Another year, another record
Geneva, 25 November 2019 - Levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have reached another new record high, according to the World Meteorological…
A newly unearthed journal from 1966 shows the coal industry, like the oil industry, was long aware of the threat of climate change.
“Exxon knew.” Thanks to the work of activists and journalists,…
Head of World Meteorological Organization says ‘no sign of a slowdown, let alone a decline’
The concentration of climate-heating greenhouse gases has hit a record high, according to a report from…
Kenya's president deployed rescue personnel, including from the army, to try and prevent the 'further loss of lives'.
The death toll from landslides in northwestern Kenya triggered by…
The UK Conservative party has confirmed an election pledge to support a 40GW offshore wind target for 2030.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Sunday launched the party’s manifesto, which includes the…
The last surviving Sumatran Rhino in Malaysia has died in captivity, with the WWF estimating that there are only about 80 left mostly living in the wild in Sumatra and Borneo, and the entire species…
The world’s use of coal-fired electricity is on track for its biggest annual fall on record this year after more than four decades of near-uninterrupted growth that has stoked the global climate…
Compared to other renewable energy power generation technologies, geothermal energy has only been able to decrease cost of electricity generation slightly, as reported by IRENA.
Local associations are pushing for measures that help accelerate the expansion of geothermal district heating supply in Germany, highlighting its important role and untapped potential to provide…
Climate change has emerged as a leading cause of biodiversity loss. As Scientific American noted, it will be the fastest-growing cause of species loss in the Americas by midcentury and in Africa it…
A new report has found that Europe are not on track to achieve any of the 2030 Sustainable development Goals (SDGs).
The independent quantitative report, the first of its kind to track the progress…
ATHENS - Greenpeace activists abseiled down the side of huge storage tank at a Hellenic Petroleum refinery near Athens on Thursday and unfurled a huge banner protesting at the company’s oil and gas…
Over the course of the next three decades, Africa will record faster population growth than anywhere else.
The obvious implications range from the need for more industrialization—to create jobs and…
Air pollution is an insidious killer. If you are among the 91% of the world’s population who breathes air the World Health Organisation (WHO) deems unsafe, then every time you inhale, microscopic…
The United States government has lost billions of dollars of oil and gas revenue to fossil-fuel companies because of a loophole in a decades-old law, a federal watchdog agency said Thursday, offering…
Usage of the term increased 100-fold in the space of 12 months, dictionary says.
Oxford Dictionaries has declared “climate emergency” the word of the year for 2019, following a hundred-fold increase…
Big emitting companies should be held responsible for the burning of their coal overseas, report says
Coalmining in Australia by the nation’s six biggest coal producers ultimately results in more…
What is a “just transition,” anyway? Bill McKibben asks Jacqueline Patterson, the director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program.
There’s nothing like the giant oil companies to…
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