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31 08 2020 | 08:19

Weatherwatch: Danube's ice cover changes are a warning in Hungary.

Scientists monitor frequency of Danube freezing over to track rising temperatures. As a landlocked country in the heart of Europe, Hungary has a typically continental climate, with little or no…

31 08 2020 | 08:14

Beached whale increase may be due to military sonar exercises, say experts.

It is thought sonar may scare animals into surfacing too quickly, causing narcosis. An unusual series of strandings and sightings of 29 rare beaked whales has taken place around the shores of…

31 08 2020 | 08:13

'Orwellian': Coalition accused of planning to open green bank to fossil fuel investments.

Angus Taylor introduces bill to give Clean Energy Finance Corporation $1bn for ‘grid reliability fund’. The Morrison government has been accused of planning to open up the taxpayer-owned green bank…

31 08 2020 | 08:12

Giant solar project announced in DR Congo.

President Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo has laid the foundation stone for a vast, 1 GW Kinshasa Solar City photovoltaic project aimed at improving the capital’s power supply.

31 08 2020 | 08:09

UN Secretary-General remarks 19th Darbari Seth Memorial Lecture.

Excellencies,  Dear friends,  

31 08 2020 | 08:06

Oil Spills Threaten Endangered South African Penguins.

African Penguins are Endangered African penguins, recognised by their chest black horseshoe markings and their distinct bray-like calls. The birds are native to South Africa and Namibia but can also…

31 08 2020 | 08:04

Britain to get first commercial refinery for extracting precious metals from e-waste.

Cheshire-based facility will be world’s first to use bacteria-based recycling processes. The UK is to get its first commercial refinery for extracting precious metals from electronic waste, which…

31 08 2020 | 08:03

Kenya races to prevent new locust plague threat.

Kenya is in a race to track locusts to prevent a new plague from forming in East Africa and eating all the greenery they find in their wake. Hundreds of billions of locusts swarmed parts of East…

31 08 2020 | 08:01

PV cheapest power generating technology in UK.

New Government figures indicate that large-scale solar will be lowest cost deploy and maintain over the next two decades. New analysis on electricity generation costs published by the department…

31 08 2020 | 08:00

Trump Greenlights Drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, but Will Oil Companies Show Up?

The Trump administration has announced that it is opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas development – the latest twist in a decades-long battle over the fate of this remote…

31 08 2020 | 07:59

Renewable Energy Remains One of America’s Most Attractive Investment Options.

Investors who know the renewables market best believe its brightest days are still to come, writes Gregory Wetstone. Gregory Wetstone is president and CEO of the American Council on Renewable Energy…

31 08 2020 | 07:58

Infants exposed to air pollution have less lung power as adolescents – study.

Researchers find that even exposure to levels below EU limits has an impact. Infants exposed to even low levels of air pollution experience reduced lung function as children and teenagers,…

31 08 2020 | 07:57

Weatherwatch: solar farms with added food.

New panels harvest blue and green light for electricity, letting red light through to crops below. With solar farms in the sunny south of England now being economically viable without subsidy there…

31 08 2020 | 07:55

Sanders Condemns GOP for Ignoring Climate Crisis at RNC.

As wildfires burn through California and the western United States, the Gulf Coast prepares for two potential hurricanes within a 48-hour timeframe, and record high temperatures dominate the summer,…

31 08 2020 | 07:53

Ocean Rebellion climate action group launches with protest against cruise ship.

Climate activists linked to Extinction Rebellion projected protest messages onto hull of the World vessel in Falmouth, Cornwall. A “sea-faring sister” of climate resistance group Extinction…

31 08 2020 | 07:47

U.S. Voters Increasingly Concerned About Climate Crisis.

The dangers of climate chaos are conspicuous across the country as wildfiresrage in the West where prolonged drought has turned some forests into a tinderbox, the Gulf Coast braces for back-to-back…

31 08 2020 | 07:46

Niger capital flooded as death toll rises to 45.

Several areas of the Niger capital Niamey remained under water on Thursday as the death toll in recent floods that have displaced over 225,000 people rose to 45, authorities said. Around 25,000…

31 08 2020 | 07:41

Legal challenge over UK's exclusion of incinerators from emissions target.

Campaigner says decision at odds with Paris agreement to achieve net zero by 2050. An environmental campaigner is mounting a legal challenge to the government’s decision to exclude waste…

31 08 2020 | 07:33

Children raised in greener areas have higher IQ, study finds.

Research also found lower levels of difficult behaviour in rich and poor neighbourhoods. Growing up in a greener urban environment boosts children’s intelligence and lowers levels of difficult…

31 08 2020 | 07:14

Fight Climate Change With Your Undies — A Hang Drying Manifesto.

Hang drying clothes is a simple practice that holds nothing short of immense power and pollution-saving potential. This most humdrumiest of daily chores, in which we simply hang damp clothes over a…