By 2040, one out of every three passenger cars around the world is predicted to be electric-battery powered. But the power packs that drive those vehicles do not last forever, so what will become of…
Kenya has lost 70% of its wildlife in 30 years, but conservancy schemes could halt the decline – and benefit local communities.
Parsaloi Kupai’s home, situated on the edge of Ol Kinyei conservancy…
A soon-to-be-released feature film exemplifies how independent media initiatives can be powerful tools for social and environmental justice organizing.
The response to the global pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus has seen many states and countries reverse course on their efforts to reduce the ubiquity of single-use plastics. Now, it seems…
Pre-pandemic, Australians made great progress on phasing them out – it is possible for the good work to continue.
As Covid-19 restrictions start to ease, we’re unlikely to return to our previous…
Institutional investors managing about $3.7 trillion in assets want Brazil to abandon a proposal they say will add to deforestation and violate the rights of indigenous groups in the Amazon.
A survey of the members of the UK's Climate Assembly, who were chosen to resemble the national population in terms of both social demographics and views on environmental issues, found that almost…
A federal judge in California ruled on Monday that the state cannot put a cancer warning on the label of the popular herbicide Roundup, as The Associated Press reported.
A recovery that doesn’t protect the planet will be a disaster for health. I should know – I’m a doctor at the centre of Italy’s COVID-19 crisis, writes Roberto Romizi.
Roberto Romizi is a general…
Business in oil, gas and coal is becoming increasingly unprofitable as global fossil reserves could lose around two-thirds of their value in the next 50 years, plummeting from around $39 trillion to…
We need strong campaigns to confront environmental collapse. Instead, we get weakness and complicity.
Out of this horror comes hope. In the backwash of the pandemic’s first wave, we see the shingled…
Highview Power partners with Carlton Power to build a 50 MW liquid air energy storage facility with a minimum of 250M Wh in Greater Manchester, United Kingdom.
Every summer, the Presena glacier in northern Italy is protected from the sun with huge reflective tarps.
A vast tarpaulin unravels, gathering speed as it bounces down the glacier over glinting snow…
Study says heatwaves, fires and floods, and rising sea levels pose major threat over coming years.
The rapidly accelerating climate crisis threatens the future of major sports events around the…
Plastic isn't the only human pollutant infiltrating the deepest corners of the ocean.
Two separate studies presented at the Goldschmidt geochemistry conference this week found mercury in fish and…
Working towards a single, globally connected electricity grid
Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India has announced a new ‘One Sun One World One Grid’ (OSOWOG) vision for India to replicate its global…
GE announced today that it’s developing skyscraper-sized wind turbines with massive 3D-printed bases. The conglomerate plans to work with partners in the construction industry to produce both a…