One of the newer types of engine oil is 0W-8. Here are the cars that use it, how it is different from other oils, and why it's so expensive.
As one of the regions most affected by the global climate crisis, local scientists are struggling with canceled research grants and funding cuts from federal agencies.
As the threat of global climate collapse grows, Beijing is considering a plan to turn the Tibetan Plateau into an agricultural stronghold.
A wholesale gutting of the United States weather service is placing international weather and climate modelling at risk.
Miliband said he wanted ‘to understand any wider lessons to be learned on energy resilience for critical national infrastructure’ Willie Walsh , the International Air Transport Association ’s director general, criticised Heathrow airport in as a result of the disruption, reports the PA news agency. “This is yet another case of Heathrow letting down both travellers and airlines,” he said. Walsh added: From that arises the question of who bears the costs of taking care of disrupted travellers. We must find a fairer allocation of passenger care costs than airlines alone picking up the tab when infrastructure fails. Until that happens, Heathrow has very little incentive to improve.” I’d like to stress that this has been an incident of major severity. It’s not a small fire. We have lost...
Zinc additives are fairly common in oil, especially when treating a classic or high milage engine, but what does the additive actually do for your engine?
Stardust, an Israeli–US startup, intends to patent its unique aerosol technology for temporarily cooling the planet.
U.S. President Donald Trump has raised eyebrows with his suggestion that American interests could somehow take control of Ukraine's largest nuclear power station, which has been occupied by Russian forces for the past three years.
Anja Windl is a member of activist group Last Generation who disbanded their Austria branch last year and has glued herself to roads to block traffic in a similar vain to British group Just Stop Oil .
Whitaker's extensive experience at the policy level and in the field, spearheading fuel cell power plant initiatives, managing large-scale renewable energy and hydroelectric projects, and more informs his insights regarding reimagining how the US delivers infrastructure support overseas.
How Philanthropy Can Boost Adaption Finance in Developing Countries alicia.cypress… Fri, 03/21/2025 - 09:10 The deadly destruction around the globe from increased floods, scorching temperatures and other extreme weather events exacerbated by climate change is setting back progress on economic development in developing nations. These events contribute to a vicious cycle of deepening poverty and worsening vulnerability to climate change. This means that investing in adaptation and resilience — helping nations and communities not just prepare for and recover from climate impacts but have the infrastructure in place to stand up to future climate-related challenges — is crucial to boosting their development and well-being. Investing more on adaptation also generates...
Melting glaciers, climate crises and access to clean water are some of the messages emerging ahead of World Water Day and the first ever World Day for Glaciers. Join us for live coverage of events at UN Headquarters in New York, Paris and around the world on the 2025 theme of preserving glaciers. UN News app users can follow here.
Once the darling of alternative energy advocates, the electric vehicles are now the unlikely target of political violence.
Chile's goat tradition began in 1544. Now, despite a prolonged drought, the women herders are adapting it to climate change and producing award-winning cheese.
A federal judge dismissed a challenge to New York City’s local ban on fossil fuel appliances in new buildings.
Taking aim at the Department of Energy would undercut the agency that took on a bulk of the spending from the Democrats’ massive climate law.
The nation’s capital is among dozens of states, cities and counties that have sued the oil industry for misleading consumers about the dangers of fossil fuels.
The WMO released its (now) annual state of the climate report this week. As well as the (now) standard set of graphs related to increasing greenhouse gas concentrations, rising temperatures, reducing glacier mass, etc., Zeke Hausfather and I wrote up a short synthesis on the contributions to recent temperature anomalies. Readers will recall our previous […] The post WMO: Update on 2023/4 Anomalies first appeared on RealClimate.
The controversial Climate Change Secretary had the highest approval rating of any Cabinet minister in a survey of more than 2,000 party members.
Civil society groups on Thursday condemned a US court order that Greenpeace pay over $660 million in damages to an oil pipeline company as a chilling attack on climate action around the globe.
The island nation plans to build a series of photovoltaic electricity plants to supplement its aging infrastructure.
Campaigners condemn North Dakota jury’s ruling as Greenpeace must pay Energy Transfer at least $660m Never miss global breaking news. Download our free app to keep up with key stories in real time . The verdict against the environmental group Greenpeace finding it liable for huge damages to a pipeline company over protests has been described by advocacy groups as a “weaponization of the legal system” and an “assault” on free speech and protest rights. A North Dakota jury decided on Wednesday that Greenpeace will have to pay at least $660m to the pipeline company Energy Transfer and is liable for defamation and other claims over protests in the state in 2016-2017. Continue reading...
Federal officials have sanctioned a Chinese oil refinery, as well as an oil storage facility and their owners to cut off Iranian revenues from illicit oil sales that violate international sanctions.
The plan launched in 2022 may be too light on logging and say too much about climate change for the Trump administration.
[GroundUp] Large-scale public art project to raise awareness about climate change
Environmental group Greenpeace must pay more than $660 million US in damages for defamation and other claims brought by a pipeline company in connection with protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline's construction in North Dakota, a jury found Wednesday.
Image: Depositphotos Signs of human-induced climate change reached new heights in 2024, with some of the consequences irreversible over hundreds if not thousands of years, according to a new report from the World...
OURAY, Colorado - America's ice-climbing epicentre was facing a bleak future, with climate change endangering its water supply, until an unlikely saviour came to its rescue: a nearby silver mine.
[ENA] Climate change experts convened in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi on Wednesday to discuss ways to bridge the climate finance gap in Africa.
A jury in North Dakota ordered Greenpeace to pay more than $660 million in damages to Dakota Access pipeline developer Energy Transfer.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright gave House Republicans a 2023 study on liquefied natural gas exports.
Four state attorneys general say the agency is violating separation of powers and causing “irreparable reputational harm to the green banks.”
As the world gets closer to the Paris agreement threshold, the World Meteorological Organization races to establish a single way to monitor current warming.
The legislation would direct the state to create pipeline safety regulations and, once they’re in place, end the moratorium.
As South Africa observes National Water Week from March 20 to 26 with the aims of recognising the crucial role water plays in global efforts to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and build resilience, the spotlight falls on the country’s efforts to secure water amid the growing challenges of scarcity, climate change and the increasing demand […]
Peter Dutton was addressing the Lowy Institute in Sydney on Thursday morning when an audience member leapt out of his seat to protest the Coalition's pro-nuclear power policy.
America's ice-climbing epicenter was facing a bleak future, with climate change endangering its water supply, until an unlikely savior came to its rescue: a nearby silver mine.
A North Dakota jury awarded $667 million in damages to Energy Transfer, the company that runs the Dakota Access Pipeline, after finding Greenpeace liable in a high-stakes defamation case.
Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Zelensky discussed U.S. 'ownership of Ukrainian nuclear power plants during their phone call Thursday, the White House said.
Greenpeace must pay $660 million to Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners and subsidiary Dakota Access LLC for inciting illegal activities during anti-pipeline protests nearly a decade ago.
Towngas says its renewable energy business on the mainland was a strong profit contributor.
For about three years now, Argentines have been hearing almost every month that oil production is breaking new records. Looking ahead, the country is projected to become a major global supplier of what remains the most sought-after energy source. These developments, presented as hopeful news for an economy that has been in deep crisis for […]
President Donald Trump's administration advanced another major US natural gas export project on Wednesday, handing oil companies a win the same day as a White House meeting with industry executives.
Improving our understanding of sudden climate shifts is welcome. But framing this as creating an "early-warning system" is wrong on so many levels it is hard to know where to begin, says Bill McGuire
Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov said his office had identified “miscalculations” in disaster response efforts carried out by emergency officials.
The recent boom in EV production may have catapulted electric cars into the automotive spotlight, but battery powered automobiles actually have a long history.
The case reaches back to protests in 2016 and 2017 against the Dakota Access oil pipeline and its Missouri River crossing upstream of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s reservation.
Their pleas come after a federal judge temporarily blocked EPA’s attempt to recover the $20 billion.
Once an audacious pioneer in electric cars, Tesla is being out-competed by cheaper, more innovative rivals and suffering by association with Musk.
Fifteen oil industry executives will meet with President Donald Trump at the White House Wednesday to discuss oil prices and tariffs.
The Defense Ministry called the attack a “carefully planned provocation by the Kyiv regime aimed at undermining... peace initiatives.”
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Kenya and the Netherlands have pledged to strengthen their collaboration on climate action and human rights advocacy during inaugural political consultations held in Nairobi on Wednesday.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05845C, Paper Yun Cao, Chuannan Geng, Chen Bai, Linkai Peng, Jiaqi Lan, Jiarong Liu, Junwei Han, Bilu Liu, Yanbing He, Feiyu Kang, Quan-Hong Yang, Wei Lv A micropore confinement and fusion strategy is proposed to eliminate the interfacial mismatch and achieve molecular-level integrated catalysis interfaces for long-life all-solid-state Li–S batteries. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Although warming around the world spiked last year, the United Nations’ lead climate agency says there is still time to act.
Up until a few weeks ago, I had never heard of "Climate Fresk" and at a guess, this will also be the case for many of you. I stumbled upon it in the self-service training catalog for employees at the company I work at in Germany where it was announced as a 3-hours workshop called "Klima Puzzle" (Climate Puzzle). Intrigued, I signed up and was one of 7 colleagues to be led through what turned out to be quite an interesting experience. After the workshop, I spend some time browsing the Climate Fresk website and then signed up for a training to become a "Climate Fresker" myself. This allows me to lead people through a Climate Fresk, which I now "only" need to find some time for! The background story Climate Fresk encourages the rapid and widespread spread of an understanding...
Hundreds of thousands of people were forced to flee climate disasters last year, the United Nations said Wednesday, highlighting the urgent need for early warning systems covering the entire planet.
Oil and gas leaders are pleased with the president’s deregulatory agenda, but questions about the economy are growing.
The Trans Niger Delta handles about 15 percent of Nigeria’s oil export flows and is pivotal to shipments of the Bonny grade.
The ruling orders EPA and climate change groups to return to court to argue about the fate of the money.
When it comes to food, beef contributes by far the most emissions fueling climate change. Yet demand for beef around the world is only expected to grow.
UK offshore energy supply chain firms generate the bulk of their revenues from oil and gas work while renewables revenues remain limited survey findings show.
'I am authorizing my Administration to immediately begin producing Energy with BEAUTIFUL, CLEAN COAL,' Trump wrote in a post on social media on Monday.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE06171C, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Yi Yuan, yang Hu, Yi Gan, Zhi Liang Dong, Yijia Wang, Enzhong Jin, Mingrui Yang, Frederick Benjamin Holness, Vinicius Martins, Qingsong Tu, Yang Zhao Sulfide electrolytes have emerged as the preferred choice for solid-state sodium-sulfur (Na-S) batteries due to their excellent compatibility with sulfur cathodes. Despite their advantages, such as high ionic conductivity, mechanical... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Floods, heatwaves and supercharged hurricanes occurred in hottest climate human society has ever experienced The devastating impacts of the climate crisis reached new heights in 2024, with scores of unprecedented heatwaves, floods and storms across the globe, according to the UN’s World Meteorological Organization. The WMO’s report on 2024 , the hottest year on record, sets out a trail of destruction from extreme weather that took lives, demolished buildings and ravaged vital crops. More than 800,000 people were displaced and made homeless, the highest yearly number since records began in 2008. Continue reading...
As the current US administration seeks to play down and even question human-caused climate change, new findings paint a very different picture.
An abandoned oil well in a remote Texas town has created a massive sinkhole on a family owned ranch. The Kelton Ranch is also experiencing contaminated water and an awful crude oil smell.
This blog was authored by Suzi Kerr, Senior Advisor, Economics and Carbon Pricing, EDF and Juan Pablo Hoffmaister, former AVP, Global Engagement and Partnerships, EDF. Last November at COP29 in Baku, countries agreed on the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) and set a target of mobilizing $1.3 trillion annually by 2035, including a commitment of at […] The post Multiple Roads to the 1.3T Goal: Integrating Quality Finance for Climate Action appeared first on Market Forces .
President Trump Signals Mandating More Coal Power, Action Would Impose High Health and Electricity Costs
BYD unveils platform with charging power of 1,000 kW, which would be twice as fast as Tesla’s supercharging Can BYD’s batteries really charge in five minutes? The Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD has unveiled a new charging system that it said could make it possible for EVs to charge as quickly as it takes to refill with petrol. BYD’s Hong Kong-listed shares gained 4.1% on Tuesday to hit a record high of 408.80 Hong Kong dollars, as investors bet that the company could strengthen its already commanding position as one of the world’s biggest electric carmakers. Continue reading...
As new EPA head Lee Zeldin promises to sink a 'dagger' into climate and clean energy initiatives, taxpayers are set to pay the price for extreme weather and the dismantling of a booming green economy.
The US stock market is spooked and his henchmogul’s companies are floundering. Has the great dealmaker been building up … the wrong nation? Naturally I assumed the feeling would pass, but one whole week after the US president turned the lawn of the White House into a crappy car dealership , I keep finding myself feeling … optimistic. I know, I know. But if anything, I find myself feeling a little bit more optimistic every day – and sometimes a lot more. Not for America, which keeps electing him, but for the rest of the world. It really would take a heart of stone for governments from Beijing to Delhi to Warsaw to look at the clip of this old guy trying to sell his friend’s electric cars and not think: “Ooooooooh, that is very, very bad vibes. Still, it’s good for us!” In China they have...
