The CEO of the supercar company says demand for high-end full electric cars is “almost zero.” Could this mean Ferrari's Luce will be dead on arrival?
Judgment in city of Boulder’s lawsuit against Suncor Energy USA and ExxonMobil could affect wave of climate litigation The US supreme court has decided to hear arguments in a climate accountability lawsuit, marking the first time the high court has weighed in on such a case. The decision could potentially hinder the wave of climate litigation the US has seen in recent years. “It’s not a good sign,” said Pat Parenteau, a professor of environmental law at Vermont Law and Graduate School. Continue reading...
The Trump administration and energy producers urged the Supreme Court to throw out lawsuits seeking to hold the companies liable for the costs of global climate change.
In granting oil companies’ bid to block climate liability lawsuits against them, the justices inserted a question about the high court’s authority to hear the case.
A new study details the vast price society is paying for burning coal, oil, and gas. The post Fossil fuel pollution’s effect on oceans comes with huge costs appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
If successful, the lawsuits from cities, states and counties could put companies like Exxon Mobil on the hook for billions of dollars.
YPF wants to surpass 200,000 barrels a day of shale oil this year, the company's CEO said, up from 170,000 in the third quarter of 2025.
A wave of consolidation in the Canadian energy patch has put control in the hands of an increasingly smaller group of companies.
Sustainability was a major focus for the games, as the organizers sought to model how to cut carbon pollution while running a major event.
Kaleykino serves as a critical receiving and mixing terminal that aggregates crude oil flows from several Russian regions.
The case could have significant bearing on a range of other lawsuits brought against the fossil fuel industry by cities and states across the country.
Proposed new renewable energy projects often attract strong reactions from those living nearby – both for and against. But when consultation process is based on two-way communication, it can be an opportunity to correct misunderstandings, share new information, and build long-term relationships
North Korea's ruling party reelected Kim Jong-un as its general secretary at the ongoing party congress, touting the rapid improvement of the country's nuclear-based war deterrence, state media said Monday.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sparked debate by downplaying AI's environmental impact, comparing training costs to human development. He argued that once trained, AI queries are more energy-efficient than humans answering questions. Critics, however, decried his analogy as dehumanizing, viewing humans as mere biological processors and potentially justifying AI's superiority over human flourishing.
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Nobel Peace Prize laureates are set to visit Kenya in March to mark Wangari Maathai Day, also recognised as Africa Environment Day, while engaging young women activists on climate justice, peace and human rights.
The Houston area specifically has benefited greatly lately.
Hungary threatened to block a new package of European Union sanctions against Russia and to stall efforts to help Ukraine until Russian oil deliveries to Hungary resume. The EU’s foreign ministers are set to meet in Brussels on Monday to discuss the bloc’s 20th round of sanctions against Moscow, a measure they hope will be approved in time to coincide with the fourth anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Tuesday. In a video posted to social media on Sunday, Hungarian Foreign Minister...
Egypt’s Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy, Mahmoud Esmat, on Saturday inspected the 500 kV DC Egyptian-Saudi interconnection station in Badr City. This station is the first of its kind in the Middle East in terms of size, manufacturing technology, operation, and application to the interconnection lines with the electricity grids. Esmat reviewed the current … The post Egyptian-Saudi electricity interconnection project will soon be operational appeared first on Egypt Independent.
A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, February 15, 2026 thru Sat, February 21, 2026. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Policy and Politics (17 articles) Democratic senators launch inquiry into EPA’s repeal of key air pollution enforcement measure "Senators said repeal was ‘particularly troubling’ and was counter to EPA’s mandate to protect human health" The Guardian, Marina Dunbar, Feb 10, 2026. What repealing the ‘endangerment finding’ means for public health "The EPA has scrapped a rule stating that climate change harms human health. Here’s what that could mean" Scientific American, Andrea Thompson, Feb 12, 2026. Trump...
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor secretly used an official trade mission to help strike a multi-million-pound deal for his business associates to sell oil to China, emails suggest.
President calls for urgent action to move South Africa’s just energy transition from commitment to delivery at the inaugural meeting of the reconstituted Presidential Climate Commission
The Pentagon and the Energy Department have airlifted a small nuclear reactor from California to Utah, demonstrating what they say is potential for the U.S. to quickly deploy nuclear power for military and civilian use.
Thailand is preparing to enforce its first climate change law, a landmark step that could reshape the country's economy and environmental policy for decades to come.
US Ambassador Sergio Gor stated India committed to not buying Russian oil as President Trump seeks to end the Russia-Ukraine war. Gor also revealed active negotiations for India to procure Venezuelan oil, with an interim trade deal imminent. India's foreign ministry emphasized its energy policy is driven by national interest.
Environmental groups warn that weakening air toxics and mercury standards will lead to higher health-related costs The Trump administration announced on Friday it would roll back air regulations for power plants limiting mercury and hazardous air toxics at an event in Kentucky, a move it says will boost baseload energy but that public health groups say will harm public health for the most vulnerable groups in the US. Donald Trump’s EPA has said that easing the pollution standards for coal plants would alleviate costs for utilities that run older coal plants at a time when demand for power is soaring amid the expansion of datacenters used for artificial intelligence. Continue reading...
A new polymer design keeps power flowing even in the brutal cold.
Coal-fired power plants are a major source of mercury contamination for people and the environment. Here's what you need to know.
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Trump administration claims its latest move to gut climate regulations and end all greenhouse gas standards for vehicles will save Americans money. But its own analysis indicates that the new rule will push up gas prices, and that the benefits of the rollback are unlikely […]
[350Africa.org] The StopEACOP coalition welcomes the opening of France's first major climate trial against an oil and gas multinational, as proceedings begin on Thursday, 19 February, at the Paris Court of Justice.
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Gulf Energy E&P BV has acquired an onshore oil drilling rig valued at over Sh2 billion ($15 million) for the Lokichar oil project, as it targets first oil production before the end of this year.
Iran partially and temporarily closed the strategic Strait of Hormuz during a military drill on Tuesday, thrusting the vital shipping route under the global spotlight once again. The hours-long suspension was the first time Tehran had restricted traffic through the strait since US President Donald Trump’s warning last month that Washington could take military action over Iran’s nuclear programme, with tensions still high between the two sides despite recent bilateral talks in Geneva. Here, we...
The threat of U.S. military action is causing investors to weigh the effects of possible oil supply disruptions.
The nation, where Exxon Mobil discovered oil in 2015, has quadrupled its national budget over the last five years to fund new infrastructure and diversify its economy.
The governor's move will redirect money from programs like energy efficiency.
One Dawson Creek family physician told city council she’s seen the prevalence of rare cancers at an alarming frequency, and claims exposure to contaminants from nearby fracking is to blame.
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah asserted his commitment against media censorship and using government advertisements for influence. He pledged to rationalize the advertisement policy for transparency, basing allocations on objective criteria like circulation and readership. Abdullah also highlighted efforts to fill thousands of vacant government posts and stressed the urgency of climate change response for the region.
Learn more about the massive avalanche near Lake Tahoe that killed eight skiers and is exposing how snow droughts and climate change are increasing avalanche risk.
The Trump administration is threatening to leave the influential agency unless it stops publishing its annual road map for cutting planet-warming emissions.
Eight skiers were found dead, six were rescued and one is still missing after avalanche in Sierra Nevada mountains The many weeks of a worrying snow drought in the western US is driven by the climate crisis and helped set the stage for the deadly avalanche this week in the Sierra Nevada mountains of northern California, according to experts. Perilous avalanches are not uncommon in the region, according to the National Avalanche Center, which maintains a map of locations where avalanche danger is highest , and the risk is now particularly high in the Lake Tahoe area. Continue reading...
Eco-conscious travellers can now visit Loch Katrine in the heart of Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park by electric car.
North Dakota Gov. Kelly Armstrong said during POLITICO’s 2026 Governors Summit that the strategic value in developing Venezuela’s oil outweighed the strain it would place on his state's budget.
A pioneering energy-generating device utilizes reliable wind speeds at an altitude of 6,500 feet (2,000 meters).
Inconsistent snow is forcing a longtime winter attraction to adapt to a warming climate. The post Why these Lake Tahoe sleighs have wheels now appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
[Independent (Kampala)] Rapid urbanisation, population growth and climate variability have strained existing networks, leading to intermittent supply in some areas
White House push to boost nuclear power could lead to more cancer cases, some researchers say
In a speech at Davos last month, President Donald Trump railed against “windmills” as “losers” and called nations that buy them “stupid people.” Just five days later, nine European countries signed a deal to build a vast offshore wind power hub in the North Sea, the epicenter of the continent’s oil and gas industry. The … The post Trump said wind power is for ‘stupid people.’ 5 days later, European countries agreed to build a massive windfarm appeared first on Egypt Independent.
European leaders pushed back after Energy Secretary Chris Wright threatened to quit the agency for using climate modeling in its forecasts.
Such a boost would equate to about a third of global oil demand growth this year, said Energy Secretary Chris Wright.
Uttar Pradesh farmer successfully sold surplus solar power directly to a Delhi shopkeeper via a blockchain-enabled platform. This marked the launch of India's peer-to-peer electricity trading program at the India AI Impact Summit. The transaction involved six units of solar power, earning the farmer Rs 30.
Senior officials at the Environmental Protection Agency are expected to announce the move on Friday, according to people briefed on the matter.
Catalyst Power’s Gabe Phillips analyzes how Winter Storm Fern exposed a structural problem behind New York City’s soaring power costs. As Local Law 97 deadlines approach and federal solar incentives phase down, he argues that targeted reforms could deliver measurable cost relief while strengthening grid resilience and accelerating clean energy deployment.
While most hybrids are said to use one to two litres of fuel per 100km, a study claims they need six litres on average Plug-in hybrid electric cars (PHEVs) use much more fuel on the road than officially stated by their manufacturers, a large-scale analysis of about a million vehicles of this type has shown. The Fraunhofer Institute carried out what is thought to be the most comprehensive study of its kind to date, using the data transmitted wirelessly by PHEVs from a variety of manufacturers while they were on the road. Continue reading...
This is a re-post from The Climate Brink With the advent of modern reanalysis products (weather models run backwards in time, ingesting data from satellites, weather balloons, airplanes, and surface observations) we now have an unprecedented look at the real-time evolution of the Earth’s climate. I often use ECMWF’s ERA5 reanalysis (which is arguably the most state-of-the-art of the bunch) to look at current daily global temperature anomalies, to forecast where the current month might end up, or to use as inputs to a model (along with El Nino / La Nina predictions) to estimate what temperatures for the year will be. But rather than manually making these charts every week or so, I (admittedly with the help of Claude Code) have put together an interactive...
The communist-ruled island nation is facing severe fuel shortages and blackouts due to an oil embargo imposed by the United States.
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Kenya has unveiled the Kenya National Carbon Registry, a digital platform designed to enhance transparency, accountability and credibility in the country's climate action and participation in international carbon markets.
Unresolved ‘sensitive’ issues in peace talks are fate of occupied territories in east Ukraine and Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant The peace talks ended abruptly today after about two hours, according to reports, in contrast with yesterday’s negotiations that apparently took place over six hours. Neither side have offered any public sign of progress, but instead said the talks were “difficult” with Russian news agencies quoting sources describing the negotiations as “very tense”. Continue reading...
Each year, the world’s leading climate scientists evaluate the most critical evidence on how our planet is changing. Their assessments draw heavily on data from Earth-observing satellites – and the latest report delivers a stark warning: the planet’s energy balance is drifting further out of alignment, ocean warming is now accelerating, and the land’s capacity to absorb carbon is declining, along with other troubling trends.
A coalition of health and environmental groups sued the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday, challenging the rescinding of a scientific finding that has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change.
The climate challenge is more nuanced and manageable than the agency once assumed.
Zelensky said the fate of occupied territory and the future status of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant remained unresolved.
[This Day] With renewed optimism for Africa's energy future, the global leaders, regulators, operators, financiers, and indigenous service providers convened in Lagos recently for the 10th edition of the Sub-Saharan Africa International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference (SAIPEC).
Antarctica plays a crucial role in the Earth’s climate system by reflecting solar radiation back into space. The large white ice surfaces and clouds play a decisive role in this process. However, how clouds actually form in Antarctica, how they interact with the atmosphere and what role aerosols play in this process has not been sufficiently researched to date. Engaging in the SANAT flight campaign, the Alfred Wegener Institute, the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research and the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry aim to help close this knowledge gap. The flight-based aerosol measurements conducted in Antarctica are the first of their kind in 20 years and also the first to extend deep into the interior.
West Texas has been a longtime cash cow for the oil industry. Now it holds promise for automated trucking companies, too.
Evanan Romero, 86, is a Houston-based consultant for international oil companies and advises opposition leader María Corina Machado.
Internal records show how the agency dispersed its climate employees under Administrator Lee Zeldin.
An assault on Europe’s most important climate law, the Emissions Trading System, took the fight against green rules to a whole new level.
