The project in Wyoming – the country’s top coal-producing state – is a small advanced reactor with salt-based storage that could boost output.
Power companies run by billionaire friends Bill Gates…
Bank of England to examine risks rising temperatures and sea levels could pose for financial system
UK banks will for the first time be forced to reveal their exposure to the climate crisis,…
In spite of green rhetoric, money has piled into aviation and car industries since start of pandemic, report finds.
The nations that make up the G7 have pumped billions of dollars more into fossil…
Plaintiffs want court to order Mario Draghi’s government to adopt more ambitious climate policies
Environment campaigners in Italy are suing the government for failing to sufficiently tackle the…
Female genital mutilation has revived under Covid but activists are pushing hard to save girls at risk.
It was when the phone started ringing with calls from worried mothers in Somalia that Ifrah…
Investments in developing markets need to reach $1 trillion by 2030, up from just $150 billion last year, according to a new IEA report.
As the world’s richest economies invest in new and cleaner…
Kenya's Wildlife Service says that for the first time in 21 years, not a single rhinoceros was poached in the country’s national parks in 2020. To maintain the progress, it is conducting the first…
Analysis shows significant risk of cascading events even at 2C of heating, with severe long-term effects.
Ice sheets and ocean currents at risk of climate tipping points can destabilise each other…
New data comes amid warning that world’s growing awareness of coal exports’ impact risks further damaging Australia’s reputation on climate.
Emissions from coal mined in Australia but exported and…
Millions more across Tigray require urgent food and agriculture support to avert further slide towards famine, an analysis says.
Some 350,000 people in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region are facing…
Microscopic organisms known as extremophiles inhabit some of the last places on Earth you might expect to find life, from the extreme pressures of the ocean floor to freezing ice caps. Understanding…
It took nearly five months, after U.S. President Joe Biden dealt a death blow to the Keystone XL pipeline on his first day in office. But Calgary-based pipeliner TC Energy finally, formally cancelled…
It’s a tough watch, but it shows that if we bring down emissions now we can avoid a tipping point.
And it's neatly broken down into easy-to-understand sections, making Breaking Boundaries: The…
A coalition of investors overseeing a combined $41 trillion of assets have called on world leaders to set more ambitious greenhouse gas emissions targets and end support for fossil fuels.
Poland plans to close Europe’s most polluting power plant by the end of 2036, a draft document published by local authorities said on Tuesday, after energy group PGE (PGE.WA) scrapped plans to…
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - An unusual dry spell persisted across most of Ivory Coast’s cocoa-growing regions last week, fuelling farmers’ fears that the April-to-September mid-crop could be depleted.
Ivory…
It was Bwanika Charles’ teenage passion for agriculture that drove him to venture into growing cereal crops, mainly maize, on a rented piece of land in his home district of Masaka back in 2014.
“I…