Severe weather, flooding threat hits Northeast: Forecast
Source Heavy thunderstorms could bring rainfall rates topping 2 inches per hour. More than 38 million people from New York City to Washington, D.C., could face severe weather on Thursday […]
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US-Iran war spurs Europe, Asia to boost renewables
Source BRUSSELS/LONDON/SINGAPORE, Aug 26 (Reuters) – Six months into the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, governments across Europe and Asia are scrambling to accelerate a renewables build-out in a bid to
El Niño and its effects on food supply chains
Source LONDON, Aug 19 (Reuters) – Hello, it’s Energy and environment, social and governance (ESG) editor Sharon Kimathi here, filling in for Ross Kerber. Usually, I focus on the immediate
South Africa’s $182 million green hydrogen fund signals new push to finance industrial decarbonisation
Source Climate Fund Managers has secured $182 million in the first close of a new South African green hydrogen fund, bringing together public and private capital to finance projects spanning
Global fire outbreaks hit record high as ‘unprecedented’ heat extremes loom, scientists say
Source SINGAPORE, May 12 (Reuters) – Climate change has driven record-breaking outbreaks of fire in Africa, Asia and elsewhere this year, with conditions expected to get worse as the northern
US EPA moves to speed clean air permits for power plants, industry
Source May 11 – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said on Monday it would speed up the process for large polluters to obtain clean air permits, the latest move
Offshore oil and gas expansion threatens key marine ecosystems, report warns
Source Sea life in countries like Kenya is under threat from planned new oil and gas production, environmentalists analysis has found Ocean and coastal creatures are being put at risk
Eni, Egypt’s Bioenergy Association partner to study biogas production from agricultural and animal waste
Source Baku, Azerbaijan: Energy company Eni has signed an agreement with the Bioenergy Association for Sustainable Development, which works under Egypt’s Ministry of Environment, to carry out a study on
The Latest: Category 5 Hurricane Melissa makes landfall in Jamaica with record strength
Source KINGSTON – Hurricane Melissa has made landfall on Jamaica as the strongest storm to hit the Caribbean island since records were first kept 174 years ago. It is tied
General strike, protests paralyse Tunisia’s Gabes over pollution crisis
Source TUNIS, Oct 21 (Reuters) – A general strike and tens of thousands of protesters brought the southern Tunisian city of Gabes to a standstill on Tuesday to back demands
AI is helping these organizations to protect and restore nature
Source Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly recognized as a foundational technology capable of transforming how society operates and exerting paradigm shifts across disciplines, including environmental and conservation science. Its potential
Environment groups are anything but ‘mute’ on the planning bill
Source George Monbiot is both right and wrong in his article on the planning and infrastructure bill (Wage war on nature to build new homes: that’s Labour’s offer, but it’s
Hotels Turn Resorts Into Coral Restoration Labs as Reefs Face Climate Crisis
Source As coral reefs around the world face unprecedented stress from warming oceans, a growing number of coastal hotels and resorts are transforming their beachfronts into living laboratories for reef
Officials unveil plans to protect crucial biodiverse wetland: ‘Unparalleled’
Source Argentina is home to one of the largest and most biodiverse wetlands in the world. In the province of Santa Fe sits the Jaaukanigás reserve, where the Paraná River