Cape Town - The City of Cape Town is keen to expedite its legal action against the minister of energy and the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) in the North Gauteng High Court.
The…
Trump International Golf ordered to pay Scottish government legal bill after Aberdeen Bay spat
Donald Trump’s golf course has been ordered pay the Scottish government’s legal costs after a years-…
The Earth’s surface is 70 percent water, but even that underestimates how vital ocean health is to our planet’s ability to maintain life. Recent results from scientists around the world only further…
New analysis of pollen grains and radiocarbon dating suggests that climate change played a major role in Ancient Egypt’s downfall.
In 1500 B.C., Egypt’s New Kingdom and its neighbors were thriving.…
Solutions Won’t Be Easy to Find, But Collaboration and Innovation Offer New Opportunities—and B Corps Can Help
It’s been a busy month for the environment.
As the latest United Nations climate change conference wrapped up in Katowice, Poland earlier this month, policy makers barely kept the Paris Accord alive. Yet the 11th-hour agreement they reached…
‘Climate Change’ just didn’t cut it
The sudden usage of the term climate change over global warming is no coincidence. While a distinction between the terms does exist, most politicians use them…
There’s no more avoiding it: we’re in a climate crisis of existential proportions. It’s there every day on the news for us to see. Wildfires, droughts, super-storms, melting ice-caps, shifting jet-…
What do you picture when you think about climate change? Perhaps you see failing crops, rising sea levels or melting glaciers. But what about struggling small businesses?
The failure to reverse growth in greenhouse gas emissions means the world is now increasingly dependent on unproven technologies to remove CO2 from the atmosphere in order to avert dangerous climate…
Renewable energy will rewrite the geopolitical map, according to the man tasked with taking clean energy global. Adnan Z. Amin also told EURACTIV that any politicians not worried by the “truly…
When delegates adopted the 2015 Paris Agreement to widespread cheers and excitement, it was clear that further details needed to be negotiated on how the agreement would be implemented transparently…
Wallace Broecker, a climate scientist who brought the term "global warming" into the public and scientific lexicon, died on Monday. He was 87.
Broecker, a professor in the department of earth and…
U.S. officials have again been faulted by a federal judge for failing to adequately consider the potential climate change effects of expanding a massive coal mine in the sagebrush-covered hills of…
It is clear that climate is changing, and there is a human component on top of the naturally varying system. Most climate scientists understand this, and most logical people do too. The 4th National…
When I tell people that I am a forest specialist, they sometimes assume my work is forest first, people second. But the really exciting part of my job is that better forests make better communities…
A new report has found that meeting the targets set at the Paris Agreement could boost the EU’s GDP.
The report assesses the potential employment and economic benefits of transitioning to a low-…