Satellite images taken more than three decades apart show the disappearance of Iceland's Okjökull, the first glacier to be officially declared dead as a result of human-caused climate change.
The 12th Sankalp Africa Summit, held on Feb 26-27 in Nairobi, brought together a pivotal cohort of start-up innovators, investors, entrepreneurs and policymakers to accelerate the innovation needed to enhance Africa’s energy transition. The summit ignited lively discussions on harnessing entrepreneurial talent to address Africa’s most pressing challenges, including food insecurity, climate vulnerability, and gaps […]
The Trump administration says it terminated $20 billion of Biden-era grants because some recipients have senior staffers who served in the Biden or Obama administrations.
Legislation sponsored by a former Duke Energy executive would eliminate a 2030 emissions goal.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00342C, Paper Zhiyang Xu, Runnan Yu, Tangyue Xue, Qiang Guo, Qianglong Lv, Chen Zhang, Erjun Zhou, Zhan'ao Tan Flexible perovskite solar cells (f-PSCs) have garnered increasing research interest owing to their high power-to-weight ratio and ability to integrate into buildings. However, the mismatch of the thermal expansion coefficient... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Liberals Against Nuclear say the policy would increase bureaucracy and impose ‘massive taxpayer-backed risk’ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast A group of Liberal supporters has launched an advertising campaign against the party’s plan to build taxpayer-funded nuclear power plants, arguing it “betrays Liberal values”, divides the party and “hands government back to Labor”. The new advocacy group Liberals Against Nuclear says it rejects the Coalition’s policy as it would require the government to borrow tens of billions of dollars, swell the bureaucracy and impose “massive taxpayer-backed risk”. Continue reading...
Not just a future problem: The world is changing before our eyes. The post Before and after photos show the destruction of climate change appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Australian meteorologists and scientists will be impacted by mass firings at Noaa, experts warn Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Staff cuts and a freeze on international collaborations at a leading US science agency will have a “chilling effect” on climate science and may “severely degrade” Australia’s ability to accurately forecast the weather, scientists have warned. The Trump administration fired 880 workers at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) on 27 February , and reportedly plans to cut 1,000 more staff . Continue reading...
Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) has become a vital framework for assessing the broader societal impact of organisations, going beyond traditional financial metrics. In 2025, ESG will play a pivotal role in shaping South Africa’s business landscape, reflecting a growing commitment to sustainability, climate resilience, and inclusion. Understanding and tracking these trends is essential to […]
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 130, Issue 6, 28 March 2025.
Work to plant 570,000 trees has begun as part of a Scottish university’s nature-based solution to tackle climate change.
Fall back to school with this edition of the NASA eClips newsletter! Educators are provided with a host of resources to help engineer a great school year! Videos and activities focus on comparing science and engineering practices. Two new Spotlite Design Challenges are launched on climate change and Earth-observing satellites! And a fun activity for […]
The White House slammed the previous administration for using a Cold War-era law to spur renewable energy production.
The Tuapse refinery is one of Russia’s largest, with a reported annual processing capacity of 12 million metric tons of oil.
Today's military submarines often run on nuclear power, which keeps them from having to put into port every few days for fuel. So how long can they stay at sea?
Residents of the Ecuadorean town of Viche said on Saturday (March 15) they were concerned an oil spill in a river would affect their health and crops. - REUTERS
Energy security and net zero secretary travels to Beijing for countries’ first formal climate meetings since 2017 Ed Miliband has accused the previous Conservative government of negligence for failing to engage with China on climate issues, as he travelled to Beijing for the countries’ first formal climate meetings since 2017. The secretary of state for energy security and net zero was in Beijing to announce a new annual UK-China climate dialogue. The first summit will take place in London later this year. China’s minister of ecology and environment, Huang Runqiu, is expected to attend. Continue reading...
The toxic smog that settles over the Mongolian capital every winter has been a suffocating problem for well over a decade that successive governments have failed to dispel. In the depths of winter, the city’s daily average of PM 2.5 small particulate that can enter the lungs and bloodstream, can be 27 times higher than the level considered safe by the World Health Organization. Respiratory illness cases have risen steadily, with pneumonia the second leading cause of death for children under five Continue reading...
[GroundUp] Mining companies could fulfil their social obligations by investing in these projects
Audrey Robertson's nomination angered clean-energy advocates, but some see an upside to her experience.
Europe may see atomic power as a path to energy independence, but the Westinghouse chief tells POLITICO it can help the continent.
Decarbonizing the housing sector has been tough because as many as 80 percent of the nation’s buildings are heated with oil or gas.
A planned project in Texas could be the world's first direct air capture development to rely primarily on behind-the-meter electricity.
Both Congressional Review Act measures cleared Congress with bipartisan support.
Not a coal mine but a slate mine. Based on a popular horror novel by F. Paul Wilson, The Keep is about a group of Nazi soldiers who occupy an ancient fortress in Romania.
Despite dire predictions of climate breakdown, more Sports Utility Vehicles are being spotted on, and off, the roads.
A Peruvian farmer faces off in a German court Monday in a "David and Goliath" battle against an energy giant, demanding the firm pay for climate change damage.
The owners of an oil tanker involved in a collision in the North Sea say its crew limited damage.
New evidence of particles damaging crops strengthens the case for an international plastics treaty New and concerning findings from environmental scientists about the impact of microplastics on crops and marine algae add to a growing body of evidence about the disruption caused to living systems by plastic pollution. The results, from a team led by Prof Huan Zhong at Nanjing University, China, are not definitive and require corroboration. But analysis showing that plastics could limit photosynthesis (the conversion of sunlight into chemical energy) must be taken seriously. If the researchers are correct, and staple crops are being reduced by about 12%, there are huge implications for global agriculture and food supplies. This could inject new urgency into efforts to tackle plastic pollution...
A listing of 26 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, March 9, 2025 thru Sat, March 15, 2025. This week's roundup is again published by category and sorted by number of articles included in each. We are still interested in feedback to hone the categorization, so if you spot any clear misses and/or have suggestions for additional categories, please let us know in the comments. Thanks! Stories we promoted this week, by category and number of articles shared: Climate Policy and Politics (10 articles) `We`re losing our environmental history`: The future of government information under Trump The administration’s wrecking-ball approach has raised profound questions about the integrity and future...
The Vehicle Restraint Manufacturers Association says the metal fences that line roads and bridges are designed to 1998 standards, and capable of stopping only traditional petrol or diesel cars.
Backers of carbon capture and storage are emphasizing compatibility with President Trump's energy development goals as they seek to protect hard-won US policies from the administration's climate chopping block.
While China’s oil trade in Africa has dropped over recent years, there is another fuel that investors cannot get enough of.
A farmer and mountain guide is suing German energy firm RWE, due to the company’s share of global man-made greenhouse gas emissions.
Energy summit in Houston makes clear US is nowhere close to curbing fossil fuels, but tariffs are causing disquiet This week, the world’s most influential fossil-fuels conference, which has been dubbed the “Coachella of oil”, featured an industry displaying outward glee but barely managing to conceal its anxiety. As recently as last year, sustainability was a major focus at the annual Houston convention, known as CeraWeek, with fossil-fuel companies touting climate plans. But in the wake of Donald Trump’s re-election, the industry is undergoing a vibe shift, forgoing talk of the energy transition and instead parroting the president’s focus on energy “dominance”. Continue reading...
Skeptical Science is partnering with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. You can submit claims you think need checking via the tipline . Is waste heat from industrial activity the reason the planet is warming? Waste heat’s contribution to global warming is a small fraction of that brought about by carbon dioxide. Waste heat comes from the thermal energy released by human energy use, such as when power plants burn coal or combustion engines burn gasoline. Dividing the total amount of waste heat by Earth’s surface area, Flanner found about 0.03 Watts per square meter of total warming was from waste heat, about 1%. Carbon dioxide’s greenhouse gas effect added 2.9 Watts per square meter. Zhang and Caldeira...
Vladimir Motin, 59, captain of container ship Solong which crashed into US oil tanker MV Stena Immaculate on Monday, has been charged with gross negligence manslaughter.
Net profit rose 2 per cent to HK$1.6 billion (US$206 million), while revenue increased 7.4 per cent to HK$21.3 billion.
Looks like banking on billionaires to solve climate change isn't gonna do the trick.
The government-downsizing effort says it’s canceling more leases used by energy and environmental workers around the country.
The decision ends a 15-year run of media briefings, which allowed scientists to discuss climate change and weather events.
The accelerating risk of climate disasters including floods, bushfires and storms means Sydneysiders in some parts of the city are paying over three times more for home insurance than others.
Ed Miliband visits Beijing as part of plan to create global axis working in favour of climate action Ed Miliband: ‘The global battle against the climate crisis needs China’ The UK is hoping to shape a new global axis in favour of climate action along with China and a host of developing countries, to offset the impact of Donald Trump’s abandonment of green policies and his sharp veer towards climate-hostile countries such as Russia and Saudi Arabia . Ed Miliband, the UK’s energy and net zero secretary, arrived in Beijing on Friday for three days of talks with top Chinese officials, including discussions on green technology supply chains, coal and the critical minerals needed for clean energy. The UK’s green economy is growing three times faster than the rest of the economy , but...
Climate change and bird flu are already driving up food prices. Trump's tariffs are about to make it even worse.
These brilliant images show how researchers in Switzerland are using weather-modification techniques to understand how ice crystals form in clouds, an important and poorly understood factor in climate and weather models
[Liberian Investigator] Monrovia -- The Liberian government has renewed its commitment to funding the long-stalled Monrovia Metropolitan Climate Resilience Project, a crucial initiative designed to combat coastal erosion and protect vulnerable communities from the devastating effects of climate change.
I will be the first UK energy secretary since 2017 to visit. It is negligence towards today’s and future generations not to engage China on this critical topic The climate crisis is an existential threat to our way of life in Britain. Extreme weather is already changing the lives of people and communities across the country, from thousands of acres of farmland being submerged due to storms such as Bert and Darragh to record numbers of heat-related deaths in recent summers. The only way to respond to this challenge is with decisive action at home and abroad. Domestically, this government’s clean-energy superpower mission is about investing in homegrown clean energy so we can free the UK from dependence on fossil fuel markets while seizing the immense opportunities for jobs and growth...
Companies are pulling Republicans in opposite directions on contentious energy efficiency standards.
The Global Solar Council predicted 42 percent growth in new installations this year.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wants to end the Defense Department’s climate efforts. Some experts say the move could hurt military readiness.
Environmental groups are warning Congress that fossil fuel companies may ask for new protections.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00158G, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Jichao Zhai, Wang Zhao, Lei Wang, Jianbo Shuai, Ruwei Chen, Wenjiao Ge, Yu Zong, Guanjie He, Xiaohui Wang The increasing demand for personalized health monitoring has driven the development of wearable electronics. Flexible zinc-ion batteries (FZIBs) are ideal power sources for wearable devices, but their low volumetric energy... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
More than 400 athletes, including more than 20 Canadians, speak up about threat of climate change to both the Winter and Summer Olympic Games.
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says it is discontinuing its regular update calls due to staffing problems, but its researchers may also fear political retaliation for discussing climate change
New AI Model Maps Every Tree on Earth wil.thomas@wri.org Thu, 03/13/2025 - 16:16 Developed by WRI and Meta, the model provides unprecedented insight into trees outside of dense forests. The data is already being used to monitor small-scale restoration throughout Africa, which can help these projects access much-needed finance. The Challenge Forests play a vital role in combating climate change; providing water, food and medicines; and supporting livelihoods for millions of people. But monitoring them is challenging, particularly for trees that grow outside dense forests in drylands, farms and cities. These trees make up more than one-third of tree cover on Earth, yet they go largely undetected by forest data sets. This data gap is especially limiting for monitoring...
Mumbai Allocates One-Third of its Budget to Climate Action shannon.paton@… Thu, 03/13/2025 - 15:34 WRI India supported Mumbai’s government in launching a new climate-focused department and allocating one-third of the city’s capital budget to achieving its climate action plan. The Challenge Mumbai, India is grappling with air pollution, erratic monsoons, worsening floods and landslides, and increasingly extreme heat. Its 17 million residents — around half of whom live in slums — are feeling the effects. Mumbai launched a pioneering climate action plan in 2022, pledging to slash planet-warming emissions and build resilience to mounting climate change impacts. It was the first city in South Asia with a target to achieve net-zero emissions. But moving...
Facing Trump tariff threats, governments and companies are proposing major investments in American liquefied natural gas projects.
Nearly 200 groups urge Congress to reject fossil fuel industry immunity efforts, fearing long-term damage to climate lawsuits Never miss global breaking news. Download our free app to keep up with key stories in real time . As fossil fuel interests attack climate accountability litigation, environmental advocates have sounded a new warning that they are pursuing a path that would destroy all future prospects for such cases. Nearly 200 advocacy groups have urged Democratic representatives to “proactively and affirmatively” reject potential industry attempts to obtain immunity from litigation. Continue reading...
