The French energy company will build the facility on the water reservoir of the Lazer hydroelectric plant, to double its production. Construction is expected to require 13 months.
Exxon Mobil Corp on Tuesday posted a historic annual loss after the COVID-19 pandemic hammered energy prices and the company reduced the value of shale gas properties by more than $20 billion.
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Research showing severe flood threat caused by global heating may set legal precedent in climate litigation
Human-caused global heating is directly responsible for the threat of a devastating flood…
Energy watchdog’s Fatih Birol says shift away from coal in key regions needs to be made a global priority.
Dependency on coal in key parts of the world is preventing a global green recovery from…
Hopes the above-water unit on King Island can be expanded across Australia’s vast southern coastline.
Technology that harnesses wave energy through a “blowhole” is being tested at a remote Tasmanian…
Danish team predict possible 1.35m rise by 2100 and highlight issues with previous modelling.
The rise in the sea level is likely to be faster and greater than previously thought, according to…
UNSW Sydney had 43 researchers in the top 10,000 last year in the world’s most comprehensive standardised citation database.
The latest release from the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford…
New York (CNN Business)Europeans got more of their electricity from renewable sources than fossil fuels for the first time last year, according to an annual report from Ember and Agora Energiewende…
Sales increase 43% globally in 2020 as plunging battery costs mean the cars will soon be the cheapest vehicles to buy.
Electric vehicles are close to the “tipping point” of rapid mass adoption…
This study empirically evaluated the effect of climate variability on the healthcare status and catastrophic health expenditure of the food crop farmers in Southwest, Nigeria.
Cross-sectional data…
Finland’s electric taxi service Nopea Ride expects to more than triple its fleet in Kenya's capital this year, helping to reduce emissions from Nairobi's notorious traffic. Environmental experts say…
A new report by the European Investment Bank has stated that the European Union is a global leader in green innovation, but claims the COVID-19 crisis is putting the investment needed to drive green…
GHGSat, the global leader in high-resolution greenhouse gas monitoring from space, has successfully completed the launch of its third satellite, GHGSat-C2 (“Hugo”), which launched aboard a SpaceX …
As president Cyril Ramaphosa launches an initiative to deliver net zero emissions, campaigners prepare to confront trade unions over coal.
Environmental campaigners in South Africa are hoping to…
We must do more to combat effects of global heating on housing, says climate expert.
Substantial work still needs to be done to protect houses from flood damage and to ensure homes do not…
Large UK study found small pollution rise associated with more cases of age-related macular degeneration.
Small increases in air pollution are linked to an increased risk of irreversible sight loss…
In 2010, world leaders agreed to 20 targets to protect Earth's biodiversity over the next decade. By 2020, none of them had been met. Now, the question is whether the world can do any better once new…
The world's largest desert rarely sees snow like this.
On Tuesday (Jan. 19), one of the world's driest places awoke to an otherworldly dusting of frost.
In the Sahara Desert of northwestern Algeria…
The all-new 2021 Nissan Rogue is the company’s first global model built using a “closed-loop” recycling system for aluminium parts.
At the core of this system is a large pneumatic conveyance system…