Rescued women told police the owner hired men to impregnate them and then sell the newborns for profit.
Police in Nigeria have rescued 10 people, including four children, four pregnant women and…
Greece’s biggest power utility Public Power Corp. (PPC) will spend 3.4 billion euros ($4.11 billion) to expand its footprint in renewables and modernise the country’s distribution grid, it said on…
What's a climate change emergency?
We can generally think of it as a symbolic acknowledgement at the highest levels that we're facing a climate change crisis - and a commitment to meet the challenge…
Analysts urge action to put pledges into practice to avoid catastrophic warming.
The core objective of the 2015 Paris climate agreement — to limit the rise in the average global temperature to “well…
Production must fall by 6% a year to avoid ‘severe climate disruption’ but Covid-19 funding is supporting increases.
The world’s governments are “doubling down” on fossil fuels despite the urgent…
Governments to reduce pollution in oceans and end subsidies that contribute to overfishing.
Governments responsible for 40% of the world’s coastlines have pledged to end overfishing, restore…
A year ago, if anyone in the petroleum business had suggested that the moment of Peak Oil had already passed, they would have been laughed right off the drilling rig. Then 2020 happened.
Planes…
Young people from 140 countries presented policies to UK climate action champion.
Young people from 140 countries who attended an online “mock Cop26” climate summit have presented a treaty of 18…
The wife of the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, is a shareholder in a restaurants business that funnelled investments through a letterbox company in the tax haven of Mauritius, in a structure that could…
New IRENA reports forecast a 20-fold growth potential of ocean energy by 2030, providing coastal communities with a climate-safe roadmap for COVID-19 recovery.
New coal power plants in China will face severe restrictions after 2026 as the country pivots to a carbon-neutral future, according to a researcher with the nation’s main grid operator.
Hydrogen blending projects across the world must contend with engineering, energy-density and supply challenges.
Can carbon-free hydrogen augment, or even replace, the fossil natural gas running…
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 30 November 2020
The transition to cleaner, more sustainable heating and cooling solutions can attract investment, create millions of new jobs and help to drive a…
Fourteen nations have made an unprecedented and welcome commitment to use marine ecosystems sustainably. It is equally important to establish a system to hold them to account.
Next year sees the…
The U.S. energy storage industry smashed its quarterly installation record with an influx of major projects in the third quarter. The industry had just broken records in the second quarter, but it…
The fourth phase of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park, that Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) is building, will have the largest energy storage capacity in the world of 15…
Saudi Arabia and UAE leads GCC with $400 billion active oil and gas projects
At the end of 2019, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates had close to 400 million barrels of proven oil reserves, or…
What is the most common form of human infrastructure in the world? It may well be the fence. Recent estimates suggest that the total length of all fencing around the globe is 10 times greater than…
"It's easy to feel dwarfed in the context of such a global systemic issue," says psychologist Renée Lertzman.
She says that when people experience these feelings, they often shut down and push…