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19 05 2023 | 10:40

Industry launches ‘Energy Storage Coalition’ to help decarbonise power grid

A new industry coalition launched on Thursday (4 May) aims to promote sustainable energy storage technologies that will increase the resilience of Europe’s power grid and open the door for more…

18 05 2023 | 11:52

Students occupy schools and universities across Europe in climate protest

A wave of student occupations has shut down schools and universities across Europe as part of a renewed youth protest campaign against inaction on climate breakdown. Twenty-two schools and…

18 05 2023 | 11:49

April Mediterranean heatwave ‘almost impossible’ without climate crisis

The record-shattering temperatures that hit the western Mediterranean last week would have been “almost impossible” without the climate crisis, according to scientists.

18 05 2023 | 11:42

Drought prompts French ban on garden swimming pools

Garden swimming pools are to be banned from sale in a part of southern France over worsening water shortages. France's Ecological Transition Minister Christophe Béchu said that Pyrénées-Orientales,…

18 05 2023 | 11:40

North Sea countries aim for 300 GW of offshore wind energy by 2050

Nine European countries signed the Ostend Declaration on Monday (24 April), aiming to jointly produce at least 120 gigawatts of offshore wind energy by 2030 and at least 300 gigawatts by 2050 in the…

18 05 2023 | 11:36

German police union boss calls for crackdown on growing climate protests

Police representatives, members of the judiciary and politicians in Germany are calling for harsher penalties for climate activists, including preventive detention and longer prison terms, in an…

18 05 2023 | 11:31

Life in ocean’s twilight zone ‘could disappear’ amid warming seas

Life in the ocean’s twilight zone is expected to face dramatic declines and even extinction as seas warm and less food reaches the dimly lit waters, a study has found. The twilight zone lies between…

18 05 2023 | 11:26

Hydrogen industry slams commissioner over ‘counterproductive’ statements

European Commission Vice-President Margrethe Vestager has been criticised by the European hydrogen lobby group, Hydrogen Europe, following her remarks on the future role of hydrogen, in a letter seen…

18 05 2023 | 11:17

Human-driven climate crisis fuelling Horn of Africa drought – study

The devastating drought in the Horn of Africa would not have happened without the human-made impact of the climate crisis, new science has shown.

18 05 2023 | 11:11

French oil giant TotalEnergies sues Greenpeace over emissions report

The French oil major TotalEnergies has sued the environmental group Greenpeace France and the climate consulting firm Factor-X over a report claiming that the company massively underestimated its…

18 05 2023 | 11:08

Climate change: Spain breaks record temperature for April

Spain recorded its hottest ever temperature for April on Thursday, hitting 38.8C according to the country's meteorological service. The record figure was reached in Cordoba airport in southern Spain…

10 05 2023 | 08:55

How Indigenous Land Management Practices Are a Blueprint for Climate-Resilient Agriculture

Several Hollywood action films center around an impending apocalypse in the form of an asteroid on a collision course with Earth—a glaring metaphor for the real-world implications of a rapidly…

10 05 2023 | 08:53

The World’s Coffee Shops Have Emerged as Plant Milk’s Front Line

While plant-based milk has been around for centuries, the market is undergoing a modern-day surge. The industry has soared to a market value of $20 billion.

10 05 2023 | 08:44

We Are Living Through a Paradigm Shift in Our Understanding of Human Evolution

There’s a paradigm shift underway in our understanding of the past 4 million years of human evolution: ours is a story that includes combinations with other Homo species, spread unevenly across today…

10 05 2023 | 08:35

Why News of Population Decline and Economic Slowdown Isn’t Necessarily a Bad Thing

On January 17, 2023, China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced that the country’s population fell in 2022 by 850,000 people from 2021, which was the first population decline witnessed by…

10 05 2023 | 08:31

How Bioenergy Causes Air Pollution: The Dark Side of Renewable Energy

Bioenergy is often seen as a more environmentally-friendly alternative to other forms of energy generation. But the truth is that it can actually be quite harmful to the environment. Bioenergy has a…

04 05 2023 | 23:37

Volcanic microbe eats CO2 ‘astonishingly quickly’, say scientists

A microbe discovered in a volcanic hot spring gobbles up carbon dioxide “astonishingly quickly”, according to the scientists who found it. The researchers hope to utilise microbes that have…

04 05 2023 | 23:34

North Sea drilling: Greenpeace prepares to challenge ‘disastrous’ UK decision

Greenpeace has attacked the government’s “disastrous” decision to award new licences for oil and gas drilling in the North Sea as it prepares to challenge the move in the high court. A court hearing…

04 05 2023 | 23:34

European countries pledge huge expansion of North Sea wind farms

Nine European countries have pledged to multiply the capacity of offshore wind farms in the North Sea by eight times current levels before 2050, turning it into what Belgium’s energy minister called…