Sosian Energy, one of the companies chosen to build power plants in the Menengai geothermal field, has finally found a financial partner for its project. The partner is the Development Bank of…
The climate protest group Reclaim the Power had planned to hold a camp near Drax power station in North Yorkshire. Photograph: Gary Calton/The Observer
Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth have…
Opposition leader Peter Dutton speaks to shadow climate change and energy spokesman Ted O’Brien in June, when the pair announced seven sites where they say the Coalition would build nuclear…
United Nations secretary general António Guterres is expected to address the impacts of climate change and sea level rise on the Pacific region at the Pacific Islands Forum in Tonga. Photograph:…
Experts say increasing the wind speed at which turbines begin to spin could help reduce bat deaths. Photograph: Krystle Wright/The Guardian
Australian windfarm operators are being urged to embrace a…
Shotwick solar farm in Deeside, Wales. The government plans to triple the UK’s solar energy capacity by the end of the decade. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
Great Britain is on track…
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Lake Tana is immense. From a shoreline too distant to see, waves move across the lake, bringing warm, humid air to the city of Bahir Dar in…
Research into guppies has found that pharmaceuticals like Prozac in waterways are affecting fish bodies and behaviour. Photograph: Alice Chaos
Contamination of waterways with the antidepressant…
Kamala Harris during a campaign rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Tuesday. Photograph: Kyle Mazza/Rex/Shutterstock
As Donald Trump accuses Kamala Harris of waging “war on American energy”, some…
On the eastern edge of Buenos Aires, residents of the Rodrigo Bueno neighborhood take a break from pick-up soccer games and stretch out on grassy knolls. Further down the road, a kitchen buzzes with…
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This is the biggest year in modern history for elections around the globe. Citizens of at least 64 countries — collectively home to about half of…
As pop stars fly on private jets and haul stage sets around the world, with their fans collectively generating significant emissions via their own travel to gigs, Massive Attack’s Robert Del Naja has…
Workers lift a solar panel on to a roof during a residential solar installation in Scripps Ranch, San Diego, California. Photograph: Mike Blake/Reuters
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), passed…
‘Ever since red and processed meat was linked to an increased risk of cancer a decade ago, people have been advised to limit their daily consumption of these to a maximum of 70g.’ Photograph: Alamy
Dr Adi Paterson, pictured when chief executive of the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, accused Nasa of ‘confusing public understanding by publishing ground surface…
African penguins, seen here on a beach in Cape Town, South Africa, could be extinct by 2035. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
South Africa’s new environment minister has said he wants to stop…
A male bear shot in Ljusdal, 200 miles north of Stockholm. Licences to kill 486 of Sweden’s 2,400 or so brown bears were issued this year. Photograph: Adam Ihse/TT News Agency/Alamy
More than 150…