Thousands of schoolchildren across the U.S. will be protesting on Friday, uniting with young people around the globe in a goal they believe is critical to their collective future: pressuring world…
A new study has found that coastal wetlands play an important role in reducing the effects of climate change.
The study, a collaboration between global universities, including the University of…
California has passed its 33% renewable energy target two years before the 2020 deadline. The state’s next renewable milestone is at 44% by 2024, a 33% growth in just over five full years.
The…
Faced with climate change, transportation and energy are the 2 key sectors in terms of sustainable energy transition. Can automobiles change the world?
The new United Nations Sustainable Development…
Spain’s second largest area just released its Zero Waste strategy plan with clear objectives for 2025.
With 4.5 million inhabitants and a current 30% separate collection rate, it seems that…
As renewable energy proliferates, major players like Hitachi, ABB and GE are seeing value in combining grid and generation business units.
During DISTRIBUTECH 2019, Terrance Donnelly, COO at ComEd…
There’s a $700-billion opportunity for African countries over the next five years if they can close the gender gap in mobile-phone ownership, according to GSMA, the global mobile-trade body. It bases…
Cop25 will take place 2-13 December 2019 in Santiago, the Chilean capital, UN officials announced.
Cop25, as it is known, was originally scheduled for November in Brazil, but the plan changed after…
The South African capital’s crippling water crisis has spawned a host of new taboos and industries.
It’s 11 am on a Saturday, and both my Cape Town local mall and my bladder are pumping. After one B…
Droughts have become more commonplace in South Africa in recent years. In the past two decades since 1990, 12 of those years were defined as drier years compared to only seven years in the previous…
The U.S. Department of Energy’s innovation arm wants to disrupt floating offshore wind turbine technology.
On February 1, the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced it was…
Since the Wright brothers’ first flight in 1903 air travel has continued to inspire people around the world and airlines have helped drive innovation in travel and quality of life. As more and more…
The chief economist of one of the world’s biggest oil companies is urging other companies to take climate change seriously — and sooner rather than later.
If not, it might be bad for business. …
South Africa is set to construct the first plastic road in Africa in Kouga Municipality in the Eastern Cape, with an aim of solving waste plastic epidemic.
“Leave the oil in the soil, the coal in the hole and the tar sands in the land!”
Perth uni students crash the Australian Oil & Gas Expo @ Exhibition Centre to promote the strike for climate on…
At least 115 people were killed in Mozambique, Malawi and South Africa after heavy rains affected 843,000 people across southeast Africa, officials and the UN said, prompting calls for emergency aid…
Alexandria Villasenor is among the American student activists joining the global fray and helping to organize the first nationwide strike on 15 March.
Alexandria Villasenor looks a slightly…