An indigenous community's battle to save their home in the Amazon – in pictures
There are currently over 60 major hydroelectric dam projects in the Amazon. The third largest project is the Belo Monte on the Xingu River, Brazil, which has already displaced 20,000 indigenous and...
View ArticleSudden power price rises show need for climate policy certainty – report
In the wake of South Australian price rise, the Grattan Institute calls on governments to explain that the transition to renewables is coming, with costs attachedHuge spikes in wholesale electricity...
View ArticleSupport for renewable energy up, trust in political action down | John Connor
The scare campaign heydays are over. Support for action on climate change has rebounded to 2008 levels as frustration at the lack of political leadership growsIf we were to try to repair the lost...
View ArticleAfrica's portable solar revolution is thwarting thieves
More secure supplies of electricity are helping to spawn new industries in rural Africa by enabling reliable refrigeration and irrigation When South Africa’s government started giving laptops to...
View ArticleNo fracking, drilling or digging: it’s the only way to save life on Earth |...
The Paris climate change agreement is worthless. Politicians can’t possibly honour it unless we stop developing all new fossil fuel reservesDo they understand what they have signed? Plainly they do...
View ArticleNew York City accelerates emissions efforts in face of daunting sea level rise
City to expand renewable energy generation, improve efficiency of buildings, transition to electric vehicles and improve waste management to cut emissionsNew York City has set out a plan to quicken its...
View ArticleNew MIT app: check if your car meets climate targets | Dana Nuccitelli
In the US today, the most affordable and climate-friendly cars are electricIn a new study published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, with an accompanying app for the public,...
View ArticleKing's College London diverts fossil fuel endowments to clean energy
New investment policy will end the endowment fund’s exposure to tar sands and thermal coal, and channel 15% of its £175m into greener alternatives King’s College London has endorsed a plan that would...
View ArticleIs this a new low: politicians using a natural disaster to push a fact-free...
Unburdened by evidence, anti-wind campaigners used the South Australian blackout to kick off a debate about renewables while others waited for factsNormally natural disasters are off limits to...
View ArticleMalcolm Turnbull says South Australia blackout a wake-up call on renewables
PM’s comments comes as Jay Weatherill accuses Coalition of pushing anti-windfarm agenda and playing politics when thousands of households still have no powerIs this a new low: politicians using a...
View ArticleSouth Australia's blackout explained (and no, renewables aren't to blame)
Some wrongly implicated windfarms when the entire state lost power after one of the worst storms in 50 years knocked out high-voltage power pylonsOn Wednesday, something very unusual happened: the...
View ArticleCoal electricity generation falls to record UK low this spring
Closure of coal-fired power plants led to the fossil fuel dropping to just 6% of the power mix, official data showsCoal generated a record low 6% of the UK’s electricity this spring, official figures...
View ArticleSouth Australia weather: power supply prioritised after emergency declared
SA governor assents to regulations ensuring the production, distribution and supply of electricity declared essential services Australia’s energy market is prioritising South Australia after the state...
View ArticleThere are two issues the South Australian blackout should make us think about...
A number of themes have arisen following the South Australian blackout. To put them all in perspective requires a focus on addressing climate changeA South Australian power price shock in July and a...
View ArticleHinkley Point C developers face £7.2bn cleanup bill at end of nuclear plant's...
French and Chinese developers will be the first nuclear operators in the UK that will have to pay to decommission the site The French and Chinese companies that are to build the £18bn Hinkley Point C...
View ArticleJames Lovelock: ‘Before the end of this century, robots will have taken over’
Fracking is great, the green movement is a religion, his dire predictions about climate change were nonsense – and robots don’t mind the heat, so what does it matter? At 97, the creator of Gaia theory...
View ArticleThe lights go out in SA and Turnbull flicks the switch to peak stupid |...
The PM ridiculed state renewable targets after the South Australian blackout, the very targets he has to achieve to meet his own emissions promisesOne big storm and our climate and energy debate is...
View ArticleHydrogen cars and electrolysers: the dawn of Australia's hydrogen economy?
Two large-scale hydrogen facilities in the ACT could mark a turning point in the use of clean tech for transport and heatingThe hydrogen economy has been a long time coming. The use of hydrogen as a...
View ArticleSouth Australia seeks to put 'emissions intensity' trading scheme in play
State pushes for greater integration of Australia’s electricity network – but Josh Frydenberg says the idea will have to waitThe South Australian government expects a special meeting of energy...
View ArticleDOE charts show why climate doom and gloom isn't needed | Dana Nuccitelli
Clean tech costs have fallen 41–94% over the past 7 years. Wind and solar accounted for two-thirds of new energy installations in the US in 2015.A new report from the US Department of Energy paints a...
View Article