Adani Group plans a massive $100 billion investment by 2035 to establish renewable energy-powered, AI-ready data centers across India. This initiative aims to foster a $250 billion AI infrastructure ecosystem, building on existing partnerships and expanding renewable energy capacity to support India's ambition as an AI hub.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE07058A, Paper Jie Sun, Xiaoyi Wang, Shaojie Zhang, Yu Cao, Haochen Gong, Mengting Zheng, Jun Lu The initial irreversible capacity loss (ICL) during the first charging process greatly reduces the affordable energy and power densities of commercial Li-ion batteries (LIBs). Though various solid-phase prelithiation additives have... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
The US and Japan unveiled the debut projects of a US$550 billion investment fund, pressing ahead with a trade and economic pact in the weeks before Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is set to meet US President Donald Trump. Trump said that the first tranche of money would go towards an Ohio gas power plant, a critical minerals site in Georgia and a liquefied natural gas facility in Texas in a social media post on Tuesday. The announcement did not specify how the projects would be financed or...
[Botswana Daily News] Gaborone -- Botswana will attend second edition of the International Exhibition of Extractive and Energy Resources (SIREXE), scheduled for later this year in Abidjan as a country of honour. SIREXE is a biennial event focusing on mining, oil and energy, providing a platform for African and international partnerships. The two countries are considering signing a Memorandum of Understanding with clear deliverables to strengthen cooperation
[Nile Post] Uganda's emerging generation of engineers is stepping confidently into frontier technologies, unveiling innovations in artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), renewable energy, smart mobility, and advanced systems design at the forthcoming grand finale of the 2026 University Engineering Innovation Bootcamp.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright wants the IEA to stop behaving like a “climate advocacy organization” and focus on “energy security.”
Tree planting is often "green washing." Not in this case.
German Galushchenko was charged with money laundering as part of a probe into the $100 million corruption plot in the state nuclear energy sector.
[This Day] Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) has emerged the overall champion of the 20th edition of the Nigeria Oil and Gas Industry Games (NOGIG), finishing top of the medal standings with an impressive total of 52 medals.
Oil prices are on the rise on Tuesday as Iran partially closed the Strait of Hormuz, a critical shipping path, to conduct military drills.
[This Day] this interview with Ejiofor Alike, the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of MG Vowgas Limited, Mr. Godwin Izomor speaks on the company's huge investments in local capacity development, negative impact of absence of steel rolling mill on Nigeria's industrialisation drive and how President Bola Tinubu's administration has created the enabling environment that made foreign investors trust Nigeria again, among others. Excerpts
Extreme heat, severe weather and air pollution are proven to cause negative health impacts. The post Trump’s EPA decided climate change doesn’t endanger public health. Evidence says otherwise. appeared first on High Country News.
Australian Antarctic Program scientists say virus on Heard Island has spread to new species Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here The gentoo penguin has become the first bird to test positive for the H5N1 bird flu on an Australian territory, with samples confirming the virus has spread on a sub-Antarctic island. The deadly and contagious strain of bird flu, which has already killed millions of seabirds, wild birds and poultry overseas, was confirmed in southern elephant seals on Heard Island in November 2025. Continue reading...
Several Democrats joined Republicans to vote against the Clear Horizons Act, which was based on the governor's executive order to cut emissions in the fossil-fuel-heavy state.
The EU Emissions Trading System has come under intense pressure from heavy industry for raising energy costs and contributing to plant closures.
When a woman went to get a simple oil change, she left with a very big and expensive problem. Here's what happened and how it got resolved in the end.
[The Conversation Africa] Globally, nearly 7,000 coal mines, more than 2,400 coal-fired power plants and hundreds of coal rail networks, trucks and port terminals all make up the world's coal industry. When coal is phased out and green energy phased in, these coal assets can either be abandoned or turned into something that is useful for communities.
Advisory board member says Europe already paying price for lack of preparation but adapting is ‘not rocket science’ Keeping Europe safe from extreme weather “is not rocket science”, a top researcher has said, as the EU’s climate advisory board urges countries to prepare for a catastrophic 3C of global heating. Maarten van Aalst, a member of the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change (ESABCC), said the continent was already “paying a price” for its lack of preparation but that adapting to a hotter future was in part “common sense and low-hanging fruit”. Continue reading...
Soon after wildfires ripped through Los Angeles last year, California politicians and the media knew whom to blame: the oil companies whose product is supposedly driving climate change. Rep. Dave Min, a Democrat from Irvine, said that “climate change has wreaked havoc on us” because “it dried out the foliage.” Never mind that California had...
[Daily Trust] Minna -- Despite hosting three major hydroelectric power plants in Shiroro, Zungeru, Jebba and Kainji Dams, residents of Niger State say they cannot boast of up to three hours of electricity supply daily.
[Leadership] Nigeria has stepped up ahead of Egypt as Africa's second-largest importer as solar energy and battery storage provide a practical and affordable alternative to diesel generators and unreliable grid power.
Unsettled weather continues for the UK this week, with rain, wind, snow and ice in the forecast bringing the potential for disruption.
The aesthetics of wind turbines are debatable. The fact of their increasing impact is not.
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Kenya's sustainability agenda must expand beyond climate change mitigation to embrace governance reforms, ESG integration, sustainable finance and inclusive economic growth, speakers said during the Sustainability and Climate Action Breakfast held at Karura Forest.
The Chinese region of Inner Mongolia expects to start work this year on two new “flexible” power plants mixing coal and green energy. The plants, which will provide power to the eastern economic hubs of Shanghai and Jiangsu province, mark a major strategic shift in the use of coal because the fossil fuel will now be used to plug gaps in the power generated by wind and solar energy rather than being the primary source of energy. Inner Mongolia is home to around a quarter of China’s coal reserves...
The charger firm claimed the site operated 24 hours a day, but the parking operator had different ideas I charged my electric car at the 24-hour Mer EV charging station in my local B&Q car park. I then received a £100 parking charge notice (PCN) from the car park operator, Ocean Parking. It said no parking is allowed on the site between 9pm and 6am. Continue reading...
The Mary Houston Bluebird Trail becomes a flutter of activity every spring, when people of all ages help band and count birds in bird boxes dotted along the trail. The data collected by the volunteers helps conservationists monitor population trends, understand threats such as climate change and habitat loss, and identify breeding patterns and diseases.
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- President William Ruto has reaffirmed Kenya's commitment to deepening cooperation with the Green Climate Fund (GCF), as the country seeks to scale up financing for climate-resilient agriculture and low-carbon development.
[The Conversation Africa] More than 295 million people globally experienced hunger and starvation in 2025 because of conflict, displacement, climate change and economic disasters.
Shell is a big name in the automotive world. In fact, it actually owns many of the most popular motor oil companies around today, including these brands.
After deadly floods and landslides swept through Sumatra last year, Indonesia’s government has moved to revoke permits blamed for damaging forests – ensnaring a flagship China-backed hydropower project and rattling investor confidence in one of Southeast Asia’s fastest-growing renewable energy markets. The decision, unveiled last month by President Prabowo Subianto’s administration, has been welcomed by environmental groups as a long-awaited show of teeth. But it has also raised questions about...
Plus, readers on saving historical art, climate change and the ‘endangerment finding.’
Pentagon tracked sanctioned Veronica III from Caribbean Sea after it left Venezuela on day Maduro was captured US military forces boarded another sanctioned tanker in the Indian Ocean after tracking the vessel from the Caribbean Sea in an effort to target illicit oil connected to Venezuela, the Pentagon said on Sunday. Venezuela had faced US sanctions on its oil for several years, relying on a shadow fleet of falsely flagged tankers to smuggle crude into global supply chains. Donald Trump ordered a quarantine of sanctioned tankers in December to pressure the president, Nicolás Maduro, before Maduro was apprehended in January during a US military operation. Continue reading...
The U.S. military intercepted and boarded an oil tanker overnight that was linked to Venezuela after tracking it from the Caribbean into the Indian Ocean.
Some districts are adding programs in clean energy and sustainability, while one state is infusing environmental lessons into culinary education and construction On one end of the classroom, high school juniors examined little green sprouts – future baby carrots, sprigs of romaine lettuce – poking out of the soil of a drip irrigation system they built a few weeks prior. On the opposite end of the room, a model of a hydropower plant showed students how the movement of water can stimulate electrical currents. In this class in South Carolina’s Greenville county school district, students primarily learn about one topic: renewable energy. Continue reading...
Broken pumps, rusted pipes, ghost towns mark Venezuela's once vibrant oil hub. It will cost billions to restore the industry.
[RFI] The 2026 African Union Summit is being held this weekend in Addis Ababa, with Angola handing the rotating chair to Burundi. The bloc is facing challenges including mounting conflicts, insecurity in the Sahel, strained ties with Washington and internal strife, while this year's summit theme of water highlights the damage done by devastating floods across the continent, and the urgency of tackling the effects of the climate crisis.
A major oil spill which killed thousands of birds is still being debated, three decades later.
The European Central Bank said Friday it had fined French bank Credit Agricole €7.55 million ($9 million) for failing to properly identify climate change-related risks that could affect its balance sheet.
A leading American research lab is slated to lose its critical supercomputing facility, according to a letter released Thursday by the National Science Foundation. The move is part of the Trump administration’s effort to disassemble the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, one of the world’s top weather and climate research centers, which the … The post Trump admin is pulling supercomputers out of key weather and climate research center appeared first on Egypt Independent.
Lee Zeldin defended this week’s repeal of a key climate policy — and had unexpected praise for Hillary Clinton.
A two-acre Los Angeles oil drill site near the St. Vincent Elementary School in University Park, had been releasing noxious fumes for years. Finally, the wells have been shut down.
Calgary researchers discovered in the Northwest Territories what they believe is some of the most acidic natural water in the world. It's because of how climate change is impacting the Smoking Hills Formation.
WASHINGTON (UNITED STATES) - US President Donald Trump said Friday he planned to visit Venezuela and reiterated satisfaction with its interim leader, as his administration authorized five major oil companies to operate in the country.
If the Trump administration succeeds at scuttling Obama-era climate decrees, it won’t just repeal a regulatory finding. It will roll back costs for working families in the Golden State and across the nation.
Four researchers dive into the health risks associated with climate change, and why the recent decision by the Trump administration to rescind key environmental policies could lead to serious harm.
The case was the first to ask an electric utility to pay to help communities respond to climate change.
[Leadership] The Presidential Villa in Abuja is set to disengage completely from the national electricity grid by March 2026, as the Federal Government concluded arrangements to transition the complex to an independent solar power system.
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- A local petroleum exploration and production firm has pledged to maintain international best practice in the production of crude oil resources in Turkana County.
It marks the Trump administration’s most aggressive move yet to lift sanctions on Venezuela, but analysts do not expect an immediate rush of oil investments.
[Nile Post] The Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Simon Stiell, has called for a decisive shift from climate pledges to large-scale implementation, arguing that a new era of global action could provide economic stability and development opportunities for countries like Uganda.
[Daily News] Dodoma -- THE Coordinator of the Gender and Climate Change Tanzania Coalition (GCCTC), Maria Matui, has said the Climate Negotiations Guideline for Women and Youth will strengthen capacity building, improve coordination between the government and non-state actors, and promote inclusive climate decision-making.
The US has revoked what's known as the endangerment finding, a scientific finding central to US climate actions, to boost cheaper, gas-powered cars. Experts say the shift comes at a fragile point for the warming planet.
NASA’s Carbothermal Reduction Demonstration (CaRD) project completed an important step toward using local resources to support human exploration on the Moon. The CaRD team performed integrated prototype testing that used concentrated solar energy to extract oxygen from simulated lunar soil, while confirming the production of carbon monoxide through a solar-driven chemical reaction. If deployed on the Moon, this technology could enable the production of propellant using […]
With its repeal of a scientific finding that requires greenhouse gas regulation, the agency has reopened a long-settled legal question over its own authority to act on climate change.
The upshot is that “financial institutions may need to choose between financing growth and maintaining the pace of reducing financed emissions,” the bank said.
The mascots of these Olympics are stoats, weasel-like animals whose fur changes from brown to white for winter, to blend in with the landscape.
The White House advisory body, which marked its one-year anniversary Thursday, wants to help oil and gas and mining projects get built.
The provisions could expand the number of renewable energy projects that are prohibited from using tax credits.
The Trump administration is pushing New Delhi to ramp up energy purchases — including crude oil, liquefied petroleum gas, LNG and coking coal — as part of an interim trade deal
President Trump and his team held a “Clean, Beautiful Coal” event this week and are rescinding a rule that enables the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases. But the moves come as renewable energy sources including solar are increasingly in demand.
US President Donald Trump on Thursday revoked a landmark scientific finding underpinning US regulations to curb planet-warming pollution, marking his biggest rollback of climate policy to date. The repeal of the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2009 “endangerment finding” was paired with the immediate elimination of greenhouse gas standards on automobiles. But it also places a host of other climate rules in jeopardy, including carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and methane leaks for oil...
