‘Distributed’ solar power generation on roofs of houses, factories and airports is spreading across country, but curtailment rate is also rising.
The State Railway of Thailand (SRT) Board has approved extending three contracts under the Thai Chinese high-speed rail project by up to two years, citing difficulties from land expropriation and the relocation of oil pipelines.
As climate change and human development reshape the Arctic, reindeer face unprecedented challenges.
The American Clean Power Association and Solar Energy Industries Association have deployed a multipronged strategy to court Republicans and defend favored tax incentives from repeal.
President Joe Biden had just a single term to try to transform the nation's approach to energy, climate change, technology and jobs. What does he leave behind?
Multiple flights in 2024 experienced violent turbulence or technical issues.
Treasury minister denies claims by Bangladesh that she helped broker corrupt deal with Russia to build nuclear plant The Treasury minister Tulip Siddiq has been questioned by the Cabinet Office’s propriety and ethics team after Bangladesh’s anti-corruption commission accused her and family members of embezzling billions for a nuclear power plant. The Labour MP, who denies allegations that she helped broker a deal with Russia to build the energy project, reportedly told a government official that she was the victim of a “political hit job”. Continue reading...
New research has found a way to power spacecraft with lasers generated using solar energy alone.
Republican Mike Dunleavy said he considers the concept of a transition from fossil fuels “pretty much dead.”
Financial companies have been under increasing pressure from Republicans who have filed lawsuits related to the industry’s efforts to address climate change.
Gov. Kathy Hochul is expected to forge ahead with a cap-and-trade-style policy to charge for emissions.
Advocates say there’s a growing ethical obligation for researchers to explore alternative solutions to climate change.
Japanese automakers Honda and Nissan have announced plans to work toward a merger, forming the world's third-largest automaker by sales as the industry undergoes dramatic changes in its transition away from fossil fuels.
This move comes as the industry transitions away from fossil fuels and towards electric vehicles, where Japanese companies have lagged behind their rivals.
Climate and environmental activists from Japan have criticized the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) for financing the controversial Mozambique Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) project to the tune of USD 3 billion in a loan signed in July. The project has been associated with the displacement of thousands of people and is in violation of […]
Iran could make moves towards becoming a nuclear power after it was severely weakened by wars in the Middle East, the White House has warned.
Climate change has made great swaths of the planet drier and soils saltier, jeopardizing food production and water access for billions.
The force found 28 e-cigarette cartridges allegedly containing ‘space oil’ after searching the car.
Professor Jessika Trancik’s course helps students understand energy levers for addressing climate change at the macro and micro scales.
Even if the railway promoters win, here's why the train won’t get built.
A listing of 25 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, December 15, 2024 thru Sat, December 21, 2024. Based on feedback we received, this week's roundup is the first one published soleley by category. We are still interested in feedback to hone the categorization, so if you spot any clear misses and/or have suggestions for additional categories, please let us know in the comments. Thanks! Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Change Impacts How much should you worry about a collapse of the Atlantic conveyor belt? Scientists warned recently that the risk “has so far been greatly underestimated.” by Bob Henson, Yale Climate Connections, Dec 11, 2024 Shrinking wings...
A recent survey finds that more than half of young people aged 16-25 are highly worried about climate change. Some universities are now trying to help them navigate those emotions in class.
France on Saturday connected its most powerful nuclear power reactor to the national electricity grid in what leaders hailed as a landmark moment despite years of delays and technical setbacks.
New study shows LNG exports risk raising greenhouse gas emissions, hampering efforts to curtail the climate crisis.
Woman jailed for M25 protest not allowed to continue home detention because electronic tags are too big A 77-year-old environmental activist will spend Christmas in prison despite having been released on an electronic tag, because the authorities cannot find an electronic device small enough to fit her wrists. Gaie Delap, a retired teacher and a Quaker from Bristol, was jailed in August, along with four co-defendants, for her part in a campaign of disruptive Just Stop Oil protests on the M25 in November 2022. Continue reading...
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As global temperatures rise from the burning of fossil fuels, researchers and policymakers have proposed solutions like installing renewable energy, replacing gasoline-powered cars with electric ones, and developing technology to suck carbon out of the air. But these policies often address climate […]
Reverend Bhagwan said that as families celebrate Christmas, to remember those children whose lives are affected by climate change, political crises, and many other social issues.
The newly established Fund for responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD) represents more than just another funding mechanism – it’s an opportunity to reimagine how climate finance can work better for countries already experiencing the extreme impacts of climate change. As the Fund prepares for its “start-up phase” in 2025, it has the potential to […] The post Loss and Damage Finance: the FRLD and Transforming Climate Finance Quality appeared first on Climate 411 .
The world is getting wetter and drier at the same time, thanks to climate change. We need to act now before the problem spirals out of control.
Climate Resilience Maturity Model Will Help Illinois Utilities Prepare for Climate, Severe Weather
State’s energy and carbon management commission said fraudulent pollution data was reported for at least 344 wells Oil and gas companies operating in Colorado have submitted hundreds of environmental impact reports with “falsified” laboratory data since 2021, according to state regulators. Colorado’s energy and carbon management commission (ECMC) said on 13 December that contractors for Chevron and Oxy had submitted reports with fraudulent data for at least 344 oil and gas wells across the state, painting a misleading picture of their pollution levels. Consultants for a third company, Civitas, had also filed forms with falsified information for an unspecified number of wells, regulators said. Continue reading...
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warns that 2024 is on track to be the hottest year in recorded history, surpassing 2023. This can be attributed to heightened reliance on fossil fuels and the reluctance of industries worldwide to pivot to green energy practices. The rapid acceleration of global temperatures has alarmed scientists, with many expressing […]
Forty people, aged 22 to 58, incarcerated for direct actions on climate and Gaza actions amid crackdown on dissent • ‘You won’t find the real criminals here’: a Just Stop Oil activist in jail at Christmas A record number of people who have taken part in protests will be in prison in the UK this Christmas, raising concern about the ongoing crackdown on dissent. Forty people, aged from 22 to 58, will be behind bars on Christmas Day for planning or taking part in a variety of protests relating to the climate crisis or the war in Gaza. Several of them are facing years in prison after courts handed down the most severe sentences on record for direct action protests. Continue reading...
Fridges, freezers, and cooling cases at most supermarkets rely on HFCs, which are potent global warming gases. But there’s an alternative. The post How grocery stores can help protect the climate appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Java House has reduced 148 tonnes of carbon emissions in 2024 through a used cooking oil recycling project in partnership with renewable energy firm Muenzer Kenya.
Photo by Josh Tere on Unsplash This is our final issue for the year as the Carbon News team takes a break over the summer holidays. We’ll be back with more crucial climate coverage from New Zealand and...
The plant is nearly the size of Canada’s entire solar capacity, according to data.
The lawmakers wrote in a letter that data centers are “dramatically increasing” energy demand, leading to higher costs and higher emissions.
Campaigners say Queensland mine given go-ahead this week is a new development, not an extension of an existing mine Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Climate campaigners have challenged a claim by the Albanese government that it has not approved any new coalmines in 2024, saying a Queensland mine given a green light this week was a new development. The environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, approved four coalmine projects on Thursday, describing them all as expansions of existing mines that would mainly be digging up coal to make steel. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03951C, Paper Fumiyasu Nozaki, Shaoning Zhang, Martin Hoffman Peterson, Jinkwang Hwang, Jin Hyun Chang, Juan Maria Garcia-Lastra, Kazuhiko Matsumoto Triphylite NaFePO4 emerges as a promising solution for sodium secondary batteries due to its abundant constituent elements and high energy density, making it attractive for sustainable energy storage applications. However,... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy's wish list for the incoming Trump administration includes oil and gas exploration in the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and reversing restrictions on logging and road-building in a temperate rainforest that provides habitat for wolves, bears and salmon.
2024 in Review: Our Biggest Stories on People, Nature and the Climate margaret.overh… Thu, 12/19/2024 - 15:48 2024 ushered in a new chapter of the climate crisis. The world experienced its hottest year on record — with dire consequences for communities around the globe. Devastating floods destroyed lives and property in Brazil and Kenya . Wildfires scorched South America's forests . Blistering heat waves hit cities in India and the U.S. But behind these stark headlines, we also saw signs of a better future starting to emerge — one where halting climate change is synonymous with growing economies and protecting nature. In Brazil , farmers are reviving swathes of the Amazon through sustainable agriculture. In sub-Saharan Africa , distributed solar is expanding...
Washington has set new targets to slash the country's carbon emissions. But with President-elect Donald Trump's plans to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, can America's climate-minded states meet those targets?
Open access notables An intensification of surface Earth’s energy imbalance since the late 20 th century , Li et al., Communications Earth & Environment: Tracking the energy balance of the Earth system is a key method for studying the contribution of human activities to climate change. However, accurately estimating the surface energy balance has long been a challenge, primarily due to uncertainties that dwarf the energy flux changes induced and a lack of precise observational data at the surface. We have employed the Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA) method, integrating it with recent developments in surface solar radiation observational data, to refine the ensemble of CMIP6 model outputs. This has resulted in an enhanced estimation of Surface Earth...
Tulip Siddiq denies claims that she brokered corrupt deal with Russia to build nuclear power plant Keir Starmer has given his full support to Tulip Siddiq, the Treasury minister, after Bangladesh’s anti-corruption commission accused her and family members of embezzling billions as part of a deal for a nuclear power plant. Siddiq’s role as economic secretary to the Treasury includes responsibility for tackling financial corruption. She has denied any involvement in the claims. Continue reading...
Good news for the German research fleet, German shipbuilding, and international polar research alike: the new Polarstern will be constructed in Wismar by thyssenkrupp Marine Systems. company received the official contract to construct a new research icebreaker from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) today, marking the end of a two and a half-year-long Europe-wide call for tenders. The new flagship of German climate research will cost an estimated 1.185 billion euros. Following five years of construction, she is to be handed over to the research community in 2030.
Steven Donziger and 34 congressmembers urge action on case that saw debilitating counterattacks from Chevron Steven Donziger, the embattled human rights attorney, has urged Joe Biden to offer him a pardon for his role in defending Indigenous tribes in Ecuador against the oil industry, where his efforts ended with him being sued by Chevron and spending time in jail and hundreds of days under house arrest. In an interview with the Guardian from his Manhattan apartment, Donziger said a pardon would “send a clear signal to corporations that they can never again criminally prosecute and jail good people who hold them accountable for abuses”. Continue reading...
McNeese State University in Louisiana building a liquefied natural gas center, prompting fears of ‘corporate capture’ One of Louisiana’s top public universities has prompted concerns about “corporate capture” over its expanding relationship with the liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry, despite environmental warnings about pollution and prolonging fossil fuel use. As the US’s LNG boom gained momentum in south-west Louisiana, McNeese State University courted the industry to help launch a new LNG Center of Excellence currently under construction, hired a director doubling as an LNG industry lobbyist, and approached federal regulators to co-locate their own research center at the university, according to emails obtained via public records requests by DeSmog and the Guardian. Continue reading...
Cairo University President Mohamed Samy Abdel Sadek inaugurated the activities of a forum on climate change and its impact on health and emigration in cooperation with the Italian embassy in Cairo and the ministries of health in Egypt and Italy. In his word, Abdel Sadek lauded the Egyptian-Italian cooperation, asserting the importance of rallying efforts … The post Cairo university organizes forum on climate change in cooperation with Italian embassy appeared first on Egypt Independent.
The promise of deeper emissions cuts will very likely be ignored by the Trump administration, but officials hoped it would send a signal to the world.
Several major cases destroyed federal agencies' ability to address climate change and pollution. The post The Supreme Court decisions that gutted environmental protections in 2024 appeared first on High Country News.
Tanya Plibersek says projects in NSW and Queensland produce coal for making essential steel as critics say move ‘opposite of climate action’ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The Albanese government has approved the expansion of four coalmines that climate campaigners estimate will release more than 850m tonnes of CO2 over their lifetime – equivalent to almost double Australia’s annual emissions. The four mines will target mostly coal to be used for steelmaking with some thermal coal for burning in power stations. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...
Researchers found that wind and solar plants could sell energy for as much as 80 percent more with just one hour of battery storage.
The state’s high court ruled that Montana officials violated the constitutional rights to a healthy environment by expanding fossil fuel production.
The Biden administration’s approval of California’s electric vehicle mandate sets up a protracted fight.
The Biden administration set a new climate goal for the U.S. The White House argues states, cities and corporations will continue the work, even as Trump plans to exit the Paris climate agreement.
City Minister Tulip Siddiq - whose job role sees her responsible for clamping out corruption in Britain's financial sector - is being investigated for the staggering embezzlement in her native Bangladesh.
With each passing year, communities across New Mexico feel the mounting and undeniable pressures from climate change. Twice in two years, 25% of New Mexico’s communities faced severe wildfires. In 2022, the Hermit’s Peak and Calf Canyon fires burned for five months, destroying over 630 homes in three northern counties, with damages exceeding $4 billion. […] The post The Clear Horizons Act is an essential step towards New Mexico’s climate goals appeared first on Climate 411 .
Court rules in favor of 16 young people who said their health and prospects were being imperiled by climate crisis Montana’s top court on Wednesday held that the state’s constitution guaranteed a right to a stable climate system and invalidated a law barring regulators from considering the effects of greenhouse gas emissions when permitting new fossil fuel projects. The Montana supreme court upheld a landmark trial court decision last August in favor of 16 young people who said their health and futures were being jeopardized by climate change, which the state aggravates through its permitting of energy projects. Continue reading...
The country is a global leader in the transition toward green energy, following a radical transformation of its energy mix. The post Uruguay, pioneer in renewable energy: a model for the world? appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
The geoengineering scheme, known as stratospheric aerosol injection, would not be cheap, but scientists say it could buy us some time until we reach net-zero carbon.
The loss of Puncak Jaya’s glaciers will be an immeasurable loss to the area’s ecosystem and local tribes, scientists say.
In 2019, scientists published a climate-friendly food plan. I’ve long wondered: could it work for most Americans? People in the US: how do you eat climate friendly on a budget? As a fossil fuels and climate reporter, most of my journalism focuses on the need to radically overhaul the energy system. But the food sector also needs a makeover, as it creates between a quarter and a third of all greenhouse gas emissions. When scientists came up with a new climate-friendly food plan in 2019 and published their findings in the medical journal the Lancet, I read with interest. The guidelines called for more vegetables, legumes and whole grains, which seemed doable to me. The authors even allowed for meat and dairy consumption, albeit in small quantities. Both are major drivers of the climate...
