Hurricanes are staying stronger for longer after making landfall, causing greater and more widespread destruction, because ocean waters heated by climate change give them extra fuel, according to a…
Carlos Casas’s film – half documentary, half experimental essay – is a near-wordless evocation of a ‘celebrity’ Sri Lankan elephant’s confrontation with death.
Experiment put a human in one box, a dog in another and saw which the ticks preferred.
Confining a young researcher in one box and a dog in another and unleashing blood-sucking ticks to scamper…
Public accounts committee says ignorance, incompetence and weak oversight to blame.
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has a perpetual lack of knowledge about the state and location of…
UN warns about consequences of not conserving water and tackling climate crisis.
Water shortages are now affecting more than 3 billion people around the world, as the amount of fresh water available…
Electricity access has fallen for the first time in seven years in sub-Saharan Africa, but a boost to solar power could offer a way forward, says the chief of the International Energy Agency (IEA).
Global survey finds spending expected to double in five years in response to climate fears.
Global investors managing nearly $7tn (£5.2bn) of assets plan to almost double their spending on renewable…
Plans include making one in three Eixample streets “green zones” and creating 21 public squares.
Barcelona has launched an ambitious 10-year plan to reclaim the city’s streets from cars and cut down…
Nairobi - Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta has issued a decree to save a much-loved century-old fig tree from being cut down to make way for a Chinese-funded highway in the capital Nairobi.
The…
European utilities company E.ON is converting a natural gas pipeline in Germany, which is part of the public supply system, to pure hydrogen.
Part of its new research and development project “H2HoWi…
Andrew Forrest’s iron ore mining giant Fortescue Metals has unveiled stunning plans to build more than 235 gigawatts (GW) of renewable capacity, mostly wind and solar, to become a supplier of green…
More than two-thirds of UN member states have declared they are open to a new agreement to stem the rising tide of plastic waste.
Support is growing internationally for a new global treaty to tackle…
Exclusive: authors find ‘no clear social equity problem related to low-traffic neighbourhoods’ after studying slew of projects sparked by Covid restrictions.
There is no evidence schemes that try to…
DHL has announced it has begun operating the first purpose-built fully electric 16-tonne vehicle in the UK.
The Volvo FL Electric 4x2 rigid is now part of DHL Supply Chain’s fleet in London, making…
Pollutants from farming, heating and vehicles beyond levels needed to ensure breathable air.
Governments across Europe are failing to protect their citizens from toxic air pollution, with most…
Humans now known to have polluted Earth from deepest ocean to highest peak.
Microplastic pollution has been discovered in snow close to the peak of Mount Everest, the world’s highest mountain. With…
Drop in emissions this year is a ‘tiny blip’ in buildup of greenhouse gases, UN agency says.
Climate-heating gases have reached record levels in the atmosphere despite the global lockdowns caused by…
The biggest financier of the troubled Sh200 billion Lamu coal plant project has pulled out, casting doubts on the project’s viability.
The new development was reported by local NGO Save Lamu, citing…
Chinese wind turbine manufacturer MingYang Smart Energy has begun construction of a 2GW hybrid project in Inner Mongolia which, upon completion, will boast 1.7GW of wind power capacity, 300MW of…
Former state department chief under Barack Obama to return to White House to address climate emergency.
President-elect Joe Biden has selected former Secretary of State John Kerry to serve as a “…
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