In a letter, senior officials from Europe said the World Bank's management should expand its climate change strategy to end backing for coal, oil and most gas projects.
WASHINGTON - Senior officials…
Exclusive: New global synthesis adds up the hidden social, environmental and health costs of our largely fossil fuel-based energy and transport systems.
The “hidden cost” of our largely fossil fuel-…
Bitcoin mining – the process in which a bitcoin is awarded to a computer that solves a complex series of algorithm – is a deeply energy intensive process.
It’s not just the value of bitcoin that has…
Supermarkets are throwing away the equivalent of 190 million meals a year that could be given to the hungry, The Independent reveals today.
The latest data shows that Britain’s top 10 chains are…
The three local authority pension funds with the largest investments in fossil fuels are Greater Manchester, Strathclyde and West Midlands.
Nearly £10bn remains invested in fossil fuel companies…
Emissions releases affected communities that are already disproportionately exposed to pollution.
Oil refineries, chemical manufacturers and other industrial plants in Texas reported releasing…
A petition signed by nearly 65,000 people calls on the Bank of England to ‘cut off the money pipeline’ for fossil fuels.
Campaigners have called on the chancellor Rishi Sunak to use the upcoming …
Collagen is the most plentiful protein in the human body and a major building block of connective tissue found in skin, bones, muscles, ligaments, tendons, and many other body parts. Most notably,…
The British medical journal The Lancet released a new report attributing 22,000 deaths in 2019 to the former president’s regulatory rollbacks.
The Trump administration deliberately harnessed racism…
A former Glencore director said he used to fly the world carrying a bag full of cash to secure deals for the commodity trader, evidence of the industry’s longstanding history of corruption, a problem…
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Εmojis, the concise hieroglyphs of modern life, play a growing role in our communication-dependent world, but what does one do when the required image doesn’t yet exist?
The lack…
Protecting forests is an essential strategy in the fight against climate change that has not received the attention it deserves. Trees capture and store massive amounts of carbon. And unlike some…
Texas oil refineries released hundreds of thousands of pounds of pollutants including benzene, carbon monoxide, hydrogen sulfide, and sulfur dioxide into the air as they scrambled to shut down during…
Why did it take sauropods 15 million years to cross the supercontinent of pangea?
Why did it take sauropods - the family of dinosaurs which includes the very biggest creatures ever to have walked…
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Most of the world associates recycling with environmentally-friendly. This is because recycling has always been marketed as a lifestyle with all the…
Nzambi Matee is an entrepreneur with an incredible goal -- to turn plastic destined for the landfill into sustainable, strong building material. Her company, Gjenge Makers, uses the plastic waste of…