To: President Cyril Ramaphosa, Chairperson of the African Union – Moussa Faki Mahamat, Chairperson of the African Union Commission – Cristina Duarte, UN Secretary General’s Special Adviser on Africa…
President-elect Joe Biden has vowed that among the first things he will do on entering the White House is rejoin the Paris Climate Accord, the international pact to cut global emissions and get a…
Appalachian frackers report $504M in negative free cash flow despite capex slashing
Tide of red ink shows little sign of ebbing any time soon for shale-focused regional gas producers
December 3,…
Dense U.N. reports may not make onto anyone’s must read list for the holidays, so think of the United Nations Environment Program’s 2020 Emissions Gap survey as a warning letter from Santa, on behalf…
Warmest temperatures since 1900 have all occurred within the past seven years, according to Noaa’s annual Arctic report card.
The Arctic’s rapid transformation into a less frozen, hotter and…
Production of concrete, metal, plastic, bricks and asphalt greater than mass of living matter on planet, paper says.
The giant human footprint stamped across the world in 2020 is greater than the…
World leaders could use the coronavirus pandemic to shave 25% off their greenhouse gas emissions with green recovery packages, according to a report released today by the UN Environment Program (UNEP…
City council keen to maintain a good balance between calm streets and illuminations from next year.
Amsterdam residents wanting to festoon the outside of their home with Christmas lighting may have…
The month’s global temperature puts 2020 closer to being the hottest year on record.
This past November was the hottest ever recorded, another global temperature milestone in a year that’s one step…
Global temperatures soared last month, making this November the hottest ever recorded, according to a new report.
Unless temperatures dip dramatically in December, 2020 could potentially overtake…
The Marshall Islands sit barely six feet above sea level in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and its people are among the most vulnerable in the world to the complex consequences of climate change,…
The ABC’s Graham Creed says new climate change research could ‘fill a big gap’ in public understanding.
Graham Creed has spent 30 years with his head in synoptic charts, and for the past 20 he’s…
Oxfam calls for higher taxes on private jets and SUVs to curb pollution by top earners.
The richest 1 per cent of people in the UK produce 11 times the amount of carbon emissions as those in the…
Representing more than 17,000 claimants who support climate action, the international organization Friends of the Earth on Tuesday opened its case against fossil fuel giant Shell at The Hague by…
Climate action advocates and wildlife defenders celebrated Monday after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit rejected the Trump administration's approval of Liberty, a proposed offshore oil-…
The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addressed the dire threat of climate change Wednesday in a speech on the state of the planet delivered at Columbia University in New York.
"The state of…
The UK Government has announced a new ambitious target to reduce the UK’s emissions by at least 68% by 2030, compared to 1990 levels.
Recognising the urgency to go further to tackle climate change,…
Scientists and academics including Prof Gesa Weyhenmeyer and Prof Will Steffen argue that we must discuss the threat of societal disruption in order to prepare for it.
Plans to deliver a better, fairer farming system in England have been set out by the UK government.
The roadmap outlines changes that will come into force over a period of seven years to help…