Half of Europe’s 324 coal-fueled power plants have either closed or announced a retirement date before 2030, it emerged on Monday (22 March) when French power utility EDF announced the 162nd plant…
While Covid ravaged across the world, air pollution killed about three times as many people. We must fight the climate crisis with the same urgency with which we confronted coronavirus.
Special report: Inside the massive 10,000-submission mailbag on draft plan to reduce New Zealand's emissions to net-zero
The Climate Change Commission faces strong industry pushback against phasing…
One of President Joe Biden's first acts in office put an end to a decade-long fight over the Keystone XL — a pipeline that would have carried climate-polluting tar sands from Alberta, Canada into the…
African nations must learn from developing Asia's expensive fossil-fuelled power problems
Ghana is set to become the first Sub-Saharan nation to import LNG as the government continues its attempts…
Minerals Council of Australia has been accused of trying to export its ‘negative approach to climate policy’
The Minerals Council of Australia has weighed into a European Commission climate policy…
Swinging above the African savannah, an upside-down rhino suspended from a helicopter looks comically surreal. But for the black rhino, flying to new territory is no laughing matter -- it's about…
He has criticised Greta Thunberg for “alarmism” and wind power as “economic insanity” – but Nigel Farage appears to have made a U-turn on climate change, after signing up as a lobbyist for a Dutch…
Gambian lawmakers voted to uphold a ban on skin-lightening products after a debate in parliament.
Skin-lightening or bleaching agents, especially unauthorised ones, may cause multiple health risks…
The underwater continent broke off from Gondwana 80 million years ago.
A new ocean-mapping expedition is drawing the boundaries of Zealandia, a submerged "lost continent" that hosts New Zealand and…
Getting COVID-19 vaccine doses into arms is cracking along in some countries, but in the poorest, it's barely started at all.
And if vaccination rates in low- and middle-income nations are not…
When Fridays for Future (FFF) takes to the streets on March 19, activists around the world are going to be doing everything they can to make sure the climate crisis stays in the news.
In the…
As world shifts to green energy, Iraq and Nigeria among those vulnerable to ‘wave of instability’.
Oil-dependent countries that are not preparing to adapt to the global shift away from fossil fuels…
The world's largest humanitarian network warned Wednesday that urgent international action is needed to address the rising risk of climate-related displacement, highlighting data that shows disasters…
This is the question Energy Monitor has tried to answer over the past week, with a series of in-depth articles to mark the tenth anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster in Japan. Here is our…
Destruction of the world’s forests increased last year even as pandemic shutdowns curbed economic growth, adding more pressure on nations and business trying to cut carbon emissions.
Proven technologies for a net-zero energy system already largely exist today, according to a report published Tuesday by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). The report predicts that …