New study reveals huge declines in once common species amounting to loss of one in six birds since 1980
There are 247m million fewer house sparrows in Europe than there were in 1980, and other once…
On 30 September, EDF Group and its Chilean partner AME, in a 50/50 joint venture, finalised the financing of Chile's largest solar plant with a capacity of 480 MW. With this project, which is…
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Terror attacks on gold mining operations in Burkina Faso are becoming a regular occurrence. For VOA, reporter Henry Wilkins looks at the impact the attacks are having on the lives of…
JOHANNESBURG — Like many nations hit by COVID-19, South Africa has seen rising unemployment and hunger since the onset of the pandemic. One school - the Green Business College - is tackling those…
Fiona Harvey dissects the wording of the draft version of the document
The draft text is the most important document that will emerge from the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow. Unlike the last major…
For 12 years Didier Ndabahariye has been ferrying passengers around the streets of Kigali - one of the thousands of motorbike taxi drivers, known locally as motos.
Recently, he switched his usual…
It is known as the resource curse: assets that should bring wealth and stability but instead lead to corruption and poverty. And for Nigeria, oil is the culprit
In Nigeria, oil has been more of a…
Many mining and minerals businesses are already taking active steps on their ESG agenda; identifying their priorities and measuring their performance. But the real benefits come when you move beyond…
Oil and gas companies are extending their presence in sport, from elite levels down to grassroots
Days after flying into Glasgow to catch the opening of the Cop26 climate summit, Santos CEO Kevin…
Adaptation, mitigation and finance are all strengthened in a complex and delicate balance supported by all Parties.
After six years of strenuous negotiations, pending items that prevented the full…
COP26 ends with global agreement to accelerate action on climate this decade
Two weeks of intense negotiations finally complete the Paris Rulebook
For the first time COP agrees position on…
Bitterly fought-over issue of compensation for poor countries could make or break ambitious climate deal.
“Loss and damage” is the phrase for the destruction already being wreaked by the climate…
Communities in western Canada and Washington state forced to flee homes after record downpour leads to severe floods
Communities in western Canada who were forced to flee their homes this summer by…
The Guardian's Damian Carrington explains that in relative terms, the agreements and deals made by the 196 nations nudged the world a little closer towards the path to keeping global temperature…
Greta Thunberg says the outcome of COP26 is a disappointment as there is still no guarantee the planet's temperature rise will be limited to 1.5C.
The climate campaigner told BBC Scotland: "They…
With the ocean seen as the key to keeping global heating to 1.5C, attention has turned to the vital but overlooked “big three” marine ecosystems – seagrass, mangroves and salt marshes
Off the…
At Cop26 Sir Patrick Vallance has said he eats less meat and cycles but society needs to change more
Changes in behaviour are needed to tackle the climate emergency, the UK’s chief scientific…
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