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‘Blood minerals’: What are the hidden costs of the EU-Rwanda supply deal?

As the green revolution revs up, the European Union has signed a deal with Rwanda that will ensure a supply of precious minerals needed to build clean tech like solar panels and electric vehicles.

Environment

Climate Finance Delays Could Produce Devastating 3°C Future, WoodMac Warns

This story includes details on the impacts of climate change that may be difficult for some readers.

Climate

One CCS Project Cancelled, Another One Failing as Industry Navigates Very Bad Week

Canada’s sputtering carbon capture and storage (CCS) industry sustained two serious setbacks in less than 48 hours this week, with one major project cancelled and a second subject to scathing criticism from independent analysts.

Technology Solutions Environment

Brookfield, Microsoft Sign Massive 10.5-GW Power Purchase Agreement

Toronto-based Brookfield Asset Management will deliver 10.5 gigawatts of new renewable energy capacity to help power tech giant Microsoft’s data centres in the United States and Europe, in what news reports describe as the biggest-ever corporate renewables procurement by far.

Energy

‘Dismay But No Surprise’ As U.S. Court Quashes Landmark Climate Lawsuit

A United States appeals court panel has dismissed a lawsuit from 21 young people who said the government’s energy policies violate their right to be protected from climate change.

Climate

Excess Heat Becomes Bigger Workplace Hazard as Climate Warms

The UN labour organization is warning that over 70% of the world’s work force is likely to be exposed to excessive heat during their careers, citing increased concern about exposure to sunlight.

Climate

New Big Oil Tech Masks Climate-Busting Methane Flares from Satellites

A new technology that enables oil and gas companies to burn off methane rather than flaring it may make their operations less visible to nearby neighbours, but will also mask their activities from orbiting satellites, a Guardian investigation concluded last week.

Energy Climate

New Liberia forest boss plans to increase exports, denies working with war criminal

Liberia, West Africa's most forested country, has a long history of illegal logging, which the country's regulator, the Forestry Development Authority, has repeatedly struggled to confront.

Environment

Communities in Kenya fight carbon project that sold credits to Meta, Netflix

The Scoop NAIROBI — Members of Kenya’s Maasai pastoralist community are clashing with managers of

Environment

Brazil floods: 'We've never experienced anything like it'

People in southern Brazil have described the unprecedented devastation wreaked by flooding and overflowing rivers which have left swathes of the area under water.

Greta Thunberg fined for disobeying police at climate protest

Greta Thunberg has been found guilty by a Swedish court of disobeying police orders during an environmental protest in March.

Climate

World’s record-breaking temperature streak extends through April

BRUSSELS, May 8 (Reuters) - The world just experienced its hottest April on record, extending an 11-month streak in which every month set a temperature record, the European Union's climate change monitoring service said on Wednesday.

Climate

Kenya: Climate crisis has reached catastrophic levels, says CS Tuya

In Summary Tuya announced a government plan to unveil a revitalised tree growing programme after the heavy rainfall subsides. The CS urged

Climate

Venezuela may be first nation to lose all its glaciers

Venezuela may be the first nation in modern history to lose all its glaciers after climate scientists downgraded its last one to an ice field.

Climate Environment

Australia backs gas beyond 2050 despite climate fears

Australia has announced it will ramp up its extraction and use of gas until "2050 and beyond", despite global calls to phase out fossil fuels.

Energy Climate

Hurricanes, heatwaves and rising seas: The impacts of record ocean heat

Record ocean temperatures suggest the seas are warming faster than expected, and the impacts will be felt from polar ice shelves to coastal cities across the globe.

Climate

The sanctuaries trying to save birds of prey from extinction in Kenya

Simon Thomsett tentatively removes a pink bandage from the wing of an injured bateleur, a short-tailed eagle from the African savannah, where birds of prey are increasingly at risk of extinction.

Environment

Italian oil company intends to harness Kenyan waste materials

An Italian firm is looking to harness Kenya’s biogas. The company intends to establish a biogas facility that will use trash dumps from five large landfills across the country to generate energy for households.

Environment

‘Hopeless and broken’: why the world’s top climate scientists are in despair

Sometimes it is almost impossible not to feel hopeless and broken,” says the climate scientist Ruth Cerezo-Mota.

Climate

Climate change: 'Uncharted territory' fears after record hot March

Climate change could move "into uncharted territory" if temperatures don't fall by the end of the year, a leading sci

Climate