New York has completed the construction of a 1.2MW community solar array.
Nearly 200 households and businesses are already benefitting from the site in Brooklyn, which entered operation earlier this month.
The project was...
Washington, DC made history Tuesday when its council voted unanimously to transition to 100 percent renewable energy by 2032, the Huffington Post reported.
The commitment is part of the Clean Energy DC Omnibus Act of 2018, which...
Oil & Gas UK says this makes up around 3% of the country’s entire greenhouse gas emissions.
Total emissions from upstream oil and gas operations in the UK increased by 7% to 15.7...
Summers in the UK could be up to 5.4°C warmer by 2070, according to new data published by the Met Office.
It warns of significant temperature rises in the coming decades in its...
Cooling the Earth by injecting sun-blocking particles into the stratosphere could be “remarkably inexpensive”, according to the most detailed engineering analysis to date.
The fear of a rogue nation or military force unilaterally...
Spain has set out ambitious plans to switch to 100% renewable electricity by 2050.
Under the proposals, the government aims to install at least 3GW of wind and solar power capacity every year...
The ozone layer is showing signs of continuing recovery from man-made damage and is likely to heal fully by 2060, new evidence shows.
The measures taken to repair the damage will also have...
Two thirds of the planet is covered in water and so no surprisingly oceans have an inordinate effect on the Earth’s climate. They absorb vast amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere and...
A new study shows these nations’ domestic policies do not live up to their nationally determined contributions.
Only 16 countries have domestic greenhouse gas reduction targets clearly matching their Paris Agreement commitments.
That’s according to...
By 2060, global consumption of raw resources is set to nearly double to 167 gigatonnes.
That’s according to a new OECD report, which warns as the global economy expands, living standards rise and world...
One way of mitigating the adverse effects of man-made climate change is to plant trees. The more trees there are, the more CO2 they absorb from the atmosphere, thereby alleviating the greenhouse...
Norway has become the first country to ban deforestation. The Norwegian Parliament pledged May 26 that the government's public procurement policy will be deforestation-free.
Any product that contributes to deforestation will not be...
Cities around the world are pledging to reduce waste over the next 12 years in an effort to curb global warming and eventually become zero-waste cities. During the Global Climate Action Summit,...
The Rocky Mountain Institute recently released a report titled Decarbonization Pathways for Mines: A Headlamp in the Darkness, in which it was stated that in 2015, half of worldwide industrial greenhouse gas...
More than a million electric cars can now be seen on the streets of Europe, thanks in part to a sales surge in the first half of 2018. Europe has reached this...
In a summer marked by air quality alerts as wildfires rage in the western U.S., a study has been published finding that air pollution lowers the average lifespan by one year worldwide.
The...
