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My Octopus Teacher, the heartwarming story about a man's friendship with a common octopus, took home the Oscar for best documentary feature Sunday night.
The movie brought international attention to…
The consortium behind Redondo Peninsula Energy Inc. pulled out of the planned 660-megawatt coal-fired facility in Zambales province.
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Whitehaven Coal has long set its strategic direction on the implicit assumption that the world would fail to deliver on the Paris…
Concerns around energy independence and high costs have led many places in rural Alaska to look for renewable alternatives to fossil fuels. The Department of Energy recently announced the awardees of…
New research undermines compensation claims for coal phaseout.
Coal assets held by RWE and Uniper in the Netherlands are already economically unviable and have largely been written-down, according…
Scientists say a "forgotten" coffee plant that can grow in warmer conditions could help future-proof the drink against climate change.
They predict we could soon be sipping Stenophylla, a rare wild…
When U.S. companies build military weapons systems, electric vehicle batteries, satellites and wind turbines, they rely heavily on a few dozen “critical minerals” – many of which are mined and…
Unlike other oil-producing states, much of the drilling in California takes place in residential neighborhoods, often in Spanish-speaking communities. Despite mounting complaints about pollution from…
The Bitcoin cryptocurrency has made it easier to become a millionaire in Kenya, appreciating more than 1,200 per cent since March last year to hit an all-time-high of Sh6.9 million last week, but…
Massive melting of glaciers has tilted the planet’s rotation, showing the impact of human activities
The massive melting of glaciers as a result of global heating has caused marked shifts in the…
The skies over Beijing turned yellow and air pollution soared to severe levels as a giant cloud of sand and dust particles rolled into the city, propelled by strong winds from the north of China. It…
Met Office and Microsoft join forces to build world’s most powerful weather and climate forecasting supercomputer in UK
The Met Office has signed a multimillion-pound agreement with Microsoft for…
ucked away by the Ethiopian border, Sudan's Dinder National Park boasts the country's most diverse wildlife, but rangers face a daily battle to protect it as human encroachment mounts.
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Officials say some residents of Cape Town neighbourhoods evacuated as ‘precautionary’ measure after fire sweeps across the slopes of Table Mountain.
People were evacuated from Cape Town…
Burkina Faso intends to be a pioneer in the development of micro-irrigation.
This agricultural method aims to bring water to the foot of the plant, which is usually drip-fed, through a surface or…
Uzbekistan’s Ministry of Energy has awarded a contract to Dutch energy company Stone City Energy a contract to develop a 1.56GW thermal power plant in the Surkhandarya region of Uzbekistan…