The Ministry of the Environment, Energy, and Climate plans to invest up to ISK 1 billion in subsidies from 2025 to 2028 to support geothermal energy exploration and utilization in areas where electricity and oil are currently used for heating. If successful, the initiative is expected to reduce household heating costs and generate up to ISK 8 billion in financial benefits for the treasury.
A new lawsuit says the Trump administration's hold on grants for conservation, energy efficiency and tree planting violates the law.
Federal judge Tanya Chutkan issues restraining order pending new filings over billions in axed research grants A federal judge considering the Trump administration’s abrupt cancellation of climate research grants worth billions of dollars told government lawyers they had to produce “some kind of evidence” of wrongdoing to back up such drastic actions. Climate United , which coordinates investment in clean energy projects, sued to seek access to $7bn that was frozen before it was cancelled on Tuesday night by Lee Zeldin, the New York Republican congressman turned administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Continue reading...
The administration is clawing back regulations and mulling executive authorities to prop up the nation's coal-fired power fleet and mining sector.
CAIRO, March 13 (MENA) – Minister of Environment Yasmine Fouad held an expanded meeting Thursday at the ministry’s headquarters in the New Administrative Capital with a number of representatives of concerned ministries to discuss national coordination regarding Egypt’s participation in the 2025 UN Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP 30) set for Brazil. Advisor to the … The post Environment minister holds meeting to prepare for Egypt’s participation in UNFCCC COP 30 appeared first on Egypt Independent.
Scientists at the University of Exeter and the Met Office say 'unprecedented' changes to North Atlantic winds could have major impacts on British weather.
Shorter ice seasons make transportation and hunting more difficult. The post Warming climate disrupts food prices in northern Ontario appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
[Liberian Observer] CYCLES-LIBERIA, one of Liberia's leading advocacy grassroots environmental organizations, has stressed the importance of taking concrete actions against the negative impact of climate change on smallholder farmers in rural communities to help mitigate the current challenges.
Climate change and bird flu are already driving up food prices. Trump's tariffs are about to make it worse.
Company says new solar agreements will now mean 80% of Boyne smelter’s energy needs are covered by renewable sources Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Mining company Rio Tinto will buy solar power and battery storage capacity for its Gladstone aluminium operations in a deal environmentalists have hailed as a “major step” forward. The company has signed 20-year agreements with Edify Energy to buy 90% of the power and battery storage capacity generated by the Smoky Creek and Guthrie’s Gap solar stations, located in central Queensland, Rio Tinto said. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...
Summit Carbon Solutions requested a scheduling change after a new state law blocked it from using eminent domain.
Breakthrough Energy is also pulling back on climate funding.
When moving sand by truck became a nuisance, an unprecedented and risky investment opportunity arose: constructing a 42-mile-long, $400 million machine to streamline the production of hydraulic fracturing.
Scientists have long predicted that as climate change makes the air warmer, it holds more moisture, which means bigger, nastier atmospheric rivers in the future.
AI data centres are sucking up tons of electricity, and natural gas is seen by some energy executives as a solution to help fill the demand. It's a hot topic at CERAWeek, a massive international energy conference in Houston that's sometimes described as the "Super Bowl" of energy.
Exclusive: Jotham Napat said pact must be taken ‘back to the drawing board’ and should reflect climate change as security issue Vanuatu’s new prime minister has said his government intends to “revisit” a security agreement with Australia, arguing it does not reflect his country’s priorities including climate change and travel mobility for its citizens. Jotham Napat, who was elected in February, said the pact with Canberra had to be taken “back to the drawing board” as he sought a “win-win situation” in a renegotiated deal. Continue reading...
The EPA administrator says he is rolling back dozens of environmental rules, including those crucial to California programs on climate change and electric vehicles, and closing offices that worked to lower pollution in poor communities.
Here is what we know about the billions in funds that have led to federal investigations, lawsuits and frozen bank accounts for climate nonprofit groups.
After failing to recreate success of augmented reality game, Niantic Labs plans to sell its video game division to Scopely Niantic Labs said it would sell its video game division to Saudi Arabia -owned Scopely for $3.5bn, as the US augmented reality firm shifts focus to geospatial technology after failing to recreate the success of its 2016 smash hit Pokémon Go . The deal, announced on Wednesday, also advances Saudi Arabia’s ambitions to become the “ultimate global hub” for gaming. The kingdom’s sovereign wealth fund, via Savvy Games, bought Scopely for $4.9bn in 2023 as part of a broader push by the country to diversify beyond fossil fuels. Continue reading...
Oil giants retreat on climate pledges, embrace Trump-era fossil fuel policies at CERAWeek in Texas At a major oil and gas conference in Texas this week, companies publicly retreated from their flashy climate pledges of years past, redoubling their commitment to planet-warming fossil fuels. The withdrawals illustrate the companies’ allegiance not to ordinary Americans, but to their shareholders and the climate-skeptical Trump administration, advocates said. Continue reading...
“We are driving a dagger through the heart of climate-change religion and ushering in America’s Golden Age,'' EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said in an essay in The Wall Street Journal.
Brazil ruins the environment to make it easier to host a conference about solving climate change.
Political fundraisers are occurring with increasing frequency as major parties build war chests for the election Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast A coal lobby group encouraged its members to attend a political fundraiser with the Nationals leader, David Littleproud, in the lead-up to a federal election that would “decide the future” of the industry. The fundraising dinner with Littleproud was scheduled for Wednesday night, according to promotional material circulated by Coal Australia. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...
The move could dramatically reshape federal climate regulations.
The approval of Iroquois’ enhancement project, which utility companies argue is needed to heat New Yorkers’ homes in the coldest months, amps up planet-warming pollution — and signals that the state’s commitment to reaching its climate goals is faltering, critics say.
Our solar system's journey around the center of the Milky Way takes it through varying galactic environments, and one may have had a lasting impact on Earth's climate, according to a new study.
From video game developers to a nuclear power plant, companies across China are adopting DeepSeek’s AI models to boost stock prices and flaunt their national pride.
Injecting pollutants into the atmosphere to reflect the sun would be extremely dangerous, but the UK is funding field trials Some years ago in the pages of the Guardian, we sounded the alarm about the increasing attention being paid to solar geoengineering – a barking mad scheme to cancel global heating by putting pollutants in the atmosphere that dim the sun by reflecting some sunlight back to space. In one widely touted proposition, fleets of aircraft would continually inject sulphur compounds into the upper atmosphere, simulating the effects of a massive array of volcanoes erupting continuously. In essence, we have broken the climate by releasing gigatonnes of fossil-fuel carbon dioxide, and solar geoengineering proposes to “fix” it by breaking a very different part of the climate...
The move comes just one day before a hearing in a lawsuit brought by a grant recipient seeking access to funds frozen by the Trump administration.
Low Earth orbit is becoming more littered with space junk as climate change lessens nature's way of cleaning it up.
[The Conversation Africa] When we think of climate change, we may consider extreme weather events - record-breaking heatwaves, heavy downpours and devastating floods. But have you considered that these changes could also increase your risk of exposure to certain viruses?
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05582A, Review Article Xiaomin Zhang, Xiaoyu Zhang, Xingbo Wang, Guoliang Cui, Hongge Pan, Wenping Sun Developing efficient catalysts is essential for mitigating the shuttle effect and accelerating the conversion kinetics of polysulfides in lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries. To date, numerous strategies have been employed to optimize... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Both vessels were set ablaze and one sailor is presumed dead in the collision, which has sparked fears of major environmental damage.
Removing 76 gasoline ads 'would send the message that it's time to end our embrace of polluting fossil fuels,' Senate Majority Leader Lena Gonzalez wrote.
Swings between drought and floods striking from Dallas to Shanghai, while Madrid and Cairo are among cities whose climate has flipped Climate whiplash is already hitting major cities around the world, bringing deadly swings between extreme wet and dry weather as the climate crisis intensifies, a report has revealed. Dozens more cities, including Lucknow, Madrid and Riyadh have suffered a climate “flip” in the last 20 years, switching from dry to wet extremes, or vice versa. The report analysed the 100 most populous cities, plus 12 selected ones, and found that 95% of them showed a distinct trend towards wetter or drier weather. Continue reading...
The captain of the cargo ship, 59, that smashed into an oil tanker has been arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter.
More than three-quarters of China’s electric car brands may disappear as Beijing vows to stamp out excessive competition.
A 50-year-old Canadian man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty damaging a pipeline substation and other energy infrastructure in North and South Dakota.
Oil executives said Tuesday they are bullish on US petroleum investments in the emerging Trump era as some giants back away from renewable energy and beef up fossil fuel developments.
Despite powering most of our devices and electric cars for years, almost everyone still makes at least some of these mistakes with lithium-ion batteries.
On the Road to Sustainable Transport, Climate Finance Can Speed Progress alicia.cypress… Tue, 03/11/2025 - 10:15 Transport is one of the fastest-growing sources of greenhouse gas emissions, accounting for 24% of carbon emissions worldwide. Nearly three-quarters of those emissions come from road vehicles. Solutions like electrification and increased public transport can reduce the transport sector’s emissions, but they come at a hefty cost — particularly for low- and middle- income countries , which account for 82% of the world’s population. To reach net-zero emissions by 2050, the International Energy Agency calculates that carbon emissions from the transport sector need to drop 50% by 2035. For that to happen, not only do we need to boost the percentage...
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05140H, Paper Gaofeng Du, Shuhao Wang, Zhaoming Tong, Xinyu Ji, Xinqi Wei, Quanbin Zha, Tianyou Zhai, Huiqiao Li We used dual thermal stimulation to prepare a uniform and dense mixed interface, achieving strong adhesion between the solid-state electrolyte and Na metal, thereby realizing the ultra-long cycling life of solid-state sodium metal batteries. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Staff crisis at Environment Agency, which helps monitor 950 sites, means it is hearing about incidents later than normal, insider says The team responsible for preventing environmental risks at England’s most hazardous industrial sites is facing a recruitment crisis and one insider has warned environmental incidents are going unchecked. The control of major accident hazards (Comah) regulations cover 950 of England’s most hazardous industrial sites – from nuclear power plants to chemical manufacturers – in locations such as Buncefield oil depot near Hemel Hempstead, where, in 2005, the largest explosion in peacetime took place in the UK . Continue reading...
A Georgia man used his EV to stay cool for days after Hurricane Helene. The post When the power went out, an electric car kept the AC running appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
As a crashed oil tanker leaks 142,000 barrels of jet fuel off the coast of Yorkshire, scientists reveal how rescue teams could contain the spill.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00703H, Paper Yanan Zhang, Shenyu Shen, Zihan Kang, Na Gao, Dandan Yin, Lanya Zhao, Bo Wen, Teng Deng, Kai Xi, Yaqiong Su, Hongyang Zhao, Shujiang Ding The cation buffer strategy of electrolyte in alkaline zinc batteries can initiate a ‘fast nucleation-slow growth’ mode to re-establish the relationship between zincate concentration and zinc deposition, thereby inducing unique spherical deposition. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
New research shows that the damaging fires during the UK’s record-breaking 2022 heatwave were made at least six times more likely due to human-caused climate change.
U.S. energy leaders kept the focus on fossil fuels and data centers as President Donald Trump’s tariff policy rattled markets.
The state has the technology and labor market for a major nuclear build-out, according to bill sponsors.
The high court since 2021 has repeatedly declined to stop local governments from holding oil companies financially responsible for warming the planet.
Brazil is setting out to counter deforestation and scale up climate finance ahead of hosting the U.N. climate talks.
A Portuguese-flagged cargo ship carrying cyanide smashed into a US military oil tanker causing a 'massive fireball' off the Yorkshire coast.
Alfred is being used as the latest front in an ideological war, but facts are relevant to how we prepare for a climate-changed future Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast It’s not a good time for climate science. The Trump administration has sacked more than a thousand staff from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the country’s leading agency for weather forecasting and climate science, potentially damaging its ability to do lifesaving work forecasting hurricanes and other extreme weather events. The New York Times reported plans are under way to fire another 1,000 . If true, that will take the cuts to about 20% of the workforce. On Monday, it was announced Nasa was axing its chief scientist, Katherine Calvin , who had been appointed...
The justices declined to hear unusual arguments from Republican-led states that sought to end lawsuits against energy companies over their role in global warming.
Anapa City Hall said it had spent $2.4 million on cleanup efforts since the two ships were damaged in a storm in mid-December.
To applause from oil and gas executives, Chris Wright said natural gas was preferable to renewable energy and climate change was a “side effect of building the modern world.”
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft took this image of Ceres’ south polar region on May 17, 2017. Launched on Sept. 27, 2007, Dawn was NASA’s first truly interplanetary spaceship. The mission featured extended stays at two extraterrestrial bodies: giant asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres, both in the debris-strewn main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The spacecraft’s name […]
Chris Wright signals abandonment of Biden’s ‘irrational, quasi-religious’ climate policies at industry conference The world needs more planet-heating fossil fuel, not less, Donald Trump ’s newly appointed energy secretary, Chris Wright , told oil and gas bigwigs on Monday. “We are unabashedly pursuing a policy of more American energy production and infrastructure, not less,” he said in the opening plenary talk of CERAWeek, a swanky annual conference in Houston, Texas, led by the financial firm S&P Global. Continue reading...