Ex-PM’s thinktank urges more drilling and fewer renewables, ignoring evidence that clean energy is cheaper and better for bills A thinktank with close ties to Saudi Arabia and substantial funding from a Donald Trump ally needs to present a particularly robust analysis to earn the right to be listened to on the climate crisis. On that measure, Tony Blair’s latest report fails on almost every point. The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI) received money from the Saudi government , has advised the United Arab Emirates petrostate, and counts as a main donor Larry Ellison , the founder of Oracle, friend of Trump and advocate of AI. Continue reading...
Manure from thousands of southern Alberta cattle will be used to supply renewable natural gas, while at the same time harmful carbon dioxide emissions will be buried, in a first-of-its-kind project.
The EPA’s repeal of the “endangerment finding” could threaten automakers and oil companies — if it survives in court.
The Environmental Protection Agency repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being. It means the agency can no longer regulate them.
The Environmental Protection Agency finishes the repeal of the “endangerment finding,” a landmark legal opinion underpinning policies regulating climate change.
Award was presented as president directed Pentagon to buy billions of dollars’ worth of energy from coal plants US politics live – latest updates Donald Trump was crowned the “undisputed champion of beautiful clean coal” during a White House ceremony on Wednesday, during which the president received a trophy after ordering the US defense department to purchase billions of dollars’ worth of power from coal plants. The award was reportedly granted by the Washington Coal Club, an advocacy group with financial ties to the coal industry. Continue reading...
The Interior secretary cast doubt on widely accepted climate science and touted plans to build out the nation’s reserves of critical minerals.
STATEMENT: US EPA Reverses its Authority to Limit Climate Pollution nate.shelter@wri.org Thu, 02/12/2026 - 10:55 February 12, 2026 (Washington, DC) — Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized a rule that will make it harder for EPA and future administrations to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. Greenhouse gas emissions result from extracting and burning fossil fuels and contribute to a warming planet and dangerous impacts of climate change. This new rule overturns the agency’s own scientific finding established after years of scientific and economic analysis, which concluded that greenhouse gas pollution endangers human health, thus requiring regulation and oversight to protect people and the environment. In addition...
Leaders promise to fight back with court challenges as Trump rescinds finding foundational to US climate rules Climate leaders gathered outside the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) headquarters on Wednesday to condemn the Trump administration’s plans to repeal the legal finding underpinning all federal climate regulations, and promised to fight against the rollback. “This is corruption, plain and simple. Old-fashioned, dirty political corruption,” said Sheldon Whitehouse, senator for Rhode Island, at the rally. “This is an agency that has been so infiltrated by the corrupt fossil fuel industry that it has turned an agency of government into the weapon of the fossil fuel polluters.” Continue reading...
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has issued a call for nominations and comments in its next step toward expanding oil and gas leasing in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
China has bought some Venezuelan oil that was bought earlier by the US, according to Energy Secretary Chris Wright. “China has already bought some of the crude that’s been sold by the US government,” Wright told the media in Caracas, without giving details. “Legitimate Chinese business deals under legitimate business conditions” would be fine, he said, when asked about possible joint ventures in the country. China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian said he wasn’t familiar with Wright’s...
EPA has chucked the long-standing finding that greenhouse gas emissions drive climate change, drawing promises of lawsuits from environmentalists and Democrats.
President Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin on Thursday announced the repeal of a 2009 policy allowing the federal government to regulate the emissions of fossil fuels by declaring them dangerous to public health.
The move discards a scientific determination that empowered the government to limit climate pollution.
The Trump administration set out to control the production, refining and global distribution of Venezuela's petroleum products and oversee where the revenue flows.
Beijing has issued a central directive to dismantle the administrative walls dividing China’s electricity sector, signalling a decisive shift towards a unified national power market designed to support the country’s energy security and green transition. A decade into its power-sector overhaul, China is doubling down on market unity during the just-started 15th five-year planning period. These structural shifts are widely seen as indispensable to the nation’s 2030 carbon-peak target, as the...
[This Day] On the back of huge finance cost, cost of sales Totalenergies Marketing Nigeria and three other Oil & Gas companies listed on the Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) recorded revenue loss in their 2025 financial year.
Forests regulate global and local climates in ways that impact human well-being. In this Review, we discuss the scale-dependent mechanisms through which forests regulate climate, highlighting their contributions to global mitigation and local adaptation. ...
A fleet of wind-propelled robot boats could act as a sensor network covering a wide area and relay acoustic signals to a submarine
Two major coal plants will run indefinitely while the utility — the nation's largest public energy provider — continues building gas-powered generators.
The country's carbon pollution has plateaued or fallen for 21 months, the longest-ever stretch not associated with a decrease in power demand.
The research brings the first scientific assessment of global warming's role in intensifying some of the most serious wildfire emergencies to grip the region in years.
The Trump administration is expected this week to rescind a legal opinion that has guided emissions controls in the U.S. since the Obama era, withdrawing the so-called endangerment finding of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Saudi Aramco has reached a significant milestone, achieving 70% local content in its supply chain. This achievement strengthens Saudi Arabia's industrial base and diversifies its economy beyond oil. The program has created over 200,000 jobs and attracted substantial foreign investment. Aramco aims to increase local content to 75% by 2030, further enhancing national capabilities and economic resilience.
President Donald Trump signed an order directing the Defense Department to favor electricity derived from coal, expanding his campaign to prop up the fossil fuel.
When these trees burn, they release massive amounts of carbon, intensifying the very climate crisis fueling these wildfires.
As we keep sailing past the various doomsday deadlines set by climate shucksters from Al Gore to Greta Thunberg, the public has been waking up to the hoax.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D5EE04672F, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Qiu-Cheng Chen, Wenjin Zhu, Yiqing Chen, Hongmin An, Shuang Yang, Yong Wang, Yali Ji, Guangcan Su, Rui Wang, Jianan Erick Huang, Ji-Yoon Song, Jaerim Kim, Weiyan Ni, Charles Musgrave, Ke Xie, Edward H. Sargent A bipolar membrane generates ultrahigh pH (∼15) locally, achieving 93% selectivity for liquid products (ethanol/ethylene = 70 : 1) with 12× less crossover and long-term stability, advancing scalable electrosynthesis of carbon-neutral fuels. 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
Miliband went to Beijing last March and signed what Chinese media said was an agreement covering 'power grids, battery storage, offshore wind power and green hydrogen'.
Practical constraints limit the scale at which Indian refiners can replace existing supplies with oil from the United States or Venezuela. US crude is typically light and sweet, meaning it has lower sulphur content, while many Indian refineries are configured to process medium-grade crude.
Continued global heating could set irreversible course by triggering climate tipping points, but most people unaware The world is closer than thought to a “point of no return” after which runaway global heating cannot be stopped, scientists have said. Continued global heating could trigger climate tipping points, leading to a cascade of further tipping points and feedback loops, they said. This would lock the world into a new and hellish “hothouse Earth” climate far worse than the 2-3C temperature rise the world is on track to reach . The climate would also be very different to the benign conditions of the past 11,000 years, during which the whole of human civilisation developed. Continue reading...
The French government issued a long-awaited report Wednesday urging people to limit meat consumption for their health and also to fight climate change -- and not everyone in the country of "steak-frites" is thrilled.
The president is poised to sign a directive Wednesday directing the Pentagon to up its coal use. Success will hinge on the grid itself.
The U.S. Treasury Department approved a new framework for Venezuela's energy sector through three general licenses that facilitate oil trade.
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Kenya Power earned Sh125.9 million from electric vehicle (EV) charging in 2025 as uptake of electric cars and motorcycles continued to rise.
The fastest warming period since 1880 occurred in the past 30 years, according to a Washington Post analysis of NASA data.
Wildfires that left 23 people dead were made about three times more likely by global heating, researchers say The climate crisis inflamed deadly wildfires that left 23 people dead in Chile and devastated forests in Argentina that host some of the world’s oldest trees, scientists have found. The hot, dry and windy conditions that enabled the fires to blaze across huge areas in January were made about three times more likely by global heating, researchers from the World Weather Attribution (WWA) consortium found . Continue reading...
The Department of Energy has identified more than three dozen coal plants that could power military installations, according to one official.
The Treasury license allows companies to rehabilitate their existing oil equipment in Venezuela, much of which has fallen into disrepair.
The agency would be tasked with investigating suspected “weather modification” under new legislation.
Beekeepers are persisting in the face of floods, more powerful monsoons and extreme heat, as well as development that changes the landscapes bees rely on.
[Nile Post] The Minister of State for Finance, Henry Musasizi, has said climate change is increasingly straining national budgets across the world, calling for collective global action to develop practical and sustainable responses.
China has achieved a breakthrough in its decarbonisation efforts by successfully repurposing a long-haul oil pipeline to transport carbon dioxide, in a trial run that offers a potentially scalable solution to accelerate the nation’s ambitious climate goals. The 27km (16.8-mile) route delivered carbon dioxide to an oilfield in central China’s Henan province earlier this month, according to China Oil and Gas Pipeline Network Corporation, also known as PipeChina. In an online statement, the...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom will speak about jobs, trade and climate change at a security conference in Munich, Germany.
Learn more about the Bergstrom site in Montana, which was abandoned by bison hunters in response to their changing climate.
After Republican criticism, a group that offers professional resources to judges withdrew a climate science chapter from its Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence.
Some Cubans say everyday life on the Caribbean island has reached a breaking point amid a fuel shortage brought about by the U.S. squeezing the country’s oil supply. Meanwhile, Canadian airlines suspended service to the island and are ferrying tourists back home.
Planned or under-construction solar and wind projects slowed last year, analysis showed on Tuesday, casting doubts on whether countries will hit a goal of tripling renewable capacity by 2030.
The new bipartisan effort promises a “new vision” for public lands and waters.
Electric vehicle batteries are typically retired once they reach about 80 per cent of their original capacity, but they could be repurposed in electricity grids to balance out slumps in renewable generation
Officials for the Environmental Protection Agency are working to end a 2009 declaration that says climate change is a danger to public health.
US courts, scholars and Democrats are pushing back against the president’s aggressive drive to boost fossil fuels Donald Trump’s aggressive drive to boost fossil fuels, including dirty coal, coupled with his administration’s moves to roll back wind and solar power, face mounting fire from courts, scholars and Democrats for raising the cost of electricity and worsening the climate crisis . Four judges, including a Trump appointee, in recent weeks have issued temporary injunctions against interior department moves to halt work on five offshore wind projects in Virginia, New York and New England, which have cost billions of dollars and are far along in development. Continue reading...
After U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to place new sanctions on countries selling oil to Cuba, Mark Entwistle, a former Canadian ambassador to Cuba, says the Trump administration is trying to inflict pain and throttle the country's economy.
The agency sent a new draft rule on management of the waste to the White House, days after giving companies more time to begin addressing pollution.
Astronomers had warned that proximity of INNA facility to telescopes would have irreparably damaged observation The scientific community is celebrating the cancellation of a project which would have threatened the clearest skies in the world in Chile’s Atacama Desert . The proposed $10bn, 3,000-hectare green hydrogen and ammonia production facility, known as INNA, included a port, transport links to the coast and three solar power plants, and had been under evaluation by Chile’s environmental regulator for almost a year. Continue reading...
Developing partnerships with Chinese corporations is crucial for Indonesia, especially in three main areas – turning waste to energy, smart grids and data centres – as China is at the forefront of such new technology, according to an executive of the Southeast Asian country’s sovereign wealth fund. Danantara Indonesia, the investment arm that consolidates and optimises the government’s investment to support national economic growth, has set its sights on cooperating with China to lower emissions...
Exclusive: Analysts say there will be oil spill catastrophe that could be far bigger than Exxon Valdez disaster Decrepit oil tankers in Iran’s sanctions-busting shadow fleet are a “ticking time bomb”, and it is only a matter of time before there is a catastrophic environmental disaster, maritime intelligence analysts have warned. Such an oil spill could be far bigger than the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster that released 37,000 tonnes of crude oil into the sea, they said. 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 . Can nearby solar farms reduce property values? Property values can decline from close proximity with utility-scale solar farms, but the losses are modest and less than from nearby fossil fuel plants. One 2023 study of 1.8 million homes found minor impacts on property values. Homes within 0.5 miles of solar farms experienced around 1.5% price reductions; homes more than one mile away received no significant effects. Another study of 400,000 transactions found an average value decrease of 1.7% within one mile of a solar farm. Most recently, 2025 research indicated a slightly higher decrease...
Canada’s largest airline has said it is suspending flights to Cuba due to a shortage of aviation fuel on the island – a move that comes amid a US orchestrated squeeze on the country’s oil supply that has also forced Havana to ration health, transport and school services. Air Canada said it stopped service to … The post As US squeezes Cuba’s oil supply, airlines rethink flights and Havana rations health services appeared first on Egypt Independent.
Advances in drilling and subsurface engineering are unlocking a constant, clean power source deep within the Earth.
Some of the world's largest oil companies are slashing billions from their budgets, while increasing or maintaining dividends for shareholders.
It underscores how far Washington is prepared to go to enforce its energy quarantine worldwide.
Scientists say the damage caused by that disaster, which ran from 2014 to 2017, underscores the danger of climate change to marine life.
Thailand's leading energy companies are moving to lock in long-term liquefied natural gas (LNG) contracts as global prices are forecast to decline, in a bid to shield consumers from volatile electricity bills.