'Pioneering' new technology will be introduced at Edinburgh Airport in a bid to generate renewable energy from the wind on its airfield.
The annual defense policy bill contains bipartisan provisions focused on mineral acquisition, nuclear energy and contractor emissions.
A new report calls for solutions that simultaneously address climate change, biodiversity, health, water, and food issues.
[New Zimbabwe] In a landmark move to address climate change and attract green investments, Zimbabwe has introduced a national carbon market framework rooted in Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. The initiative, launched at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, aims to establish Zimbabwe as a regional leader in carbon trading while supporting its transition to a low-carbon economy.
[IPS] Accra, Ghana -- The climate crisis, a defining challenge of the 21st century, is not just an environmental issue; it is increasingly a critical arena for international diplomacy. From intense negotiations at COP summits to the politics of energy transitions and resource control, climate change is shaping the geopolitical landscape.
After several years of service under harsh weather conditions, the rotor blades of offshore wind parks are subjected to degradation and surface erosion, releasing sizeable quantities of particle emissions into the environment. A team of researchers led by the Alfred Wegener Institute has now investigated the effects of these particle on blue mussels – a species also being considered for the multi-use of wind parks for aquaculture. In the experiment, the mussels absorbed metals from the rotor blades’ coatings, as the team describes in a study just released in the journal Science of the Total Environment, where they also discuss the potential physiological effects.
From energy to resources, data centers have grown too greedy.
The climate crisis, a defining challenge of the 21st century, is not just an environmental issue; it is increasingly a critical arena for international diplomacy. From intense negotiations at COP summits to the politics of energy transitions and resource control, climate change is shaping the geopolitical landscape. This dynamic reflects deep divides between developed and […]
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management revisited its drilling plan following a settlement in litigation related to the 2021 Huntington Beach oil spill.
Central Asia’s largest producer said in August that it was targeting 97.2 million metric tons of oil production in 2025.
Commercial banks’ exposure to industries sensitive to climate change stands at around $48 billion, says a report.
Spike in fossil fuel use a result of global gas crisis triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine The world’s coal use is expected to reach a fresh high of 8.7bn tonnes this year, and remain at near-record levels for years as a result of a global gas crisis triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. There has been record production and trade of coal and power generation from coal since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine inflated global gas market prices, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). Continue reading...
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03185G, Paper Cheolhyun Cho, Byeonggwan Kim, Sienoh Park, Eunkyoung Kim An optimal contribution of electronic and ionic carriers in mixed ionic–electronic conductor (MIEC) films was explored to achieve high voltage and power density for waste and solar heat harvesting at a low temperature gradient. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Granholm's statement came as the Energy Department released a long-awaited study that found U.S. LNG shipments drive up domestic wholesale prices and frequently displace renewable energy sources.
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 18 December 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02207-8Adverse health risks to religious groups during heatwaves
New study shows LNG exports risk raising greenhouse gas emissions, hampering efforts to curtail the climate crisis The Biden administration released long-awaited analysis on the economic and environmental impacts of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports on Tuesday, concluding any further expansion would drive up costs for domestic consumers and hamper efforts to curtail the climate crisis. In January Joe Biden paused the Department of Energy’s approvals of fossil gas exports to big consumers in Asia and Europe in order to conduct the review, in a move welcomed by climate scientists, environmental justice advocates and public health experts but decried by the oil and gas industry. Continue reading...
The captain of the Volgoneft 109 oil tanker reported damage to the ship’s cargo tank, but authorities have said that the situation is “not critical.”
[New Dawn] Monrovia -- The fisheries sector is vital for the livelihoods of Liberia's coastal communities, contributing significantly to income generation and national revenue. However, this sector faces immense challenges, including illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing, climate change, marine pollution, and unsustainable practices.
The Sahtu Land and Water Board in the N.W.T. says it's considering renewing a water licence for Imperial Oil on an emergency basis, after the company issued a warning of all the things that were at risk if it didn't.
Renewable energy continued to grow in 2024, and there were other hopeful developments in technologies aiming to reverse the rise in greenhouse gas emissions
EPA downgraded the area’s compliance status, a potential impetus for more stringent pollution controls.
Hundreds of murkily operated vessels continue to transport Russian oil around the world despite EU sanctions.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04465G, Paper Xinxin Shu, Xueying Cao, Bowen He, Xunyi Chen, Lanling Zhao, Chengdong Yang, Jizhen Ma, Jintao Zhang Carbon matrix-supported indium clusters, in conjunction with iron–nitrogen–carbon active sites exhibit superior bifunctional electrocatalytic activity for both the ORR and OER. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Oil from a huge spill is now reaching the shores of the Kerch Strait, and environmental groups are fearing the worst. The accident has also drawn attention to Russia's aging fleet of unregulated ships.
[Ethiopian Herald] Drought and famine occur in our country at least every 10 years. Establishing the trend and/or frequency of such natural environmental disasters is helpful in preparing for future prevention of similar catastrophes. Based on climate data obtained from trees, scientists say that drought has been plaguing our country since at least the 18th century.
[The Point] Developed nations have agreed to help channel "at least" $300bn a year into developing countries by 2035 to support their efforts to deal with climate change.
The rhythmic swing of American climate policy has taken another dramatic turn. With Donald Trump’s return to the US presidency in mid-January next year, the international climate community will find itself bracing for what many fear will be another American exodus from the Paris Agreement. This development, more than just another chapter in US political […]
The 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD COP 16) concluded early hours of Saturday with a renewed focus on building drought resilience globally. However, the COP also failed to agree on bringing a legally binding drought protocol. Like the biodiversity and climate change COPs held […]
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04849K, Paper Kai Du, Jiaqi Guo, Chenxi Song, Xin Liu, Mingjun Chen, Dachao Yuan, Runping Ye, Xingyuan San, Yaguang Li, Jinhua Ye A self-operating photothermal CO 2 methanation system in solar free environments is successfully developed by integrating a homemade photothermal TiC/Cu based device with a solid solution structure of NiO and CeO 2 . To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
The activists are targeting the Florida Public Service Commission's practice of routinely approving utilities' long-range plans to continue using fossil fuels.
The long-awaited report comes after a nearly yearlong pause in the administration’s processing of new approvals for liquefied natural gas exports.
Production should peak at about 110,000 barrels of oil a day, with 300 million barrels of oil equivalent recoverable from the area, Shell said.
[Observer] The government, through the Uganda Energy Credit Capitalisation Company (UECCC), has subsidized prices of renewable energy products to make them affordable for consumers, but also support the country's objective of widening the pool of cleaner technologies to the public.
Hefty job cuts are looming amid consolidation in the North Sea oil industry as giants lose interest in offshore renewables projects.
Climate change could increase flood threats without improvements to defences, the Environment Agency warns.
International environmental negotiations are facing significant setbacks. Recent UN-sponsored talks on climate change, plastic pollution, biodiversity loss, and desertification have yielded limited results, raising concerns about the effectiveness of multilateral environmentalism. Experts cite various challenges, including the consensus-based decision-making process, influence of the fossil fuel industry, geopolitical shifts, and the sheer scale of the problems.
Russia’s Natural Resources and Environment Minister Alexander Kozlov told reporters it was “too early” to assess the extent of the spillage.
From increased pests and diseases to lower crop yields and extreme weather events, the adverse impacts of climate change on agriculture in Africa cannot be overstated. Climate shocks will present major roadblocks to the continent’s rapidly growing population, especially if global temperatures remain on their upward trajectory. Urgent and effective action is therefore needed to […]
Through research and partnering with communities, universities can tackle the Southern African region’s problems, such as poverty, climate change and unemployment
We shouldn’t get distracted by economic growth and technological progress because the best gift we can give future generations is a sustainable, life-supporting environment
The world's first nuclear-diamond battery uses carbon-14 to power devices for more than 10,000 years.
[Premium Times] "On December 8, 2024, an oil sheen was detected at a loading buoy during export operations at Bonny Terminal."
The two ships, the Volgoneft 239 and the Volgoneft 212, were transporting roughly 9,200 tons of mazut, a heavy, low-quality oil product.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04106B, Paper Hyeseong Oh, Gyu-Sang Kim, Jiyoon Bang, San Kim, Kyeong-Min Jeong Dry-processed thick cathodes designed with a porous spherical conductive agent exhibit superior electrochemical performances, even with high areal capacities of up to 20 mA h cm −2 and a high composite density of 3.65 g cm −3 . To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Rooftop solar panels are a familiar sight but are not the only way the sun is used to create energy. As China ups its investment in concentrated solar power, is the techology set for a revival?
Calls for government statement or urgent question in Commons on activities of ‘H6’ Keir Starmer has said that a green industrial partnership with Norway announced today will help the UK become a world leader in carbon capture usage and storage (CCUS). In a statement ahead of his visit to Bergen, he said: This green industrial partnership will allow us to seize the opportunities from a new era of clean energy, driving investment into the UK and boosting jobs both now and in the future. It will harness the UK’s unique potential to become a world-leader in carbon capture – from the North Sea to the coastal south – reigniting industrial heartlands and delivering on our Plan for Change. Norway is currently leading the world on CCUS, and the UK wants to join it at the forefront, having announced...
Growing up on Guam, Julian Aguon saw the law used against Indigenous peoples. Now he's fighting back.
New Mexico and North Dakota are among states trying to manage regulatory changes as the president-elect prepares to return to the White House.
Nuclear power will “underpin the economic success of our country for the next century,” the country’s Liberal Party leader said.
The new heat record comes as Donald Trump prepares to return to office and undo the Biden administration’s efforts to combat climate change.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 129, Issue 24, 28 December 2024.
After 22 failed energy policies, the Coalition is being guided by a roadmap to higher bills and higher emissions Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast On the front cover of Frontier Economics’ costings of the Coalition’s nuclear policy is a stock photo entitled fork in road , implying that we’re at some kind of juncture where we must decide between a nuclear or renewables path. In 1969 John Gorton’s Liberal government chose the nuclear path with the construction of the Jervis Bay nuclear power plant project. As Gorton later said, “We were interested in this thing because it could provide electricity to everybody and it could, if you decided later on, it could make an atomic bomb.” Sign up for Guardian...
A tanker carrying thousands of tonnes of oil products split apart while another tanker was in distress after sustaining damage.
Two oil tankers carrying nearly 9,000 metric tons of mazut fuel were damaged by a storm, broke in half, sunk and caused oil spills in Kerch Strait, which separates Crimea and Russia.
The Egyptian government announced on Saturday that it has secured the electricity supply for next summer, in cooperation between the Ministries of Electricity and Petroleum. The plan includes relying on new and renewable energy to avoid resorting to load shedding. This came during the attendance of Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly at the inauguration ceremony … The post Egyptian government announces securing electricity supply for summer 2025 appeared first on Egypt Independent.
Video appears to show one of the tankers broken in half and sinking amid a heavy storm, with oil visible in the water.
Two Russian cargo ships carrying oil products were left severely damaged due to bad weather in the Kerch Strait between mainland Russia and annexed Crimea and have now requested assistance.
Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly on Saturday inaugurated the 500-megawatt Abydos 1 Solar Power Plant in the Kom Ombo Desert in Aswan Governorate, in the presence of several ministers, officials from the Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy and numerous media representatives. Before unveiling the curtain marking the official start of the plant’s operation, the … The post Prime Minister inaugurates the Abydos 1 Solar Power Plant in Aswan appeared first on Egypt Independent.
A listing of 23 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, December 8, 2024 thru Sat, December 14, 2024. Listing by Category Like last week's summary this one contains the list of articles twice: based on categories and based on publication date. Please feel free to let us know in the comments - if you haven't already - which one you prefer. Checking if we assigned the (most) relevant category is also appreciated. Thanks for your help with this! Climate change impacts New York Isn`t Ready to Fight More Wildfires New York could see more frequent and destructive blazes, but the state doesn’t have enough forest rangers and firefighters to respond to the growing threat. by Nathan Porceng, Inside...
Enbridge said the 70,000 gallon spill on the company's Line 6 was caused by a faulty connection on a pump transfer pipe at the Enbridge Cambridge Station.
Despite a clever comms strategy, there are significant credibility issues around the assumptions on which the cost estimates are based Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The Coalition has moved a considerable way on climate and energy since Scott Morrisson brought a lump of coal into the parliament and told us not to be afraid. On Friday, the Coalition finally released the long-awaited details of the nuclear plan it will take to the election and, once again, asks us not to be afraid – of the price tag, the higher climate pollution and a range of other variables. However, despite a clever comms strategy, there are significant credibility issues around the assumptions on which the cost estimates are...
Thanks to the maneuverings of the tiny nation of Vanuatu, the entire industrialized world is effectively on trial in The Hague.
Anchorage deputy municipal manager Mark Spafford describes Southcentral’s looming natural gas shortage as a train that has been barreling toward the region for decades and now — it’s almost here. “This isn’t just, like, political posturing or somebody, you know, Chicken Little-ing it,” Spafford said. “It’s a real thing, and we need to do something […]
The Energy Secretary's 'clean energy revolution' will convert the grid from fossil fuels to renewable power by 2030.
The tensions stem from a contract signed in1969, which allowed Quebec to buy hydroelectric power from the Churchill Falls plant in Labrador for just 0.2 cents per kilowatt hour.
The closure of the strategically important Pischane coal mine poses a severe threat to Ukraine’s steel industry.
Plug-in hybrids are exploding in popularity, while all-electric cars are leveling off in growth a little. Why is that, and is it a long-term trend?
[This Day] Abuja -- The European Union (EU) said yesterday that it has extended assistance to over 350 local government councils across sub-Saharan Africa to mitigate the impact of climate change.
Two weeks of powerful testimonies from people on climate change's frontlines have come to a close. Now they must wait for a decision from the top UN court. But what impact could it have?
‘No one really has the foggiest idea of what it will cost to develop nuclear in Australia,’ one expert says The Coalition claims its nuclear policy is ‘visionary’ – but it needs to stand up to scrutiny Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The Coalition’s nuclear energy plan creates “a significant risk” for the stability of the nation’s grid, according to the peak body representing power generators and retailers. Responding to the Friday release of modelling by Frontier Economics of the Coalition’s scheme to build seven nuclear power plants from the mid-2030s, the Australian Energy Council warned the estimates assumed a slower build out of renewable energy. Sign up for a weekly email featuring our best reads Continue reading...
