Rapid progression in increasingly more affordable storage technologies has enabled renewable energy units to become progressively more reliable. On account of their decentralised nature, renewable…
As climate change heats up the weather in Southern California, coastal populations from San Diego to Santa Barbara may face an increased risk of contracting West Nile virus and other mosquito-borne…
Why can’t I use the battery from my electric car to export solar power to the grid when I don’t need it?
Technically it is possible. You could charge your electric vehicle (EV) with solar…
Individual acts alone won’t stop the climate crisis, but there are things we can do. We asked experts what they do in their daily lives to make a difference.
As the climate crisis intensifies,…
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If we are truly going to get a handle on climate change and carbon emissions then we have to deal with the issue of embodied carbon, or what I…
Rats and bats that host pandemic pathogens like Covid-19 increase in damaged ecosystems, analysis shows.
The human destruction of natural ecosystems increases the numbers of rats, bats and other…
Fibreglass fuelled a boating boom. But now dumped and ageing craft are breaking up, releasing toxins and microplastics across the world.
Where do old boats go to die? The cynical answer is they are…
A new study gives a first look at the presence and potential effects of plastics and new forms of synthetic chemicals in stranded dolphins and whales along the coast of the southeastern U.S.
In Kenya's Maasai Mara game reserve, livelihoods are suffering as coronavirus guts tourism.
Maasai Mara, Kenya - You have to wake up at dawn to catch the sun rising while having breakfast in the…
Melting and crumbling glaciers are largely responsible for rising sea levels, so learning more about how glaciers shrink is vital to those who hope to save coastal cities and preserve wildlife.
But…
LONDON (Reuters) - An investor group managing more than $16 trillion (12.2 trillion pounds) on Wednesday launched the world’s first step-by-step plan to help pension funds and others align their…
BANGKOK: For Bangkok’s “Spiderman Team”, dangling on ropes and rappelling down the city’s tallest buildings is just one of the risky parts of their job.
High above the choked streets, on many days…
The storm system Thalia that hit Greece left five people dead – with one baby among them – and two missing, on Evia on Sunday, while many areas of the island suffered serious damages from the flood…
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Last month was the world’s third-hottest July on record, new data show — the latest milestone in a global warming trend that has seen the three hottest Julys within the last five…
Scientists gave the caps 5 years to live in a 2017 study. Climate change killed them in record time.
On frosty Ellesmere Island, where Arctic Canada butts up against the northwestern edge of…
Packages marked as ‘earrings’ spark biosecurity concerns and global investigations into origins.
There is not much that Jan Goward does not grow in her small Eastbourne garden. “I grow everything,”…
Human-caused sea level rise likely caused eight out of 10 floods in the region between 1970 and 2015, a study finds.
Flooding in localised areas around Sydney will happen almost every week by the…
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