Even after Covid-19 has wreaked havoc on almost everything else, the new year begins with surging growth for renewable energy. “2020 was the year of positive surprises for the environment in a way…
It’s hard to imagine navigating modern life without a mobile phone in hand. Computers, tablets and smartphones have transformed how we communicate, work, learn, share news and entertain ourselves.…
California solar veteran Barry Cinnamon is looking forward to more solar and storage — and less COVID-19 — in 2021.
Dave Barry said it best when summarizing 2020: “This was a year of nonstop…
PepsiCo Inc. has pledged to achieve carbon neutrality by 2040, adding to the growing list of major companies including Amazon.com Inc. that aim to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions a decade…
Στην επαρχία Σιλεσία της Νότιας Πολωνίας, ο άνθρακας εκτιμάται ως «μαύρος χρυσός». Τα ορυχεία έχουν διαμορφώσει το τοπίο και τον πολιτισμό αυτής της περιοχής, μετατρέποντας την Πολωνία τον κύριο…
The latest data confirms 2020 concludes the earth’s warmest 10-year period on record.
The HadCRUT5 global temperature series, produced by the Met Office, University of East Anglia and UK National…
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Europe’s shift from fossil fuel-based electricity to renewable sources has reduced environmental problems while also cutting the greenhouse gas emissions causing climate change,…
The energy transition is accelerating. 2020 saw renewables replace fossil fuels in Europe for the first time and one of the many impacts of COVID-19 has been on energy demand. According to the latest…
The impact of greenhouse gas emissions on global temperatures would have been even larger if were not for the cooling impact of air pollution, study finds.
A “human fingerprint” covers the global…
There are parallels and overlaps between climate justice and racial justice, as well as many lessons the climate movement can learn from this global moment of reckoning.
Fossil fuel is expected to dominate Africa’s energy mix by the end of the decade.
A new research from the University of Oxford has predicted that the total electricity generation across the African…
Fossil fuels are set to remain the dominant source of electricity across Africa over the next decade, according to a new study.
Researchers found that around 2,500 power plants are planned, enough…
The world watched with a sense of dread in 2018 as Cape Town, South Africa, counted down the days until the city would run out of water. The region’s surface reservoirs were going dry amid its worst…
Both the climate crisis and the Paris Agreement are pressing policymakers for effective and sustainable climate action. Still, results show that our progress towards goals agreed is not as fast nor…
Report shows US was battered by punishing extreme weather on both the east and west coasts in 2020.
The US was battered by a record number of weather and climate-driven disasters in 2020 as…
If you’re feeling cooped up, defy the cold, head for your local park and marvel at the antics of gulls, starlings and fieldfares
I endured the first lockdown while living alone for a period in Spain…
What are we thinking? Oh, right. We’re not.
Standing on the moon, I see the battle rage below.
Standing on the moon, I see the soldiers come and go.
~ Jerry Garcia & Robert Hunter
When I…
Heat stress, water scarcity, air pollution and energy insecurity are problems felt more acutely in dense urban areas
Cities across the world will see a near-universal drop in humidity by the end of…
When the rains never arrived in the East African nation of Somalia in 2016, nor in 2017, hundreds of thousands of rural residents were forced to abandon their lands and livelihoods due to one of the…
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