In March 1967, the SS Torrey Canyon supertanker ran aground on rocks between the Scilly Isles and Cornwall, spilling more than 100,000 tonnes of crude oil into the ocean.
US-flagged tanker, MV Stena Immaculate, was hit by container ship, MV Solong, off the coast of Humber Estuary this morning.
The US Energy Secretary vowed Monday to reset federal energy policy to favor fossil fuels and deprioritize climate change as industry leaders gathered at their biggest event since President Donald Trump returned to office.
Speaking at CERAWeek, President Donald Trump's secretary of Energy touted gas and singled out wind for being too costly.
The lawsuit filed Monday claims that the bank is preventing the nonprofit from abiding by its contract with the federal government.
Biden funded farm projects that mention climate change. Trump wants to cut them. Farmers say they just want the money they were promised to preserve their land.
The proposed safety rules would have been the first.
The oil industry says upping production means lower prices for taxpayers, energy independence and good jobs for Americans. Is that really so?
The oil company wants the deals to complement its recent acquisitions of chemical plants and liquefied natural gas export facilities in the U.S.
A new federal report downplaying or denying climate change could drive a reversal of climate rules and expansion of executive authority.
The council said Switzerland “had failed to comply with its duties” to combat climate change and meet emissions targets.
Pete Hegseth responds to post, saying the Department of Defense 'does not do climate change crap.'
Top energy industry figures converge on Houston this week for their biggest gathering since Donald Trump returned to the White House to champion fossil fuels and undo Joe Biden's climate legacy.
There's a lot of information on the packaging for your engine's motor oil, but the S designation may be one of the most important to look for.
Affected roads include vital routes for holidaymakers, including A2 towards Folkestone and parts of A303 and A30 A quarter of England’s most important A-roads have electric car charging “cold spots”, according to government figures that suggest significant gaps remain in the infrastructure needed to switch away from fossil fuels. Twenty-nine out of 107 A-roads that are part of the strategic road network have at least one cold spot, according to data obtained by charging company Zest from the Department for Transport. Cold spots are defined as points where a vehicle with only 10% of its battery remaining would not be able to reach a site with at least six rapid or ultra-rapid devices. Continue reading...
Scotland has already met its target for 6,000 public EV charge points two years ahead of the 2026 deadline The sale of all new petrol and diesel cars will be banned in Scotland from 2030. Seamless and uncomplicated public charging for private and commercial electric vehicles is essential if more owners are to be encouraged to switch from petrol and diesel to this cleaner form of fuel... especially if the government's drive to Net Zero emissions is ever to be achieved.
A listing of 32 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, March 2, 2025 thru Sat, March 8, 2025. This week's roundup is again published by category and sorted by number of articles included in each. We are still interested in feedback to hone the categorization, so if you spot any clear misses and/or have suggestions for additional categories, please let us know in the comments. Thanks! Stories we promoted this week, by category and number of articles shared: Climate Change Impacts (13 articles) Australia’s second-hottest summer in 2024-25 ‘not possible without climate change’, scientist says 2024-25 summer at 1.89C above long-term average ‘will be one of the coolest in the 21st...
Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani has warned that an attack on Iran's Gulf coast nuclear facilities would leave countries across the region without water. Iran has a nuclear power plant at Bushehr on the Gulf coast, though its uranium enrichment facilities, key to building atomic weapons, are located hundreds of kilometres (miles) inland.
US pushes to remove references to sanctions and Russia’s war in Ukraine from a Canadian draft statement The US has rejected a Canadian proposal to establish a task force that would tackle Russia’s so-called “shadow fleet” of oil tankers , according to reports last night. Canada, which has the current Group of Seven presidency, proposed the measure ahead of a meeting of G7 foreign ministers in Quebec later this week. Continue reading...
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04927F, Review Article Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Weihan Li, Minsi Li, Haoqi Ren, Jung Tae Kim, Ruying Li, Tsun-Kong Sham, Xueliang Sun Nitride solid-state electrolytes (SSEs) hold significant potential for addressing critical interfacial issues between SSEs and lithium metal in all-solid-state lithium metal batteries. These batteries are at the forefront of energy... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
The price of peace? Zelenky isn’t getting what he bargained for with Trump’s so-called “Minerals Agreement,” but Putin and Big Oil might
With sales down and electric vehicle rivals catching up, the rightwing politico’s brand is driving into a storm Globally renowned brands would not, ordinarily, want to be associated with Germany’s far-right opposition. But Tesla, one of the world’s biggest corporate names, does not have a conventional chief executive. After Elon Musk backed Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) – calling the party Germany’s “only hope” – voters are considering an alternative to Tesla. Data released on Thursday showed that registrations of the company’s electric cars in Germany fell 76% to 1,429 last month. Overall, electric vehicle registrations rose by 31%. Continue reading...
Egyptian Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Karim Badwai has discussed in a meeting with US Energy Secretary Chris Wright, ways of fostering cooperation between the two countries in the energy field, especially with the engagement of some American oil companies for the first time in research and exploration activities in Egypt, most notably Chevron … The post Egypt, US discuss enhancing cooperation in energy field appeared first on Egypt Independent.
Since taking office, President Donald Trump hasn’t wasted time unraveling Joe Biden’s climate legacy. He’s signed executive orders directing his administration to pull out of the Paris Climate Agreement, end offshore wind leases, root out environmental justice programs, and declared a “National Energy Emergency” to encourage more fossil fuel production. But many of Biden’s climate […]
The Tory party's justice spokesman Robert Jenrick blasted the reduction in sentences for six protesters involved in disruptive motorway climate demonstrations.
National oil companies dominate industry methane emissions; enlisting them to clean up requires understanding the governments that manage them.
The agency “offered no reasoned explanation for declining to protect the threatened coral species from their gravest threat, climate change,” a federal judge wrote.
Researchers are newly documenting a community of algae that hang around just under the ice surface using samples collected by divers. But climate change might threaten the algae — and the new collection method.
Years of war and food insecurity in the region made the extreme heat especially dangerous.
“Coal transformed our world and made it better," said Energy Secretary Chris Wright.
[RFI] Anger is mounting on the Indian Ocean island nation of Comoros over the rising cost of living and the price of staple goods as Ramadan gets underway. The country is also in the midst of an energy and water crisis, which the government has promised to tackle.
Researchers at a remote station in Canada’s Northwest Territories have contended with wildfire and melting permafrost. The post For Arctic scientists, climate change is impossible to ignore appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Sixteen climate protesters were jailed last year for their roles in Just Stop Oil demonstrations.
Sixteen activists argued sentences had not adequately taken into account their conscientious motivation Six protesters jailed for their roles in various climate demonstrations have had their sentences reduced on appeal. The Just Stop Oil co-founder Roger Hallam was originally jailed for five years for agreeing to disrupt traffic by having protesters climb on to gantries over the M25 for four successive days. His sentence was reduced to one of four years. Continue reading...
And that could drive an emissions spike.
For Americans to adopt electric cars, many experts believe that charging a battery needs to be as convenient as filling a gas tank.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE06106C, Paper Yongrong Li, Denghao Ouyang, Xi Liu, Yichen Zhang, Zhiqiang Niu, JunYong Zhu, Xuejun Pan, Xuebing Zhao Lignin, which is typically available as a by-product of pulping process and biomass biorefinery, is a sustainable feedstock for production of carbon fuels and materials. Here, we report a novel... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
The reluctance from key Democrats comes as state lawmakers seek to spend more on climate-related projects.
Cuts to the U.S. agency responsible for weather forecasting and climate science have left scientists on this side of the border concerned about the reliability of data Canada needs to predict dangerous events, conduct accurate flood forecasts and understand broader changes to the climate.
[The Conversation Africa] Ghana has a high youth unemployment rate of up to 13.9%. For those young Ghanaians who do have jobs, more than 50% are underemployed - working in jobs that are low paid or which don't allow them to use all their skills or education.
Fife Council is to invest £19.5 million into battling flooding caused by climate change over the next decade.
Political disruptions, including the U.S. exit from the Paris Agreement, have raised concerns about climate policy.
The weak but significant La Niña weather event that began in December is likely to be brief, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has announced.
Christina Hood Climate policy expert Christina Hood has been appointed to the international Greenhouse Gas Protocol's Independent Standards Board.
Climate action is a guilt trip. Let’s make it aspirational instead.
The United States has pulled out of a climate funding deal struck by rich nations to help their developing counterparts transition to clean energy, the programme's first beneficiary South Africa and Indonesia said Thursday.
President Donald Trump’s trade measures are threatening to reduce global energy demand and redraw oil flows.
Aaron Szabo's carefully worded message for senators was clear: Climate change is real, but his job would not be fighting it.
Energy conglomerate Banpu Plc continues to reduce investments in coal, aiming to cut its share of earnings to less than half of total revenue in a shift towards sustainable energy development.
Scientists are dusting off Cold War-era research into weather manipulation as climate change intensifies and makes cyclones more dangerous.
The findings from Europe’s Copernicus Climate Change Service involve the third warmest February on record for the planet.
The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has installed and activated two solar photovoltaic (PV) and energy storage systems in Antarctica as part of our commitment to reach net zero by 2040. … The post Renewables milestone reached in Antarctica appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.
Jorge Toledo’s comments come after approvals for coal power projects increased in second half of 2024 The EU’s ambassador to China has urged Beijing to stop building coal-fired power plants, saying that its rapid approval of new projects was increasingly at odds with its green ambitions. Speaking at an EU-hosted event in Beijing, Jorge Toledo said the war in Ukraine had underlined the need for energy security, but that the EU had managed to navigate the issue without reverting to fossil fuels. Continue reading...
Gas and oil industry cautiously welcomes government proposals that could ease tax burden on sector The UK government has unveiled proposals that could ease the tax burden on the offshore oil and gas sector but confirmed that it would also ban new drilling licences as part of a pledge to “unleash the North Sea’s clean energy future”. The “windfall” tax on North Sea drillers, introduced in 2022 to help support households facing rising energy bills after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, would be scrapped from 2030, the Treasury confirmed on Wednesday. Continue reading...
[The Point] The Gambia recently launched its national strategy under the Great Green Wall Initiative (GGWI), a bold initiative designed to combat land degradation, desertification, and climate change.
We're Not Adapting to Climate Change Fast Enough. Behavioral Science Could Help. margaret.overh… Wed, 03/05/2025 - 09:00 Farmers are on the frontlines of the climate crisis, with changing rainfall and increasingly extreme weather making their livelihoods less predictable. Shifting to more sustainable farming practices can help buffer against these impacts ― yet in the face of uncertainty, many farmers prefer to stick to the methods they know. Farmers in Colombia's Norte de Santander region were no exception, at first. But recently change has taken root. The Lands for Life program, led by the non-profit Rare, worked closely with local farmers and found that they were more likely to adopt new practices if they saw others successfully doing so ("social proof") or...
Electricity is essential for the well-being and prosperity of traditional riverside communities in the Amazon, as demonstrated by the experience of the Santa Helena do Inglês community, located on the right bank of the Negro River in northern Brazil. Energy security is equally crucial. In 2012, the 30 local families benefited from the “Light for […]
India marks a significant move toward its 2070 net-zero emissions goal with the trial of hydrogen-powered heavy-duty trucks initiated by Tata Motors. Union ministers highlight hydrogen's potential in decarbonizing transport and emphasize the commitment to green energy and innovation.
This video includes personal musings and conclusions of the creator climate scientist Dr. Adam Levy and climate communicator Becky Hoag . It is presented to our readers as an informed perspective. Please see video description for references (if any). In just a few weeks President Donald Trump has done everything he can to attack climate action - from halting research to censoring data. But Earth's not going down without a fight. Environmental groups, scientists, states and countries are fighting back for our planet - doing what they can to protect climate research and safeguard environmental policy. Becky and I break down all the climate action for ya! Support ClimateAdam on patreon: https://patreon.com/climateadam Check out Becky's Youtube channel: @beckisphere
Egypt’s non-oil private sector continued to improve in February, building on the upward trend seen at the start of 2025 according to the S&P Global Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI). The non-oil private sector index registered 50.1 points, down from 50.7 points in January, but still above the neutral level of 50 points, confirming continued growth … The post Egypt’s non-oil private sector growth continues in February following increased sales appeared first on Egypt Independent.
The vast autonomous Danish territory of Greenland, coveted by US President Donald Trump, is believed to hold untapped mineral and oil reserves, but on a global scale these amounts are modest and offer only minor potential for exploitation.
Exclusive: Australia’s top green organisations suspend anti-nuclear power ads to fund campaign against Labor’s move to protect salmon industry Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Australia’s leading environment organisations have abruptly suspended advertising campaigns attacking the Coalition’s plan to introduce nuclear power and are instead funding ads accusing Anthony Albanese of signing “the death warrant” of an endangered species . The shift from criticising the Coalition to Labor on the cusp of an election campaign was agreed by the bosses of green groups – including the Australian Conservation Foundation, Greenpeace, the WWF Australia and the Climate Council – at what campaigners described as an emergency meeting on Saturday. Sign up for Guardian...