Groups blasted the Green Mountain National Forest plan, which had been touted as a model for carbon reduction and old-growth protection.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02449D, Communication Entian Cui, Yulian Lu, Xiu-Li Yang, Guojun Dong, Yajun Zhang, Yingpu Bi We demonstrated a facile electrochemical treatment for in situ anchoring of Cu 4 clusters in a graphitic C 3 N 5 framework, leading to remarkable improvements of photocatalytic reactivity and selectivity towards CO 2 reduction to ethanol. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03240C, Paper Yuqing Zhong, Yunzheng Zhang, Jiajian Wang, Huile Jin, Shuang Pan, Shun Wang, Yihuang Chen Utilizing the photothermal assistance principle provides fascinating opportunities to explore the connection between the catalyst photothermal effect and zinc–air battery characteristics under normal to extreme conditions. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04803B, Paper Yimei Chen, Kaijie Zhang, Zhixiao Xu, Facheng Gong, Renfei Feng, Zhehui Jin, Xiaolei Wang Zinc-ion batteries are challenged by zinc dendrites, notorious side reactions, and poor performance at low temperatures. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03419H, Paper Ciyu Ge, Qi Xu, Dayu Liu, Wenjiang Ye, Yongxin Zhu, Peiyan Zhang, Jiakuan Yang, Guangxing Liang, Ling Xu, Ying Zhou, Haisheng Song, Chao Chen, Jiang Tang Vacuum-assisted technology, favored for its low cost, environmentally friendly nature, and scalability, is widely used in perovskite solar cells and is a preferred choice for commercialized production. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04466E, Paper Yuan Fang, Chunhong Qi, Weichao Bao, Fangfang Xu, Wei Sun, Bin Liu, Xiqian Yu, Lianjun Wang, Wan Jiang, Pengpeng Qiu, Wei Luo The MXene–VO 2− x cathode with asymmetric Ti–O–V orbital hybridization at the heterointerface for zinc-ion batteries is designed to stabilize the oxygen vacancies through charge transfer, thus efficiently boosting the electrochemical performance. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Newly appointed Climate Change Commission chair Dame Patsy Reddy and climate change minister Simon Watts. New climate-related appointments have been met with a mixed reaction from policy experts, with one predicting the...
“With these permits, we're one step closer to providing vital infrastructure that benefits farmers, ethanol producers, and communities across the Midwest,” an official with the pipeline's company said.
Chevron spent billions trying to destroy him after he won the largest pollution case in history. It’s time for President Biden to end this nightmare It’s a tale as old as time: an underdog fighting for what’s right, and a powerful giant doing everything it can to stop him. Yet in today’s America, the giants don’t lose—they rig the system to crush anyone who dares to challenge them. That’s exactly what happened to Steven Donziger, a well-known human rights lawyer who stood up to oil giant Chevron. After helping Indigenous and farming communities in Ecuador secure a historic $9.5bn judgment against the company for decades of environmental destruction, Chevron retaliated with a vicious legal campaign designed not just to discredit him, but to ruin his life. Jim McGovern is a Congressman from...
‘Clean power 2030’ plan will speed up planning and give the energy secretary final say on major infrastructure projects The UK will not face blackouts under Labour’s proposed shake-up of energy supply, Ed Miliband has said, as he unveiled plans to boost clean power by the end of the decade. The energy secretary insisted the transition away from fossil fuels was now “unstoppable.” Continue reading...
Peter Dutton’s nuclear plan is now tied to his own credibility, and the Liberal leader is banking on not having to explain the discrepancies in detail Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast In finally unveiling the cost estimates for his nuclear power plan , Peter Dutton has laid out the Coalition’s key themes for next year’s election fight: the cost and reliability of energy, the pressure on Australians’ way of life and the role of political leadership in both. The Coalition is using this one contentious, audacious policy to try and channel all the uncertainty and insecurity Australians are expressing about life now and life in the future and turn it into electoral support. Continue reading...
He’ll now help oversee the United Arab Emirates’ push to bolster gas trading, chemicals and clean fuels as the country taps its vast oil wealth to prepare for the energy transition.
Climate change commission decision Thursday will delay Maryland's efforts to create the nation’s third state-run carbon market.
A state bill aims to create a “climate superfund,” a tactic being used or considered in numerous other states, including Vermont, which has enacted such a law.
[Global Witness] Home to a staggering array of biodiversity like forest elephants, chimpanzees, bonobos, and lowland and mountain gorillas, the Congo Basin's importance for both climate and biodiversity cannot be overstated
An annual attraction in Windsor when crowds flock to the area to witness the monarch migration, there's now growing concern that pesticides and climate change, among other factors, are putting the species at risk. In Canada, the butterfly is listed as endangered, and now the United States is looking to put it on a threatened species list that will give it more protection, including for its habitat. The U.S. proposal is now open for public comment, and is also open to Canadians. The CBC's Jennifer La Grassa has more.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Volume 129, Issue 12, December 2024.
A Delhi court acquitted six individuals, including a former coal secretary and company executives, in a coal scam case. The court found no evidence of cheating or misrepresentation by Navbharat Power Pvt Ltd (later Brahmani Thermal Power) in obtaining Odisha coal blocks.
By Danielle Carey, Sepp Haukebo and Eduardo Boné-Morón Renowned for its turquoise waters and unique marine ecosystems, The Bahamas is a natural wonder of the world. Yet, with all its beauty, the country faces critical challenges, including rising energy costs, environmental degradation and the growing impacts and threat of climate change. These issues jeopardize the […] The post A big opportunity for small vessels in the Bahamas appeared first on Energy Exchange .
Open access notables: Regional Impacts Poorly Constrained by Climate Sensitivity , Swaminathan et al., Earth's Future: Climate risk assessments must account for a wide range of possible futures, so scientists often use simulations made by numerous global climate models to explore potential changes in regional climates and their impacts. Some of the latest-generation models have high effective climate sensitivities (EffCS). It has been argued these “hot” models are unrealistic and should therefore be excluded from analyses of climate change impacts. Whether this would improve regional impact assessments, or make them worse, is unclear. Here we show there is no universal relationship between EffCS and projected changes in a number of important climatic drivers...
[This Day] The Managing Director of Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Limited, Mr. Philip Mshelbila has disclosed that the energy sector in Africa needs over $200 billion investments annually to meet its energy and climate goals.
In this week's issue of our environmental newsletter: we look at why credit ratings are a big deal for climate-vulnerable nations; check out some options for greener gifting; and meet a robot that's helping an Alberta town deal with problem geese.
[Independent (Kampala)] Analysis -- The fact that remittances -the money sent home by migrant workers- is often a lifeline for millions of those left behind has been known for a long time. Now, however, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) says it has found that the same funds are now being used for another great cause: to mitigate the devastating impacts of climate change on the millions left behind.
[The Conversation Africa] Bioenergy - the renewable energy derived from plant and animal waste products - is largely ignored in South Africa. Solar energy, wind power, and green hydrogen attract most investment in renewable energy.
Spy ring leader Orlin Roussev said his team met with the climate campaigners to organise the disinformation campaign against Kazakhstan, whilst he was living in Great Yarmouth.
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Climate tipping points are a specter looming over our future—thresholds beyond which the Earth’s systems switch into new states, often abruptly and irreversibly. The long-frozen soil beneath the Arctic could rapidly thaw and release vast amounts of carbon dioxide and methane stored within […]
Trump would have a hard time undoing a potential international agreement to end most export credits for fossil fuel infrastructure.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04525D, Review Article Tian Wang, Shaocong Tang, Ya Xiao, Weiwei Xiang, Jae Su Yu This review summarizes the strategies for achieving efficient zinc plating/stripping based on interfacial chemistry manipulation in anode-free zinc metal batteries. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
The president-elect has promised to slash energy costs for consumers, but market dynamics could make that difficult.
The oil major’s new venture comes as U.S. demand for electricity is projected to surge almost 16 percent over the next five years driven by new data centers and factories.
Mining magnate Gina Rinehart has spoken at a series of Bush Summits where the billionaire businesswoman outlined five key priorities for Australia.
[IPS] Nairobi -- Despite mixed reactions to the outcomes of COP29, Africa has the opportunity to take the lead in harnessing nature to tackle the effects of climate change and secure a resilient future.
Long dependent on fossil fuels before emerging a champion of offshore wind power, Danish company Orsted is now struggling to restore its business after dropping several major projects.
India's nuclear power capacity has doubled in the last decade, reaching 8,081 MW, and is projected to triple to 22,480 MW by 2031-32. Nine atomic power projects are under construction, with more in the pipeline. A revised power distribution framework ensures a larger share for home states.
The initiative, which includes more than 25 airlines, uses anonymised data to help pilots avoid turbulence and navigate smoother flight paths.
Fabian North Peigan believes an extensive impact benefit agreement must be created and upheld in the event the Grassy Mountain coal mine is approved.
Conflict and climate change are closely linked, the International Court of Justice heard. The Darfur crisis in Sudan is one such conflict where prolonged droughts and reduced rainfall have made access to water and arable land increasingly scarce, leading to friction between communities competing for limited resources.
[The Herald] Zimbabwe is currently in the grip of an unprecedented heat wave, a stark reminder of the rapidly escalating climate crisis. This extreme weather has pushed temperatures to record-breaking levels, with the Meteorological Services Department (MSD) recording daily averages ranging from 36 to 44 Degrees Celsius.
Marginalised communities have been elevated during hearings in The Hague on impact of climate crisis The village of Veraibari in Papua New Guinea sits at the mouth of the Kikori River, just before it opens into the Pacific. “Veraibari was so beautiful when I was a child,” remembers Ara Kouwo, 52. “I used to walk down to the beach passing under mango trees.” Kouwo’s testimony was one of many included in written submissions to the international court of justice (ICJ) before hearings that began last week and continue until Friday in a landmark case in which the court has been asked to give an advisory opinion on “the obligations of states in respect of climate change”. Continue reading...
In its latest 'UK Food Security Report', the Government said extreme weather continues to have a 'significant effect' on domestic production.
The U.S. is short approximately four million homes. Wharton economist Ben Keys traces the beginning of the housing crisis to the 2008 financial meltdown — and says climate change is making things worse.
The province is home to the biggest gas and helium project in the country. Will it speed up the shift towards renewable energy sources, or could it potentially hinder progress?
Young people account for 75% of heat-related deaths in Mexico, a new study has found. Safe heat conditions are likely much lower than expected.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04163A, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Hwiyoon Noh, Hyunki Yeo, Bryan W Boudouris, Brian M. Tackett The increasing demand for sustainable chemical production due to strict regulations for carbon emission aligns with growing availability of solar and wind energy, making electrochemical manufacturing a viable route toward... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04011B, Paper Xuanfeng Chen, Chunhao Qin, Fulu Chu, Fangkun Li, Jun Liu, Feixiang Wu A simple gel polymer electrolyte (GPE) for low-temperature operation is designed with multifunctional components, enabling fast ion transport and stable interface. Li//LCO cells with the GPE achieve high capacity and stable cycling even at −60 °C. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Hospitals can fight climate change, lower their energy costs and help patients at the same time.
Whitehorse's new mayor says the first capital budget of his term is about "fiscal responsibility," as the city grapples with aging infrastructure, the threat of climate change, and a steadily growing population.
"If we care about climate change, we shouldn't have them in our oceans."
Andrew Powell first said he was not ‘100% convinced’ 12 years ago while holding the portfolio during the Campbell Newman era Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Queensland’s environment minister has told parliament he stands by his comments more than a decade ago that he was “a bit sceptical” about human involvement in climate change. Andrew Powell returned to the environment, tourism, science and innovation portfolio last month, having held it under the former premier Campbell Newman in 2012. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...
[Ethiopian Herald] The government is expanding renewable energy and mini-grids in rural areas to ensure sustainable electricity access towards accelerating socio-economic development, Ministry of Water and Energy (MoWE) announced.
[IPS] Mafaure, Zimbabwe -- When Susan Chinyengetere started to focus on farming in her home village in south-eastern Zimbabwe, she wondered if she could earn a living and raise her children.
Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar said more than two dozen lawsuits from local governments against the oil industry should move forward in state court.
Of the 28 insurers reviewed, more than half were hit by climate-attributed losses that exceeded the coal, oil and gas premiums they earned, an activist coalition said.
When Susan Chinyengetere started to focus on farming in her home village in south-eastern Zimbabwe, she wondered if she could earn a living and raise her children. With climate catastrophes ravaging the country, her hesitation on rain-fed agriculture worsened. But two years later, the 32-year-old mother of two from Mafaure village in Masvingo, about 295 […]
[WFP] Nairobi -- The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a contribution of US$22 million from the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) to strengthen climate resilience and food security for smallholder farmers, livestock holders and marginalised groups, including women and youth in Kenya, Somalia and South Sudan. Climate prediction centres forecast La Niña conditions in the eastern Horn of Africa, potentially reducing October-December rainfall in parts of Kenya and Somalia. This could
The Highland Council have reneged on plans to construct battery storage units on a scenic site after strong local objections led by Lord Lovat argued the build would be a detriment to the landscape.
Meeting Indonesia's pledge to phase out coal power in just 15 years and reach net-zero emissions by mid-century is a "daunting task" that will require immediate and ambitious action, experts warn.
As Canada Post workers remain on the picket line, a key point of contention in their demands is their job's growing physical and mental toll—exacerbated by climate change.
In its decision, the BLM limited the lease sales to 400,000 acres, which is one-quarter of the coastal plain section of the refuge.
Leveraging the food of tiny phytoplankton could trap carbon and sequester it to the ocean’s bottom.
Could next-generation geothermal energy finally fulfill its promise of ridding us of fossil fuels for good?
U.S. officials decided to extend protections to monarch butterflies after warnings from environmentalists that populations are shrinking and the beloved pollinator may not survive climate change.
Construction work on the expansion and renovation of the Svartsengi geothermal power plant has been going well and it is almost on schedule, despite seven volcanic eruptions on the other side of Mt Sýlingarfell and Mt Þorbjörn since the first shovel was taken two years ago.
Glenn Platt tells Guardian Australia that the opposition leader had a ‘lazy’ response to report that undermines science Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast A former CSIRO energy director has said Peter Dutton’s attempt to politicise the national science agency’s work on the likely costs of nuclear reactors is “incredibly disappointing” and “absurd”. The opposition leader attacked the CSIRO after its latest GenCost report reaffirmed that electricity from nuclear energy in Australia would be at least 50% more expensive than power from solar and wind, backed up with storage. Continue reading...
