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…
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…
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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,…
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;
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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:
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…
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…