Washington (AFP) Nov 2, 2023 - The United States and China, the world's two largest greenhouse gas emitters, said Thursday that they will hold climate talks this weekend in California, raising new hopes for headway at the COP28 summit in Dubai.
Boston MA (SPX) Nov 02, 2023 - The search is on worldwide to find ways to extract carbon dioxide from the air or from power plant exhaust and then make it into something useful. One of the more promising ideas is to make it into
Nairobi (AFP) Nov 2, 2023 - Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday accused Ugandan authorities of harassing, arresting and beating activists and demonstrators protesting a major East African oil project led by French giant TotalEnergies.
London (AFP) Nov 2, 2023 - British energy giant Shell on Thursday said net profit rose 4.5 percent to $7 billion in the third quarter from a year earlier, as it benefits from high oil prices.
Paris (AFP) Nov 2, 2023 - International funding for climate resilience in developing countries slumped in 2021 despite increasingly ferocious impacts, the United Nations said Thursday, as Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned action was stalling even as the need to protect people increases.
Cairo (AFP) Nov 2, 2023 - Oil-rich Gulf states have positioned themselves as both champions of climate innovation and guardians of fossil fuel interests - a balancing act experts warn could derail action at COP28 in Dubai.
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 01, 2023 - The future of sustainable energy storage might involve tiny bacteria and formic acid, thanks to a groundbreaking study by Yong Jiang's research team at the Agriculture and Forestry University in Fuz
New Delhi (AFP) Nov 1, 2023 - India and Bangladesh on Wednesday jointly opened a coal-fired power plant near one of the world's largest mangrove forests, despite environmental criticism in both nations saying it threatens millions of people's livelihoods.
Beijing (AFP) Nov 1, 2023 - China's booming electric vehicle industry is fuelling a lithium rush in the Tibetan plateau that risks damaging the troubled region's fragile ecology and deepening rights violations, research published Wednesday said.
Washington (AFP) Oct 31, 2023 - President Joe Biden's administration on Tuesday approved a plan to build the United States' largest ever offshore wind farm, which would power hundreds of thousands of homes with clean energy.
Abu Dhabi (AFP) Oct 31, 2023 - Nothing has yet been agreed between the nearly 200 countries that will meet at the COP28 climate talks in Dubai, with two days of preparatory talks in Abu Dhabi failing to produce any major breakthrough, participants said Tuesday.
Abu Dhabi (AFP) Oct 31, 2023 - A demand for targets for the phase-out of fossil fuels in the final agreement of COP28 in Dubai is not frivolous but an urgent request backed by crystal clear science, Europe's climate commissioner told AFP on Tuesday.
Ottawa (AFP) Oct 31, 2023 - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faced a growing backlash on Tuesday over exempting home heating oil from the state's carbon tax, with one province threatening to stop collecting the levy altogether.
Colombo (AFP) Oct 31, 2023 - Sri Lanka is set to award a multi-billion dollar oil refinery project to a Chinese state-owned company after a rival bidder pulled out, the energy minister said Tuesday.
Paris (AFP) Oct 31, 2023 - The Emirati oil boss preparing to take the helm of UN climate talks said he is stunned to hear that environmentalists suspect him of duplicity on climate change.
College Park MD (SPX) Oct 30, 2023 - University of Maryland researchers studying how lithium batteries fail have developed a new technology that could enable next-generation electric vehicles (EVs) and other devices that are less prone