Friends of the Earth calls on government to rein in growth of datacentres for fear they could increase fossil fuel use Ireland has allowed itself to become a “data dumping ground” for big technology companies such as Amazon and Meta which are monopolising clean energy generation for their datacentres, campaigners claim. They say the growth of the cloud storage sector in Ireland is so rapid it is threatening the country’s legally binding decarbonisation commitments. Continue reading...
Campaign group will pay no money to oil and gas company, but will donate £300,000 to RNLI Business live – latest updates Shell has agreed to settle its controversial multimillion-dollar lawsuit against Greenpeace after its campaigners boarded an oil rig last year as part of a peaceful protest. The oil company threatened to sue Greenpeace for $2.1m (£1.6m) in damages in one of the biggest legal threats against the group after its campaigners occupied a moving oil platform off the coast of the Canary Islands for 13 days to protest against the damage to the climate caused by Shell. Continue reading...
‘They're starting to see themselves as a part of the solution.’ The post Students in Illinois get paid to learn skills for jobs in energy efficiency appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
John Carnegie The Green Party has slammed the government’s appointment of a fossil fuel lobbyist to the Energy Efficiency & Conservation Authority Board.
Backers of blocked Utah railway proposal want justices to narrow scope of 50-year-old environmental legislation The future of environmental safeguards protecting communities, wildlife and waterways from harm will be considered by the US supreme court on Tuesday, in a case about a proposed oil train that threatens to upend five decades of legal precedent. The case brought by Utah’s Seven County Infrastructure Coalition and Uinta Basin Railway LLC is asking the supreme court to overturn a federal appeals court decision blocking the approval of an 88-mile railway through the Uinta Basin in north-eastern Utah . The railway’s backers want the court to narrow the scope of the National Environmental Policy Act (Nepa) – the country’s landmark environmental legislation passed by Congress and signed...
[IPS] If lives and livelihoods are to be protected, if we want to avoid utter catastrophe, there simply is no time to lose. As has often been said, we are the first generation to feel the impact of climate change, and undoubtedly, we are the last generation that can do something about it.--Mansoor Usman Awan, Attorney General of Pakistan
On November 1, 2024 we announced the publication of 33 rebuttals based on the report " Rebutting 33 False Claims About Solar, Wind, and Electric Vehicles " written by Matthew Eisenson, Jacob Elkin, Andy Fitch, Matthew Ard, Kaya Sittinger & Samuel Lavine and published by the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School in 2024. Below is the blog post version of rebuttal #6 based on Sabin's report. The impact of solar development on biodiversity depends on-site specific conditions, such as the local ecosystem, the existing land use, the density of development, and the management practices employed at the site. When applying best practices for project design, including by incorporating pollinator habitat and minimizing soil disturbance, large-scale...
Advancing development of the new Climate Loss and Damage Fund was a key call by Pacific Island nations at the COP29 United Nations Climate Change Conference being held in Azerbaijan in November. For Pacific Island Countries and Territories, the fund represents a critical step towards addressing what they consider a gross climate injustice: despite contributing […]
If lives and livelihoods are to be protected, if we want to avoid utter catastrophe, there simply is no time to lose. As has often been said, we are the first generation to feel the impact of climate change, and undoubtedly, we are the last generation that can do something about it.—Mansoor Usman Awan, Attorney General of Pakistan
The oil major has faced shareholder pressure over its energy transition strategy, first launched in 2020, as renewables profit has shrunk.
The move at an international meeting Tuesday would be a course-shift before President-elect Donald Trump takes power.
The ClimateWorks Foundation says more money is needed as warming continues and Trump vows to roll back federal climate funding.
Labor’s choices are either allow Dutton to continue angry monologues, or elevate the Coalition’s talking points further by clapping back Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Early on in Peter Dutton’s stint as opposition leader, he made two interesting appointments: Julian Leeser, for shadow Indigenous affairs minister, and Ted O’Brien, for shadow climate change. The appointments seemed to speak to two possible paths for the Coalition under Dutton. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...
[The Conversation Africa] The United Nations' 29th annual climate change conference of the parties, COP29, ended with countries from the global north committing US$300 billion per year in climate finance to developing countries. This money is meant to pay for developing countries to carry out climate change adaptation and mitigation and move away from fossil fuels. But the amount falls far short of the US$1.3 trillion per year needed. Kudakwashe Manjonjo of the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies at the University of the
Dick Smith has revealed the key problem with a CSIRO report suggesting nuclear energy would be twice as expensive as renewable power.
B.C. unveiled nine new private wind power projects with major First Nations equity on Monday it says will produce as much electricity as the Site C dam by 2031.
The 21-year-old climate change activist shouted the expletives, which the crowd cheered and clapped at, during a rally held in Mannheim on Friday organised by the Zaytouna group.
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections Climate pollution caused by burning fossil fuels hit a record 37.4 billion metric tons in 2024, marking a 0.8% rise from the previous year – and dashing hopes that a peak in global emissions might occur this year . That’s according to the latest annual Global Carbon Budget , which underscores a deeper challenge: the world’s ongoing reliance on coal, oil, and gas, which continues to drive emissions and disrupt the climate. The report, organized by a global consortium of scientists centered at the University of Exeter, paints a complex picture of global energy trends, with troubling increases in some areas and signs of progress in others. Emissions from most wealthy countries fell this year...
Energy company’s deal with Japan’s Jera will allow it to focus on exploiting oil and gas assets Business live – latest updates BP has agreed a deal worth up to £4.5bn to build offshore windfarms with Japan’s biggest power producer, in a shift that will allow it to gain some access to zero-carbon wind energy while focusing on fossil fuels. The FTSE 100 company will create a 50-50 joint-venture with the Japanese power generator Jera to combine their offshore wind assets, the companies announced on Monday. Continue reading...
[IPS] Rising seas due to climate change threaten the future of Papua New Guinea, a country known for its significant linguistic and biodiversity. Already, this has forced people to abandon their ancestral lands and caused civil unrest as landowners fight over increasingly limited land and space.
Dame Patsy Reddy Dame Patsy Reddy has been appointed the new chair of the Climate Change Commission, Climate Change Minister Simon Watts announced this morning.
[Independent (Kampala)] Uganda is the 12th most vulnerable country to climate change out of 192 countries ranked according to a report published in Kampala on Oct.30 by Oxfam, the UK-based global anti-poverty NGO.
The agency now expects to issue preliminary proposals in the spring.
For every £1 spent on renewable energy projects, only 25p was invested in connecting them to grid, report finds The UK is lagging behind in the race to rewire the world’s power grids by investing four times more on renewable energy projects than on the electricity cables needed to connect them to the grid and consumers, according to a new report. For every pound the UK has spent on renewables it has spent only 25p on the cables and power lines, claims the report by Bloomberg NEF, which placed the UK eighth in an index of the world’s 10 biggest energy markets. Continue reading...
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04106B, Paper Hyeseong Oh, Gyu-sang Kim, Jiyoon Bang, San Kim, Kyeong-Min Jeong Designing thick electrodes is essential for the applications of lithium-ion batteries that demand high energy density. Introducing a dry electrode process that does not require solvents during electrode fabrication has... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Last month was officially the second hottest November on record, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service.
At Jaguar Land Rover’s historic Halewood factory in Merseyside, England, state-of-the art assembly robots are now building the cars of the future.
Inflation was a defining issue in the presidential election. Here's how climate change is making everything more expensive.
National science agency dismisses argument nuclear’s economics have not been adequately considered in new draft report Follow our Australia news live blog for latest update Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The CSIRO has rejected Coalition arguments that nuclear power plants could be developed in Australia in less than 15 years and that their long operating life would make them cheaper than other options. Instead, it has again found that “firmed” solar and wind are the cheapest new electricity options. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...
A listing of 24 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, December 1, 2024 thru Sat, December 7, 2024. Alternative listing prototype Instead of a "Story of the Week" we added a listing by assigned category, so this installment will have the same list of articles twice, first by category and then by publication date. Please let us know in the comments which format you prefer, if the manually assigned categories actually fit the articles and if additional categories might make sense without getting too fine grained. To keep things simple, an article can only be assigned to one category. Climate change impacts Doomsday Glacier collapse! Time for MORE human intervention?? by Dave Borlace, "Just have...
Male players must step up and add their voice to the campaign to stop our sport being sold out to the big polluters causing climate change At the Cop29 climate conference last month Sofie Junge Pedersen and Katie Rood again called for Fifa to drop its sponsorship deal with the Saudi Arabian state oil company Aramco. They were among more than 130 female players who signed an open letter in October that described the partnership as a “middle finger to women’s football” that will do real damage to people and our planet. After the letter was published, I spoke out in support of their initiative. I hoped other professional male players would join me. The women were widely applauded for speaking out but their male counterparts have not followed suit. On Wednesday, Fifa is poised to confirm...
Scientists say giving people hours, or even a few minutes, of early warning has grown in importance, as climate change makes natural disasters more common and dangerous than ever before.
We're wasting too much of the clean energy we generate. Reservoirs and caverns can store excess solar and wind power.
Many Ukrainians continue to leave their coal mining towns, with the front line of the war with Russia nearby.
State leaders want nuclear reactors to provide consistent, low-carbon power for AI, oil extraction, and more. But in South Texas, people worry mining for fuel will poison their water.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman asserted that the slower second-quarter growth doesn't signal a systemic slowdown, attributing it to reduced public spending during the election season. She anticipates a rebound in the third quarter and maintains India's position as the fastest-growing major economy for the coming years, despite global economic challenges and climate change impacts.
A Lord has joined the fight against a proposed battery storage scheme it is claimed would 'degrade' the Loch Ness area 'in every conceivable way'.
As a new administration soon takes charge, what will become of climate policy? That’s a question worth asking, since it was nearly invisible this past election. A recent Gallup poll on the importance of various issues showed that “the economy” was first out of 22 issues; “climate change” was 21st. Incoming President Donald Trump has declared the United States...
If you're going to desecrate beautiful English countryside with thousands of solar panels and batteries, it might be an idea not to pick a site bordering Christine Hamilton's back garden.
High voltage required to use Aemo’s emergency backstop is a bit like stopping a car by driving into a tree, Vince Garrone says Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast This week’s call by the Australian Energy Market Operator for “emergency backstop” mechanisms to switch off rooftop solar systems brings safety risks, because the high voltages needed exceed the limits that many appliances have safely been tested for. That’s according to Vince Garrone, former power quality manager at Energex, Queensland’s biggest electricity distributor who called the situation ironic. Authorities, in using “brute force” to trip inverters, were creating the very high voltage conditions the device protection was designed to prevent. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news...
EPA Limits on Climate Pollution from Power Plants Are “Vital Safeguards,” Have “Firm Legal Grounding”
Campaigners want rethink of national policy because of ‘wasteful knock-it-down-and-start-again approach’ Campaigners are calling for planning rules to be consider the environmental implications of knocking down buildings after a controversial redevelopment of Marks & Spencer’s historic store on London’s Oxford Street was given the green light by the government. Save Britain’s Heritage said national policy should consider the embedded carbon linked to a site when considering its future and prioritise reuse of historic buildings amid the climate crisis alongside issues such as preserving important architecture. Continue reading...
In March, John Cook met with Adam Ford from Science, Technology & the Future to talk about his work researching misinformation and how to counter it. The interview - published on October 10 - explored the complex and evolving landscape of climate misinformation, covering a range of topics including the different types of misinformation, the role of social media and AI in spreading and combating it, the psychological barriers that prevent people from accepting climate science, and the importance of communicating effectively about climate change. Key takeaways include: The nature of climate misinformation: Misinformation takes many forms, including outright denial of climate science, attacks on climate scientists and solutions, and promotion of conspiracy theories. It...
The Energy Department’s $400 billion program to support electric vehicles, batteries and other low emissions technology is hustling to get money out the door.
Sales of electric vehicles grow for the eleventh straight month as manufacturers offer steep discounts.
Artificial intelligence, manufacturing and electric cars could add as much as 128 gigawatts to the grid by 2029, a new report says.
A new paper warns the concept doesn’t do much to encourage climate action from citizens and policymakers.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03192J, Paper Ying Wei, Han Wang, Xing Lin, Tianyu Wang, Yanming Cui, Yu Huang, Jiayi Yang, Te-Huan Liu, Yang Ren, Xiulin Fan, Henghui Xu, Yunhui Huang This work proposed an electrolyte with a moderate solvation structure, addressing the low ionic conductivity, slow de-solvation and unstable cathode–electrolyte interphase of high-voltage lithium metal batteries at low temperature. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
In low-lying Copenhagen where rising sea levels, groundwater and rainfall pose a risk to infrastructure, the Danish capital is trying to adapt and protect urban areas from climate change.
India argued that developed nations made a strong case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), highlighting the importance of equitable global action on climate change and calling for developed nations to bear greater responsibility for climate change mitigation and finance. India criticised inadequate financial support from developed countries and emphasized the unfair burden on developing nations with minimal historical emissions.
This story was originally published by Vox.com and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The 2022 Inflation Reduction Act stands as the single largest piece of legislation to address climate change in United States history. The IRA contains nearly $370 billion for programs like tax credits for more efficient appliances, building new battery plants, and subsidies for renewable energy. And […]
Nasa announced that NISAR, the advanced earth observation satellite developed by India and the US, is set to launch in March 2025. With dual-frequency radar, NISAR will monitor planetary changes with precision, aiding in climate change understanding and disaster response. It will provide high-resolution images and track surface changes, benefiting global natural resource management.
At least 3,700 tons of low-grade fuel oil had spilled out of two storm-stricken Russian tankers.
The Biden administration was trying to curtail public financing of fossil fuels. But its proposal came too late in the negotiations, according to advocates.
Volunteers told MT about being forced to buy their own protective equipment and cleaning supplies as they scrub beaches clean of oil.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03350G, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Yufan Zhang, Chi Ho Lee, Md Zahidul Islam , Joseph Kwon, Choongho Yu Aqueous Fe-ion batteries are largely unexplored due to their short cycle life despite the extremely low material cost. The working mechanisms are mostly undisclosed with only a few experimental studies.... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Palestinians accuse UK firm of breaching human rights laws by piping oil allegedly used by Israeli army Palestinian victims of the war in Gaza are taking legal action against BP for running a pipeline that supplies much of Israel’s crude oil. The claimants have sent the British oil company a letter before claim, alleging it is breaching its stated commitments to human rights under international law. Continue reading...
