Renewable agency: Cost of solar power fell 3% in 2022, 89% since 2010

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RWE begins construction on 200-megawatt Texas wind project

reNews.biz: RWE has begun construction of a 200MW wind project in Texas.

WoodMac: Wind turbine orders hit 70 gigawatts in first half of 2023

ReNews.biz: Global wind turbine order intake reached new highs in first half, with 70GW of activity, a 12% increase year-over-year, according to analysis from Wood Mackenzie.

ACWA closes on 200-megawatt solar project in southern Egypt

PV Tech: Saudi Arabian power company ACWA Power has reached financial close for its 200MW Kom Omba solar project in southern Egypt.

Regulators give green light to 114-megawatt battery storage unit in UK

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Recurrent lands financing for 120-megawatt Oklahoma solar plant

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Ioakeimidis: Can Kifissos withstand the effects of the climate crisis?

Africa proposes global carbon taxes to fight climate change

African leaders have proposed a global carbon tax regime in a joint declaration. The Nairobi Declaration capped the three-day Africa Climate Summit in Kenya's capital.

Kenya's Lake Baringo: Surviving hippo and crocodile attacks

Joseph Atuma had fished in Lake Baringo in Kenya since he was 12 and, despite one or two encounters with hippos and crocodiles, none had ever attacked him until one evening in September 2018, when a hippo tore through his canoe, grabbed his left leg, and ripped part of it off.

Kenyan president William Ruto courts logging controversy

Known internationally as one of Africa’s climate champions, President Ruto faces a legal challenge over plans to restart commercial forestry  

TERNA ENERGY and Nvisionist collaborate on the largest Wind Park in Greece

Greenland: Mission to the 'core' of climate change

For researchers, tackling the harsh environment is a risk worth taking for rare access to one of the world's most isolated ecosystems

Guterres: Climate collapse has begun - Heatwaves create 'devilish broth' of pollutants

"Scientists have long warned against the consequences of our dependence on fossil fuels," said Antonio Guterres

Australian Antarctic Division accused of hampering Senate investigation into research cuts

Two climate scientists who recently left division tell inquiry former colleagues have been ‘directed to remain quiet’

Some fish species are shrinking, scientists say, probably due to global heating

Analysis of thousands of species finds some invertebrates and plants also getting smaller, while others are increasing in body size

A biblical catastrophe’: death toll rises to six as Storm Daniel lashes Greece

Torrential rain blocks roads, causes power cuts and severs water supplies

Climate adaptation finance to Africa must increase tenfold, research shows

Countries forced to choose between climate resilience, fighting poverty and paying debts, says Ban Ki-moon

Antarctica warming much faster than models predicted in ‘deeply concerning’ sign for sea levels

Study finds ‘direct evidence’ of polar amplification on continent as scientists warn of implications of ice loss

Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary hit with cream pies by climate protesters

CEO hit in face with two pies while holding one-man protest in Brussels against air traffic controller strikes

Private equity profits from climate disaster clean-up – while investing in fossil fuels

Exclusive: Study shows resilience workers, mostly refugees and immigrants, poorly protected as top firms ‘pad their pockets by cutting costs’