[The Conversation Africa] The climate fiction movie The Day After Tomorrow, released in 2004, popularised the devastating effects of sudden climate change on planet Earth. The plot dramatises the consequences of a shut-down in an ocean current, and features the Northern Hemisphere plunging, within a few weeks, into an ice age.
India's strategic petroleum reserves can currently cover 74 days of demand during global crises, according to Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri. While the International Energy Agency recommends 90 days, Puri expressed confidence in the current level, noting potential for future increases. This reserve is crucial for economic stability and energy security as India experiences rapid growth.
India's oil sourcing strategy will prioritize national interest, avoiding dependence on any single country, stated Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri. Petroleum companies make purchasing decisions based on market conditions, availability, pricing, and risk assessment. The government's primary goal is to ensure adequate, reliable, and fairly priced energy for Indian consumers.
It remains to be seen whether the three big nuclear powers are headed into a new arms race, or whether President Trump is trying to spur negotiations on a new accord now that a last Cold War treaty has expired.
Airlines from as far away as Russia, China and Spain have also been affected as island nation warns of fuel shortage Air Canada has cancelled all flights to Cuba after the island’s authorities said they were running out of aviation fuel, as a consequence of the US oil blockade on the Caribbean country. The airline, one of a dozen who serve the island, said it would begin repatriating 3,000 customers. Cuba’s beaches are a major holiday draw for Canadian tourists in winter, and one of the government’s most important sources of hard currency. Continue reading...
Jony Ive's firm LoveFrom worked with Ferrari to design the Luce, and the interiors looks unlike any sports car we have seen before. The post Ferrari’s first electric car is Luce, rocking interiors by ex-Apple designer Jony Ive appeared first on Digital Trends.
The idea that it’s “too late” to reduce emissions fuels cynicism and despair, putting us on an even worse trajectory.
The roster includes ex-Energy Department officials and the head of an EPA alumni group.
The U.S. military chased an oil tanker from the Caribbean Sea to the Indian Ocean and intercepted it, the Department of Defense said on X.
Thinktank analysis suggests Japan campaigns to prolong the carbon industry in Australia and hinder move to clean energy Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Australian government ministers met Japanese gas company executives more than 20 times in the last term of parliament as Labor encouraged investment in the fossil fuel industry. The list of meetings is detailed in a report by the thinktank InfluenceMap that argues Japanese liquefied natural gas (LNG) companies have worked with Australian gas interests to lobby for favourable local government policy to prolong the life of the industry and slow a shift to clean energy in Asia Pacific. Continue reading...
The Pacific Island countries are at the frontline of climate change. Their territories mostly consist of small, low-lying islands, with long coastlines and vast ocean spaces between them. Many livelihoods are based on agriculture or fishing, and importing water or food is often infeasible or expensive. This makes those large ocean nations highly vulnerable […]
India’s imports of Russian oil could almost halve from already weaker recent levels, according to people with direct knowledge of the purchases, after US President Donald Trump issued an order detailing some terms of a trade deal between the two nations. All state-owned and private refiners, with the exception of Nayara Energy Ltd, had paused buying any spot cargoes since Trump first mentioned the deal in a social media post about a week ago, according to the people, who asked not to be named...
Environmentalists and advocates called it good news for consumers and the planet. The post The consumer-friendly Energy Star program survived Trump. What about other efficiency efforts? appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Republican attorneys general argued the new chapter would put judges “firmly on one side” of climate lawsuits against the fossil fuel industry.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright is scheduled to be the highest-level Trump administration official to set foot in Venezuela since Nicolás Maduro’s capture.
The French oil giant agreed to buy a 42.5 percent operated stake in Namibia.
[RFI] Flooding across Malawi following heavy rains that began in December has displaced thousands and destroyed the country's agricultural heartlands, with experts linking the increased rainfall to climate change.
[The Conversation Africa] South Africa has committed to reaching phasing out human-caused carbon pollution by 2050. To get there, it needs to push as much renewable energy as possible into the national grid.
Several government departments and agencies, including the Miliband's Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, have been favouring cheaper 'brown' energy tariffs over 'green' energy.
Exclusive: Campaign group calls on institutional shareholders to vote against re-election of bosses overseeing net zero row-back Bank chairs who water down their lenders’ climate commitments this year could face embarrassing shareholder revolts as campaigners try to hold bosses to account for environmental backtracking. ShareAction, a campaign group for responsible investment, will be issuing detailed reports to pension funds and asset managers in the coming weeks, outlining whether 34 of the world’s largest lenders are sticking to their climate goals. Continue reading...
With warming set to pass the critical 1.5-degree limit, scientists are warning that the world is on course to trigger tipping points that would lead to cascading consequences — from the melting of ice sheets to the death of the Amazon rainforest — that could not be reversed.
A listing of 29 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, February 1, 2026 thru Sat, February 7, 2026. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Policy and Politics (11 articles) Flawed economic models mean climate crisis could crash global economy, experts warn "States and financial bodies using modelling that ignores shocks from extreme weather and climate tipping points" The Guardian, Damian Carrington, Feb 4, 2025. ‘That ends now’: German court ruling raises pressure to fix stalled climate plans "The ruling ends a nearly two-year long legal battle and requires the German government to act." euronews, Craig Saueurs, Jan 30, 2026. A Secret Panel to Question Climate Science Was...
Temperatures hit 3 degrees in the the city on Sunday, with bitter wind chills dragging the real feel temperatures to 14 degrees below zero. Parts of the northeast reported wind chills that hit 40-below.
India aims to import $500 billion in US goods over five years, but success hinges on American suppliers meeting demand. While oil and coal imports are set to rise, high-tech items like chips and aircraft face supply chain challenges. Indian buyers and US sellers must collaborate to achieve this ambitious trade target.
As the climate crisis intensifies, interest in solar engineering is increasing, including among private companies and investors. But the technique is controversial and lacks regulation.
In 2025, solar and wind surpassed coal as a global energy source.
A warming Arctic can stretch the polar vortex, a high-altitude air ribbon, one says. The “wobble” can disrupt the jet stream, causing extreme cold in the East.
The coldest air of the season swept into the region Saturday, with arctic air swooping in from Canada and strong winds adding dangerous wind chills of -20 in some parts of the region, forecasters said.
Warming temperatures mean more rats, and the possible spread of more disease between the rodents and people. That has some scientists and municipal governments asking: is birth control part of the solution to curbing the rodent population boom?
As the US oil embargo on Cuba takes hold, the country is rapidly running out of fuel. The effects on the country's economy and population could be devastating, a Latin America expert in Havana told DW.
With a US naval group led by an aircraft carrier in Middle Eastern waters, American and Iranian delegations held talks in Muscat without publicly meeting face-to-face.
The laws aim to force oil companies to help pay for damage from global warming. Industry is gearing up for state-by-state battles.
The minister framed coal, not as a relic of the past, but as a critical driver of energy security, industrial activity and employment
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Amid rising concern about global heating and soaring energy costs, Michigan has sued big oil for allegedly fueling both crises—a move experts have hailed as groundbreaking. In a first-of-its-kind complaint, the state’s attorney general, Dana Nessel, accused four fossil fuel majors and the […]
The small Pacific Ocean island of Palau is helping communities build resilience against the dangers of climate change-driven extreme weather with the establishment of a network of emergency refuges – thanks to support from the United Nations.
[This Day] · Installs 30 megawatts of renewable energy across state
The US government on Thursday announced an additional US$6 million in aid for Cuba as the island’s crisis deepens and tensions escalate between the two countries, with Cuba’s president accusing the US of an “energy blockade”. The aid was largely meant for those living in Cuba’s eastern region, which Hurricane Melissa slammed into late last year. The supplies include rice, beans, pasta, cans of tuna and solar lamps that will be delivered by the Catholic Church and Caritas, said US Department of...
The oil executive said he will "think twice" about investing in energy projects after President Donald Trump's attacks on offshore wind.
The San Pablo Bay pipeline has run dry as two Northern California refineries stopped taking shipments.
Young activists are pointing to recent international court rulings requiring foreign governments to curb planet-warming emissions.
[Premium Times] The study warned that the loss of Stubbs Creek Forest Reserve would weaken the natural resilience of the Niger Delta, a low-lying region already vulnerable to flooding, coastal erosion and sea-level rise
Fears over the weakening of global momentum to rein in North Korea’s nuclear ambitions have mounted with the expiration of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New Start) between the United States and Russia, with observers warning that an emboldened Pyongyang could also spark a domino effect regionally. For 15 years, the treaty functioned as a stabilising force between the world’s two largest nuclear powers, setting limits on deployed strategic nuclear warheads and delivery systems while...
Oil spills on the garage floor can happen to anyone, and your first instinct would be to clean them in a hurry. What's the best way to do that?
The court ruled that it was unconstitutional to bar state agencies from investing with firms that the state had accused of boycotting the oil industry.
At least 18 people died on Thursday after an explosion ripped through an illegal coal mine in the northeastern Indian state of Meghalaya, officials said. “During the course of the rescue operation, a total of 18 dead bodies have been recovered from the site of the explosion,” local police said in a statement. Eight other people were injured, said Manish Kumar, top official in East Jaintia Hills district where the explosion happened. Rescuers were digging through the rubble at the site to find...
Tragedy struck Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills as an explosion at a suspected illegal coal mine claimed at least 16 lives on Thursday. Several others remain trapped as rescue operations are underway. Officials confirmed the blast occurred in the Thangsku area, with one injured labourer hospitalized. The incident highlights the dangers of unscientific mining practices.
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[263Chat] In many parts of rural Zimbabwe, wetlands are the thin green lines that keep entire communities alive. They store water, regulate floods, recharge rivers, and provide fertile soils for food production. Yet for decades, these fragile ecosystems have been treated as open land for cultivation, grazing and settlement, slowly being pushed to collapse. As climate change tightens its grip through prolonged droughts and unpredictable rainfall, the degradation of wetlands has become not just an environmental
Now celebrating its 25th anniversary, All-Energy will once again unite global experts, academics and renewables innovators in Glasgow from May 13-14 to advance the aim of net-zero and a more sustainable future for all
[Daily News] Dodoma -- TANZANIA continues to benefit significantly from international climate and environment financing, with funds supporting major projects implemented in both Mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar.
PARIS - British scientists said on Thursday that a world-first AI tool to catalogue and track icebergs as they break apart into smaller chunks could fill a "major blind spot" in predicting climate change.
The deal marks Syria's first formal step toward offshore energy exploration.
The owners of a Colorado facility that was forced to operate past its retirement date said the Trump administration saw an energy emergency where none existed.
A top Democrat is pushing for her state to join New York and Vermont in making the fossil fuel sector pay for historical emissions.
Despite Donald Trump’s unrelenting attacks on renewable energy, there’s a quiet revolution happening on US grids.
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and BPR, a public radio station serving western North Carolina. The Tennessee Valley Authority’s quarterly meeting in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, opened with a triumphant video homage to its work during Winter Storm Fern. Yet again, energy […]
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum will meet with Indo-Pacific leaders to secure new energy deals.
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal by ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy over a lawsuit that seeks to hold oil companies liable for helping fuel climate change.
Cuba didn't receive any oil in January for the first time in a decade as the U.S. maintains its blockade of the island, according to a new report.
The government hasn’t yet decided whether it will build another nuclear plant, as it focuses on building the first reactor by 2036.
A state-controlled oil and gas company began offering premium gasoline at a handful of stations in the capital, charging roughly double the price of regular fuel.
The department faces pushback with an oil and gas lease sale set for next month in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.
Montana Republican Tim Sheehy voted to scrap solar tax credits after installing panels and battery storage at his Bozeman home.
The Trump administration has rolled back environmental protections and blocked green energy development, China is forging ahead.
The Trump administration has ordered several coal plants to keep operating past their planned retirement, part of a larger effort to boost the coal industry. Two Colorado utilities are pushing back.
New figures show the recent spike in energy prices cost Scotland’s economy £11 billion, leading to renewed calls for the country to end its “dependence on international fossil fuels”
Indian stock markets opened higher on Monday, with Nifty50 and BSE Sensex trading in green, boosted by positive global cues. This optimism follows a US Supreme Court ruling against President Trump's tariffs, though new tariff increases were announced. Crude oil prices dipped as nuclear negotiations progressed.
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections . Watch the video accompanying this transcript here That’s the report in which the agency concluded that climate pollution endangers public health and welfare and thus must be regulated under the Clean Air Act. It’s the basis of all federal climate regulations. As I wrote back in August when the EPA released its draft proposal, the agency has now – over a decade and a half later – reinterpreted the Clean Air Act to only apply to direct health impacts from local pollution, and not to indirect health effects, like those associated with global climate pollutants. The agency finalized the decision six months later. And the EPA has already been rolling back all...
[New Times] For three consecutive years, Kayonza has been among the districts with the lowest amount of rainfall, according to Rwanda Metrology Agency. And this has forced farmers to live at the mercy of a sky that refuses to break.