Bangladesh has launched a probe into the alleged $5 billion embezzlement connected to a Russian-backed nuclear power plant by ousted leader Sheikh Hasina and her family, the anti-corruption commission said.
A new study maps out the connections between conservative think tanks and local groups that oppose offshore wind projects.
The tribe says decades of massive engineering projects for development and agriculture have devastated the ecosystem that’s sustained them.
Treasury is doing an unprecedented analysis of climate change and property insurance. Advocates want the information before Trump takes power.
Experts warn that a growing dependence on wind power could mean rising energy bills for all as a lack of grid capacity creates crippling power bottlenecks.
Tariffs and tax credit changes could make electric cars more expensive to buy or lease in 2025. If you want an EV, experts say you should act now.
Japanese automakers Honda and Nissan have announced plans to work to a merger, forming the world's third-largest automaker by sales as the industry undergoes changes in its move from fossil fuels.
A mine just reopened in eastern Utah, but the industry has changed. The post Utah’s coal mines can’t find enough workers appeared first on High Country News.
Julia Gyapay, Mary Ann Sylvester, and James Thomas, three of the members of the N.W.T.'s Climate Change Youth Council, spoke to CBC about why they got involved, and what they hope the council can achieve.
[IPS] United Nations -- The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warns that 2024 is on track to be the hottest year in recorded history, surpassing 2023. This can be attributed to heightened reliance on fossil fuels and the reluctance of industries worldwide to pivot to green energy practices. The rapid acceleration of global temperatures has alarmed scientists, with many expressing concern over the environmental, economic, and social implications of the worsening climate crisis.
Hundreds of volunteers showed up on Saturday (December 21) to shovel up tons of sticky oil mixed with sand from Russia's Black Sea coastline, after two aging Russian oil tankers were severely damaged by a weekend storm in the Kerch Strait. - REUTERS
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The Steel Horse facility supplies Vladimir Putin 's armed forces, but also links to the Druzhba pipeline which sends Russian oil to Europe.
Despite ‘spy’ scandal, Philip Hammond says Britain should now adopt a ‘pragmatic approach to Beijing’ China should be encouraged to build electric cars and renewable energy technology in the UK as part of a new pragmatic trading relationship that would benefit both countries, a former Tory chancellor has said ahead of a landmark visit by Rachel Reeves to Beijing early in the new year. Philip Hammond, who was chancellor from 2016 to 2019, and the last UK minister to take part in formal economic discussions with China before the process was abruptly ended, told the Observer that while Reeves should never “compromise security for trade”, there were vital economic sectors where deals could be struck. Continue reading...
City Minister Tulip Siddiq is being investigated over claims that she and four family members embezzled £4 billion through a nuclear power plant deal in Bangladesh.
Electric vehicles often offer lightning fast acceleration, and a few bring incredible top speed to the table as well. Here are the fastest EVS you can buy.
CNN — President-elect Donald Trump campaigned on a three-word energy policy: “Drill, baby, drill.” But his cabinet picks for energy and environment — and the current fossil fuel economy — suggest it’s not going to be that easy. There is no question that, in stark contrast to the climate-focused Biden administration, the people Trump is … The post Trump’s energy strategy is ‘drill baby drill.’ It’s going to be much harder than that appeared first on Egypt Independent.
Florida's non-native green iguanas become paralyzed and drop from trees when temperatures dip. Climate change could bring this problem to new areas.
France on Saturday connected its most powerful nuclear power reactor to the national electricity grid in what leaders hailed as a landmark moment despite years of delays, budget overruns and technical setbacks.
In his small Freetown workshop, engineering student James Samba tinkered with batteries and electrical parts he hoped could help clean up Sierra Leone's polluting public transport system.
President-elect Trump pressed the EU to reduce its trade deficit with the US by buying more American oil and gas, threatening tariffs otherwise. The EU responded with a willingness to discuss strengthening trade relations, particularly in energy, while acknowledging the existing trade imbalance.
NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, is preparing today for tomorrow’s mission. Supersonic flight, next generation aircraft, advanced air mobility, climate changes, human exploration of space, and the next innovation are just some of the topics our researchers, engineers, and mission support teams focused on in 2024. NASA Armstrong began 2024 with the […]
There is more research than ever focused on reflecting sunlight away from the planet to cool the climate – but there are still far more questions than answers about the effects
WASHINGTON — United States President-elect Donald Trump has threatened the European Union (EU) with tariffs if its member countries do not buy more American oil and gas.
President-elect reignites fears of a trade war as he says bloc must make up its ‘tremendous deficit’ with US The US president-elect, Donald Trump, has warned the EU that it will face trade tariffs on its exports to the US unless its member states buy more American oil and gas. Trump reignited fears of a looming trade war between the US and the EU in his first public statement regarding trade since he was elected president in November . Continue reading...
Labour seems gripped by a form of denialism. The danger is real and incremental change won’t avert it Jeremy Corbyn is independent MP for Islington North and was leader of the Labour party from 2015 to 2020 There is no need to overcomplicate things: a rise in global temperatures of 3.1C is not compatible with human survival. That is where we are heading, unless we act now. On our current path, the world will exceed 1.5C of warming, and could reach a rise of 2.6-3.1C by the end of the century. For you, today, that might make the difference between wearing a jumper or a jacket. For humanity, it is the difference between survival and extinction. Paris and Berlin will bake under heatwaves. New York will be hit by frequent storm-surges. Coastal towns will be submerged; 800 million people...
In recent years, the erosion of the mountain range around La Paz has accelerated due to the effects of climate change, leading to Bolivia’s government ordering the area evacuated.
As Germany heads for February 23 elections the grey winter weather has become a hot campaign topic because of its impact on the country's shaky green energy transition.
Survey finds post-1992 universities leading the way on sustainability and ethics More universities are banning fossil fuel companies from recruitment fairs in a sign of the sector’s shrinking social licence among young people. The annual survey of sustainability and ethics in higher education found there has been a 30% rise in the number of institutions stopping fossil fuel companies taking part in graduate fairs this year. Continue reading...
The Department of Energy is soliciting applications for direct air capture facilities.
There’s no shortage of environmental crises. Whether it’s climate change, plastic pollution, or simply our mounting waste, we just produce too much stuff — and then throw it away. There’s no silver bullet or magic tool that can solve everything. We need societal changes, better regulation, and more responsible companies. In a new study, a […]
Nationals senator questions his own party’s policy, saying ‘all sides of politics are deciding their energy based on focus group’ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Nationals senator Matt Canavan has doubled down on concerns about the Coalition’s nuclear power plan, saying attempting to run a modern economy through nuclear or renewable power was “equally unachievable” after a video showed him claiming his colleagues are “not serious” about the idea. In a podcast interview from August uncovered by the ABC, Canavan said the Coalition was backing nuclear power “because it fixes a political issue for us”. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 20 December 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02222-9Vocal communication is essential for information transmission in many species, such as that related to mating opportunities or predator presence. Recent research revealing how phenotypic changes brought about by a changing climate may influence vocal communication raises some serious concerns for conservation management.
Parliament's standards commissioner was last night urged to probe Tulip Siddiq after the Treasury minister was named in an anti-corruption investigation in Bangladesh.
4 Cities Looking Beyond Rider Fares to Fund Better, More Resilient Public Transit margaret.overh… Thu, 12/19/2024 - 14:00 Public transit is not only a vital network connecting people to jobs, services and one another; it's also an important climate solution. The world needs to double public transit capacity by 2030 as part of its larger roadmap to slash planet-warming emissions and avert the worst of the climate crisis. But this rapid growth will be costly, and public transit systems have a funding problem. During COVID-19, ridership plummeted by up to 60% in major cities around the world. This drained the fare revenue that transit agencies often rely on to pay for staff, fuel, maintenance and more. Many cities have yet to see ridership (and fare revenue) fully...
The Role of Agroecological Entrepreneurs and Territorial Markets in Africa's Sustainable Food Systems alicia.cypress… Thu, 12/19/2024 - 12:30 Our current food systems are pushing the planet beyond its ecological limits, fueling declining agricultural productivity, biodiversity loss, exacerbating climate change, deepening food insecurity and hunger, and worsening poverty — especially in Africa. Around one in five Africans are affected by hunger, driven by conflicts, climate change and economic downturns, according to the latest State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World . This is made worse due to limited social protection systems and economic constraints, which restrict access to diversified diets, further exacerbating food insecurity. However, Africa...
[The Herald] Rumbidzayi Zinyuke -- A solar power initiative is poised to transform the lives of over one million rural households across eight provinces by providing reliable and sustainable energy.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04323E, Review Article Xin Wang, Yameng Fan, Jiayang Li, Xinghan Li, Weijie Li, Jiazhao Wang, Wei Kong Pang All solid-state sodium metal batteries (ASSSMBs) have emerged as promising candidates in large-scale energy storage systems relative to Li/Na-ion batteries using flammable liquid electrolytes. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
National oil companies dominate industry methane emissions; enlisting them to clean up requires understanding the governments that manage them.
In this week's issue of our environmental newsletter: we give you a chance to try our end-of-year climate quiz, respond to a reader email about fossil fuel ads on transit and check out a listener's leisurely deconstruction and reconstruction project.
A British-made surveillance drone called PHASA-35 has completed test flights in the stratosphere - the second layer of Earth's atmosphere.
[Vanguard] Buoyed by a $750 million loan from the World Bank and the ongoing challenges in achieving steady power supply from the national grid, the Federal Government has shifted focus to the renewable energy sector to boost supply to education, health, agriculture, rural communities and transportation sectors.
[This Day] The federal government yesterday disclosed that over 13 million Nigerians will benefit from the takeoff of the $750 million of Nigeria's Distributed Access through Renewable Energy Scale-up (DARES) programme, an initiative backed by the World Bank.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04698F, Paper Ying Mo, Wang Zhou, Kexuan Wang, Wenwen Yang, Zixu Liu, Shi Chen, Peng Gao, Jilei Liu The performance of potassium ion batteries (PIBs) using graphite anode is highly dependent on the composition of solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) that include both organic and inorganic species. Currently, most... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
The president-elect’s pick to lead USDA, Brooke Rollins, has decried “devastating” clean energy subsidies.
The probe may complicate the $47.2 billion investment, which is key to ensuring a stable energy supply after the country phases out its coal plants.
The president strengthened America’s commitment to slashing climate pollution under the Paris Agreement knowing that it could be abandoned when President-elect Donald Trump takes office next month.
Young climate activists claim that the government is violating their rights to a clean and healthful environment.
Tariffs are a hot topic these days. But could they help cool the planet? Many countries are discussing carbon tariffs or carbon border adjustments as a way to protect their competitiveness while fighting climate change. Here's a closer look.
Enterprising Group In Rural Cuttack Steps Up To The Plate To Counter Climate Change
The 6-1 ruling is a major, rare victory for climate activists, who have tried to use the courts to force action on activities they say are harming the planet.
US and Canadian electrical grids are being strained by AI data centers, crypto mining, and electric cars.
[Leadership] The Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC) has outlined plans to focus on fintech, agri-tech, and renewable energy sectors in its bid to position Nigeria as a hub for technology and innovation investments.
[Daily Trust] InfraCredit, a 'AAA'-rated specialised infrastructure credit guarantee institution, has announced credit enhancement of Prado Power Limited's Guaranteed Fixed-Rate Senior Green Infrastructure Forward Ijarah Lease Sukuk under a co-financing arrangement with the £10 million Climate Finance Blending Facility.
The oil muck now covers up to 50 kilometers of shoreline.
We want to hear how you manage to eat a planet-friendly diet despite soaring food prices and lack of access Can everyone eat for the planet? I shopped at Dollar Store for a week to find out Tackling the climate crisis will require us to think more carefully about what we eat, since our food system accounts for up to one-third of all greenhouse gas emissions. The best option, according to scientists who developed a climate-friendly food plan several years ago, is to eat more vegetables, legumes and whole grains, and cut back on meat and dairy. Despite the planetary – and health – benefits of this diet, it’s not always easy to eat this way, especially given soaring food prices and lack of accessibility in many parts of the US. Continue reading...
Tackling Climate and Nature Together in 2025 shannon.paton@… Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:10 Few issues are more enmeshed than climate and nature. Scientists are increasingly learning how biodiversity loss and climate change compound and reinforce each other. For example, deforestation releases greenhouse gas emissions that fuel climate change, spurring wildfires and forest dieback that then release more emissions and cause further warming. It’s a vicious cycle that both accelerates and amplifies the extreme heat, drought, flooding and other impacts endangering communities around the world. Yet despite their inexorable connection, policymaking for climate and for nature still largely operate in separate spheres. Just this year, the world saw major international summits...
Republicans and others opposed the Fish and Wildlife Service proposal to update its "biological integrity, diversity, and environmental health" policy for the refuge system.
Climate-vulnerable pair add weight to proposed treaty seeking transition from coal, oil and gas in equitable way Pakistan and the Bahamas have joined a growing bloc of climate-vulnerable countries seeking to broker a global pact to phase out fossil fuels in an equitable way, the Guardian can reveal. The Bahamas is the 15th nation to fully endorse the proposed fossil-fuel non-proliferation treaty, which would provide a binding global roadmap to explicitly halt expansion of coal, oil and gas in a fair way – with wealthy nations responsible for the highest emissions transitioning first and fastest. Continue reading...
Sooty shearwater PHOTO: Philip Griffin Media release | Hundreds of seabirds found washed up along the west coast of the North Island are likely to have died from starvation due to climate change impacts.
The state of Utah has come up with its share of boondoggles over the years, but one of the more enduring is the Uinta Basin Railway. The proposed 88-mile rail line would link the oil fields of the remote Uinta Basin region of eastern Utah to national rail lines so that up to 350,000 barrels […]
From "carbon cowboys" to "snow loss cliff," these 10 terms captured the spirit of the hottest year yet.
National Grid, SSE and ScottishPower submit plans amid global race to shift from fossil fuels to clean electricity Energy companies have promised to spend almost £70bn over five years to help rewire Great Britain’s electricity infrastructure in the global race to shift from fossil fuels to clean electricity. The companies that own the high-voltage power system – National Grid , SSE and ScottishPower – have submitted spending plans totalling about £68bn to the industry regulator Ofgem for the period from 2026 to 2031, which could support about 100,000 jobs. Continue reading...
