Covid-19, climate crisis and war combine to reverse decades of progress on raising living standards.
An additional 150 million people could be pushed into extreme poverty by the end of next year as…
Air temperatures hit all-time highs for month and Arctic sea ice level was ‘particularly low’.
The world this year experienced its hottest September on record, scientists have reported.
Surface air…
Higher public spending urged as way of boosting employment and GDP at relatively low cost.
The International Monetary Fund has told its member governments they can create millions of jobs and boost…
PM vows to make Britain world leader in low-cost clean power with ‘Build Back Greener’ drive.
Boris Johnson will promise to power every home in the UK with offshore wind energy within a decade,…
As the American public awaits a new coronavirus aid package and at least one in five small businesses expect to close by the end of 2020 due to economic hardship, government watchdog Accountable.US…
Cambridge University is to cease investments in fossil fuels by 2030, it has announced.
At the same time, its £3.5 billion endowment fund will "ramp up" investments in renewable energy.
Vice-…
A new report shows the U.S. government bought more than $350 million in bonds issued by oil and gas companies and induced investors to loan the industry tens of billions more at artificially low…
Satellites record 61% rise in hotspots over September 2019
Scientist warns: ‘It could get worse if the drought continues’
Fires in Brazil’s Amazon increased 13% in the first nine months of…
Documents show BP, Shell and Equinor had several meetings with government officials.
Fossil fuel firms have held a series of private meetings with UK government officials in an attempt to be part of…
Atlassian billionaire tells Q+A panel China’s move to become carbon neutral by 2060 spells doom for Australia’s coal and gas production.
Australia’s fossil fuel industry will collapse within 20…
5 gigawatt plan could reverse the flow of power in southern Africa
A proposed 5 gigawatt (GW) solar power program to be developed jointly by Botswana and Namibia would become a landmark power deal…
2020 presents to you... "zombie storms."
Wildfires are burning the West Coast, hurricanes are flooding the Southeast — and some of those storms are rising from the dead.
"Zombie storms," which…
New IRENA report explores cost-effective growth of renewables in Central and South Eastern Europe to save costs, enhance energy security and supply affordable energy to all citizens in the region.
Country will need to kick addiction to coal and build eye-watering amount of wind and solar capacity.
China’s President Xi Jinping stunned climate action observers in a speech at the United Nations…
Australia’s major scientific research organisation, the CSIRO, has turned to solar to power its operations in Victoria, NSW and the ACT, via a long term energy contract with the Ross Garnaut-led…
The House of Representatives passed a sweeping bill to boost clean energy while phasing out the use of coolants in air conditioners and refrigerators that are known pollutants and contribute to the …
Race against time to save plants and fungi that underpin life on Earth, global data shows.
Two in five of the world’s plant species are at risk of extinction as a result of the destruction of the…
A new report by research agency Wood Mackenzie’s has estimated that the global energy storage capacity additions could grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 31 percent, recording 741…