As Europe tightens emissions rules and imports gain market share, carmakers say South Africa must urgently align industrial policy with the global shift to new-energy vehicles
[allAfrica] A new scramble for Africa is underway. It is not marked by warships or colonial flags, but by battery supply chains, green transition targets, and high-level trade delegations. The race is for lithium, cobalt, graphite, manganese, platinum group metals and rare earth elements -- the minerals powering electric vehicles, renewable energy systems and digital infrastructure.
Budapest has threatened to block a new package of European Union sanctions against Russia and to stall efforts to help Ukraine until Russian oil deliveries to Hungary resume.
Having electrified its highways, China is mobilising its shipbuilding prowess and battery giants such as CATL to overhaul some shipping fleets, betting that the revolution in green transport can float as well as it drives. The shift towards clean energy underscores Beijing’s broader decarbonisation commitment – vowing to peak carbon emissions by 2030 and achieve neutrality by 2060. These goals have spurred substantial strides in renewable capacity installation, end-use revamps, new technology...
New Jersey and other east coast areas brace for storm threatening more than 1ft of snow and 55mph wind gusts Blizzard warnings were issued Saturday for New York City, New Jersey and coastal communities along the east coast for a late-winter storm set to arrive on Sunday that could dump more than a foot of snow and bring wind gusts of more than 55mph. The blizzard warning for New York City is the first since 2017 and comes as parts of the city are still dotted with hillocks of ice – leftovers from the previous major snowstorm nearly a month ago. Continue reading...
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When it comes to adapting to the consequences of climate change, the federal government has relied heavily on one flagship program: Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities. Administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), BRIC has doled out $4.5 billion in grants […]
Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy Mahmoud Esmat has discussed in a meeting with Denmark’s ambassador to Egypt Lars Bo Møller, ways of fostering cooperation in clean and renewable energy. In a statement released on Thursday 19/2/2026, the Electricity Minister praised the strong relations between Egypt and Denmark, stressing the importance of expanding collaboration and … The post Egypt, Denmark discuss boosting cooperation in clean, renewable energy appeared first on Egypt Independent.
President Donald Trump is weighing whether the United States should attack Iran, a country that controls both the third-largest proven oil reserves on Earth and one of the world’s most important oil shipping lanes. The consequences for oil prices and Americans’ wallets could be swift and severe. The United States has been building up its … The post A US attack on Iran could send oil prices surging at precarious time for Trump appeared first on Egypt Independent.
Donald Trump has alluded to potential military action against Iran as negotiations continue over nuclear power.
An Iran-linked oil tanker, seized by the Indian Coast Guard, spent days in Pakistan's maritime boundary with its tracking systems off. The vessel, along with two others, was apprehended for alleged illegal oil smuggling and forgery. Investigations revealed ship-to-ship transfers of fuel and bitumen without informing authorities.
India is diversifying its oil sources, according to US envoy Sergio Gor. Discussions are underway for Venezuelan oil imports. The US maintains its stance against countries buying Russian oil. A trade deal between India and the US is nearing finalization, with a potential meeting between Prime Minister Modi and US President Trump anticipated.
[Daily Maverick] Abolishing or suspending the tax would surrender an established policy lever for energy reform, fiscal stability, competitiveness and decarbonisation.
The rollback is the latest salvo in the president's multipronged push to boost the coal industry.
These books and reports span topics of migration, indigenous movements, African-American communities, and the Disability Rights movement. The post 12 environmental & climate justice reads appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Geoengineering does little to defuse most of the risks that really matter for people – and it runs the risk of making some harms worse Planetary-scale solar geoengineering interventions involve the deliberate injection of either natural or artificial particulates into the stratosphere – stratospheric aerosol injection, or SAI – with a view to offset some of the global heating caused by greenhouse gases. If implemented, the technology would create a metaphorical thermostat for the planet. Such a thermostat is advocated on the grounds that controlling global temperature reduces the harms associated with the climate crisis . I wish to challenge this assertion. Continue reading...
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Climate change is steadily reshaping Kenya's economic risk landscape.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE06320E, Paper Wenbin Wang, Hongyu Zhang, Miao Guo, Chaoqun Li, Xian Zhou, Guanglin Xia, Xuebin Yu Solvation sheath rearrangement is recognized as a key strategy for modifying electrolytes to enhance the kinetics of magnesium batteries. However, its fundamental mechanism diverges significantly from that in Li-ion batteries... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
The International Energy Agency downplayed global warming this week amid U.S. pressure.
EPA last week reversed a scientific finding that had served as the basis for its climate rules since 2009.
This is the moment masked vandals coat a house with motor oil and spray it with 'brothel' graffiti in a threatening nighttime hit job.
Open Climate Finance Governance: Where Do We Stand, and Where Do We Need to Go? margaret.overh… Thu, 02/19/2026 - 16:15 The world is devoting more and more money to tackling climate change. Globally, climate finance investments increased by 26% , from $1.5 to $1.9 trillion, between 2021 and 2023. Private-sector climate finance reached $1 trillion for the first time the same year. Despite headwinds, finance continues to flow. While we have yet to see how cuts to overseas development assistance in 2026 will impact this trend long term, calls for increased climate finance have never been greater. But getting more money flowing is only part of the equation. As climate finance increases, it is more important than ever to ensure that these investments are used effectively...
More than a dozen people have died in avalanches on two different continents this week alone. What causes the deadly snow slides, and is climate change making it worse?
The deregulation agenda being pushed by Germany’s chancellor and Italy’s prime minister is economically and ethically flawed When the European Union launched its green deal in 2019, putting into law the goal of climate neutrality by the middle of the century, it showed strategic foresight as well as global leadership. Russia’s war in Ukraine has starkly underlined the extent to which the continent’s energy security – and its future prosperity – is dependent on the transition away from fossil fuels. Lately, however, EU leaders’ environmental approach appears to be echoing the youthful St Augustine’s plea on chastity : make us greener, but not yet. The recent European Industry Summit in Antwerp made unusually big headlines thanks to Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s xenophobic outburst over immigration...
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The State Department for Environment and Climate Change is facing a Sh3.397 billion funding shortfall in the 2026/27 financial year, raising concerns over the implementation of key sustainability and climate resilience programmes.
In another boost for the coal industry, the agency is expected to announce the final repeal of Biden-era hazardous air pollution standards.
Michael Olsen has worked on offshore wind, fossil fuels and at Interior during the George W. Bush administration.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright had threatened to leave the International Energy Agency if it continued to focus on climate.
[New Dawn] Monrovia -- The Chief Executive Officer of the Carbon Markets Authority of Liberia, Jeanine M. Cooper, has called for the urgent establishment of a strong and independent Carbon Climate Authority, describing it as critical to Liberia's economic security and long-term political stability.
Rising battery costs and a cooling car market are likely to tilt China’s electric-vehicle race in favour of hybrids this year, as budget-conscious consumers turn away from fully electric models, analysts say. Material cost inflation is expected to slow momentum for battery-electric vehicles (BEVs), allowing plug-in hybrids to regain market share after years of rapid electrification in the world’s largest car market. “A loss of pure electric car sales can be expected this year due to consumers’...
The Tennessee Valley Authority once prided itself on political independence. Data center demand and political pressure have it changing course from clean energy
The US Magnuson–Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act establishes federal fisheries management to support the food supply, the economy, human health, and recreation (1). Section 312 of the act authorizes disaster assistance in the event of a natural disaster, such as a tropical storm that destroys fishing vessels or seafood processing infrastructure, or a technological disaster, such as an oil spill that shuts down a fishery (1). On 19 November 2025, US Representative Nancy Mace (R-SC) introduced House Resolution (HR) 6150 (2), legislation that would amend Section 312 of the act to classify economic hardship, caused by lawful or unlawful actions by a foreign entity, as a disaster that justifies co-opting disaster assistance funds as subsidies. The bill, which is under referral with...
The legislation is aimed at corporate recklessness that causes climate and environmental disasters.
Lowering the cost of battery storage is seen as crucial as an influx of solar and wind generation in some countries begins to strain grids.
Piyush Goyal said India is looking to broaden its sourcing of crude oil and coking coal and would welcome supplies of premium-quality coking coal from the United States.
India has significantly reduced its reliance on Russian crude oil, with January imports hitting their lowest point since late 2022. This shift sees Middle Eastern suppliers, particularly Saudi Arabia, regaining prominence as India diversifies its energy sources. The move aligns with international pressures and India's commitment to strategic autonomy.
By Denise Lineberry On Jan. 31, 1958, Explorer 1 became the first satellite launched by the United States. Its primary science instrument, a cosmic ray detector, was designed to measure the radiation environment in Earth orbit. Though its final transmission was in May 1958, it continued to revolve around Earth more than 58,000 times. As […]
The president last week ordered the Department of Defense to purchase coal energy. Experts say it's a lost cause
Choosing to invest in renewable energy solutions to save on fuel bills and help the planet is a no-brainer
Consultancy’s prediction comes after Rachel Reeves said green subsidy costs would be removed from domestic bills Household energy costs in Great Britain are expected to tumble by an average of £117 a year from April after Rachel Reeves announced in November’s budget that the cost of green subsidies would be removed from domestic bills. The government’s quarterly cap on energy bills is forecast to fall after the chancellor’s decision to shift the levies used to support renewable energy projects into general taxation, and scrap a bill payer-funded energy efficiency scheme, according to Cornwall Insight, a leading energy consultancy. Continue reading...
It marks the administration's latest action to block wind energy development in the U.S.
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Tech companies are conflating traditional artificial intelligence with generative AI when claiming the energy-hungry technology could help avert climate breakdown, according to a report. Most claims that AI can help avert climate breakdown refer to machine learning and not the energy-hungry chatbots and image generation […]
A look at what we know and don't yet know about how climate change could affect the paths of these storms — and the all-important question of how often they'll make landfall. The post The future of Atlantic hurricane tracks appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
[This Day] Green Energy international Limited has been named the oil and gas local content company of the year 2025 by Leadership Newspapers.
Companies including Mazda and Nissan face multimillion-dollar hit unless they improve carbon efficiency Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Major auto brands including Mazda, Nissan and Subaru face the possibility of millions of dollars in penalties after failing to meet climate targets for new vehicles in Australia. The first six months of data since the Albanese government introduced a new vehicle efficiency standard shows 40 companies – 68% of the total – beat their initial target for the average emissions efficiency of the new cars they sold. Continue reading...
Plaid Cymru says renewable energy projects would have to hand over stakes of up to 25% to local communities.
Green groups are taking the Interior Department bureau to court over allegations it failed to follow environmental laws.
Climate activists say carbon capture is an expensive distraction from proven emissions-reducing actions such as transitioning to renewable energy.
Donald Trump says deals ‘end our foolish dependence on foreign sources’, while Japanese PM hails enhanced economic security Japan has drawn up plans for investments in US oil, gas and critical mineral projects worth about $36bn under the first wave of a deal with Donald Trump. The US president and Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s prime minister, announced a trio of projects including a power plant in Portsmouth, Ohio, billed by the Trump administration as the largest natural gas-fired generating facility in US history. Continue reading...
The world has an enormous task to avoid the worst effects of climate change, and the risks remain serious. The energy transition is well under way, however, and politicians need to be honest about that.
California is so desperate for gasoline — despite sitting on billions of barrels in oil reserves — that it is importing fuel via the Bahamas.
Learn how warming winters are making life harder for grey wolves, a struggle that the species has faced at least once before.
[Leadership] The 20th biennial Nigeria Oil and Gas Industry Games (NOGIG) ended in spectacular fashion, with Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) emerging as overall champions. NLNG dominated the medal table, securing an impressive haul of 52 medals, comprising 20 gold, 16 silver, and 16 bronze.
The Trump administration issued the guidelines following passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
The Venezuelan government on Tuesday released Evanan Romero, a Venezuelan-American oil consultant detained four days earlier at the Maracaibo airport,
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. With the repeal of the Environmental Protection Agency’s scientific finding on the dangers of greenhouse gases, the Trump administration is aiming to take out many federal actions on climate change in one blast. The first impact of this deregulatory […]
Shrinking lakes in Tibet likely woke up long-dormant tectonic faults, a new study finds. The findings strengthen the link between climate change and earthquakes
Why do people keep rabbiting on about the need for small nuclear reactors because the wind does not blow all the time, as if there were no other highly successful ways to produce energy?
This video includes personal musings and conclusions of the creator and climate scientist Dr. Adam Levy . It is presented to our readers as an informed perspective. Please see video description for references (if any). Video description Artificial Intelligence is here, and it's changing the world. But when it comes to climate change, whether those AI changes are going to save us or doom us depends heavily on who you ask. I take a look at what our AI Overlord CEOs have been saying about climate change, and about AI's huge energy needs. And see just how much they contradict each other and themselves - especially when it comes to the vast amounts of energy our AI future (might) need, and the climate change consequences this would cause. Featuring Sam Altman, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg...
Ron DeSantis is slashing government spending, but the Sunshine State can’t afford to abandon its climate adaptation fund.
Russian forces pounded Ukrainian power infrastructure before a new round of peace talks, killing three energy workers and leaving tens of thousands of people without power and heat, officials said Tuesday. For its part, Ukraine struck a Russian oil facility.