[Earthlife] With COP29 now just a memory, South African grassroots activists are reflecting on the outcomes of the summit and their own roles in advocating for climate justice. The conference, held in Baku, Azerbaijan, brought some incremental advances but left many critical issues unresolved, amplifying the voices of those who argue the COP process needs deeper reform.
Nuclear should account for around 20 percent of the nation’s energy mix by fiscal 2040 and renewables for around 40 to 50 percent proposed, according to a new draft policy.
Experts call multilateral environmentalism broken because of a cumbersome consensus process, the power of the fossil fuel industry, geopolitical changes and the massive size of the problems they are trying to fix.
Mechanical engineer Hazar Denli lost his job after publishing online concerns about an electric car.
[MAP] Rabat -- Morocco and Chile shared their experience in water management, with a particular focus on best practices for coping with water stress, at a thematic session on climate change and international mobility held in Rabat on Tuesday.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04212C, Paper Hui Lin, Lingxing Zeng, Chuyuan Lin, Junxiu Wu, Huibing He, Chengxiu Huang, Wenbin Lai, Peixun Xiong, Fuyu Xiao, Qingrong Qian, Qinghua Chen, Jun Lu This work uses disodium naphthalenedisulfonate as an example to examine the structure–activity relationship of additives in aqueous wide-pH zinc–metal batteries. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Climate change makes it trickier for Churchill's residents to co-exist with increasingly hungry predators
Department of Energy Study On Environmental and Economic Impacts of U.S. Natural Gas Exports Shows Urgent Need to Cut Methane Pollution
An Energy Department study concludes that unfettered U.S. exports of liquefied natural gas, or LNG, would harm the environment and the economy.
Follow our Climate Corps fellow’s green jobs journey and how they helped Chubb develop their new Agriculture Resource Hub.
New Environmental Defense Fund analysis of climate-smart investments in U.S. row crops unearths strategic opportunities for the private sector to accelerate climate action and future-proof agricultural supply chains.
The biodiversity, climate, health, water and food crises need to be addressed together rather than regarded as separate issues, urges a major report
State media estimate that more than 3,000 metric tons of mazut oil may have leaked into the Kerch Strait.
Biological diversity is on the decline worldwide, and current approaches to address its loss have been piecemeal and ineffective in tackling the crisis facing nature—this is despite estimates that over half of global GDP (USD 58 trillion of economic activity in 2023) is generated in sectors that are moderately to highly dependent on nature, a […]
The National Energy System Operator (NESO) said 22,243 megawatts (MW) of wind was generated on Sunday, December 15.
[Vanguard] With recent worldwide heatwaves across the globe exceeding temperature records and exposing the impact of climate change, some of the hottest countries, from tropical savannas to scorching deserts, are currently experiencing extreme heat throughout the year.
The government is proposing to back a host of projects to store emissions from gas-fired power plants and factories.
The Environment Agency warns that eight million English homes and businesses will be at risk of flooding in the next 25 years as a result of the Earth's warming climate.
[IPS] Riyadh & Hyderabad -- The 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD COP 16) concluded early hours of Saturday with a renewed focus on building drought resilience globally. However, the COP also failed to agree on bringing a legally binding drought protocol. Like the biodiversity and climate change COPs held earlier in the year, COP16 also failed to finish in time and ended by postponing several key decisions to COP17 scheduled to be held in 2026.
On November 1, 2024 we announced the publication of 33 rebuttals based on the report " Rebutting 33 False Claims About Solar, Wind, and Electric Vehicles " written by Matthew Eisenson, Jacob Elkin, Andy Fitch, Matthew Ard, Kaya Sittinger & Samuel Lavine and published by the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School in 2024. Below is the blog post version of rebuttal #7 based on Sabin's report. Ambitious solar deployment would utilize a relatively small percentage of U.S. land when compared to the land currently being used for agriculture. The Department of Energy estimated that total U.S. solar development would take up roughly 10.3 million acres in a scenario in which cumulative solar deployment reaches 1,050–1,570 GW by 2050, the highest...
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03525A, Review Article Sheher Yar Khan, Sajid Rauf, Shuli Liu, Wei Chen, Yongliang Shen, Mahesh Kumar Studies have been conducted to explore innovative performance-enhancing thermal management strategies (PETS) aimed at improving the efficiency of Photovoltaic (PV) technology and shift towards a low-carbon economy. Nonetheless, there remains... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
The White House is considering whether to release new targets for carbon reductions, even though they could be jettisoned by the next president.
Building so many venues is "environmentally wasteful in the extreme" because carbon will be emitted and scarce resources used, said one economics professor.
California's governor is unbowed in his crusade against oil companies, but other elected Democrats are getting cold feet.
The U.K. government is relying on a huge build-out of wind power to reach a goal for a zero-carbon power grid by 2030.
[IPS] Dakar, Senegal -- From increased pests and diseases to lower crop yields and extreme weather events, the adverse impacts of climate change on agriculture in Africa cannot be overstated.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04051A, Paper Fei Yang, Yuyao Ruan, Shuo Li, Xingpei Wei, Shuwan Zai, Fei Gao, Shengzhong (Frank) Liu, Wangen Zhao The PCE of AFMS passivated CsPbI 3 PSCs reached 21.85%, which is the highest for this type of pure cesium lead triiodide solar cell. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
AI uses a lot of power. Some of the next generation data centers may use as much power as one million U.S. households. Technology companies like Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta hope nuclear power will offer a climate solution for this energy use. Nuclear power plants can deliver hundreds of megawatts of power without producing greenhouse gas emissions. But some long-time watchers of the nuclear industry are skeptical that it's the right investment for big tech companies to make. Read more of science correspondent Geoff Brumfiel's reporting here . Interested in more stories about the future of energy? Email us at shortwave@npr.org . We'd love to hear from you! Listen to every episode of Short Wave sponsor-free and support our work at NPR by signing up for Short Wave+ at...
Now the world’s biggest market for nuclear power, China has more than 100 reactors in use or being built along the nation’s coastline.
In just the past 10 years, cities around the world, including in Canada, have lost weeks' worth of winter ski, skate and snow days each year due to climate change. They've been replaced by dozens of days of rain, melt and mud, a new analysis finds.
This blog was authored by Talley Burley, Manager, Climate Risk & Insurance and Carolyn Kousky, Associate Vice President for Economics and Policy. This is the third blog in a multi-part series on how insurers can support decarbonization and the energy transition. This series explores opportunities and challenges and highlights emerging insurance innovations that can drive emissions reductions. In […] The post Unlocking Insurance to Rebuild Stronger and Greener after Disasters appeared first on Market Forces .
Top adviser says vessels that sank and ran aground are part of aged fleet that will continue to cause large-scale damage Ukraine has called on the international community to take action against Russia’s sanctions-busting oil fleet, after an ageing tanker sank in the Black Sea , causing a major environmental disaster. The Russian cargo ship, Volgoneft-212, broke in half during a heavy storm off the coast of occupied Crimea on Sunday. A second tanker, Volgoneft-239, got into difficulties in the same area. It eventually ran aground near the port of Taman at the south end of the Kerch strait. Continue reading...
Peter Dutton’s path ‘would be an absolute failure’ in decarbonising the electricity sector and meeting Australia’s emission targets, analyst says Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Australia would emit far more climate pollution – more than 1.7bn extra tonnes of carbon dioxide – between now and 2050 under the Coalition’s nuclear-focused plan than under Labor’s renewable energy dominated policy, analysts say. The opposition last week released modelling of its “coal-to-nuclear” plan that would slow the rollout of renewable energy and batteries and instead rely on more fossil fuel generation until a nuclear industry could be developed, mostly after 2040. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking...
CNN — Two Russian tankers carrying thousands of tons of fuel were badly damaged in stormy weather near the Black Sea over the weekend, leading to an oil spill, according to Russian state media. The Volgoneft 212 and Volgoneft 239 vessels were in the Kerch Strait between mainland Russia and annexed Crimea when they got … The post Badly damaged Russian tankers carrying thousands of tons of fuel spill oil near Black Sea appeared first on Egypt Independent.
Emergency officials said all 14 crew members onboard the Volgoneft 239 were brought to shore after bad weather overnight delayed rescue efforts.
A company official said the spill was immediately reported to regulators, though the report by a federal pipeline safety agency said the line likely was leaking for an “extended period of time.”
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04908J, Paper Emma Kaeli, Zhelong Jiang, Xiaomian Yang, Emma Patricia Kwai Lin Choy, Nicolas Bojun Liang, Edward Barks, Sunny Wang, Stephen Dongmin Kang, William C. Chueh Solid-state batteries (SSBs) promise more energy-dense storage than liquid electrolyte lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). However, first-cycle capacity loss is higher in SSBs than in LIBs due to interfacial reactions. The chemical... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
The North Minneapolis program trains people in energy efficiency and weatherization. The post AmeriCorps program aims to grow and diversify energy workforce appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
The government is using its new hydrogen action plan as an opportunity to weaken regulations that are “inconvenient” to the fossil fuel industry, according to an energy transition expert.
[New Times] Energy Private Developers (EPD) and BK Foundation have distributed solar power systems and improved cookstoves to 141 households in Nyanza and Ruhango districts.
[350Africa.org] On Sunday, 8th December, East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP)-impacted communities gathered in Kikuube district in Uganda to hold a press conference and peaceful demonstration in response to the recent claim by the Government of Uganda indicating that financing for the destructive East African Crude Oil Pipeline would come through from numerous Chinese state-owned entities by the end of December 2024.
Geothermal energy has an advantage over other renewable sources because it can run almost all the time, the International Energy Agency said.
Nigeria approved Exxon’s sale of the assets to the independent energy supplier in October.
The conditions that enabled the string of late season tropical cyclones were made nearly twice as likely by human-driven climate change, according to World Weather Attribution.
[The Conversation Africa] Three-quarters of Earth's land has become drier since 1990.
Thanks to climate change and tougher vines, Denmark and Sweden have a growing number of wineries.
Two Russian oil tankers have been seriously damaged following a storm in the Kerch Strait, spilling oil and sparking an emergency rescue operation.
Experts express fear – and resilience – as they prepare for president-elect’s potential attacks on climate research As the world’s largest gathering of Earth and space scientists swarmed a Washington venue last week, the packed halls have been permeated by an air of anxiety and even dread over a new Donald Trump presidency that might worsen what has been a bruising few years for science. The annual American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting drew a record 31,000 attendees this year for the unveiling of a slew of new research on everything from seismology to climate science to heliospheric physics, alongside a sprawling trade show and bouts of networking as scientists jostle to advance their work. Continue reading...
Ukraine accuses Moscow of recklessness amid risk of ecological damage to marine environment Two Russian tankers carrying more than 4,000 tonnes of oil products have sunk in the Black Sea amid stormy conditions, threatening an ecological disaster. The cargo ship Volgoneft-212 snapped in half on Sunday after being hit by a large wave. Video showed its bow end sticking vertically out of the water. The boat got into difficulties off the east coast of occupied Crimea, 5 miles (8km) from the Kerch strait, Russian media reported . Continue reading...
The aftermath of a Russian oil tanker splitting in half because of a storm was caught on camera as the ship began to sink and oil spilt into the Black Sea.
A Russian oil tanker carrying thousands of tonnes of oil products split apart during a heavy storm on Sunday, spilling oil into the Kerch Strait, while another tanker was also in distress after sustaining damage, Russian officials said.
Climate change is wrecking the delicate balance between groundwater and ocean water, according to new research.
The Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy has undertaken numerous measures as part of a comprehensive and integrated vision, practical strategy, and security plans to harness all natural and renewable energy sources, encourage private sector participation, and utilize solar and wind energy, Minister Mahmoud Esmat said Saturday 14/12/2024. He said “We are opening a pioneering … The post Minister: Numerous measures taken to harness all renewable energy sources appeared first on Egypt Independent.
The power plant comes amid a push by the Egyptian government to boost renewable energy production after last summer’s severe power outages.
Doing so draws private and public funding, raises awareness locally about climate justice and inspires people and businesses in the country to adopt more sustainable ways of living and working
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04560B, Perspective Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Pekka Peljo, Claire Villevielle, Hubert Girault This article aims to present the redox aspects of lithium-ion batteries both from a thermodynamic and from a conductivity viewpoint. We first recall the basic definitions of the electrochemical potential... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
India aims to reduce fossil fuel dependence to 30% by 2047, focusing on clean energy transition. Ethanol blending has increased significantly, with further growth expected. The nation is also promoting natural gas and compressed biogas as part of its energy mix.
State has exemptions under Clean Air Act to set vehicle emissions standards higher than federal limits The US supreme court agreed on Friday to hear a bid by fuel producers to challenge California’s standards for vehicle emissions and electric cars under a federal air-pollution law in a major case testing the Democrat-governed state’s power to fight greenhouse gases. The justices took up an appeal by a Valero Energy subsidiary and fuel industry groups over a lower court’s rejection of their challenge to a decision by Joe Biden’s administration to allow California to set its own regulations. Continue reading...
Supreme Court will consider whether oil industry may sue to challenge California's plan to require 'zero emissions' for new vehicles by 2035.
The Coalition’s nuclear costings put it at odds with the government as well as a global effort to reduce emissions by electrifying economies and building renewable energy infrastructure.
Over 2.5 billion people depend on aquifers for fresh water, but rising seas and climate change are pushing saltwater into these crucial reserves.
The report says North Slope production will rise in a few years, but state oil revenue will decline through the end of the decade.
SERC Scholars from around the MIT community examine the electronic hardware waste life cycle and climate justice.
Experts and agencies have overwhelmingly deemed the plan not to be credible. And burning more coal and gas in the medium term only leads one way Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Let’s not waste time with niceties: the Coalition’s nuclear plan is a fantasy. The vision laid out on Friday by a quartet of opposition frontbenchers is not going to eventuate, regardless of the result of the next election. That’s not because nuclear energy is necessarily a terrible idea, in a global sense. While waste is an issue, nuclear plants offer zero-emissions power and will be needed in places with fewer energy options. But the claims put forward by the opposition – that Australia needs nuclear, or could have it in the way the Coalition describes – do not stand up to scrutiny...
