The pandemic has set back efforts to achieve the original 2015 targets. The need for change to make them more attainable is stronger than ever.
The United Nations has confirmed an unwelcome…
In 1997, Charles Moore was sailing a catamaran from Hawaii to California when he and his crew got stuck in windless waters in the North Pacific Ocean. As they motored along, searching for a breeze…
Plan to stamp out ‘lethal’ plastic, which gets stuck in airways of wildlife and pollutes waterways, follows South Australia’s proposal.
The Queensland government will move to ban plastic straws,…
Receding French ice leaves behind newspapers proclaiming Indira Gandhi’s rise to become PM.
Copies of Indian newspapers onboard an Air India jet that crashed into Mont Blanc in the 1960s have been…
Every summer, the wind carries large amounts of desert dust particles from the hot and dry Sahara Desert in northern Africa across the Atlantic Ocean. Data from the Copernicus Sentinel satellites and…
Close-up reveals a surface dancing with ‘campfires’.
This image — the closest ever taken of the Sun — shows the corona teeming with thousands of miniature solar flares, which scientists have dubbed…
€2bn, 475-mile Viking Link cable will share renewable energy between UK and Denmark.
Construction work has begun in Lincolnshire on the world’s longest subsea power cable, which will run between…
A heat wave that set in over the South and Southwest left much of the U.S. blanketed in record-breaking triple digit temperatures over the weekend. The widespread and intense heat wave will last for…
IPPR says 12m homes will need to be refitted to meet net-zero targets but £3bn earmarked is not nearly enough.
The government’s new plans to upgrade the energy efficiency of homes will make only a…
Diageo aims to begin bottling Johnnie Walker whisky using ‘world’s first’ design next year.
The multinational drinks company Diageo says it has created the world’s first paper-based spirits bottle…
World’s largest soaring bird flaps wings only 1% of time in flight, study shows.
A study sheds light on just how efficiently the world’s largest soaring bird rides air currents to stay aloft for…
Letter also signed by Greta Thunberg urges EU leaders to act immediately on global heating.
Greta Thunberg and some of the world’s leading climate scientists have written to EU leaders demanding…
The Ministry of Energy requires more than Sh10 billion to connect or upgrade electricity connectivity to all Level 2 to Level 5 hospitals for the leased medical equipment service (MES).
Under the…
Exclusive: Shine Energy, which has proposed a new plant at Collinsville in north Queensland, describes itself as a ‘traditional owner company’
The company proposing a coal-fired power station at…
Recent summers have demonstrated dramatically that heatwaves are not only deadly, but they are already being influenced by human-induced climate change.
Tiny west African country enjoys warm temperatures, which are cooler on its tourist-filled coast.
As the smallest country on the African mainland – just 30 miles (50km) across at its widest point,…
By 2020 Aldi aims for 100% of all of their own label packaging to be recyclable, reusable or compositable and across all products by 2025.
Last year’s report by Environmental Investigation Agency (…