The oil and gas producer has partnered with turbine maker Ming Yang Smart Energy Group to deploy advanced models across China’s southern provinces, according to reporting.
Industry using ‘diversionary’ tactics, says analyst, as energy-hungry complex functions such as video generation and deep research proliferate Tech companies are conflating traditional artificial intelligence with generative AI when claiming the energy-hungry technology could help avert climate breakdown, according to a report . Most claims that AI can help avert climate breakdown refer to machine learning and not the energy-hungry chatbots and image generation tools driving the sector’s explosive growth of gas-guzzling datacentres, the analysis of 154 statements found. Continue reading...
Legal bid by shareholder advocacy group over alleged misleading ‘net zero’ and ‘clean energy’ claims fails Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here Gas company Santos has successfully defended a landmark greenwashing case in which it was accused of making misleading claims about its net zero plans and being a producer of “clean” energy. In a blow for climate activists, the federal court on Tuesday dismissed the case brought by the shareholder advocacy group the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR). Continue reading...
Gavin Newsom went to Munich to complain about Trump, and to run an alternative foreign policy, signing a memorandum of understanding on climate change with the left-wing British government Monday. Trump did not take kindly to that, declaring that everything Newsom touches turns to “garbage,” and noting that it was “inappropriate” for a governor to...
President says it is inappropriate for UK to be dealing with Gavin Newsom after Ed Miliband meets governor in London Donald Trump has vented his fury against a green energy deal between the British government and California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, a likely future Democratic presidential candidate . “The UK’s got enough trouble without getting involved with Gavin Newscum,” Trump said in an interview with Politico, using the derogatory nickname he reserves for Newsom. “Gavin is a loser. Everything he’s touched turns to garbage. His state has gone to hell, and his environmental work is a disaster.” Continue reading...
[Independent (Kampala)] The defining challenge of the 21st century is not technological capacity, economic growth, or political power; it is whether humanity can sustain life on a planet it is rapidly degrading. Environmental protection has moved from the margins of policy debate to the very centre of global survival. The quality of air we breathe, the water we drink, the food systems we depend on, and the ecosystems that regulate climate and disease are now under unprecedented strain. A clean and healthy environment is no
Labor chose a day when attention was focused on the opposition to slip out a handful of announcements Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here On Friday, as Angus Taylor ascended to the leadership of a riven and defeated political party , the Albanese government slipped out a handful of announcements on contentious climate and environment issues. Here is what you may have missed. Continue reading...
Hungary is buying Russian oil despite alternative supplies being available, according to a report that accuses Budapest of failing to pass down to consumers the savings it makes from buying cheap Russian fuels. Instead, the savings become profits for Hungary’s largest oil company, which is part-owned by foundations linked to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, according to the report from the Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD), a European-based public policy institute, which shared an advance copy of its … The post By buying Russia’s oil, Hungary is fueling the Kremlin’s war machine – and enriching foundations linked to Orbán appeared first on Egypt Independent.
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Experts have called for sustained and structured youth funding to anchor Kenya's climate resilience agenda, warning that without long-term investment in young innovators, the country risks deepening economic losses linked to climate change.
The Energy Secretary today signed an agreement with California's Democrat governor to deepen co-operation across clean energy, climate action and protecting nature.
At a time when climate change, food waste and rural inequality are converging into a single, complex crisis, Thailand's agricultural debate can no longer be confined to yields, prices or exports alone. The more urgent question is whether the way we produce food today can still sustain the land, the farmers and consumers tomorrow.
Analysis reveals big regional disparities as critics say Labour’s proposed levy could slow uptake of EVs Drivers in the south-west of England would pay nearly four times as much as those in London as a result of Labour’s mileage-based tax on electric cars, according to analysis of official data. The 3p-a-mile road charge, announced in the autumn budget and due to take effect in 2028, is expected to raise £1.1bn a year, partly offsetting the loss of fuel duty revenues as drivers switch from petrol to electric vehicles. Continue reading...
As Western pressure tightens on traditional buyers of Russian crude, analysts say Indonesia’s status as a fast-growing net oil importer with limited fiscal headroom could position it as a potential new market for Moscow’s discounted supplies. But any shift towards Russian barrels would carry diplomatic risks, they add, particularly as Jakarta seeks to conclude sensitive trade negotiations with Washington and avoid complicating ties with the US and its allies. Indonesia has already come under...
[Namibian] President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah wants to position Namibia as a "global player in delivering climate solutions".
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s push to accelerate the roll-out of rooftop solar power is falling short of targets despite heavy subsidies due to loan delays and limited support from state utilities, vendors and analysts say. The shortfalls represent the latest challenge to India’s efforts to nearly double clean energy capacity to 500 gigawatts by 2030, and come as the government plans to suspend clean energy tendering targets amid a mounting backlog of awarded projects yet to be...
The US president wants American energy firms to start extracting the crude but they are reluctant.
US military forces boarded another sanctioned tanker in the Indian Ocean after tracking the vessel from the Caribbean Sea in an effort to target illicit oil connected to Venezuela, the Pentagon said on Sunday. Venezuela had faced US sanctions on its oil for several years, relying on a shadow fleet of falsely flagged tankers to smuggle crude into global supply chains. US President Donald Trump ordered a quarantine of sanctioned tankers in December to pressure then-President Nicolas Maduro before...
The president’s destructive policies enrich fossil fuel billionaires, while Beijing has bet big on the green transition Devastating wildfires, flooding and winter storms were among the 23 extreme weather and climate-related disasters in the US which cost more than a billion dollars last year – at an estimated total loss of $115bn . The last three years have shattered previous records for such events. Last Wednesday, scientists said that we are closer than ever to the point after which global heating cannot be stopped. Just one day later, Donald Trump and Lee Zeldin, the head of the US Environmental Protection Agency, announced the elimination of the Obama-era endangerment finding which underpins federal climate regulations. Scrapping it is just one part of Mr Trump’s assault on environmental...
India and the US aim to boost bilateral trade to $500 billion by 2030, with energy imports like crude oil and LNG forming a key part. This interim trade agreement will help India secure competitive energy prices and diversify suppliers. The pact also focuses on increasing steel, coking coal, and IT exports, enhancing market access for Indian goods.
Critics accuse administration of ‘cooking the books’ by claiming US would save $1.3bn from climate finding reversal The Trump administration claims its latest move to gut climate regulations and end all greenhouse gas standards for vehicles will save Americans money. But its own analysis indicates that the new rule will push up gas prices, and that the benefits of the rollback are unlikely to outweigh the costs. On Thursday, the president and his environmental secretary Lee Zeldin announced the finalized repeal of the endangerment finding, a legal determination which underpins virtually all federal climate regulations. He claimed the rollback would save the US $1.3tn by 2055. Continue reading...
This month's new moon brings an annular (or "ring of fire") solar eclipse, but it will only be visible from parts of Antarctica.
The trees morph into sand dunes to protect homes on the seafront against rising sea levels and serve as habitat for rare species Britain’s fight against climate breakdown may usually look like windfarms or solar energy. But on miles of Lancashire coast the frontline is rather more festive. Tens of thousands of discarded Christmas trees have been partially buried on beaches south of Blackpool as a frontier against rising sea levels. Continue reading...
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio claimed India committed to halting additional Russian oil purchases, amidst ongoing US sanctions. However, India's External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar emphasized "strategic autonomy" and decisions guided by "national interest" and market dynamics. Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov disputed claims of India stopping oil buys, accusing the US of coercion.
India has significantly boosted climate action spending, now at nearly 5.6% of GDP, up from 3.7% six years ago, demonstrating strong domestic commitment. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman emphasized the need for adaptation alongside emission cuts and advocated for a "polluter pays" principle in global climate finance, highlighting India's own substantial investments in renewables and carbon capture.
America’s two utility-scale offshore wind farms performed as well as gas power plants and better than coal in January — including during Winter Storm Fern.
Feb. 14 2026: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.
Environmental groups say ‘cynical and devastating’ reversal of endangerment finding has grave implications The Trump administration has dismantled the basis for all US climate regulations, in its most confrontational anti-environment move yet. The 2009 endangerment finding determined that greenhouse gases threaten public health and welfare and should therefore be controlled by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). By revoking it on Thursday, officials eliminated the legal foundation enabling the government to control planet-heating pollution. Continue reading...
Anzoátegui State, Venezuela — It’s a scenario that seemed impossible just 40 days ago: A high-ranking US official walking side by side with Venezuela’s leader to discuss investments in the country. Yet that was the scene Thursday when US Energy Secretary Chris Wright toured oil producing facilities in the South American nation with its acting … The post US energy secretary and Venezuela’s acting president tour oil facility in warming ties just weeks after Maduro ouster appeared first on Egypt Independent.
Pipeline tells the devastating story of five professional divers who were tasked with repairing a leaking undersea oil pipe off the coast of Trinidad and Tobago on February 25th 2022.
Cuba has been grappeling with worsening fuel shortages as the US prevents oil shipments to the island nation. Organizers did not immediately set a new date for the Habanos Festival.
The EPA has announced its final* ruling on the CO2 Endangerment Finding. *not even close to final. Notably, they have completely abandoned any reliance on the DOE’s CWG report. The EPA is not relying on new findings by the Administrator with respect to global climate change concerns under CAA section 202(a)(1) as a basis for […] The post EPA’s final* ruling on CO2 first appeared on RealClimate.
The US eased sanctions on Venezuela’s energy sector on Friday, issuing two general licences that allow global energy companies to operate oil and gas projects in the Opec member and for other companies to negotiate contracts to bring in fresh investments. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control issued a general licence allowing Chevron, BP, Eni, Shell and Repsol to operate oil and gas operations in Venezuela. Those companies still have offices in the country and stakes in...
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE06789H, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Tae-gwang Yun, Yejin Lee, Joonchul Shin, Dong Ho Lee, Min Taek Hong, Seonghun Lee, Sang-Joon Kim, Hyun Ji Lee, Jiwon Lee, Gyeongrok Min, Seunghyun Weon, Minho Choi, Ho Won Jang, Han Seul Kim, Ji-Soo Jang Capturing greenhouse gases (GHGs) while generating electricity offers a new paradigm for climate mitigation. Here, we report a GHG-driven energy harvesting system, termed a gas capture and electricity generator (GCEG),... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
This general licence permits the acquisition, export, and sale of oil sourced from Venezuela that has already been produced, as well as its refining. Reliance had submitted its licence application in early January.
Here’s what's in the rule released by EPA near midnight.
This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It’s not just federal headwinds that threaten to constrain renewable energy development. State and local restrictions on solar and wind are spreading across the United States, too. Few states highlight this fact as well as Ohio does. The Buckeye State makes […]
People who love their heat pumps are now teaching neighbors to go electric. The post The clean energy coach next door appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
What's the Climate Cost of Growing Crops? alicia.cypress… Fri, 02/13/2026 - 05:00 Emissions from land used to grow crops for food, animal feed, fiber, fuel and more, known as croplands, are often overlooked. But they are far from insignificant. New maps of crop emissions from a global collaboration of universities and international research institutions, led by Cornell University and Land & Carbon Lab , reveal that in 2020 alone, croplands emitted nearly 5% of global net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused by human activity. That may sound small, but these emissions surpass those from global shipping and are on par with annual GHG emissions from tropical primary forest loss . Just four crops — rice, maize (corn), wheat and oil palm — account for the...
The move overturns the Environmental Protection Agency's 2009 'endangerment finding'.
The agency relied on legal arguments to erase the basis for climate rules, ditching provisions that tried to poke holes in the scientific consensus on global warming.
The state could become the first to sue fossil fuel companies for emissions that allegedly intensify disasters and lead property insurers to raise premiums.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz joined industry in attacking the EU carbon market as Commission President Ursula von der Leyen defended its “clear benefits.”
Solar for All sought to provide grant funding for residential solar. EPA canceled the program last year.
Giving U.S. and European companies more access to Venezuela’s oil-rich territory is a key piece of President Donald Trump’s push to revive the nation’s energy sector.
Conservationists estimate coal exported from expanded mine to release CO2 equivalent of about half Australia’s annual carbon footprint Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The Albanese government has approved the expansion of a Queensland coalmine that will clear habitat for threatened koalas and greater gliders and add further fuel to the climate crisis, conservationists say. The extension of the Middlemount mine in Queensland’s Bowen Basin – jointly owned by US company Peabody and China-owned Yancoal – would see about 85m tonnes of coal exported over 24 years. Continue reading...
WASHINGTON (UNITED STATES) - President Donald Trump on Thursday revoked a landmark scientific finding that underpins US regulations aimed at curbing planet-warming pollution, marking the administration's most far-reaching rollback of climate policy to date.
Report by Tony Blair Institute urges government to drop some green policies amid criticism of decarbonisation goal Analysis: Blair’s oil lobbying is a misleading rehash of fossil fuel industry spin Tony Blair’s thinktank has accused Ed Miliband of driving up energy prices in his push to make Britain’s energy supply more environmentally friendly. The Tony Blair Institute (TBI) published a report on Friday criticising the government’s green policies and urging the energy secretary to drop some of them altogether, including almost completely decarbonising the electricity system by 2030. Continue reading...