Though coal production is falling in the region, the Interior Department's plan to halt leasing has drawn the ire of Republicans and industry.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04691A, Paper Zilong Li, Shunlian Ning, Yanshuo Jin, Nan Wang, Shuhui Sun, Hui Meng Selecting the appropriate charging reaction of zinc–air batteries to reduce cyclic electric energy loss by two orders of magnitude, achieving a round-trip efficiency of up to 99.9%. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03857F, Paper Zeheng Lv, Rong Tang, Chenxi Sun, Weiwei Meng, Jin Yang, Siyang Li, Qilong Wu, Minghao Zhang, Jinbao Zhao, Yang Yang The PBI hydrogel electrolyte can reduce the amount of free water, minimize proton co-intercalation into the V 2 O 5 host, and prevent the crosstalk of V 10 O 26 (OH) 2 4− between the anode and cathode to enable durable high-areal-capacity Zn–V 2 O 5 batteries. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04741A, Paper Jie Yu, Lenan Zhang, Jintong Gao, Wenyu Han, Ruzhu Wang, Zhenyuan Xu Leveraging the self-amplifying salt creeping and efflorescence effects, the salt crystals self-assemble to form a hierarchical porous salt evaporator, enabling passive liquid supply and efficient evaporation. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04046E, Paper Ming Zhao, Tao Cheng, Tianyu Li, Shuo Wang, Yanbin Yin, Xianfeng Li Polybromide molecular polarity regulation ensures the optimal performance of zinc–bromine flow batteries at room temperature and −20 °C. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04119D, Paper Jin Yang, Yuanhong Kang, Fanxiang Meng, Weiwei Meng, Guanhong Chen, Minghao Zhang, Zeheng Lv, Zhipeng Wen, Cheng Chao Li, Jinbao Zhao, Yang Yang Nb–NC single-atom electrocatalysts are rationally screened by theoretical calculations based on d–p orbital hybridization towards long-lasting aqueous Zn–I 2 batteries. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
The announcement comes as the U.S. territory continues to struggle with chronic power outages that have worsened since Hurricane Maria in 2017.
The United Nations secretary-general has been visiting southern Africa with a focus on the money poor nations need to deal with the impact of a warming planet.
[The Patriot] There is hope that the political will to move away from fossil fuels to renewable energy will reduce reliance on fossil fuels in environmental sensitive areas such as Okavango Delta, though the new government has not made commitment to timelines as to when the roadmap from fossil fuels to renewable energy will kickstart. University of Botswana, Okavango Research Institute (ORI) Director, Professor Joseph Mbaiwa is of the view that the new administration under President Duma Boko commitment towards moving
Just Stop Oil and Labour donor Dale Vince travelled by private jet, drank champagne and 'had no problem in participating in conspicuous consumerism', his ex-wife told the High Court.
Gov. Greg Abbott and Energy Transfer Executive Chair Kelcy Warren outlined how the next administration would change oil and gas.
World markets will be oversupplied by a hefty 1.4 million barrels a day if the oil cartel proceeds with plans to revive output starting in April, the International Energy Agency predicted.
Hydrogen hubs, geothermal development and some other Biden climate policies got bipartisan support from the Western Governors' Association.
Energy secretary to set out plan to boost renewable energy supply, such as building canopies of solar panels on outdoor car parks Ed Miliband has pledged to bring in “the most ambitious reforms to the country’s energy system in generations” as he presses ahead with plans to accelerate the development of onshore windfarms in England. The energy secretary is to set out the government’s “clean power 2030” plan on Friday, including measures to boost the UK’s renewable energy supply such as building canopies of solar panels on outdoor car parks. Reforming the system for connecting new projects to the national grid to prioritise the most viable projects; Speeding up decisions on planning permission by empowering planners to prioritise critical energy infrastructure; Expanding the renewable...
[Global Witness] Bot-like accounts have spread conspiracy theories about climate cults and a global elite, amplifying disinformation on social media
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has unveiled the costings of his nuclear energy plan - releasing new figures suggesting Labor's renewable energy plan will cost five times more than promised.
There was something appropriate about Peter Dutton releasing the costings of his nuclear power grand vision on Friday the 13th.
Australian Conservation Foundation says one-fifth of nuclear price tag could fund rooftop solar on every house that doesn’t already have it. Follow live Building nuclear power plants in Australia could cost double CSIRO predictions, energy experts warn Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Bowen lashes Coalition plan to keep ageing coal-fired power stations open beyond middle of next decade Under the Coalition’s plan, ageing coal-fired power stations would stay open beyond the middle of the next decade when most of the operators say they’ll have to shut – is that realistic? The biggest threat to reliability in our energy system is coal-fired power now. We are dealing with … outages, breakdown, on a daily basis and that is what is the biggest threat to...
Suncor says it is aiming to add more than 100,000 barrels per day of oil and gas production between 2023 and 2026.
With Decree 110, published on 26 November, Cuba made it mandatory for major consumers, whether they are state or private entities, to invest in the use of renewable energy sources, while the energy crisis facing the country worsens. According to the decree, state and private economic actors, representations of foreign institutions and associations must guarantee […]
The common murre, a large black-and-white seabird native to northern waters, has become far less common in Alaska over the past decade due to the impacts of climate change.
The Biden administration rule nonetheless faces an uncertain future under Trump’s EPA.
[The Conversation Africa] The International Court of Justice, the world's highest court, held hearings in mid-December 2024 on the legal obligations that governments have under international law to protect the environment and limit climate change. It's the biggest case the court has ever heard. The court is expected to hand down a legal advisory opinion in 2025. This will shape international climate law and governance. Climate law specialist Zunaida Moosa Wadiwala explains.
Scientists are working to breed drought- and heat-tolerance traits into common beans from tepary beans, which are native to the Sonoran Desert in Mexico and the U.S. The post Genetic research could help your favorite beans withstand climate change appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
To prevent greenhouse emissions and save gamers money on their utility bills, developers are looking for ways to make video games more energy efficient.
Artist's impression of one of the cancelled iRex ferries. IMAGE: KiwiRail Opposition parties are among a chorus of voices criticising the government’s 'omnishambles' ferry announcement, saying it has created further...
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03303E, Paper Jinxin Wang, Wei Guo, Mingming Sun, Geng Zhang, Yang Meng, Qiuyu Zhang A dynamic PEI layer was tailored over MnO 2 by refining the cation environment and reconstruction. The unique host-guest coupling restrains Mn species loss and unlocks an energetic “multi-processing” energy storage mechanism. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy industry group calls for policy push on faster renewables rollout as ACTU energy adviser says Coalition’s proposal won’t create ‘a single job’ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Australia’s industry group for electricity retailers and generators told a nuclear inquiry the country should focus on policies that will drive a faster rollout of renewable energy and storage, saying nuclear is unlikely to be a viable coal-fired power replacement. As the Coalition prepares to reveal costings this week for its plan to put reactors at seven sites around Australia, high profile energy commentator Simon Holmes à Court told the parliamentary inquiry on Thursday there was “not a hope in hell” of nuclear...
The oil cartel has slashed projections by 27 percent since July as it belatedly recognizes the deteriorating market picture.
The state's recent sale of carbon credits raised $213 million for projects such as electric ferries. Credits sold for two-thirds of their projected price.
[IPS] Conflict and climate change are closely linked, the International Court of Justice heard. The Darfur crisis in Sudan is one such conflict where prolonged droughts and reduced rainfall have made access to water and arable land increasingly scarce, leading to friction between communities competing for limited resources.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05239K, Perspective Lin Li, Xisheng Sun, Jie Miao, Haonan Wang, Yongchen Song, Dawei Tang The decarbonization of energy systems underscores the critical role of solar-driven interfacial evaporation (SDIE) for clean energy production. By leveraging solar energy to induce water evaporation, SDIE systems generate ion... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
UK Energy Research Centre says there is ‘very little room for error’ to avoid delays and protect vulnerable people Labour’s plan to switch to a clean power system by 2030 faces “significant challenges” to avoid delays and prevent vulnerable households paying higher bills, experts have warned. The UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) has said there is “very little room for error” in meeting the government’s plan to create a 95% low-carbon electricity grid by the end of the decade. Continue reading...
The UN motion passed with 158 members voting in support and nine against, with 13 abstaining. Follow today’s news headlines live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast News bargaining code announcement expected today The youth minister, Anne Aly, spoke with ABC News Breakfast just earlier ahead of the news bargaining code announcement, expected today. What I can say is that the government believes that journalists should be fairly compensated for the work that they do, that there is a current regime in place but that’s not working. And so that’s why the government has turned its attention to updating this code and ensuring that social media companies pay for the news that they use as content on their platforms. Continue reading...
In a patch of South America rich in lithium, used to make batteries for electric cars and other tech, Bolivia is lagging behind its neighbors in the race to mine the key metal.
Bilateral cooperation has been highlighted in the fields of agricultural technology, alternative energy and education during a visit by Foreign Affairs Minister Maris Sangiampongsa to Adelaide, the capital of South Australia.
2024 was another year of record-breaking heat and extreme weather, including devastating floods, storms and wildfires across the globe
Warmer weather brought on by climate crisis enables mosquitoes that carry virus to expand their reach Deaths from dengue fever surged across the Caribbean and the Americas in 2024, health officials said, as warmer weather brought on by the climate crisis enables the mosquitoes that carry the virus to expand their reach. More than 7,700 deaths have been reported in the region so far in 2024, compared with 2,467 deaths in 2023 – an increase of more than 200%. Continue reading...
Exclusive: Complaint says Equinor is unlawfully connected to Israel’s Delek Group, which has been flagged by UN human rights commissioner The Norwegian oil company Equinor is being sued over alleged business links to the Israeli energy company Delek Group, which has been flagged by the UN high commissioner for human rights for operating in illegal settlements in Palestinian territory. A legal complaint being filed on Thursday by Greenpeace Norway and the UK NGO Uplift claims Equinor has breached Norway’s transparency act by failing to conduct proper due diligence or limit damage from its connection to Delek Group. The act aims to aid companies “in meeting challenges of human rights abuses”. Continue reading...
Egyptian scientist Essam Heggy published a study in the Nature scientific group proposing solutions to generate hydroelectric power from the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), without causing water deficit downstream in Egypt. The study proposes generating 87 percent of the total hydroelectric power from the GERD, without significant negative impacts on downstream countries, which will … The post Egyptian scientist proposes solution to the GERD crisis appeared first on Egypt Independent.
This year is on track to become the hottest year on record, with global temperatures expected to exceed the1.5 degrees Celsius above benchmark set by the Paris Agreement.
Despite mixed reactions to the outcomes of COP29, Africa has the opportunity to take the lead in harnessing nature to tackle the effects of climate change and secure a resilient future. As countries craft climate plans for tapping into the secured goal of US$300 billion in carbon finance annually by 2035, nature has to be […]
A Chinese association reveals it is keeping an eye on a project that aims to unlock potentially trillions of tonnes of the fossil fuel.
Cases of dengue have surged globally as warmer weather brought on by climate change enables mosquitoes to expand their reach. Deaths from the disease are also rising.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03753G, Paper Qinghan Zeng, Ruishan Zhang, Haibin Lu, Junhua Yang, Jionghui Rong, Jingqia Weng, Bingkai Zhang, Shiyun Xiong, Qi Zhang, Shaoming Huang Lithium-sulfur batteries (LSBs) hold significant potential for energy storage but are hindered by challenges such as the shuttle effect and the slow conversion of soluble lithium polysulfides (LiPSs). In this... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03757J, Perspective Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Vox Kalai Wong, Johnny Ka Wai Ho, Wallace W. H. Wong, Shu Kong So Despite tinted transmission, semi-transparent solar cells using the band selective method exhibit higher performance at similar transparency levels, with PCE (28% vs. 22%) and LUE (23% vs. 19%), thus higher power output in empirical city irradiance. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
This story was originally published by Vox.com and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. If you’re reading this, chances are you care a lot about fighting climate change, and that’s great. The climate emergency threatens all of humanity. And although the world has started to make some progress on it, our global response is still extremely lacking. […]
RELEASE: WRI Welcomes Dr. Frannie Léautier and Yunli Lou to Global Board of Directors darla.vanhoorn… Wed, 12/11/2024 - 04:44 WASHINGTON (December 11, 2024) — World Resources Institute (WRI) is pleased to announce two appointments to its Global Board of Directors. Dr. Frannie Léautier, Senior Partner and CEO of SouthBridge Investments, rejoined the Global Board this month, while Yunli Lou, Founder and Managing Partner of Milestone Capital Partners, has joined as a new member. Yunli Lou has over two decades of experience in investment management, supporting entrepreneurs in the consumer, solar energy, healthcare, and electric vehicle sectors. She began her finance career at Goldman Sachs in the early 1990s and later oversaw Greater China direct investments...
Harnessing wind, hydro and maybe geothermal power, the tiny Canary Island of El Hierro is blazing a trail for sustainable energy – and the secret is all in the mix Words and photographs by Ofelia de Pablo and Javier Zurita A vertiginous outcrop with more than 500 volcanoes , El Hierro, the most westerly of the Canary Islands, is less than 12 miles (20km) wide but features elevation differences of more than 1,500 metres. Swept by strong Atlantic winds and pockmarked with volcanic craters, it has spent the past decade harnessing its natural features to create clean electricity – with the goal of being the first island to reach self-sufficiency in energy. Now, the island is reaching new milestones. Energy generated by wind and water has enabled its 11,000 inhabitants to be completely self-sufficient...
CNN — An armored vehicle belonging to the UN’s atomic watchdog was hit by a drone strike on its way to inspect a Ukrainian nuclear power plant on Tuesday, in an attack President Volodymyr Zelensky has blamed on Russia. The strike took place as the vehicle traveled in a convoy to the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power … The post Drone strikes UN vehicle on way to inspect Ukrainian nuclear plant appeared first on Egypt Independent.
From rural buses to solar panels, our Green agenda has been transformative. Yet, vested interests and big polluters helped to poison the well of public thinking Eamon Ryan was Irish Green party leader from 2011 to 2024 Ireland’s Green party went into government in 2020 determined to bring Ireland from laggard to leader on the climate crisis. Public opinion was with us, and we won more than 7% of the national vote. This mandate allowed us to negotiate a coalition agreement with Ireland’s two large centrist parties that was recognised by European Green colleagues as one of the greenest deals they had seen. Over the past four and a half years we worked flat out to implement that programme. I think most independent experts would say the impact has been transformational. Last year Ireland’s...
POLITICO spent the afternoon on a soon-to-be-abandoned North Sea gas plant that’s hoping to ditch fossil fuels with government help.
The insurance boss also said nuclear energy is a growth opportunity.