A listing of 31 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, March 16, 2025 thru Sat, March 22, 2025. This week's roundup is again published by category and sorted by number of articles included in each. We are still interested in feedback to hone the categorization, so if you spot any clear misses and/or have suggestions for additional categories, please let us know in the comments. Thanks! Stories we promoted this week, by category and number of articles shared: Climate Change Impacts (14 articles) Global sea level rose faster than expected in 2024, according to NASA analysis Ocean water expands as it warms, researchers said. by Julia Jacobo, International, ABC News, Mar 14, 2025 How Can We...
Every year since 2007, people have been urged to switch off their lights in a symbolic show of support for environmental awareness. The WWF says the campaign is a reminder to take climate action before it's too late.
From July 1 households and small businesses will see rebates automatically applied to their electricity bills. Follow today’s news live Greens unveil plan to divert $4bn defence spending to domestic, ‘defensive’ missiles The Greens have unveiled a plan to divert billions of defence spending on American technology to the domestic production of “defensive” missiles and vehicles. They are both supplied by the US with little to no sovereign input, are expensive and outdated. Like Aukus, this equipment is much more about signalling our loyalty to the US than defending Australia. A national Climate Response Service would help co-ordinate the thousands of volunteers who already do this lifesaving work across the country, and we’ll make the coal and gas corporations pay for it. Continue reading...
Spring is about transformation, a season often marked by its dynamic sights, smells, sounds and tastes. As humans change the climate, our experience of the season is changing, too.
Rising energy costs are a problem in the U.S. Ending Inflation Reduction Act tax credits and ramping up fossil fuels would make it even worse.
This story was originally published by Yale e360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the first six weeks of the new Trump administration, it’s become clear that the president intends to undo not just Joe Biden’s environmental legacy, but an entire generation’s worth of action on climate change. The administration has announced it […]
He told broadcasters yesterday that the investment from Great British Energy will immediately save the public sector money on electricity bills.
A climate activist who chained himself to fragile pipes containing explosive hydrocarbons at Scotland's only oil refinery was jailed yesterday.
Multiple energy reports all underscore the same finding: The U.S. is going to need more affordable electric power to supply data centers, manufacturing and homes around the country. A lot more of it. Our country’s vast supplies of wind and solar resources are ready to be tapped to support that demand – from vast windy […] The post Faster, affordable clean energy? This bipartisan bill delivers appeared first on Climate 411 .
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05866F, Paper Shaojie Zhang, Zhongpeng Li, Yixin Zhang, Xuanpeng Wang, Peiyang Dong, Saihai Lei, Weihao Zeng, Juan Wang, Xiaobin Liao, Xingye Chen, Dongqi Li, Shichun Mu Gel polymer electrolytes with moderate Li + -solvent binding (MB-GPE) achieve an optimal balance between weak solvation modulation and lithium-ion transport performance, leading to long-term stable cycling of lithium–metal batteries (LMBs). To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
The "Age of Electricity" is here.
As Trump pushes ‘drill, baby, drill’ agenda, Greenpeace verdict offers startling outlook for environmental activism A pipeline company’s victory in court over Greenpeace , and the huge damages it now faces, will encourage other oil and gas companies to legally pursue environmental protesters at a time when Donald Trump ’s energy agenda is in ascendancy, experts have warned. On Wednesday a North Dakota jury ruled that three Greenpeace entities collectively must pay Energy Transfer, which was co-founded by a prominent Trump donor, more than $660m, deciding that the organizations were liable for defamation and other claims after a five-week trial in Mandan, near where the Dakota Access pipeline protests occurred in 2016 and 2017. Continue reading...
The Defense secretary aims to purge climate work from the Pentagon. But critics say his carve-out for weather resiliency misses the point.
But the state's highest bench left the door open for a group of young activists to revise their challenge against Utah's promotion of fossil fuels.
It is a far cry from the heady days of the North Sea oil boom, which brought such great wealth to Aberdeen and the surrounding area.
China is largest importer of Iranian oil and ‘teapot’ refiners are private Chinese refineries that are primary buyers of Iranian oil.
Trump officials said they would open parts of Alaska that Joe Biden made off-limits to oil and gas production, and build a gas pipeline across the state.
US president’s plan for American firms to run power plants is unrealistic and is opposed by Putin and Zelenskyy As a demand, it is Donald Trump at his most confusing. The American president appears, at least according to Marco Rubio , the US secretary of state, to have told Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday that “American ownership” of Ukraine’s four nuclear power plants would be their best protection in future – although the Ukrainian president said on Thursday that “the issue of property, we did not discuss” . Of the four, the most significant, and the one that Trump has repeatedly referred to in the past week, is the vast, six-reactor Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant. It is Europe’s biggest nuclear generator, located on the southern bank of the Dnipro River. Before the full-scale Russian invasion...
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE06091A, Paper Songyang Chang, Wentao Hou, Angelica Del Valle-Perez, Irfan Ullah, Xiaoyu Du, Lisandro Cunci, Gerardo Morell, Xianyong Wu Aqueous multivalent metal batteries represent an attractive option for energy storage. Currently, various metals have been attempted for aqueous battery operation, ranging from divalent metals (zinc, iron, nickel, manganese) to... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
‘All nuclear power plants belong to the people of Ukraine,’ Zelenskyy said at a press conference in Norway Swedish prime minister Ulf Kristersson said he was “cautiously optimistic” about the progress made on Ukraine, but was growing frustrated with Russia’s “ifs and buts” on ceasefire, adding it was up to Moscow to “prove it” that it is serious about ending the conflict. He also pointed to later talks in the UK with army chiefs and planners as an important part of discussions on how Europe can support any future peace agreement. Continue reading...
“If the United States owned them, that would offer the best protection for this infrastructure and support Ukraine’s energy needs,” the White House said.
[Ghanaian Times] The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) officially launched Phase II of the Youth Climate Action Fund, which seeks to empower young people to take meaningful action plans towards combating climate change in the capital.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00132C, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Kun Zhang, Yijia Yuan, Gang Wang, Fangzheng Chen, Li Ma, Chao Wu, Jia Liu, Bao Zhang, Chenglin Li, Hongtian Liu, Changan Lu, Shibo Xi, Xing Li, Keyu Xie, Junhao Lin, Kian Ping Loh Rechargeable aqueous zinc metal-based batteries present a promising alternative to conventional lithium-ion batteries due to their lower operating potentials, higher capacities, intrinsic safety, cost-effectiveness, and environmental sustainability. However, the use... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The leading Chinese electric carmaker BYD has soared in value after it said its latest batteries charge fast enough to 249 miles of range in only five minutes. BYD’s Hong Kong-listed shares gained 4.1 percent on Tuesday to hit […]
[SNA] Port Sudan -- The Supreme Council for Oil, Energy, and Mining held its first meeting on Wednesday, chaired by President of the Transitional Sovereignty Council (TSC), Abdel-Fattah Al-Burhan, and attended by the Ministers of Finance and Economic Planning, Foreign Affairs, Justice, Oil and Minerals, and the TSC Secretary-General.
The once-pristine white oil tanks of Sudan's largest refinery have been blackened by nearly two years of devastating war, leaving the country heavily dependent on fuel imports it can ill afford.
The Energy and Interior secretaries joined the president in a discussion with industry leaders Wednesday at the White House.
APA, formerly known as Apache, is the worst-performing energy stock in the S&P 500 over the past 12 months.
KYIV (UKRAINE) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday said that he and US counterpart Donald Trump had discussed possible US ownership of the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine.
[Premium Times] "While acknowledging the fact that there exists a celestial incidence called Equinox, the Katsina State Climate Change Secretariat however wishes to inform the general public; especially the people of Katsina state that there is no cause for alarm whatsoever.
Recent climate catastrophes underscore the need to harden communities against natural disasters even as emissions are cut, says the federal independent MP.
Greenpeace has warned it could be forced into bankruptcy because of the case brought by Energy Transfer.
Organisation condemns verdict that could bankrupt its US operation and risks ‘destroying right to peaceful protest’ Greenpeace must pay hundreds of millions over Dakota pipeline protests, says jury Democratic congressman Glenn Ivey told constituents at a town hall meeting in his Maryland district that Chuck Schumer , the Senate’s Democratic minority leader, should step down from his position after a bitter intraparty fight over government funding last week, HuffPost reports . Ivey is the first member of Congress to say Schumer should leave his leadership position, after the leader supplied enough votes to pass a Republican-backed government funding bill through the Senate. House Democrats had near-unanimously rejected the measure, and many in the party believe Schumer, who argued...
The environmental group had said the lawsuit, over its role in a protest movement, could mean an end to its operations in the United States.
Non-profit, which will appeal decision, says lawsuits like this are aimed at ‘destroying the right to peaceful protest’ A jury in North Dakota has decided that the environmental group Greenpeace must pay hundreds of millions of dollars to the pipeline company Energy Transfer and is liable for defamation and other claims over protests in the state nearly a decade ago. Energy Transfer Partners, a Dallas-based oil and gas company worth almost $70bn, had sued Greenpeace, alleging defamation and orchestrating criminal behavior by protesters at the Dakota Access pipeline in 2016 and 2017, claiming the organization “incited” people to protest by using a “misinformation campaign”. Continue reading...
The takedown unfolded on Tuesday night as the local council for the city of Newcastle voted to approve DEI policies and climate change goals into planning.
German coal giant is one of world’s biggest polluters and should contribute to flood defences, says farmer in Peru A Peruvian farmer’s home is in “concrete danger” from climate change, a court has heard, in the resumption of a decade-long legal battle to get German coal giant RWE to contribute to flood defences in the Andes. Lawyers for Saúl Luciano Lliuya, who say his home is threatened by rapidly melting glaciers, told the upper regional court in Hamm on Wednesday that the risk of extreme flooding represented a breach of civil law. Continue reading...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday said that he and US counterpart Donald Trump had discussed possible US ownership of the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine.
Glaciers are important indicators of climate change. A recent study published in the leading journal Science shows that glaciers in the tropical Andes have now retreated further than at any other time in the entire Holocene – which covers the whole history of human civilisation since the invention of agriculture. These findings are likely to […] The post Andean glaciers have shrunk more than ever before in the entire Holocene first appeared on RealClimate.
Learn more about how climate change brings dire consequences for the mental health of young adults.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday that they had a constructive call about moving toward a partial ceasefire between Kyiv and Moscow, with the White House suggesting the U.S. could take control of Ukrainian "electrical supply and nuclear power plants" to ensure their security.
Scotland’s first minister speaking as report suggests up to 1,200 jobs could be created – but too late for refinery’s workers There is a realistic chance that one of the UK’s largest oil refineries can be converted into a hub for green chemicals, sustainable fuels and plastics, Scotland’s first minister says. Grangemouth oil refinery, which is being shut down by its UK and Chinese owners PetroIneos this year with the loss of 400 jobs, could become a world leader in low carbon chemicals and green fuels, John Swinney told media on Wednesday. Continue reading...
The letter comes as U.S. President Donald Trump threatens Canadian sovereignty and proposes massive tariffs on Canadian goods, including oil and natural gas.
Increased cost of the fossil fuel has also cut forecasts of how much gas will be needed in Australia’s southern states Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast High gas prices and a shift towards running homes and businesses on electricity has helped delay an expected gas shortage in Australia’s southern states until 2028, a government agency says. A report by the Australian Energy Market Operator (Aemo) said the increased cost of the fossil fuel and trend towards electrification had combined with mild winters to reduce gas use. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...
Trump and Putin agree on a 30-day energy ceasefire, aiming to reshape global supply chains and negotiate lasting peace.
The author team of the IPCC’s Special Report on Climate Change and Cities met this week in Osaka, Japan. Credit: IPCC A handful of U.S. researchers joined a critical meeting on climate and cities this week in Japan....
Indian Railways is collaborating with the Department of Atomic Energy and power ministry to establish small nuclear power facilities for its energy needs, aiming for net zero emissions by 2030. The railway network plans to utilize 10 GW of energy, integrating renewable sources with nuclear and thermal power.
Money from the Biden-era climate law aims to slash 3 million metric tons of carbon pollution across 55 ports in more than two dozen states, through cleaner equipment and vehicles.
In the scorching Australian opal mining town of Coober Pedy, White people live in cool “dugouts” while their Aboriginal neighbors suffer above, often without AC.
Rising sea levels, ocean heat and the highest atmospheric carbon levels in 800 000 years point to a climate crisis that's escalating rapidly
The court will still require more National Environmental Policy Act review for a pair of liquefied natural gas terminals in the Lone Star State's Port of Brownsville.
Some downplay the threat of global warming. Others question the efficacy of climate policy. All could be of interest to the new administration.
The Science-Based Targets initiative proposed an update to allow some corporations to use technologies to meet their climate goals.
[COSATU] The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) welcomes President Cyril Ramaphosa's promulgation into law the badly needed Climate Change Act.
The administration has failed to show “credible evidence” of fraud it cited to freeze Citibank funds and kill signature Biden “green bank” program, court rules.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00542F, Paper Pengfei Ding, Xugang Rong, Daobin Yang, Xueliang Yu, Zhenxin Shao, Hongqian Wang, Xiaochun Liao, Xinyue Cao, Jie Wu, Lin Xie, Jintao Zhu, Fei Chen, Guo Chen, Yan Huang, Ziyi Ge The majority of host/guest materials used in organic solar cells (OSCs) are currently synthesized via Stille reaction, which suffers from poor atom/step economics, low cost-effectiveness, and environmental risks. Therefore, organic... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Climate change is spiralling out of control, with many of the consequences now 'irreversible', a damning report from the World Meteorological Organization has found.
