Insurance market says claims totalled £2.4bn in first half of 2020, leading to £400m loss.
Lloyd’s of London, the world’s biggest insurance market, has said it expects up to £5bn to be paid out in…
Credit Suisse launches Ocean Engagement Fund to advise and steer portfolio companies towards tackling any practices that harm the ocean.
Credit Suisse launches Ocean Engagement Fund to advise and…
Pinning hopes of economic recovery on fossil fuel comes at huge environmental cost, analysis warns.
Australia’s untapped gas reservoirs could lead to three years’ worth of global greenhouse gas…
A recent Science Magazine feature blamed an underwater heat blob for exacerbating sea ice loss as it proclaimed what many Arctic scientists already know: Arctic sea ice is racing toward its demise…
Japanese trading house Sumitomo Corp has sold all its stake in the Marcellus shale gas project in the United States for an undisclosed sum, it said on Monday in a statement.
Sumitomo bought a 30%…
London - Keeping food fresh without refrigeration is near impossible in the scorching climate of sub-Saharan Africa. But it's hard to power fridges in a region where almost 600 million people live…
Why has Earth’s climate remained so stable over geological time? The answer just might rock you.
Rocks, particularly the types created by volcanic activity, play a critical role in keeping Earth’s…
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) said on Thursday that robust interventions rolled out by governments and donor agencies to fight desert locusts in the Horn of African…
Scientists have been warning of the growing threat of climate change, and now those projections are a reality.
Like millions of people in the western United States this week, I woke up to deep red,…
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator (EPA) Andrew Wheeler gave a speech Thursday where he accused Democratic efforts to stop theclimate crisis as actions that have hurt poor and…
The climate crisis is a factor, but so are efforts to fight fires - which have had the opposite effect.
We call them wildfires, but that might not be the right word any more.
In recent days, at…
Egypt has begun talks over plans to sell electricity to Europe and Africa, pressing its advantage as a producer of cheap renewable energy in a bid to become a regional export hub, the head of its…
COVID-19 may only be the beginning of global pandemics – a future scenario in which climate change may also play a role.
"We have entered a pandemic era," said a recent study in the journal Cell.…
Retailers say they don’t have enough time to adjust to law, which is likely to come into force in early 2021.
South Australia has become the first Australian state to introduce laws banning some…
Home values, state tourism and local governments could be damaged, causing defaults and market disruptions.
The devastating wildfires now sweeping across the western US are among the sparks from…
Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai has revealed that the company has eliminated its entire carbon legacy.
As of this week, Google has eliminated its entire carbon legacy (covering all our operational…
Imagine a power plant built next to a coal mine but also operating wind turbines and solar panels. The facility hosts batteries to store electricity when supply is in excess. The main source of power…
Humans are dismantling and disrupting natural ecosystems around the globe and changing Earth’s climate. Over the past 50 years, actions like farming, logging, hunting, development and global commerce…