Obama, who was president when this finding was made public, says Americans will be ‘less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change’ after Trump’s repeal of greenhouse gas regulation Trump’s EPA repeals landmark climate finding in gift to ‘billionaire polluters’ Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan kicked off his press conference today announcing that the administration’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota has “yielded the successful results” they were looking to achieve. Homan also noted that Immigation and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has not made any arrests at hospitals, elementary schools or churches. However, many people in the Twin Cities have told the Guardian that they’re fearful of federal immigration officers who patrol near these spots, and appear to make indiscriminate...
The move scraps Barack Obama’s 2009 finding that greenhouse gases endanger health.
President Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the repeal of the endangerment finding, the legal bedrock for the agency's actions against planet-warming pollution.
The Trump administration has repealed the scientific determination that underpins the government’s legal authority to combat climate change.
The 2009 endangerment finding affirms that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases pose a threat to human health and welfare. Its repeal marks one of the most significant deregulatory actions in U.S. history.
France's government on Thursday presented an energy plan to use less imported fossil fuels, including by ramping up nuclear-fuelled power production over the next decade.
The Russian Embassy in Cuba said that "as far as we know, Russia is expected to supply oil and petroleum products to Cuba as humanitarian aid in the near future."
[Daily Trust] The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC), has stated that Africa is projected to attract between $48 billion and $50bn in the oil and gas sector in 2026.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 131, Issue 4, 28 February 2026.
Climate Action Can Be One of the World’s Biggest Job Creators shannon.paton@… Thu, 02/12/2026 - 10:00 We are in the midst of a great economic shift — one that will shape livelihoods and growth for decades to come. The rise of AI and digitalization, geopolitical changes, uneven population growth, and the urgent need to cut emissions and adapt to climate impacts are combining to profoundly reshape economies — particularly the labor market. Unlike geopolitical and technological shifts, which are likely to result in net job losses, the transition towards resilient, low-carbon economies could be a powerful engine for expanding the workforce. ...
Simon Stiell’s speech came the same day EPA said it would eliminate the legal basis for its ability to fight climate change.
Continuing extreme weather has caused deaths of 16 people, evacuation of thousands and destruction of homes Europe live – latest updates Portugal is under pressure to draw up plans to adapt to the climate emergency as the country continues to be lashed by an unprecedented series of storms that have killed at least 16 people and left tens of thousands without electricity. More than 3,000 people were evacuated from the Coimbra area of central Portugal on Wednesday as the Mondego River reached critical levels, while part of the country’s main motorway, the A1, collapsed after a dyke on the Mondego gave way under the weight of flood water. Continue reading...
Russia is preparing to ship oil to Cuba under the guise of “humanitarian aid” — brazenly defying President Trump’s warning that countries propping up the communist regime could be hit with US tariffs.
The ships arrived two weeks after President Donald Trump threatened tariffs on any country selling or providing oil to Cuba.
[Daily News] Zanzibar -- FREQUENT power outages affecting many parts of Zanzibar dominated discussions on the first day of the House of Representatives session, prompting the government to explain the situation and outline alternative energy plans.
Scientists from the University of Newcastle say that for every 1°C of global warming, winter rainfall will increase by seven per cent.
Doyne Farmer says a super-simulator of the global economy would accelerate the transition to a green, clean world It’s a mind-blowing idea: an economic model of the world in which every company is individually represented, making realistic decisions that change as the economy changes. From this astonishing complexity would emerge forecasts of unprecedented clarity. These would be transformative: no more flying blind into global financial crashes, no more climate policies that fail to shift the dial. This super simulator could be built for what Prof Doyne Farmer calls the bargain price of $100m, thanks to advances in complexity science and computing power. Continue reading...
The president ordered the Pentagon to buy coal power, doling out cash to keep plants online and pushing coal exports "all over the world."
Legislators aim to use climate superfund programs to force oil companies to help cover the cost of global warming. A member of Congress wants to stop them.
The ultra-polluting sector says the EU’s carbon price is putting it out of business.
The government has not made enough of a dent in emissions, but global trends and a shambolic opposition offer a rare opportunity to act Want to get this in your inbox when it publishes? Sign up for the Clear Air Australia newsletter here There is good news out there, even if it feels like scraps in a world on the brink. Some came last week – with plenty of caveats – when analysts at the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) found coal-fired power generation decreased in both China and India last year . This is a potentially big shift. Among other things, it exposes the hollowness of arguments in Australia that there is no point doing anything about the climate crisis because the big Asian economies are building endless new coal plants. Continue reading...
An executive order directs Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of Energy Chris Wright to approve long-term contracts with coal-fired plants to provide electricity to military installations and facilities.
Mr. Trump is trying to revive coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel. At the White House, coal executives awarded him a trophy as the “Undisputed Champion of Beautiful Clean Coal.”
China will support Cuba “in the best way possible” as the island grapples with an energy crisis following tougher measures imposed by US President Donald Trump’s administration, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson confirmed on Wednesday. Speaking at a regular press briefing in Beijing, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said China “will do what it can” to assist Havana and again condemned what he described as “inhumane actions that deprive the Cuban people of their right to survival and...
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE06849E, Review Article YuChun Zeng, Hao Zhong, Yuhuo Luo, Qianhong Huang, Xiaoming Lin, Jun Liu Sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) have attracted considerable attention for large-scale energy storage owing to their low cost, high safety, and resource abundance. Among various anode materials, hard carbon stands out for... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Ancient floods, not war, drove the fall of the Shijiahe culture.
Legal challenges are certain to come. The post Trump EPA set to repeal scientific finding that serves as basis for US climate change policy appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Cuban aviation authorities have warned country is running out of jet fuel, threatening to derail tourism industry Air Canada cancels all flights to Cuba as US oil blockade cuts off fuel access Moscow has said it is planning to evacuate Russian tourists from Cuba within days as a fuel crisis triggered by US efforts to choke off the island’s oil supplies deepens. Russia’s aviation authorities said on Wednesday that two of its airlines serving the Caribbean island would operate outbound-only flights to bring tourists home before suspending services. Continue reading...
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Sarah Wesseler Want to lower your carbon footprint? Consider ditching your car. In a 2025 study, researchers at the World Resources Institute found that going car-free is the most effective step individuals can take to lower their personal emissions. In fact, it has a bigger impact than adding a home solar system and going vegan combined, they wrote, and 78 times more effective than composting. But in much of the U.S., getting around without a car is difficult, if not impossible, due to overwhelmingly car-centric infrastructure. However, while going car-free may be hard for many Americans to imagine, this could change. As cities like Amsterdam and Paris have shown, when governments take...
The French President said the debate over the cause of the enormous power outage, which plunged Spain into darkness in April leaving five dead and millions without power, was 'a false one'.
In a new study, described as a 'sanity check' for Britain's Net Zero ambitions, researchers from Queen Mary University say that the push towards EVs is fundamentally misguided.
Huge-scale ecological engineering around the edges of one of the world's largest and driest deserts has turned it into a carbon sink that absorbs more CO2 than it emits, research suggests.
Lead author of Australian study says breeding slowdown is linked to climate-driven changes in ‘magnificent’ whale’s foraging grounds Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast After decades of recovery, southern right whales are showing signs of a climate-driven decline in breeding rates, which scientists say is a “warning signal” about changes in the Southern Ocean. After being hunted to near extinction by commercial whaling in the 19th and 20th centuries, southern right whales remained endangered in Australia. Continue reading...
For "the caribou people," protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge means protecting a way of life.
The captain of a Hong Kong-flagged container ship has denied responsibility for severing a critical Baltic Sea gas pipeline linking Estonia and Finland three years ago. Wan Wenguo, 43, from mainland China, pleaded not guilty at Eastern Court on Wednesday to one count of criminal damage relating to the severed section of the 77km (47.8-mile) Balticconnector, a natural gas pipeline that supplies Finland, and to a nearby telecommunications cable linking Finland and Estonia. The damage allegedly...
The nation's largest public utility could act as soon as Wednesday to extend the life of the Kingston and Cumberland coal plants.
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Nairobi carries a rare global badge of honour. It is the only city in the Global South to host a United Nations headquarters, home to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and UN-Habitat.
Optimistic projections that minimize climate change are misleading institutional investors and governments, U.K. researchers have found.
The South American country is hosting an informal climate summit as progress stalls at U.N.-organized conferences.
An Apparel Impact Institute report flagged three pressure points: higher carbon prices, rising raw-material costs and more expensive energy.
The Environmental Protection Agency is eliminating a Clean Air Act finding from 2009 that is the basis for much of the federal government's actions to rein in climate change.
Canadians in Cuba are waiting for flights home and humanitarian agencies are struggling to get aid in as an energy crisis worsens in the nation amid a U.S. oil blockade.
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 11 February 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02564-6Early life stages are particularly critical for human brain development. A large-scale study in China shows that heat exposure in early life is associated with increased risks of delayed neurodevelopment in preschool children.
Climate groups vow to fight rollback of 2009 finding determining CO 2 and other greenhouse gases harm health In what is set to be its most audacious anti-environment move yet, the Trump administration on Thursday will roll back the mechanism allowing the government to regulate planet-heating pollution, the White House press secretary has told reporters . “President Trump will be joined by EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin to formalize the recession of the 2009 Obama-era endangerment finding,” Karoline Leavitt said at a press conference on Tuesday. “This will be the largest deregulatory action in American history.” Continue reading...
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Power companies are already building more costly fossil fuel infrastructure than data centers may actually need.
With its plans to revoke the endangerment finding, the administration is gambling that the Supreme Court will allow it to completely avoid regulating the nation’s top greenhouse gas sources.
Indonesia is on track for 10 per cent economic growth by 2029, beyond the 8 per cent target set by leader Prabowo Subianto, his climate and energy envoy Hashim Djojohadikusumo has insisted. Hailing multiple projects in the works such as social housing and the development of boarding schools for low-income families, Hashim told a forum in Jakarta on Tuesday that his elder brother Prabowo had to go up against “a quagmire of bureaucratic inertia and resistance” after winning the top job in the...
[Daily Trust] About 1,200 athletes and officials representing 15 oil and gas companies, regulators and affiliated institutions have converged for the 20th edition of the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Games (NOGIG) in Abuja.
Many countries around the world have adopted the use of nuclear powered electricity generation for its efficiency, despite environmental concerns.
Cuts at the National Laboratory of the Rockies come after layoffs in May, when the lab was still named for its focus on renewable energy.
[Afrobarometer] Evidence from Africa shows people living in drought-affected areas are more likely to justify physically disciplining children.
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For more than a decade, the clean energy economy has been on a steep growth trajectory. Companies have poured billions of dollars into battery manufacturing, solar and wind generation, and electric vehicle plants in the US, as solar costs fell sharply and […]
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Government also offers contracts for record number of solar schemes as it aims to create clean electricity system by 2030 Business live – latest updates The largest onshore windfarm in England in a decade has been awarded a government subsidy among 190 contracts for renewable energy projects, as Labour attempts to hit a goal of creating a virtually zero carbon power grid within four years. The government said it would offer contracts to a record number of solar projects alongside support for onshore windfarms including the huge Imerys project near St Austell in Cornwall. Continue reading...
The results have been welcomed by climate and clean energy groups but could face opposition from local communities.
As tech giants find creative ways to generate electricity, they’re building a glut of new fossil fuel projects.
The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) has confirmed that last month was the coldest January in Europe for 16 years.
The legal dispute dated back to 2021, when Ashley Watt and her lawyer, Sarah Stogner, discovered oil leaking from an old well that had supposedly been cemented shut decades ago.
The output from Kashiwazaki Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant's No. 6 reactor will be gradually increased with a goal of entering commercial operations on March 18.
Weather plays a critical role in the smooth running and safety of winter sports competitions.
[Leadership] The Executive Director (Technical Services) of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA), Engr. Umar Abdullahi Ganduje, has empowered farmers and small-scale entrepreneurs with solar power systems and irrigation facilities in Kano State.
Oil major underlines profitability of operations off Scotland amid upheaval in industry
Contemporary Amperex Technology’s (CATL) new batteries are ready to be used in extreme cold areas like Antarctica, according to a top engineer, as the Chinese giant eyes untapped markets amid keen electric vehicle (EV) competition. CATL’s Naxtra sodium-ion battery, which will be applied in mass-produced passenger cars for the first time globally this year, is undergoing winter testing in vehicles in chilly Inner Mongolia, the firm and its partner China Changan Automobile Group announced last...
US military forces boarded a sanctioned tanker in the Indian Ocean after tracking the ship from the Caribbean Sea as part of an oil quarantine meant to squeeze Venezuela, US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Monday. Venezuela had faced US sanctions on its oil and relied on a shadow fleet of falsely flagged tankers to smuggle crude into global supply chains. Following the US raid to apprehend then-president Nicolas Maduro in early January, several tankers fled the Venezuelan coast, including...
