At virtual forum to launch review of federal oil and gas leases, one indigenous leader called the government program an ‘environmentally racist horror show’.
The fossil fuel industry has done a U-…
UK Export Finance will no longer back oil and gas projects overseas, shutting off a potential source of support for a major pipeline across Uganda and Tanzania.
The UK has ruled out billions of…
Minerals Council of Australia has been accused of trying to export its ‘negative approach to climate policy’
The Minerals Council of Australia has weighed into a European Commission climate policy…
As world shifts to green energy, Iraq and Nigeria among those vulnerable to ‘wave of instability’.
Oil-dependent countries that are not preparing to adapt to the global shift away from fossil fuels…
Frozen soil held plant fragments that may be a million years old.
Frozen soil that was collected in Greenland during the Cold War by a secret military operation hid another secret: buried fossils…
China’s economy roared back from the pandemic on a plume of greenhouse gas emissions, raising questions over how the nation will balance new growth targets with its climate change goals.
Carbon…
Power station produces 13% of Victoria’s and 3% of national emissions and employs 500 people.
One of Australia’s dirtiest coal-fired power stations, Yallourn in Victoria’s Latrobe valley, will close…
Australian exporters to Europe are likely to face millions of dollars in new tariffs after the European Parliament voted overnight to move forward with a carbon levy on products from countries…
The global Powering Past Coal Alliance is taking sharp criticism from both sides of the Atlantic this week, with delegates gathering for a three-day online summit while the PPCA’s two founders and co…
Target is in line with previous trends and could mean greenhouse gas emissions continuing to rise.
China has set out an economic blueprint for the next five years that could lead to a strong rise in…
There are more than 4,000 coal power plants globally. Now you can track every one and see if they’re closing—or if countries are adding more.
Over roughly a decade, 256 coal power plants in the U.S…
The big idea
People often point to plunging natural gas prices as the reason U.S. coal-fired power plants have been shutting down at a faster pace in recent years. However, new research shows two…
Twice before, humanity has mitigated severe global environmental threats. In both cases we did this not with ‘cap and trade’ systems, taxes, or offsets, but with bans.
China’s first road map to achieving net zero emissions by 2060 may be too slow to stop the world’s biggest polluter from hastening global warming.
Thousands of Chinese delegates applauded when…
International Energy Agency data shows steady climb over second half of 2020.
The world has only a few months to prevent the energy industry’s carbon emissions from surpassing pre-pandemic levels…
UN report offers bedrock for hope for broken planet, says António Guterres.
Humanity is waging a “senseless and suicidal” war on nature that is causing human suffering and enormous economic losses…
Joe Biden’s progressive nominee for interior secretary faced harsh questions from lawmakers with deep industry ties.
Partway through the sometimes contentious confirmation hearing for Deb Haaland as…