New Zealand singer says Donald Trump, Great Thunberg and California wildfires spurred her to visit before it turns ‘to slush’
The singer Lorde has written an impassioned entreaty for the world to…
Experiment put a human in one box, a dog in another and saw which the ticks preferred.
Confining a young researcher in one box and a dog in another and unleashing blood-sucking ticks to scamper…
Industry promotes materialism and lifts sales of climate-harming products, study says.
Advertising needs to be controlled and changed to reduce its impact on the climate, according to a report…
Amid reports that oil industry-friendly former Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz remains under consideration to return to his old post in the incoming Biden administration, a diverse coalition of…
Rome — The recent meeting of the G20 - scheduled to take place in Riyadh but held virtually due to the Coronavirus pandemic - has been an eloquent example of how the world is drifting, in a crisis of…
The Tasmania government has declared that it has become the first Australian state, and one of just a handful of jurisdictions worldwide, to be powered entirely by renewable electricity.
In a…
Public accounts committee says ignorance, incompetence and weak oversight to blame.
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has a perpetual lack of knowledge about the state and location of…
The Arctic’s record-breaking year is continuing as temperatures in late November are reaching up to 12C higher than averages in the 1990s.
The latest figures, from the University of Maine's Climate…
Trust caring for world-famous burial ground launches competitions to help conserve area.
Highgate Cemetery, the resting place of renowned figures including Karl Marx and Lucian Freud, is under…
UN warns about consequences of not conserving water and tackling climate crisis.
Water shortages are now affecting more than 3 billion people around the world, as the amount of fresh water available…
Electricity access has fallen for the first time in seven years in sub-Saharan Africa, but a boost to solar power could offer a way forward, says the chief of the International Energy Agency (IEA).
Global survey finds spending expected to double in five years in response to climate fears.
Global investors managing nearly $7tn (£5.2bn) of assets plan to almost double their spending on renewable…
Plans include making one in three Eixample streets “green zones” and creating 21 public squares.
Barcelona has launched an ambitious 10-year plan to reclaim the city’s streets from cars and cut down…
Nairobi - Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta has issued a decree to save a much-loved century-old fig tree from being cut down to make way for a Chinese-funded highway in the capital Nairobi.
The…
European utilities company E.ON is converting a natural gas pipeline in Germany, which is part of the public supply system, to pure hydrogen.
Part of its new research and development project “H2HoWi…
Andrew Forrest’s iron ore mining giant Fortescue Metals has unveiled stunning plans to build more than 235 gigawatts (GW) of renewable capacity, mostly wind and solar, to become a supplier of green…
More than two-thirds of UN member states have declared they are open to a new agreement to stem the rising tide of plastic waste.
Support is growing internationally for a new global treaty to tackle…
Exclusive: authors find ‘no clear social equity problem related to low-traffic neighbourhoods’ after studying slew of projects sparked by Covid restrictions.
There is no evidence schemes that try to…
DHL has announced it has begun operating the first purpose-built fully electric 16-tonne vehicle in the UK.
The Volvo FL Electric 4x2 rigid is now part of DHL Supply Chain’s fleet in London, making…