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10 01 2024 | 12:34

Could you commit to buying just five new items of clothing in a year?

From realising your personal style differs to the one prescribed by Instagram to discovering the joys of a wool de-piller – here are five people who made that pledge a year ago, on what they bought…

10 01 2024 | 12:20

Cookies and candy are latest victims of climate crisis as sugar prices surge

Cost of sugar surges to highest level since 2011 after dry spell in India and drought in Thailand, and price hike has already filtered down to desserts The climate crisis has been previously…

10 01 2024 | 11:51

Power companies paid civil rights leaders in the US south. They became loyal industry advocates

A joint investigation by Floodlight and Capital B shows millions of dollars flowed from utilities to Black leaders and their groups since at least 2009 Former Florida state representative Joe…

10 01 2024 | 11:32

War gave us the Red Cross. Now climate disaster means we need a Green Cross too

As floods, fires and storms escalate, it’s time for a body with the expertise and resources to protect people and the plane In 1859 a Swiss businessman, Jean-Henri Dunant, travelled to northern…

10 01 2024 | 11:12

Emissions from Israel’s war in Gaza have ‘immense’ effect on climate catastrophe

Exclusive: First months of conflict produced more planet-warming gases than 20 climate-vulnerable nations do in a year, study shows The planet-warming emissions generated during the first two months…

10 01 2024 | 11:01

2023 smashes record for world’s hottest year by huge margin

Rapid reduction in fossil fuel burning urgently needed to preserve liveable conditions, say scientists, as climate damage deepens 2023 “smashed” the record for the hottest year by a huge margin,…

09 01 2024 | 15:07

KENYA: the Taifa-1 satellite aims to save the mountain bongo from extinction

This is one of the first operational missions assigned to Kenya's very first 100% earth observation satellite. Over the next five years, the satellite images and meteorological data provided by Taifa…

09 01 2024 | 14:59

BURKINA FASO: 2solar photovoltaic power plants (68 MWp) inaugurated in Kodéni and Pâ

Of the 568 MW of energy produced in Burkina Faso, only 88 MW comes from renewable sources. This installed capacity has just been increased by 68 MW thanks to the construction of two new solar…

09 01 2024 | 14:51

AFRICA: the call for entries for the 5th Gulbenkian climate prize (1million euros) launched

One million euros is up for grabs in the fifth call for entries for the Gulbenkian Prize, which promotes climate innovation across the planet. For its fifth year, the Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity…

09 01 2024 | 14:43

MADAGASCAR: vanilla cultivation in the forest threatens 47% of endemic species

Madagascar is the world leader in the vanilla industry, accounting for almost 70% of the supply, but its cultivation of the world's most prized flavour is causing ecological damage. In a study…

09 01 2024 | 14:35

ZIMBABWE: drought kills more than 100 elephants in three months

Protected from poaching, the world's largest elephant population is threatened by drought. According to the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), at least 100 elephants have died in Hwange…

09 01 2024 | 14:26

AFRICA: Masdar wants to invest $10 billion in renewable energies by 2030?

On the sidelines of COP28 in Dubai, independent power producer (IPP) Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company (Masdar) signed agreements with at least six African countries to develop 10 GW of installed…

09 01 2024 | 14:18

Oil Companies Delay Emission Cuts Pending Results of Next Federal Election

With the 2025 federal election threatening to topple Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government, some oil and gas companies are delaying emissions reductions until they know the fate…

09 01 2024 | 08:39

Flood, drought...African farmers soon to be insured to the tune of $1bn

More than 40 million farmers in Africa could soon benefit from financing to manage the risks to their crops from climatic phenomena such as floods and drought. The African Development Bank (AfDB)…

09 01 2024 | 08:22

Tanya Plibersek blocks Victorian government’s plan to build wind turbine plant at Port of Hastings

Environment minister says ‘large areas of [wetland] will be destroyed or substantially modified’ by the proposal for windfarm development Tanya Plibersek has blocked plans by the Victorian…

09 01 2024 | 08:09

Climate and vaccine misinformation seemed worlds apart – but it turned out the Cranky Uncle was a universal figure

A game that teaches people how to spot climate misinformation is now being rolled out – with the same cantankerous central character – to combat vaccine hesitancy in the developing world Most…

09 01 2024 | 07:55

Ted O’Brien’s fact-free nuclear cheerleading is cover for the same old climate vandalism

In huffing and puffing over renewables while denying the measurable costs of nuclear generation, the Coalition is digging in with the politics of relentless opportunism The great modernist poet TS…

09 01 2024 | 07:42

Awash with fossil fuel money, African football is sowing the seeds of its own destruction

As Afcon kicks off under an oil firm’s banner, it is a tragic irony that the climate crisis is making the game ever more unsafe to play outdoors

09 01 2024 | 07:29

Global heating will pass 1.5C threshold this year, top ex-Nasa scientist says

James Hansen says limit will be passed ‘for all practical purposes’ by May though other experts predict that will happen in 2030s

09 01 2024 | 07:18

Cop29 host Azerbaijan to hike gas output by a third over next decade

Environmentalists condemn news of higher forecast production which is also seen as a conservative forecast Azerbaijan, which is hosting this year’s UN climate talks, plans to increase its fossil…