The Earth’s surface is 70 percent water, but even that underestimates how vital ocean health is to our planet’s ability to maintain life. Recent results from scientists around the world only further…
A new study by the United Nations has found that the world’s food supply is under threat from the loss of biodiversity.
The report, commissioned by the Food Agricultural Organisation (FAO), has…
New analysis of pollen grains and radiocarbon dating suggests that climate change played a major role in Ancient Egypt’s downfall.
In 1500 B.C., Egypt’s New Kingdom and its neighbors were thriving.…
It's time to start planning for the 20th Global Conference on Environmental Taxation (GCET20)! This year's organizer and host is the Cyprus University of Technology, which has announced the Call for…
The EBRD’s Terry McCallion at a Brussels gathering of the Covenant of Mayors
Urban rivers choked with plastic, exhaust fumes hazing up the sunset over traffic jams, industrial chimney stacks…
STOCKHOLM — It’s complicated being Greta.
Small, shy, survivor of crippling depression, Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish girl skipping school to shame the world into addressing climate change…
The urgency and scope of the climate crisis are being needlessly exploited to drive fringe ideas like carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and solar radiation management (SRM) from the margins to the…
Solutions Won’t Be Easy to Find, But Collaboration and Innovation Offer New Opportunities—and B Corps Can Help
It’s been a busy month for the environment.
As the latest United Nations climate change conference wrapped up in Katowice, Poland earlier this month, policy makers barely kept the Paris Accord alive. Yet the 11th-hour agreement they reached…
‘Climate Change’ just didn’t cut it
The sudden usage of the term climate change over global warming is no coincidence. While a distinction between the terms does exist, most politicians use them…
There’s no more avoiding it: we’re in a climate crisis of existential proportions. It’s there every day on the news for us to see. Wildfires, droughts, super-storms, melting ice-caps, shifting jet-…
IHS Markit’s analysts have mapped out what they are keeping an eye out for in the year ahead. Aside from higher installation figures, the number-crunchers predict a continued battle for multi-…
The latest data released by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) shows Asia-Pacific installed 24.9 GW capacity of onshore wind power in 2018, an increase of 4.2% compared to 2017. The preview data…
Glue-like substances secreted by bacteria are sticking tiny particles of plastic together in the ocean to form larger masses.
As part of the NERC-funded RealRiskNano project, scientists from Heriot-…
What do you picture when you think about climate change? Perhaps you see failing crops, rising sea levels or melting glaciers. But what about struggling small businesses?
Energy customers in a south London housing estate will soon be trading solar power amongst themselves, thanks to a blockchain pilot project by Repowering London, and University College London.
New rules on the internal electricity market, part of the Clean Energy Package (CEP), will soon be adopted. Volume, time pressure, complexity, and political weight took a toll on legislative quality…
The failure to reverse growth in greenhouse gas emissions means the world is now increasingly dependent on unproven technologies to remove CO2 from the atmosphere in order to avert dangerous climate…
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