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10 01 2021 | 10:45

Lethal Levels of Radiation Found in Damaged Fukushima Reactor, Impacting its Shutdown.

In what Japanese regulators on Wednesday called an "extremely serious" development, lethal levels of radiation have been recorded inside the damaged reactor building at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear…

10 01 2021 | 10:33

World's 500 Richest People Added $1.8 Trillion to Their Combined Wealth in 2020.

Bloomberg's year-end report on the wealth of the world's billionaires shows that the richest 500 people on the planet added $1.8 trillion to their combined wealth in 2020, accumulating a total net…

08 01 2021 | 15:27

JOB VACANCIES: DEADLINE 20 JANUARY 2021 / Forestry Program Officer, American Carbon Registry, Winrock International

Organization:Winrock International Position:Forestry Program Officer, American Carbon Registry Duty Station:Remote, USA-based Deadline for Application:20 January 2021

08 01 2021 | 14:41

PARIS REINFORCE December 2020

PARIS REINFORCE wishes you a Happy New Year!

07 01 2021 | 12:04

Climate change: Alaskan wilderness opens up for oil exploration.

The Trump administration is pushing ahead with the first ever sale of oil leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). The giant Alaskan wilderness is home to many important species,…

06 01 2021 | 09:21

Μια ενεργειακή στρατηγική για τα θαλάσσια αιολικά πάρκα.

Τι κοινό έχουν οι εταιρείες Ελληνικά καλώδια με βιομηχανικές μονάδες στην Κόρινθο και την Θήβα, η Assodivers με έδρα την Ελευσίνα και η Likomitros Steel που εδράζει έξω από τον Βόλο; 

03 01 2021 | 09:04

Faulty food systems laid bare by COVID-19, climate crises.

From wildfires in California and locust attacks in Ethiopia to job losses caused by pandemic lockdowns in Italy and Myanmar, climate change and COVID-19 disrupted food production and tipped millions…

03 01 2021 | 09:02

Berlin confirms new renewables laws from 1 January.

New framework contains conditions for future expansion. The German Government has confirmed new renewables laws will come into force on 1 January.  The law amending the Renewable Energy Sources Act…

03 01 2021 | 08:59

Magnetic induction cooking can cut your kitchen’s carbon footprint.

To curb climate change, many experts have called for a massive shift from fossil fuels to electricity. The goal is to electrify processes like heating homes and powering cars, and then generate the…

03 01 2021 | 08:58

50 MW PV plant ready to connect in Bangladesh.

A 50 MW PV project, located in northern central Bangladesh’s Mymensingh district, has begun supplying electricity to the national grid. Full commercial operations for the plant are expected to begin…

03 01 2021 | 08:54

EU Bans Exporting Unsorted Plastic Waste to Poorer Countries.

The European Union's executive branch on Tuesday announced new rules for plastic waste shipments—including a ban on some exports to poorer countries—that will take effect on January 1 as part of the…

03 01 2021 | 08:44

Boxing Day sets new record for wind power generation in Britain.

Storm Bella heralds first 24-hour period where turbines supply more than half of country’s electricity. Boxing Day saw yet another record broken for wind power generation in Britain. It was the…

03 01 2021 | 08:38

Establishing a solar module recycling system in India.

Ankit Kapasi and Kishore Ganesan from SOFIES India are working on Solar Waste Action Plan (SWAP) project in India, which is looking to investigate both the technical and economic feasibility of a PV…

01 01 2021 | 14:39

Pollution killed nearly 1.7m people in India in 2019 – study.

Lancet report finds that toxic air caused rise in lung cancer, stroke and other diseases. Pollution accounted for nearly 1.7m premature deaths in India in 2019, or 18% of all deaths, according to a…

01 01 2021 | 14:12

Here comes the Sun

Indian state of Maharashtra sets goal of adding 17GW of renewable energy capacity by 2025 The Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government has come out with a renewable energy policy that has set a target of…

01 01 2021 | 13:59

Weather disasters cost $150bn in 2020, revealing impact of climate change – report.

From Australian bushfires to Atlantic hurricanes, insurance damages were the highest annual total ever, says Christian Aid study. The world’s 10 costliest weather disasters of 2020 saw insured…

01 01 2021 | 13:51

Renewables picking up speed.

Renewable energy will supply 46.3% of Germany’s electricity this year—utility group Renewable sources met 46.3% of Germany’s power consumption in 2020, 3.8 percentage points more than in 2019,…

01 01 2021 | 11:36

2020 vision: A meeting of smoke and storms (NASA Earth Observatory)

No-one needs another litany of all the terrible things that happened this year, but there are three areas relevant to climate science that are worth thinking about:

30 12 2020 | 12:18

Global rich must cut their carbon footprint 97% to stave off climate change, UN says.

This year's economic shutdowns have done little to reduce the world's carbon emissions. While pollution has dipped, greenhouse gases keep accumulating in the atmosphere, locking in future decades of…

27 12 2020 | 08:14

Deploying 5G will lead to spike in CO2 emissions, French climate council warns

Rolling out 5G technology could lead to a sharp increase in power consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, a report published by France's High Council on Climate warns. The report, published…