Ontario Bars Solar on Prime Farmland, Misses Middle Ground in Agrivoltaics

The Ontario government is drawing a line against solar farms on prime agricultural land as it considers its next wave of renewable energy projects.

Montreal Adds Nine More Car-Free Streets after ‘Mind Blowing’ Success

Four years after Montreal decided to make a 2.5-kilometre stretch of a busy downtown artery car-free every summer, the transformation continues to receive rave reviews from users and local businesses.

Humidex Could Hit 45°C as Heat Dome Settles Over Eastern Canada, U.S.

A massive heat dome is settling over Eastern Canada and the Eastern and Midwestern United States this week, with weathercasters warning that temperatures will hit 35°C and humidity will make it feel much warmer.

No One Answering the Phones as Calgary Oil Company Leaves Behind 1,000 Orphan Wells

A Calgary oil and gas company has been ordered to abandon close to 1,000 wells, pipelines, and other facilities over concerns about care and maintenance of the sites.

NNPC, TotalEnergies to invest $550 million in gas projects in Nigeria – Report

Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Limited alongside French energy major, TotalEnergies, will invest a swooping sum of $550 million to develop gas facilities in oil-rich Rivers State.  

New faces of protest - Kenya's Gen Z anti-tax revolutionaries

A bold and new generation of young Kenyan protesters has emerged on the streets forcing the government to back down on some of a slew of unpopular tax proposals.

Extreme heat kills more than 1,300 during Hajj pilgrimage

80 percent of people globally want stronger climate action by governments according to UN Development Programme survey

New York, 20 June 2024 – The biggest ever standalone public opinion survey on climate change, the Peoples’ Climate Vote 2024, shows 80 percent – or four out of five – people globally want their governments to take stronger

EREF recommendations for the EU- Strategic Agenda 2024-2029 - an even stronger Green Deal with high renewable targets has to be on top of all

Brussels, 24 June 2024 

The G7 is right to put food at the heart of climate plans. But how matters

This dry season, farmers in Madagascar will

G7 Apulia Leaders’ Communiqué

Preamble We, the Leaders of the Group of Seven (G7), gathered in Apulia to reaffirm our enduring unity and determination to meet global challenges at a crucial moment in history and as the international community confronts multiple interconnected crises.

UN launches recommendations for urgent action to curb harm from spread of mis- and disinformation and hate speech

Global Principles for Information Integrity address risks posed by advances in AI United Nations, New York, 24 June 2024 – The world must respond to the harm caused by the spread of online hate and lies while robustly upholding human rights, United Nations Secretary-General António Gute

Air Pollution Is Killing Millions and Rising Exponentially—A Shift in Agriculture Can Solve It

In 1958, geochemist 

Kids Are Particularly Vulnerable to Extreme Weather. What Are We Doing About It?

It’s not unusual for pediatricians to prescribe a healthy dose of sunshine and outdoor time to their growing patients. A wide body of research extolls the benefits of getting outside for kids—from improving motor skills to lowering obesity risk. 

Big Solar Outshines Big Oil as Emerging Giants Top ‘Powerhouses of Petroleum’

The world’s biggest solar manufacturers, all of them based in China, are delivering more usable energy each year than the top seven oil and gas companies, concludes a blockbuster analysis released earlier this month by Bloomberg News.

Deaths mount as Pakistan swelters in heatwave

As the temperatures rose in southern Pakistan, so did the body count. The Edhi ambulance service says it usually takes around 30 to 40 people to the Karachi city morgue daily.

German activists take government to court over climate policy

German climate activists are taking the government to court for “unconstitutional” climate policy, seeking to build on a landmark victory three years ago that they had hoped would force Europe’s biggest polluter to clean up quickly.

Air freight greenhouse gas emissions up 25% since 2019, analysis finds

Air freight operators have increased their greenhouse gas emissions by 25% compared with 2019, analysis has found.

Sarah Finch: climate activism ‘early adopter’ behind supreme court win

Sarah Finch considers herself an early adopter of environmentalism, even if she is not quite sure what the initial spark was. “I was only ever interested in the environment,” she says. “That’s all I wanted to do.”

As the Coalition goes nuclear, Labor is free to ensure fossil fuels are burned with abandon and little scrutiny

The sham of Australia’s climate change policy has been made clear in the past two weeks. No, not nuclear power.