Research shows UK police arrest environmental and climate protesters at three times the average global rate British police arrest environmental protesters at nearly three times the global average rate, research has found, revealing the country as a world leader in the legal crackdown on climate activism. Only Australia arrested climate and environmental protesters at a higher rate than UK police. One in five Australian eco-protests led to arrests, compared with about 17% in the UK. The global average rate is 6.7%. Continue reading...
[Nigeria Health Watch] During Dr Laura Stachel's postgraduate research on maternal mortality at Gambo Sawaba General Hospital (GSGH) in Kofan Gayan, Kaduna State, in 2008, she noticed a connection between the lack of energy supply and high maternal mortality at the health centre.
Breaking barriers in a traditionally male-dominated industry, Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) is set to allocate two coal mines, one underground and one open-cast, exclusively for women workers in Telangana's Godavarikhani coal belt. Starting January 2025, the open-cast mine will be operational, followed by the underground mine in March or April.
President Murmu addressed the National Human Rights Commission on Human Rights Day, highlighting AI's growing influence and potential misuse. She emphasized emerging human rights threats like cybercrimes and climate change in the digital age, urging stakeholders to address these challenges and protect individual rights. She also called for safeguarding gig workers' mental health amidst evolving economic models.
Knowing whether or not a planet elsewhere in the galaxy could potentially be habitable requires knowing a lot about that planet’s sun. Sarah Peacock relies on computer models to assess stars’ radiation, which can have a major influence on whether or not one of these exoplanets has breathable atmosphere. Name: Sarah Peacock Title: Assistant Research […]
Thousands of Southern California residents were under evacuation orders and warnings Tuesday as firefighters battled a wind-driven wildfire in Malibu that burned near celebrities' seaside mansions, horse farms and Pepperdine University, where students watched as flames raced down hillsides and the sky turned deep red.
Ten climate models and a machine learning approach offer an alarming new timeline for the rate of climate change.
[The content of this article has been produced by our advertising partner.] With typhoons lingering into mid-November and residents strolling the streets in summer attire well past the usual season, the reality of climate change is unmistakable even in this small city. Addressing climate change requires a united effort, and Hong Kong has been stepping up through a range of initiatives and incentives ever since the announcement of the Climate Action Plan 2050 by the government in 2021. The plan aims to achieve carbon neutrality before 2050, with an ambitious interim decarbonisation target to halve carbon emissions by 2035 compared to 2005 levels. The Hong Kong Awards for Environmental Excellence (HKAEE), often dubbed as the “Oscars in Environmental Excellence” here in Hong Kong...
Palo Alto, Calif.-based WindBorne aims to tackle climate change by improving the accuracy of weather forecast using A.I.-powered weather balloons.
NASA's Perseverance rover has unearthed a compelling clue in the hunt for past Martian life. A rock sample dubbed "Cheyava Falls," found in Jezero Crater, contains signs of ancient water and organic compounds. These building blocks of life, detected alongside potential energy sources, hint at an environment that may have once supported microbial life.
Due diligence obligation requires states to take fair, urgent and ambitious measures to mitigate the effects of climate change and to adapt to them. Far from lessening over time, this obligation has, to the contrary, become more stringent as scientific evidence mounts. — Sandrine Maljean-Dubois for the DRC
Next-Generation Geothermal Can Help Unlock 100% Clean Power margaret.overh… Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:00 Building a clean, reliable, cost-effective power grid will require many different types of energy. The bulk will come from solar and wind; but since these aren't available 24/7, 365 days a year, they must be paired with a smaller amount of clean, "firm" power that's always available when needed. Geothermal energy, nuclear energy and hydropower all fit the bill — and many see geothermal as especially promising right now thanks to recent innovations. Geothermal power has played a small role in the electric grid to date, supplying less than 1% of the world's electricity. But the next generation of technologies could spark a geothermal renaissance, tapping into Earth's...
The case centers on an environmental analysis underpinning a Utah oil railway but is expected to affect infrastructure projects nationwide.
[Crisis Group] Few countries are more exposed to the ill effects of climate change than Somalia. Insecurity compounds the problem, with the Al-Shabaab insurgency exploiting drought conditions as a means of social control. Mogadishu needs help in dealing with the nexus of armed conflict and weather shocks.
Preliminary findings show the oil leak appeared to be coming from a storm drain under a nearby condominium complex, said Massachusetts environmental officials.
The Tesla CEO was once an outspoken voice on climate change. But Musk now argues many risks are overstated, a stance that could influence Trump and help his businesses.
Over the years, Donald Trump hasn’t exactly been a champion of science. As president and on the campaign trail, he called climate change a “hoax“; oversaw the rolling back of more than 100 environmental policies; directed agencies to cut down on expert guidance; pushed unproven Covid treatments; pulled out of the Paris climate agreement (and […]
[The Conversation Africa] African countries collectively have emitted very little of the greenhouse gases that have caused climate change, but are badly affected by climate-induced floods, droughts and heatwaves. To withstand some of the most devastating extreme weather events, African countries need to adapt fast. Setting up advanced climate information services that predict climate disasters ahead of time is critical. Environmental sciences lecturer Fredrick Kayusi was part of a group of researchers who investigated where
During their passage through Mexico, monarch butterflies depend on the shelter of endangered trees—so this scientist is leading a huge experiment to build them a new winter habitat.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03208J, Paper Wenbo Peng, Yong Zhang, Xianyong Zhou, Jiawen Wu, Deng Wang, Geping Qu, Jie Zeng, Yintai Xu, Bo Jiang, Peide Zhu, Yifan Du, Zhitong Li, Xia Lei, Zhixin Liu, Lei Yan, Xingzhu Wang, Baomin Xu Through a bimolecular energy-level-tunable design, an ET-HTL reaches optimal energy level alignment with three different perovskite compositions, providing balanced interface defect passivation, charge extraction, and transition loss suppression. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Kenya has completed a 400-kilovolt transmission line with Tanzania, paving the way for renewable energy exports and regional energy integration.
The country's center-right opposition has been pushing nuclear as a way to achieve net-zero goals and lower electricity bills.
European Commission scientists call for regulating unproven and risky solar geoengineering. The U.S. president-elect could scuttle any U.N. negotiations.
Elon Musk carmaker pushed for British government to introduce rules for HGVs, as it readies Semi truck Tesla lobbied the UK government to strengthen rules on carbon emissions from cars and lorries, according to documents that also show the electric carmaker continued to push for increased taxes on fossil fuel cars. The US carmaker, which is run by Elon Musk, pushed for the British government to strengthen its zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) mandate for cars and introduce equivalent rules for heavy goods vehicles (HGVs), in a letter to Lilian Greenwood, the Labour roads minister. Continue reading...
Government should point to evidence of FSA licensing of additive, says chair of environment and climate change committee The government must urgently reassure consumers that feed additives given to cattle to reduce methane emissions are harmless, and a vital tool in tackling the climate crisis, the chair of an influential parliamentary committee has warned. Lady Sheehan, chair of the environment and climate change committee of the House of Lords, called on ministers to step up as a row has blown up over the prospective use of the additive Bovaer in British dairy herds supplying Arla, the dairy company. Continue reading...
[The Conversation Africa] In South Africa, the new 2024 Climate Change Act requires local governments to plan responses to global warming. These local authorities should find ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions where possible, such as from their bus services, and reduce their use of electricity that is produced by burning coal. They also need to green buildings and urban areas. These are all examples of climate change mitigation.
Hundreds of panels at the giant 190-acre Porth Wen solar farm in Anglesey, North Wales - only built two years ago - were blown off their mountings, some ripped to shreds.
One Earth satellite can see plankton that photosynthesize. The other measures water surface height. Together, their data reveals how sea life and the ocean are intertwined. The ocean is an engine that drives Earth’s weather patterns and climate and sustains a substantial portion of life on the planet. A new animation based on data from […]
European Commission scientific advisers say technology to offset global heating could wreak havoc on weather Europe should ban space mirrors, cloud whitening and other untested tools being touted to reflect the sun’s rays, the European Commission’s scientific advisers have warned , but said the door should be left open for research into their development. The scientists said the risks and benefits of solar radiation modification (SRM) – also known as solar geoengineering – were “highly uncertain”. They called for an EU-wide moratorium on using it as a way to offset global heating. Continue reading...
UK chancellor wants to reset ties with EU; oil and gold prices climb after fall of Assad Jason Tuvey , deputy chief emerging markets economist at Capital Economics, said: The fall of Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad has been warmly received by many, at least outside Russia and Iran, but a key lesson from the other Arab Spring countries is that hopes for a shift towards a liberal, Western-style democracy are likely to be dashed. The implications for the global economy and energy markets from events in Syria are likely to be limited, although these potentially represent another major shift in the geopolitical sands in the region. It seems that the Assad regime has fallen in favour of a new Islamic regime, which could change the geopolitical scenarios in the Middle East. Who is behind...
The case could inhibit the federal government’s power to study indirect climate impacts of projects like highways, transmission lines and dams.
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Three low-income school districts in Texas have granted more than $2 billion in tax relief to new liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals on the Gulf Coast, according to a report released Monday by the Sierra Club, which tallied publicly […]
2024 is firmly on track to be the hottest year ever after the European Union reported a November average global surface temperature 0.73 degrees Celsius higher than the 1991-2020 average.
A new environmental assessment could lead to a lease sale in 2026 instead of next year.
The country has one of the greenest grids in the world, relying almost entirely on hydroelectric, nuclear and wind.
Gas will be part of our energy mix but, despite industry claims, new gas production and infrastructure is not needed in the transition to renewable energy.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04806G, Paper Jintu Qi, Yongchao Tang, Yue Wei, Guigui Liu, Jianping Yan, Zhenfeng Feng, Zixin Han, Minghui Ye, Wencheng Du, Qi Yang, Yufei Zhang, Zhipeng Wen, Xiaoqing Liu, Cheng Chao Li A halogen-bond chemistry-rectified Te 0 /Te 4+ redox with an almost maximized capacity contribution ( ca. 90.0%) is achieved for high-energy Zn batteries in localized concentrated ILEs, far surpassing those in aqueous systems ( ca. 33.0%). To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Average global temperature in November was 1.62C above preindustrial levels, bringing average for the year to 1.60C This year is now almost certain to be the hottest year on record, data shows. It will also be the first to have an average temperature of more than 1.5C above preindustrial levels, marking a further escalation of the climate crisis. Data for November from the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) found the average global surface temperature for the month was 1.62C above the level before the mass burning of fossil fuels drove up global heating. With data for 11 months of 2024 now available, scientists said the average for the year is expected to be 1.60C, exceeding the record set in 2023 of 1.48C. Continue reading...
A new report from the CSIRO has found nuclear energy does not stack up for Australia even after considering new parameters, with large-scale solar and big batteries still the lowest-cost option.
Halfway through marathon climate change hearings at the world's top court, battle lines are being drawn between developed countries urging judges to stick to current legal obligations and vulnerable nations pleading for more.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar defended India's purchase of Russian oil, stating it wasn't necessarily cheap and questioning the availability of better deals. He emphasized India's focus on dialogue with both Russia and Ukraine, facilitating conversations without mediating a peace plan. Minister Puri previously highlighted India's role in stabilizing global oil prices by buying Russian oil amidst boycotts.
The head of the Climate Change Committee calls on the government to invest in adaptations now.
As Chinese officials play a larger part in global climate negotiations, Beijing’s decarbonisation agenda could cement its leadership role.
A yellow weather warning for wind remains in place after Saturday's storm swept across the UK killing two men.
Telangana secured Rs 7,600 crore in investments across diverse sectors, creating around 5,200 jobs. Four MoUs were signed with eyewear manufacturer Lenskart, renewable energy and energy storage solutions provider Premier Energies, and aerospace and defence company Azad Engineering, in the presence of IT and Industries Minister Duddilla Sridhar Babu on Sunday at an event marking the completion of one year of the Congress government.
Carrboro, North Carolina accuses Duke of knowingly fueling the climate crisis for decades with harmful emissions, deception, delay and ‘greenwashing.’
Nations on the front line of the climate crisis are asking the International Court of Justice to oblige big polluters to keep their promises to rapidly cut emissions.
Ranking congressman on House intelligence committee highlights climate change, fentanyl and global health as areas for cooperation.
Nations on the front line of the climate crisis are asking the International Court of Justice to obligate big polluters to keep their promises to rapidly cut emissions.
The US under Trump could take a tougher stance on Iran, which could disrupt oil supplies and push prices up amid hazy outlook, analysts warn.
Rising seas due to climate change threaten the future of Papua New Guinea, a country known for its significant linguistic and biodiversity. Already, this has forced people to abandon their ancestral lands and caused civil unrest as landowners fight over increasingly limited land and space.
‘Severe threat’ to grid’s stability this summer may be linked to the region’s large-scale renewable energy sources.
Nations on the frontline of the climate crisis are asking the International Court of Justice to obligate big polluters to keep their promise and rapidly cut emissions.
A pioneering clean power scheme that has cut fuel poverty in 250 Highland homes has been handed a top award by Scotland’s renewable energy industry.
Photo by anthony maw on Unsplash The Climate Change Commission has recommended the government adopt more ambitious climate targets, including updating ‘net zero’ to be net negative -20 MtCO2e by 2050,...
The controversial plan was billed as a lifeline for the Latrobe Valley’s ageing brown coal industry.
Thailand's first robotic solar installer is expected to increase domestic demand for rooftop solar panels and promises a significant increase in revenue for developer Solar D Corporation, a solar power solution provider and the distributor of the Tesla Powerwall energy storage system.
The overwhelming majority of Europeans support climate action, but they must be compensated for its costs in tangible ways This year was not an easy time to be Green. Green parties took a beating in June’s European elections, with their seat count plummeting from 71 to 53 . In national elections they haven’t fared much better. The Green party was nearly wiped out in last week’s general election in Ireland, losing all but one of its seats after having been part of a coalition government. At the same time, climate-sceptic parties framing environmental policies as elitist and unfair have surged across the continent. In Germany, for instance, the far-right AfD owes some of its electoral success to its rallying cry against an emerging “ eco-dictatorship ”. Björn Bremer is an assistant professor...
Chris Wright has led legal challenges against Biden climate efforts and endorsed ending local governments’ lawsuits against the oil industry.
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The US president-elect’s threat to Brics and regressive climate change stance risk stoking tension
The town of Carrboro sued Duke Energy for damages from its current and future losses caused by climate change.
Imperial Oil says a regulator’s decision to carry on with an environmental assessment of its entire operation in Norman Wells is “disappointing.”