The imprint of human-induced climate change is evident in the 2024 State of the Global Climate Report from the World Meteorological Organization.
Trump hails ‘productive’ call with Russian president as Putin issues long list of conditions; Ukraine’s president reacts to Trump-Putin call Vladimir Putin agrees to 30-day halt to attacks on Ukraine’s energy grid Speaking for the Greens, who are expected to back the CDU/CSU and the SPD today after a political deal struck late last week, Britta Haßelmann offered her support for the proposal – even as she sharply criticised Merz’s change of heart on this issue in recent weeks. Rejecting Merz’s comments about the new, challenging global circumstances, he said “the conditions are no different than they were on 1 January or in October last year,” after Trump was elected. Continue reading...
It’s not limited to Colorado though– other states can and should take note that early collaboration with stakeholders can deliver big wins for the economy and climate. By Nini Gu As the first state to address oil and gas methane in 2014, Colorado racked up another first in February, when it began implementation of the […] The post The Colorado Way Delivers with a Unanimous Vote for a Groundbreaking Oil and Gas Methane Rule appeared first on Energy Exchange .
While there have been some recent set-backs within science and climate research and disturbing news about NOAA, there is also continuing efforts on responding to climate change. During my travels to Mozambique and Ghana, I could sense a real appreciation for knowledge, and an eagerness to learn how to calculate risks connected to climate change. […] The post Climate change in Africa first appeared on RealClimate.
Speedy new chargers from Chinese automaker BYD take just 5 minutes to restore 400 kilometres of an electric car’s range
Environmentalist and author Paul Hawken speaks to Live Science about the worldview that has led to the mindless exploitation of the planet — and how we can shift perspectives for a better future.
The effects of human-driven climate change surged to alarming levels in 2024, with some consequences likely to be irreversible for centuries - if not millennia – according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
The trusts are designed to ensure that a portion of the profits of renewable energy projects are shared with the people who live near them
National oil and gas conglomerate PTT Plc aims to cooperate with two Japanese companies on an initiative to cut carbon dioxide emissions and develop bio-based feedstocks for the petrochemical business.
Dr Chalmers had just begun his speech at the Queensland Media Club on Tuesday afternoon when a man appeared behind him carrying a sign which read: 'no new coal or gas'.
Climate change raises risks for farmers: Hotter weather hurts yields and longer rainy seasons trigger the spread of fungus and deadly pests.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05818F, Paper Junru Wu, Ziyao Gao, Zhiqiang Fu, Lili Lin, Xianshu Wang, Yun Zhao, Lele Peng, Feiyu Kang, Zhenyu Guo, Maria-Magdalena Titirici, Yunlong Zhao, Xiulin Fan, Baohua Li Raising the cut-off voltage to 4.6 V can boost the energy density of lithium metal batteries (LMBs) with LiCoO2 cathode. However, the unfavorable cathode electrolyte interphase (CEI) formed on high-voltage... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
President Trump plans to discuss ending the Ukraine war with Russian President Putin, focusing on territorial concessions and control of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. Trump aims to secure a 30-day ceasefire proposal accepted by Ukraine. Russia demands security guarantees excluding Kyiv from Nato membership. Britain's and France's peacekeeping force offer may aid truce enforcement.
Climate change has been eclipsed by the cost of living and Donald Trump in terms of Canadians top concerns. Will the Conservatives’ plans matter?
Grass-fed beef has no climate benefit — even when taking into account that healthy pastureland can trap carbon, according to a new study.
Trump says negotiators have already discussed ‘dividing up certain assets’ and that he will talk to Putin on Tuesday US politics live – latest updates Donald Trump is to speak to Vladimir Putin on Tuesday – with the two expected to discuss territory and control of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant – after the Russian president last week pushed back on a US-brokered plan for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine with a series of sweeping conditions he said would need to be met. The Kremlin confirmed on Monday that the two leaders were due to speak by phone, after Trump’s statement that he planned to discuss with Putin ending the war in Ukraine. The US president also said that negotiators had already talked about “dividing up certain assets”, including power stations. Continue reading...
Sub-Saharan Africa is already paying a high price — this is what businesses can do to mitigate its effects
In western Germany, a case against energy company RWE could set a worldwide precedent for corporate responsibility and climate damages. What exactly is at stake?
The Malaysian prime minister says the funds will be used to prevent disruptions to the oil and gas sector, but many are unconvinced.
Renewable energy companies are shifting strategy under President Trump, emphasizing the economic benefits of low-carbon electricity.
The congressionally chartered Wilson Center works on climate change, energy and environmental issues.
Learn what gear oil is, how it differs from transmission fluid, and why using the right lubricant is crucial for your vehicle's performance.
Arla Foods controversially announced in late November that 30 of its farms would test Bovaer, a methane-suppressing feed that contributes to climate change.
Image: Genesis Energy Genesis Energy has signed another preliminary agreement with a potential biomass supplier to replace coal for Huntly power station.
KINGSTON UPON HULL, UK - A pioneering rigid shipping mast has set off on its first journey, harnessing the wind to propel a cargo ship from England to Canada and using less fuel to help reduce emissions.
Thomas Bach's successor will have to navigate political tensions and a warming climate, among other hurdles
A Peruvian farmer is going head to head with German energy giant in a climate law test case.
Under the deal, Qatar will send 2 million cubic meters of natural gas a day to the Deir Ali power station via a pipeline passing through Jordan.
[Leadership] Climate change is the long-term shift in temperatures and weather patterns. These shifts can be natural due to changes in the sun's activity or significant volcanic eruptions (United Nations).
A ruling for a Peruvian farmer against a German energy giant would mark the first time any court has ordered a company to pay up for climate change.
How extreme weather events are amplifying disease risks across the globe
Its history was built on fossil fuels - but now the site's future depends on its reinvention as a green energy industrial hub.
The annual skiing and snowboarding championship in Auli, scheduled from March 16-19, has been postponed for the third consecutive year due to insufficient snowfall. Officials highlight the impact of limited snow, planning alternative activities. Athletes express concern over climate change affecting future events in the region.
A pioneering rigid shipping mast has set off on its first journey, harnessing the wind to propel a cargo ship from England to Canada and using less fuel to help reduce emissions.
Fishermen swap dogsleds for boats and ice melt opens a ‘sweet shop’ of minerals to exploit. Yet storms are bigger and the ground is cracking.
Trump administration accused of ‘quid pro quo’ for fast-tracking controversial fossil fuel proposal in Michigan Donald Trump ’s administration is being accused by activists of a quid pro quo as it attempts to fast-track a controversial fossil fuel pipeline proposal in Michigan that would in part be built by a donor with deep financial ties to the president. While Canadian oil giant Enbridge owns the Line 5 oil and gas pipeline that it is attempting to replace in the Great Lakes region, the contractor is Tim Barnard, who, along with his wife, gave $1m to Trump’s campaign last year, Federal Election Commission records show . Continue reading...
The United States’s withdrawal from the just energy transition will not halt South Africa’s decarbonisation efforts, say climate experts This content is restricted to subscribers only. Join the M&G Community Our commitment at the Mail & Guardian is to ensure every reader enjoys the finest experience. Join the M&G community and support us in delivering in-depth news to you consistently. Subscribe Subscription enables: - M&G community membership - independent journalism - access to all premium articles & features - a digital version of the weekly newspaper - invites to subscriber-only events - the opportunity to test new online features first Already a subscriber? Login here.
Canada’s new Prime Minister, Mark Carney, has scrapped the federal consumer carbon tax, claiming it was too divisive and burdened citizens amidst rising living costs. Although the repeal faces criticism for relying solely on regulation, Carney emphasizes continued commitment to combating climate change and supporting business competitiveness.
PM joined virtual meeting hosted by Keir Starmer along with Zelenskyy and leaders from Europe, Canada and New Zealand. Follow today’s news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Bandt: government could deliver cheap renewable energy The Australian government could use publicly owned electricity generators and retailers such as Snowy Hydro to offer power at cost to households and businesses, Bandt says. I think a surplus mentality, understanding that we have got an enormous amount of sun and wind and if we back it up with storage, we could really drive down the cost of electricity in this country, and make it a place that you bring your businesses to from overseas, deliver cheap electricity for households. A mind shift is needed and the government could...
With power unlikely to be restored in some areas for weeks, EV owners are finding clever uses for their ‘batteries on wheels’ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast When Kat Hickey and her husband talked about what they would do if Tropical Cyclone Alfred knocked out the power in their north Brisbane home, they were more concerned than most. The pair have a nine-month-old daughter and a three-year-old son – having a reliable way to sterilise bottles and boil water for formula was critical. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...
The Vehicle Restraint Manufacturers Association warned that outdated safety barriers aren't built to withstand the force of electric cars and are putting lives at risk.
Vladimir Motin appeared at Hull Magistrates' Court in relation to the collision between two vessels in the North Sea earlier this week which caused damage to a US oil tanker and killed a 38-year-old crew member.
Resources minister says she is ‘sad’ the US did not embrace a more reliable supply of minerals for renewable energy and battery technologies Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The Australian resources minister was saddened the US did not accept an offer of guaranteed supply to critical minerals in return for steel and aluminium tariff exemptions, and has warned the package will not be improved. Australian diplomats proposed a more reliable supply of critical minerals – which are essential for renewable energy, computer and battery technologies – as they sought exemptions from a 25% tax on steel and aluminium imports. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...
An oil spill in northwestern Ecuador has turned a river black, prompting authorities to declare an environmental emergency amid "unprecedented" damage and to order residents to ration drinking water, officials said. The spill, believed caused when a landslide ruptured a major oil pipeline, has turned waters black in a section of the Esmeraldas River, in the province of the same name.
The agency's plan to repeal or weaken more than two dozen environmental regulations could deliver a direct blow to causes close to the heart of Californians — including air and water quality standards, electric vehicle initiatives and efforts to curb planet-harming greenhouse gas emissions.
Statement from Mark Brownstein, Senior Vice President Energy Transition, EDF
While transactions supported by crypto are still a small part of Russia’s overall oil trade, they are reportedly growing.
The Ford 6.7-liter Power Stroke diesel engine is known for reliability and durability. What type of oil does it use, and how much do you need at each change?
Despite Jakarta’s ambitious net-zero goals, analysts say the country has limited political will to fulfil its climate commitments on its own.
The agency also barred consideration of environmental justice in enforcement and compliance activities.
Image: Depositphotos The government has quietly dropped several waste policies, one of which was set to cut 45,000 tonnes of CO2e from methane emissions by 2035.
Falling fossil-fuel prices may tempt some to switch back to old habits but that will prove a climate-change disaster.
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As fossil fuel interests attack climate accountability litigation, environmental advocates have sounded a new warning that they are pursuing a path that would destroy all future prospects for such cases. Nearly 200 advocacy groups have urged Democratic representatives to “proactively and affirmatively” reject potential industry attempts to obtain immunity […]
Facing destroyed infrastructure and limited control of energy supplies, off-grid options like solar are helping Palestinians rebuild.
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe had sought to use Energy Transfer’s predicament to shut the oil pipeline.
SET-listed WHA Utilities and Power (WHAUP), an arm of WHA Corp, Thailand's biggest industrial land developer and operator, is allocating a large portion of its budget to develop its renewable energy business, hoping to earn long-term revenue by serving companies in the digital technology sector.
The prime minister-designate has said he will kill the unpopular climate policy.
Atlassian co-founder says he has ‘extremely rigorous carbon regime’ but makes ‘hard tradeoff’ to run global business and be ‘a constantly present dad’ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The Australian billionaire and outspoken climate advocate Mike Cannon-Brookes has defended buying a private jet and his company’s new sponsorship of the Williams Formula One racing team. Cannon-Brookes admitted to “deep internal conflict” over the purchase of the jet, reportedly a Bombardier 7500, but claimed that technology to directly capture CO2 from the atmosphere, and the use of sustainable jet fuel, would cancel emissions from his flights. Continue reading...
Billionaire climate change warrior Michael Cannon-Brookes admits he is 'conflicted' by splashing out on a new private jet but insists he has done it for the right reasons.
Learn how viruses lingering in sewage can enter bodies of water, posing a public health risk that may be on the rise as climate change brings more rain.
Education Campaign for Public Servants, Students Advances Climate Action in Colombia wil.thomas@wri.org Thu, 03/13/2025 - 16:16 WRI Colombia led climate education and capacity-building workshops across five regions. The initiative helped local government leaders, public servants and teachers understand and implement the country’s long-term climate strategy (E2050) while expanding access to climate change education. The Challenge Like many countries, Colombia faces the urgent tasks of cutting greenhouse gas emissions and boosting resilience to the escalating threats of climate change. The country’s long-term climate strategy (E2050) includes a goal to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. Achieving this target will require action on every level — not just from the national...
