like ‘net-zero’ won’t solve the climate crisis on their own.

There are ambitious new goals in the US and UK. But governments also need to decarbonise the economy and rethink how it’s planned.

13 05 2021 | 07:06

‘Decades ahead of his time’: history catches up with visionary Jimmy Carter

A new film rejects the popular narrative and recasts the former president, 96, as hugely prescient thinker, particularly on climate change When I reach Jimmy Carter’s grandson by Zoom, he answers…

13 05 2021 | 07:06

Conspiracy Theory | Noam Chomsky.

  30 March 2021 Free Will

13 05 2021 | 07:00

Climate crisis: our children face wars over food and water, EU deputy warns

Exclusive: Frans Timmermans says older people need to make sacrifices to protect the future Older people will have to make sacrifices in the fight against climate change or today’s children will…

13 05 2021 | 06:53

Ugandan Farmers Whose Land Will Soon Become a Crude Oil Pipeline Pathway Lose Years of Livelihood.

After years of uncertainty, communities are demanding proper compensation from major oil companies who will soon begin construction of a major pipeline through their land.

13 05 2021 | 06:47

Urgent action on methane emissions could shave 0.3C off global temperatures by 2045, UN report says.

Cutting methane is the ‘strongest lever’ the world has for tackling climate crisis in the short term, according to report. Rapid action on methane emissions could shave 0.3C off global temperatures…

13 05 2021 | 06:41

We’ve had information campaigns on Brexit and Covid. What about the climate?

In the runup to Cop26, public knowledge about the crisis is shallow, with few understanding the scale of the threat. One of the key lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic is that strong policies require…

13 05 2021 | 06:36

Scientists OK plan to release one million tonnes of waste water from Fukushima.

Neighbouring nations have denounced Japan’s plan to release water used to cool the nuclear plant's melted reactors into the sea, but researchers say the dangers are low. Japan’s proposal to…

13 05 2021 | 06:33

Study of nearly every glacier on Earth shows ice loss is speeding up.

Earth's glaciers are shrinking, and in the past 20 years, the rate of shrinkage has steadily sped up, according to a new study of nearly every glacier on the planet.

13 05 2021 | 06:32

Electric cars ‘will be cheaper to produce than fossil fuel vehicles by 2027’.

BloombergNEF forecasts result of falling cost of making batteries as well as dedicated production lines. Electric cars and vans will be cheaper to produce than conventional, fossil fuel-powered…

13 05 2021 | 06:31

Study Warns of 'Unimaginable' Sea Level Rise if World Misses Paris Climate Targets.

A new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature warns that if the world's governments fail to meet warming targets set by the Paris climate accord, sea level rise from the melting of the…

13 05 2021 | 06:25

Climate and Indigenous Protesters Across 4 Continents Pressure Banks to #DefundLine3

From fake oil spills in Washington, D.C. and New York City to a "people mural" in Seattle spelling out "Defund Line 3," climate and Indigenous protesters in 50 U.S. cities and across seven other…

11 05 2021 | 15:46

PARIS REINFORCE: The Delignitisation Roller Coaster in Greece: An Old Car and a Steep Slope Ahead

  Lignite has been exploited for electricity generation in Greece since the early 1950s and has been a major socioeconomic growth driver for decades since. But, during the last decade, lignite…