A month-long pursuit in Venezuela stretching all the way around the Indian Ocean, resulted in U.S. forces capturing on oil tanker that attempted flee quarantine.
Brookfield locals have long been opposing the fossil fuel industry's expansion in their charming suburb, and they are now fighting a $272 million project tabled by the Iroquois Gas Transmission System.
Russian oil tankers are increasingly listing Singapore as their official destination, signalling a shift in export flows from India to China and growing concerns over Western sanctions, traders said and LSEG shipping data shows. LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) data shows tankers carrying about 1.4 million metric tons of Russian crude departed for Singapore in January, the highest monthly volume in recent years. Singapore does not import Russian oil amid sanction risks but its nearby waters...
"Just because the radical left calls something a ‘green industry’ does not give any company a free pass to harm Texas countryside," said state Attorney General Ken Paxton (R).
In comic books and movies, radiation often glows a bright green. In real life, though, the actual glow given off by nuclear power is blue. Here's why.
Five Virkie properties had improvements made on them to improve energy efficiency thanks to funding from the Scottish government.
Push to restart uranium mining in Patagonia has sparked fears about the environmental impact and loss of sovereignty over key resources On an outcrop above the Chubut River, one of the few to cut across the arid Patagonian steppe of southern Argentina , Sergio Pichiñán points across a wide swath of scrubland to colourful rock formations on a distant hillside. “That’s where they dug for uranium before, and when the miners left, they left the mountain destroyed, the houses abandoned, and nobody ever studied the water,” he says, citing suspicions arising from cases of cancer and skin diseases in his community. “If they want to open this back up, we’re all pretty worried around here.” Continue reading...
These underwater batteries could potentially store hundreds of thousands of gigawatt-hours.
Energy security is once again at the very heart of the global geopolitical arena. In an era defined by conflict, sanctions and increasingly precarious maritime routes, Beijing has internalised a fundamental truth: in an unstable world, resilience trumps ideology. Recent disruptions to global shipping corridors and tightening sanction regimes have reinforced this shift, pushing major economies to reassess their exposure to external supply shocks. While much of the West remains locked in a debate...
Attorneys from the law firm Paul, Weiss are no longer representing the oil company in at least four lawsuits that ask the fossil fuel industry to pay for climate impacts.
A surge of liquefied natural gas around the globe could hurt American exporters who continue to build new projects.
The move by the Army Corps of Engineers means a permit approval could come in March.
As US President Donald Trump continues to wage war against renewable energy, a new Chinese study revealing the strain that renewable integration places on power transformers could give him fresh technical ammunition. The researchers discovered that high renewable energy integration could make power transformers, vital components that regulate voltage in electricity grids, age faster than previously thought. High levels of wind and solar energy increased bidirectional power flow switching – the...
[The Conversation Africa] People often think of a heatwave as a temporary event, a brutal week of sun that eventually breaks with a cool breeze. But as the climate changes globally, in parts of Africa, that level of heat is becoming a permanent part of the weather.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE02574E, Paper Thi Kim Anh Nguyen, Thanh Tran-Phu, Xuan Minh Chau Ta, Biswaranjan Mohanty, Jodie Yuwono, Silvia Nappini, llargi Napal Azcona, Qi Wang, Anita Wing Yi Ho-Baillie, Christopher Bailey, Elena Magnano, Antonio Tricoli Using solar energy and water to convert biomass-derived 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) into valuable chemicals, while simultaneously producing green hydrogen, offers a promising recycling approach for a significant source of agricultural waste.... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
PHUKET - Marine authorities are rushing to remove the oil spill from the Andaman Sea after the sinking of the Panama‑flagged cargo ship about 3 miles off Laem Phromthep on Saturday while en route from Malaysia to Bangladesh.
Proposals by California, Hawaii and New York lawmakers aim to hold fossil fuel industry accountable for soaring rates As climate disasters drive up the price of home insurance, three US states are considering empowering their state prosecutors to sue major polluters for their role in those rising costs. Lawmakers in California , Hawaii and New York have introduced measures which would authorize their attorneys general to sue fossil fuel companies on behalf of residents whose insurance premiums have soared amid climate disasters. Continue reading...
This story was originally published by Yale e360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The world is poised to overshoot the goal of limiting average global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, as for the first time, a three-year period, ending in 2025, has breached the threshold. And climate scientists are predicting devastating consequences, just as […]
Scotland’s decisions on Rosebank will shape not just our climate future, but the human rights consequences tied to the companies set to profit from new fossil fuel expansion, says MSP Mercedes Villalba
An extinct moss is reintroduced across Yorkshire's moors in the battle against climate change.
A 33-year-old worker was rushed to hospital in the early hours of Sunday after being scalded by hot oil at a biodiesel facility in Hong Kong’s Tseung Kwan O. The injured, surnamed Tsang, was performing his duties at ASB Biodiesel at 22 Chun Wang Street in Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate when the accident happened. With investment from Shanghai Partner Energy Group, ASB Biodiesel operates a specialised facility that converts waste cooking oil, acidified grease trap oil and animal fat into...
The United States has set a June deadline for Ukraine and Russia to end their nearly four-year conflict, with President Zelenskyy indicating the Trump administration will exert pressure to meet this timeline. Ukraine confirmed participation in upcoming trilateral talks, likely in Miami, following recent Russian strikes that forced nuclear power plants to reduce output due to attacks on energy infrastructure.
A significant protest is under way in Rajasthan over the felling of the khejri tree. Communities are demanding stronger protection for the state tree, alleging that it is being cut to make way for solar power projects. Political leaders across parties have joined the movement, drawing attention to the tree’s cultural and ecological significance. In an arid landscape where survival is closely tied to ecology, the debate in western Rajasthan now extends beyond development to questions of history, identity and survival.
Chinese scientists have developed a plant-inspired method to convert carbon dioxide and water into valuable chemicals, such as the building blocks for petrol, by using solar energy. The process – inspired by photosynthesis, where plants harness sunlight, carbon dioxide and water to generate energy – could help produce a sustainable source of fuel, the researchers said. The team, from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, said they had developed a...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday hailed an interim trade agreement with the United States, saying it would bolster global growth and deepen economic ties between the two countries. The pact cuts US “reciprocal” duties on Indian products to 18 per cent from 25 per cent, and commits India to large purchases of US energy and industrial goods. US President Donald Trump, while announcing the deal Tuesday, had said Modi promised to stop buying Russian oil over the war in Ukraine. The...
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE07479G, Paper Yongchuan Liu, Hengyang Zhu, Chenyu Wang, Guihuang Fang, Xiangxin Zhang, Baisheng Sa, Yuanqiang Chen, Ying Liu, Lunhui Guan, Yining Zhang High-voltage lithium metal batteries (LMBs) face a critical barrier to practical deployment: conventional electrolytes fail to stabilize both the cathode and anode interfaces, triggering rapid degradation and safety risks. To... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
GENEVA - The United States on Friday urged three-way talks with Russia and China to set new limits on nuclear weapons, after the last treaty between top nuclear powers Washington and Moscow expired.
A decade after Brexit, she warns agricultural policy still leaves much to be desired
Elon Musk predicts space will soon host the most cost-effective AI data centers, potentially within three years. He highlighted space's superior solar energy capture, lack of atmospheric interference, and absence of day-night cycles, eliminating the need for batteries. Musk also downplayed concerns about GPU reliability in large-scale AI training, suggesting they become dependable after initial debugging.
A volatile White House shouldn’t change the European Union climate policy, 24 lawmakers wrote.
Founding of diplomatic outposts in Nuuk comes after US made efforts to secure control of Arctic island Opposition to US has hardened in western Europe after Greenland threat, poll finds Europe live – latest updates Canada and France are to open diplomatic consulates in the capital of Greenland on Friday, showing support for their Nato ally Denmark and the Arctic island after US efforts to secure control of the semi-autonomous Danish territory. Canada’s foreign minister, Anita Anand, was travelling to Nuuk to inaugurate the consulate, which officials say also could help boost cooperation on issues such as the climate crisis and Inuit rights. She was joined by Canada’s Indigenous governor general, Mary Simon . Continue reading...
How Britain's new ‘"green energy" depends on cutting down forests in the Deep South.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 131, Issue 3, 16 February 2026.
A court has ordered part of the oil pipeline that runs through a Wisconsin reservation to be shuttered by June 16.
The lease sale will offer 5.5 million acres to oil and gas companies on Alaska’s North Slope.
India and Malaysia have an extradition treaty, but the case, as Malaysia maintains, will be resolved based on judicial consideration. The official said that Modi and his counterpart Anwar Ibrahim will review progress under the India-Malaysia Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, especially in priority areas of cooperation such as trade, investments, defence, security, semiconductors, digital technologies, renewable energy, education, healthcare, and people-to-people exchanges.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE07379K, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Yuezhang He, Hongxi Luo, Yuancheng Lin, Carl Talsma, Anna Li, Zhenqian Wang, Yujuan Fang, Pei Liu, Jesse D Jenkins, Eric Larson, Zheng Li High costs of green hydrogen and of carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration (CCUS) have hindered policy ambition and slowed real-world deployment, despite their importance for decarbonizing hard-to-abate sectors, including cement... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
“Consistent with India’s approach to energy security, India remains open to exploring the commercial merits of any new crude supply options, including from Venezuela,” said the official. On India’s energy sourcing, the official recalled that govt had stated publicly on several occasions that ensuring the energy security of 1.4 billion Indians was the supreme priority of govt.
The Artemi Panarin trade has completely taken the rest of the intrigue and the energy out of the Garden.
Developed in response to a warming world, NOAA’s revised scale more precisely identifies which episodes are likely to have the biggest impacts. The post A new and better way to keep tabs on El Niño and La Niña appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Open access notables Risk perception and response to changing wildfire hazards: family forest owners in the western US Pacific Northwest , Fischer et al., Climate Risk Management Climate models predict future increases in the frequency, magnitude, and duration of natural hazard events, including heat waves, droughts, and wildfires. People may be aware of these natural hazards but unfamiliar with new patterns expected under climate change. Ideally, people would take action to protect themselves from natural hazard events—even those with which they have limited prior experience. Doing so would likely reduce the public costs of later assisting individuals impacted by events when they occur. Although a large body of research has examined how people perceive...
A Milestone for Data-Driven Climate Action: Ethiopia Launches Its First National Climate Data Portal shannon.paton@… Thu, 02/05/2026 - 10:34 Ethiopia has taken an important step toward stronger climate governance with the Climate Data Portal integrated into the National Digital Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation System. Led by the Ministry of Planning and Development (MoPD) with technical support from World Resources Institute, the portal brings climate-related data from key sector ministries, including the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Water and Energy and the Ministry of Agriculture, into one place, making it easier to update, verify and use. Instead of relying on scattered spreadsheets and one-off reporting, sector ministries can now log into a single system...
Integrated Resource Planning Offers a Strategy to Accelerate Clean Energy shannon.paton@… Thu, 02/05/2026 - 09:14 .city-callout { border: 3px solid #9B216C !important; padding: 10px !important; } .city-callout-heading{ border-bottom: 0.5px solid #1a1919; padding-bottom: .6875rem; margin-bottom: .5rem; color:#9B216C !important; } Around the world, energy systems are undergoing rapid transformation. Rising demand, climate imperatives and technological innovation are converging to create a complex planning landscape. In response, the strategic approach known as Integrated Resource Planning (IRP) has emerged as a powerful framework that utilities and energy planners can use to balance supply and demand while finding cost-effective approaches to long-term...
Mining, resources and big fossil fuels donated more than $10m, or $62m if Clive Palmer’s Mineralogy donation to his Trumpet of Patriots party is included Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Technology, fossil fuels and financial sector donors gave millions to Australian political parties ahead of the 2025 election, while lobby groups, gambling firms and hotels companies also chipped in. Analysis of Australian Electoral Commission data from the 2024-25 financial year found companies and individuals with interests in the tech sector donated more than $13m to the Labor, Liberal and Greens parties. Continue reading...
In first-of-its-kind complaint, state accused four fossil fuel majors and US oil lobbying group of climate disinformation Amid rising concern about global heating and soaring energy costs , Michigan has sued big oil for allegedly fueling both crises – a move experts have hailed as groundbreaking. In a first-of-its-kind complaint, the state’s attorney general, Dana Nessel, accused four fossil fuel majors and the top US oil lobbying group last month of acting as a “cartel” to stifle the growth of renewable energy and electric vehicles (EVs), while suppressing information about the dangers of the climate crisis. The conduct, the lawsuit alleged, violates federal and state antitrust laws. Continue reading...
Clean energy technologies – led by solar power and electric vehicles – drove more than one-third of China’s economic growth last year and over 90 per cent of the rise in investment, according to a new study. China’s clean energy industries generated a record 15.4 trillion yuan (US$2.1 trillion) in economic output in 2025, equivalent to 11.4 per cent of the country’s gross domestic product, the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) found. If they were a country, the Chinese...
The administration has tried to stop states from suing the fossil fuel industry to pay up for climate impacts.
A federal court has stopped the state from refusing to do business with companies that "boycott" fossil fuels.
A new survey underscores the unequal impacts of climate change.