Shenzhen, China Reduces Emissions While Lowering Residents’ Energy Bills shannon.paton@… Thu, 03/13/2025 - 15:41 WRI partnered with the city government and local institutions to implement dozens of near-zero carbon demonstration projects, including measures like rooftop solar, building retrofits and more green space. The Challenge Household electricity consumption in China has doubled over the past decade, significantly increasing carbon emissions. In Shenzhen, home to 18 million residents, the growth of household energy demand has surpassed that of industry, posing challenges to the city’s low-carbon ambitions. Without clear technical guidance and cost-effective solutions, the city has struggled to reduce its emissions while maintaining affordability and quality...
As climate change bites and insurance costs increase, a growing chorus is demanding that fossil fuel companies start paying for the chaos.
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Donald Trump’s administration is to reconsider the official finding that greenhouse gases are harmful to public health, a move that threatens to rip apart the foundation of the US’s climate laws, amid a stunning barrage of actions to weaken or repeal a […]
Open access notables Would Adding the Anthropocene to the Geologic Time Scale Matter? , McCarthy et al., AGU Advances: The extraordinary fossil fuel-driven outburst of consumption and production since the mid-twentieth century has fundamentally altered the way the Earth System works. Although humans have impacted their environment for millennia, justification for a new interval of geologic time lies in the radical shift in the geologic record that marks this “Great Acceleration” of the human enterprise. The rejection of a proposal to define the beginning of the Anthropocene epoch with a “golden spike” in varved sediments from Crawford Lake, Canada, means that we officially we still live in the Holocene, when in practical terms we do not. Formal recognition...
The Trump administration’s plan for a lapse in appropriations was updated to furlough employees tied to the signature Biden-era laws.
Iran is operating a ghost fleet to sell oil to China in violation of existing sanctions, which U.S. officials seek to stop with the help of new sanctions.
The force confiscated 36 space oil capsules, 327 grams of crack cocaine, 40 grams of cocaine and 2.3kg of Marijuana during the anti-triad operation.
Announcing big changes to environmental rules doesn't undo facts on the ground overnight. Instead, EPA's announcement is the first step in what is likely to be a lengthy process to remake the rules and policies it targeted.
Governments everywhere are “letting children down instead of lifting them up” as conflict, hunger, poverty and climate change hold back child development, UN rights chief Volker Türk told Member States in Geneva on Thursday.
Environmental Protection Agency The move comes just one day before a federal judge will hold a hearing in a lawsuit brought by one of the grant recipients seeking access to the funds the Trump administration had frozen...
[Namibian] Speech by Namibian president Nangolo Mbumba at the inauguration of the 25MW Khan Solar PV Plant, Usakos, in the Erongo region, 6 March 2025.
Through investment in technologies and expertise, proper regulations and collaboration between African governments and other actors, the continent can embark on a solid energy transition
Since the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan nearly four years ago, human rights have begun diminishing for over 14 million women. Heightened gender inequality has exacerbated the pre-existing humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, which has been marked by conflict, displacement, climate change, food insecurity, and economic instability. In 2025, widespread cuts in humanitarian funding look […]
[This Day] Nigeria's renewable energy sector is receiving a much-needed boost through a collaboration between the Federal Ministry of Innovation, Science, and Technology, FMIST, and Hecate Global Renewables, HGR. Under the leadership of the minister, Chief Uche G. Nnaji, this partnership aims to revive stalled solar projects, unlock economic opportunities, and drive the country's transition to clean energy. With billions of naira already invested in incomplete initiatives, this renewed effort holds the potential to
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin outlined an aggressive plan to dismantle the "holy grail" of climate regulation. It's a high-risk gamble.
Signing onto the goal aligns the interests of Big Tech and the nuclear industry behind an artificial intelligence-driven industrial expansion.
Fresh upheaval is likely in the North Sea after City analysts highlighted factors that will encourage consolidation in the oil sector.
There are growing doubts about a pledge by rich nations to provide more climate finance to poorer nations, as foreign aid budgets are slashed and the US guts environmental spending.
Over a year after a devastating winter wiped out virtually his entire sheep flock, herder Zandan Lkhamsuren is still reckoning with the damage wrought by Mongolia's increasingly erratic extreme weather.
Statement of Kate Boicourt, Director for Climate Resilient Coasts and Watersheds program in New York-New Jersey, Environmental Defense Fund
Restarting Dirty Coal Plants Will Mean More Pollution, Health Harms, Higher Costs for Americans
Many of the world's largest cities are experiencing 'climate whiplash', a new report has revealed.
The legislation targets measures approved by the Bureau of Land Management that restricted mineral and oil and gas development on public lands.
With apparent support for airport expansion and fossil fuel exploration, it may look as if the party is abandoning the climate challenge, but it’s just pantomime There’s no getting away from it: in the last few months we’ve seen leaders and corporations do very real damage to the energy transition. Donald Trump has paused future spending on clean energy infrastructure and he’s cancelled decarbonisation targets. And the new European Commission has loudly promised to cut environmental “red tape”. If you only read the headlines, you might think we’re facing the same issue here in the UK. But overall, Labour has remained committed to its long-term climate goals. Someone close to No 10 has said the prime minister wants to allow a massive new North Sea fossil fuel development (but they know...
This is a re-post from The Climate Brink Good data visualizations can help make climate change more visceral and understandable. Back in 2016 Ed Hawkins published a “ climate spiral ” graph that ended up being pretty iconic – it was shown at the opening ceremony of the Olympics that year – and is probably the second most widely seen climate graph after Hawkins’ later climate stripes . However, I haven’t previously come across any versions of the spiral graph showing daily global temperatures, so I thought it would be fun to create my own (with, I should note, a bit of help from OpenAI’s o3 model to code it). Here are daily global temperatures by year between 1940 (when the ERA5 daily dataset begins) and the...
After a slate of nuclear energy deals late last year, Big Tech is throwing more support behind efforts to boost nuclear capacity around the world.Read more...
For companies serious about tackling climate change, setting ambitious goals is just the beginning. The real challenge is figuring out how to get there.
[The Conversation Africa] Whether it's an astronomical discovery, news of a previously undiscovered disease or a major report about climate change, science is often making headlines.
The US president is making energy deals with Japan and Ukraine, and in Africa has even touted resurrecting coal Donald Trump ’s repeated mantra of “ drill, baby, drill ” demands that more oil and gas be extracted in the United States, but the president has set his sights on an even broader goal: keeping the world hooked on planet-heating fossil fuels for as long as possible. In deals being formulated with countries such as Japan and Ukraine, Trump is using US leverage in tariffs and military aid to bolster the flow of oil and gas around the world. In Africa, his administration has even touted the resurrection of coal, the dirtiest of all fossil fuels, to bring energy to the continent. Continue reading...
A coalition of the world's biggest companies and largest energy users signed a pledge Wednesday in Houston to support a tripling of nuclear energy capacity by 2050.
The leader of climate-vulnerable Palau wants US President Donald Trump to come snorkelling with him to understand the "slow death" caused by climate change, he told AFP in an interview on Wednesday.
More than 20 House Republicans say renewable energy subsidies should be protected. That may not be enough to save them.
Albanese and Dutton will lose votes to the two groups who really care about the great challenge we face: climate change.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05703A, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Mayank Kedia, Chittaranjan Das, Malgorzata Kot, Yenal Yalcinkaya, Weiwei Zuo, Kenedy Tabah Tanko, Peter Matvija, Mikel Ezquer, Iñaki Cornago, Wolfram Hempel, Florian Kauffmann, Paul Plate, Monica Lira-Cantu, Stefan A.L. Weber, Michael Saliba Atomic layer deposition of aluminum oxide (ALD-Al 2 O 3 ) layers has been extensively studied for stabilizing perovskite solar cells (PSCs) against environmental stressors, such as humidity and oxygen. In addition, the ALD-Al 2 O 3 ... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00269A, Paper Bo Jiang, Boyang Yu, Yong Zhang, Weiwei Deng, Baomin Xu, Xinyan Zhao Printing of electrodes to replace thermal evaporation of metals for back contacts in perovskite solar cells (PSCs) is essential for scalable manufacturing. However, PSCs incorporating printed electrodes typically exhibit lower... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
US oil tanker Stena Immaculate was carrying 220,000 barrels of jet fuel in 16 segregated cargo tanks when it was engulfed by a huge fireball after the Portuguese ship, Solong, ploughed into it.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00116A, Review Article Pengcheng Du, Tianhao Liu, Tuoyu Chen, Meihui Jiang, Hongyu Zhu, Yitong Shang, Hui Hwang Goh, Zhao HaiSen Zhao HaiSen, Chao Huang, Fannie Kong, Tonni Agustiono Kurniawan, Kai Chen Goh, Yu Du, Dongdong Zhang Vehicle-to-Grid accelerates the transition to renewable, low-carbon power systems by integrating electric vehicles. This study analyzes the 2023 U.S. electric vehicle charging demand, variable renewable energy capacities, and charging infrastructure... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Japanese company announces two new EVs and promises another three by 2026, as well as new Lexus models Toyota has said it plans to build battery vehicles in the UK in the future as it seeks to keep all of its European plants open, although it will be cautious before switching away from fossil fuels. The Japanese company, the world’s largest carmaker by sales, said it wanted to retain all eight of its European factories through the transition to electric cars, as it announced two new electric models and promised another three by 2026 under its main brand. It also showed a new electric model under its premium Lexus brand, with two more to come this year. Continue reading...
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00368G, Paper Rui Yang, Ding Ai, Sidi Fan, Wenqi Zhang, Xiao Yang, Fangcheng Lv, Yonghong Cheng, Xiang Yu Aromatic polymer films with high glass transition temperatures (Tg) exhibit superior thermal stability, making them ideal for high-temperature dielectric capacitors in advanced electrical and electronic systems. However, the leakage current... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Hungary’s Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said he was informed by his Russian counterparts that supplies would be resumed later on Tuesday.
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The world needs more planet-heating fossil fuel, not less, Donald Trump’s newly appointed energy secretary, Chris Wright, told oil and gas bigwigs on Monday. “We are unabashedly pursuing a policy of more American energy production and infrastructure, not less,” he said in the opening plenary talk […]
President Donald Trump responded Tuesday to plummeting Tesla share prices by briefly turning the White House into a showroom, announcing he was buying one of the electric cars manufactured by close advisor Elon Musk, and threatening anti-Tesla protesters with "hell."
A new study has revealed significant changes in the strength and position of the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds over the past 11,000 years. Researchers, including those from British Antarctic Survey … The post Ancient wind patterns reveal future climate risks appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.
[New Zimbabwe] The Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Mudenda, has strongly opposed coal mining in Hwange National Park, citing alternative locations with abundant coal deposits.
What are consequences of leaving an African country’s oil in the ground?
Digital generated image of solar panel with purple-blue reflection.
The French government’s long delayed plan to better prepare France for the effects of climate change was finally unveiled this week. So what does it involve and what have critics had to say about it?
Turning decommissioned wind turbine blades into high-performance surfboards
The state’s closures can mean less funding for education and fewer jobs for graduates. The post As Colorado closes its coal plants, some schools neglect to prepare appeared first on High Country News.
NATO geopolitical strategy has now joined the ‘coalition’ of Western geoeconomic forces accelerating planetary heating, now led again by re-elected US President Donald Trump. Industrial Revolution Economic development is typically associated with the spread of industrialisation over the last two centuries. The Industrial Revolution involved greater energy use to increase productive capacities significantly. Burning biomass […]
Off-grid geothermal is ideal to meet surging AI demand because it gets around interconnection issues that hinder wind and solar, the Rhodium Group noted.
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An adaptation plan presented Monday is aimed at raising awareness and spurring preparation by local authorities, energy firms, farmers and other industries.
As the world pivots towards cleaner energy solutions, South Africa’s mining sector stands at a crucial crossroads. With vast reserves of essential minerals, the country is poised to play a vital role in the transition to alternative energy resources like renewable energy, while grappling with its own energy crisis. The push for clean energy is […]
Oil and gas firms that once leaned into aggressive climate targets praise Trump’s agenda at an annual Houston gathering, emphasizing fossil-fuel development.
Nature, Published online: 11 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00714-yCOP30 must deliver binding mechanisms to address climate change, not empty promises
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By the year 2100, some parts of Earth orbit may have upwards of 66% less carrying capacity for satellites, according to a new study.
As a crashed oil tanker in the Humber Estuary sparks concerns of an environmental disaster, scientists reveal how the spill could be contained.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04787G, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Inwoo Kim, Hyunjae Kim, Seongha An, Jihoon Oh, Minsoo Kim, Jang Wook Choi Reliable battery management requires the degradation of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) under variable usage patterns to be accurately and continuously monitored and predicted. However, the chemically entangled internal states and the... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
[Greenpeace] Greenpeace Africa condemns the Kenya Forest Service's (KFS) misleading claims that Kenya's forests are not under threat. The reality on the ground paints a different picture with forests being cleared, encroached upon, and allocated for projects that undermine Kenya's environmental and climate commitments.
China’s IAEA representative has revealed an ambitious target for the commercial applications of nuclear power, in line with the sector’s rapid growth.
Two conservative justices said they would have allowed Republican state attorneys general to sue their Democratic counterparts for pursuing climate lawsuits against oil companies.
