EU leaders must prioritise climate action to combat dangerous climate change when they gather in Sibiu for the ‘Future of Europe’ summit on 9 May, write the plaintiffs of the People’s Climate Case,…
Singapore banks OCBC and DBS's new coal ban is an Asian game changer.
LAST week, in quick succession, Singapore banks OCBC and DBS signalled an end to their financing of new coal power plants. The…
We know our planet is in deep trouble — but that’s not what this particular Earth Day post is about. This is about what we can do to improve our state of affairs, and the technologies and initiatives…
The UK has broken a coal-free record over the bank holiday weekend.
The National Grid has revealed that the UK had a coal free weekend over Easter, breaking the previous record which was set in…
Adidas has launched a new 100 per cent recyclable shoe aimed at unlocking a circular future for the sports industry.
The FUTURECRAFT.LOOP line is aimed at tackling the problem of plastic waste. The…
People taking part in protests in London and Edinburgh explain their reasons for doing so.
Nathan, 15, from Wanstead, east London
Nathan, who was into his second day of protest, was sitting in the…
China was nearly ten years late to the global green bond party, but when the world’s largest emitter of carbon dioxide did show up it certainly made an entrance. Chinese issuance of green fixed…
As many as 77% of potential voters identify global warming as an important criterion when deciding who to vote for at the May European elections, according to an opinion poll published on Tuesday (16…
Greta Thunberg visited Parliament today to meet with British MPs to discuss the climate crisis.
After meeting with MPs, Greta addressed a group of people to warn of the consequences of the climate…
New evidence suggests one of the most important climate change data sets is getting the right answer.
A high-profile NASA temperature data set, which has pronounced the last five years the hottest…
The beautifully simple design is everywhere following the protests of Extinction Rebellion – but why are its origins still shrouded in mystery?
he 1960s counterculture had the peace symbol, 1980s…
Research finds even supposedly pristine region of the Pyrenees is polluted.
Microplastic is raining down on even remote mountaintops, a new study has revealed, with winds having the capacity to…
The plummeting cost of solar and wind farms, coupled with government policies driving faster electrification, has cut the cost of reaching global climate goals by US$15 trillion in the last year,…
In 2011, after an earthquake and tsunami caused a meltdown at Japan’s Fukushima-Daiichi power plant, Gregory Jaczko, then the chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, had to worry about…
Canada’s Arctic is the hottest it’s been in 10,000 years, and the Arctic as a whole is being transformed into an “unprecedented state”, according to two new studies in the journals Nature…
It’s not the first time plastic pollution has been found in ice. Previously, researchers have found plastic in remote regions such as the Arctic — now, the same researchers have now discovered…
With at least a billion people in developing countries facing serious risk as the climate warms, the 48 members of the Vulnerable Twenty Group of Ministers of Finance (V20) is introducing a new set…
Police made 29 arrests as about 300 climate change protesters blocked one of the main roads into Edinburgh's city centre.
Supporters of Extinction Rebellion Scotland targeted North Bridge as part of…
Pretending environmental protection and economic justice are separate public policy problems will prevent us from ever achieving either.
The Our Common Future report (Brundtland et al., 1987)…