If you've ever examined the packaging on your engine oil, you may have noticed a letter C among all the other information. Here's what that means for your oil.
Jakarta’s push to use more palm oil for biodiesel production coincides with a slowdown in plantation growth in both Indonesia and Malaysia.
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It was raining and the sparkling lights of the City of London shone back from the cold, wet pavement as two young men made their way through streets deserted save for a few police and private security. In the sleeping heart of the global […]
Government hopes to avoid backlash against upgrade of infrastructure as it tries to grow UK economy Postcode electricity pricing is a minefield for Ed Miliband Business live – latest updates People living near power cables could receive £250 a year off their energy bills as the UK government hopes to speed up construction of infrastructure vital to the transition away from fossil fuels. Households within half a kilometre of new or upgraded power infrastructure could receive up to £2,500 over 10 years under Labour government plans that aim to prevent a backlash against increased building of pylons and substations . Continue reading...
An oil tanker and a cargo ship collided off the coast of eastern England on Monday, setting both vessels on fire and triggering a major rescue operation, with at least 30 people brought ashore in unknown condition, emergency services said.
Amazon Web Services (AWS), the global cloud service arm of Amazon, is driving towards its sustainability goal by prioritising carbon-free energy and energy efficiency in its operations.
The lawsuit represents the latest salvo in a battle with the Trump administration over the agency's Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.
[The Conversation Africa] With the world on the threshold of 1.5°C of warming, one pressing question is: how bad can it get? The answer may lie beneath our feet.
“There has not been any mitigation or immediate action to clear the contamination which could poison our primary source of food and animals,” Ratu Meli said.
The US’ absence from international deliberations on climate change must not be allowed to derail efforts to solve the crisis.
The US aims to isolate Iran from the global economy and eliminate its oil export revenues to slow Tehran’s development of a nuclear weapon.
As the director of the National Security Archive’s Climate Change Transparency Project, Rachel Santarsiero is in the business of monitoring and facilitating the flow of information from the government to the public. What she’s seeing now, in the first weeks of President Donald Trump’s second administration, is throwing the continuity of that process into doubt. […]
Egypt has moved up five places in Africa’s solar energy rankings, securing second place with 707 megawatts (MW) of installed capacity by the end of 2024, according to data from the Solar Energy Industry Association in Africa. South Africa leads with 1,235 MW, while Zambia ranks third with 74.8 MW, according to a report by … The post Egypt ranks as Africa’s second-largest solar energy producer appeared first on Egypt Independent.
Nasa has postponed the launch of its SPHEREx and PUNCH missions scheduled on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from California. The delay allows for further rocket checkouts. SPHEREx will scan the sky in infrared light to study galaxies and cosmic history, while PUNCH will investigate the sun's outer atmosphere and solar wind to improve space weather predictions.
Booming cocoa prices are stirring interest in turning Nigeria into a bigger player in the sector, with hopes of challenging top producers Ivory Coast and Ghana, where crops have been ravaged by climate change and disease.
I’ve spent almost two decades reviewing most facets of consumer technology, but I’ve never been a huge car guy. For many years, it represented a way to get from A to B, but electric cars have changed this. The best electric cars solve many of my biggest complaints with a car, and some of the […]
Kim Jong Un was pictured on Saturday inspecting North Korea's first nuclear-powered submarine, which experts say poses a major risk to the United States and South Korea.
The battery uses solar power generated by crystals that emit light when they absorb radiation.
Learn the best oil and grease for your Makita hammer drill to keep it running smoothly. Discover proper lubrication tips for optimal performance and longevity.
By pulling out of two global climate finance programs, the United States has increased challenges for vulnerable countries.
The U.S. renunciation was one of the first — if not the first — by any country of the 17 goals that were adopted unanimously by all 193 U.N. member nations.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00136F, Review Article Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Huihua Li, Fanglin Wu, Jian Wang, Jingxuan Wang, Hongxu Qu, Minghua Chen, Huang Zhang, Stefano Passerini Anode-free sodium metal batteries (AFSMBs) represent a significant advancement in energy storage technology, offering high energy density and cost-effective solutions. However, their applications are impeded by the critical sodium deposition... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Chris Wright’s remarks were welcomed at a time when countries across the region have felt whipsawed by cuts to longstanding African energy initiatives.
Since reentering the White House, US president Donald Trump has made sweeping cuts to key scientific institutions. What could it mean for the rest of the world and efforts to combat climate change?
King Okpabi, ruler of Ogale, says Shell has caused chronic pollution, while oil firm argues it is not responsible His Royal Highness King Godwin Bebe Okpabi has carried bottles of water drawn from the wells of his homeland in the Niger delta to the high court in London. It stinks. “This is the water that Shell has left for my people,” said the ruler of the Ogale community in Ogoniland, Nigeria. “This is poison, and they are spending millions of dollars to pay the best lawyers in the world so that they will not clean my land.” Continue reading...
‘British Fallout’ became the almost-instant sobriquet for this game when it was announced – but that doesn’t capture the breadth of its scary influences The year is 1962 and you’ve just woken up in the shadow of the Windscale (now Sellafield) nuclear power station in Cumbria, five years after its catastrophic meltdown. Trapped in the sizeable quarantine zone surrounding the accident site, you must stay alive long enough to figure out how to escape – a task made rather more challenging by the presence of aggressive cultists, irradiated monsters and highly territorial terror bees. Imagine Stalker , but set in northern England, and you’re edging towards what Oxford-based developer Rebellion has in store. Fallout may seem like another obvious inspiration for this irradiated game world, but after...
[Premium Times] The officials made the call during the Interfaith Dialogue on Climate Change Summit, organised by Connected Development (CODE) on Thursday in Abuja.
There was dismay and anger inside a London court as a landmark ruling on climate activists was read out.
The co-founder of British climate activist group Just Stop Oil had his sentence reduced for organizing a blockade of a major highway around London, a judge ruled Friday.
Heat waves, storms and floods disrupted the education of hundreds of millions of students last year alone. What can schools do, as climate change fuels extreme weather?
World’s richest man has spent years trying to get Starlink into the fast-growing economy. It could serve as a beachhead for his other business ambitions in India It is easy to believe that Elon Musk’s reach knows no limits. But while the world’s richest man may control a space satellite empire, own one of the largest social media platforms, produce the world’s bestselling electric car, and have been given carte blanche by Donald Trump to gut the US government, there is one market that Musk has yet to properly crack: India. Now, with his newfound influence over the Trump administration and global geopolitics, it appears likely that Musk’s entrance into the Indian market, both with his Tesla electric cars and his Starlink satellite internet, may come smoother and faster than expected. Continue...
Government considering such a move over state-owned firm set up by Labour in June’s spending review, say reports The UK government is making plans to cut the funding for GB Energy, the state-owned company set up by Labour to drive renewable energy and cut household bills , in June’s spending review. Cuts to the £8.3bn of taxpayer money promised over the five-year parliament would be another blow for Ed Miliband, the energy secretary, after he was overruled by the government when the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, backed the expansion of Heathrow’s third runway. Continue reading...
Understanding the capacity of forests to adapt to climate change is of pivotal importance for conservation science, yet this is still widely unknown. This knowledge gap is particularly acute in high-biodiversity tropical forests. Here, we examined how ...
The Biden-era initiatives are meant to help major polluters like Indonesia increase renewable energy generation.
Climate initiatives are also dealing with the slashing of aid and development budgets by rich European nations that are now diverting money to defense.
Authorities are hopeful for the development of nine new petroleum fields to increase long-term energy supply in Thailand, following an official invitation for investors to apply for an auction for onshore petroleum exploration and production licences.
In the US, butterfly populations have dropped by 22% in a decade. A new study shows climate change, habitat loss, and pesticides are driving the decline.
[Government of Mauritius] Government is committed to fostering an energy-conscious nation and will invest in renewable energy projects while expanding energy efficiency programmes to promote sustainable consumption habits. As part of this engagement, the introduction of Time-of-Use Tariffs is envisaged to encourage electricity consumption during off-peak hours.
In this week's issue of our environmental newsletter, we get some opinions about which countries will lead on climate now that the U.S. has stepped back, look at a Montreal factory's plans to share its warmth, and check out a taste test of native seaweeds on the East Coast.
Fossil fuel groups poured a record $96m into Trump in 2023-24, demanding more scrutiny, not less, says Sheldon Whitehouse The Republican party’s capturing of the Senate and House of Representatives has ended a congressional investigation into big oil just when it is needed most, according to the leader of the inquiry. “The fossil fuel industry is running perhaps the biggest campaign of disinformation and political interference in American history and they’re backing it up with immense amounts of political spending,” said the Rhode Island senator Sheldon Whitehouse. “The consequences in the White House are enormous and having a huge effect … but people aren’t aware.” Continue reading...
Companies can sue governments for closing oilfields and mines – and the risk of huge damages is already stopping countries from passing green laws, ministers say Revealed: how Wall Street is making millions betting against green laws In the mountains of Transylvania, a Canadian company makes plans for a vast gold and silver mine. The proposal – which involves razing four mountain tops – sparks a national outcry, and the Romanian government pulls its support. After protests from local communities, the Italian government bans drilling for oil within 12 miles of its shoreline. A UK fossil fuel firm has to dismantle its oilfield. Continue reading...
The Talking France podcast is back and we're looking at all the latest news and talking points, from France's role in Ukraine - and why France is a nuclear power - to why France might be handling over-tourism better than Spain, plus the details on ETA, the new UK travel authorisation scheme.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 130, Issue 5, 16 March 2025.
The Albany judge ruled state law governing property tax assessments for renewable energy projects violates New York’s constitution.
The Labour government has promised to lead the world on climate change, but its renewed focus on defense has thrown those plans into uncertainty.
SET-listed renewable energy developer SAAM Development is diversifying its business into the digital asset space with a US$2.37-million investment in FWX, a leading decentralised finance (DeFi) platform.
[The Conversation Africa] Ellen Fungisai Chipango is a scholar of the communal ethic of African ubuntu - the belief that we are at our best as individuals and society if we work for the good of others, alongside others. She researches ways in which ubuntu can be applied in real life situations involving energy. In this article, she discusses her latest publication about applying an ubuntu feminist approach to rolling out renewable energy. Ubuntu feminism is the idea that everyone is obliged to care for each other's wellbeing.
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 06 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02255-8How discussions around key climate change topics evolve over time and which organizations drive such change are important questions. We found that business non-governmental organizations affiliated with fossil fuels focus on hosting renewable energy events but remain absent from anti-fossil-fuel discussions, led instead by a tightly connected network of environmental non-governmental organizations.
Our current justice system won't save small island nations like mine. We need a court with the authority to properly address climate change, says Anthony Carmona, a former president of Trinidad and Tobago
Community Benefits Snapshot: North Plains Connector Transmission Line Community Engagement and Benefits shannon.paton@… Wed, 03/05/2025 - 12:21 .bullets ul li { font-size: 1.1em !important; } Highlights North Plains Connector is an approximately 420-mile interregional electricity transmission line that will be built from eastern Montana to central North Dakota. The line will connect the western and eastern electric grids and three transmission planning regions, making it one of the most impactful lines in development today. The project has been praised by both renewable energy advocates and local stakeholders for its landowner-first approach to stakeholder engagement, community-led granting structures, use of federal grants to bolster communities and...
Guardian investigation had revealed gas emissions could be linked to cognitive impairment in children living nearby Revealed: a toxic metal is in a US city’s air – and may be harming children’s brains An Oregon legislator has moved to ban the use of leaded fuel at a racetrack in Portland following community outcry and a Guardian investigation . Leaded fuel has been banned for use in regular automobiles for decades, due to the toxic and irreversible impact of lead on the human brain and body as particles are emitted from tailpipes. However, it is still legal to use leaded gasoline in off-road vehicles, such as farm equipment – and racecars. Continue reading...
Aaron Szabo did not say whether federal action was needed to address climate change.
President Trump criticizes Europe's higher spending on Russian oil and gas compared to supporting Ukraine, highlighting the vast US financial aid to Kyiv. He emphasized the need to stop the conflict, referencing Ukrainian President Zelenskyy's readiness for peace and improved relations with Trump.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00612K, Paper Tao Li, Xinji Dong, Hange Yang, jianwei zhang, Rong Huang, Zhuoran Lv, Yueyue Li, Shi Cong Zhang, Fu Qiang Huang, Tian Quan Lin Cathode materials that exhibit high capacity, rapid charging, and long lifespan at high mass loading are crucial for the commercialization of aqueous zinc-ion batteries (AZIBs). However, challenges such as sluggish... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Australia is a fossil fuel giant, yet its capital is a global clean energy pioneer. As coal and gas investment was banished in favour of wind and solar, cheaper electricity bills followed.
Scientists warn that the 2,300-year-old city of Alexandria is gradually disappearing due to rising sea levels driven by climate change.
[Nigeria Health Watch] The world is grappling with interconnected challenges, including climate change, which is being seen through extreme weather events such as rising global temperatures, droughts, floods, and irregular rain patterns. These climatic shifts significantly threaten nutrition and food security, disrupting agricultural systems and diminishing access to nutritious food for vulnerable populations.
The president's speech to Congress included renewed pledges to drill for more oil and end the "Green New Scam."