Tehran (AFP) March 27, 2021 - Iran and China signed a 25-year strategic cooperation pact Saturday in the latest expansion of Beijing's flagship trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative as the US rivals build closer ties.
Ottawa (AFP) March 25, 2021 - The Supreme Court of Canada on Thursday upheld a national carbon tax that is the centrepiece of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's climate plan, rejecting a constitutional challenge by several provinces.
Paris (AFP) March 24, 2021 - Maritime trade will slow down for days after a giant container ship got stuck sideways in the Suez Canal, causing a bottleneck in one of the world's busiest shipping routes.
Washington DC (UPI) Mar 24, 2021 - Environmental win-wins are ideal outcomes - such as increasing a shrimp catches in ways that also have environmental sustainability by limiting adverse environmental impacts - are harder to come by than thought, according to new research.
Dalian, China (SPX) Mar 24, 2021 - Efficient conversion of CO2 is strategically significant for alleviating the energy crisis and achieving the goal of carbon neutrality. One promising conversion route is the hydrogenation of CO2 to
London (AFP) March 24, 2021 - The British government on Wednesday angered environmentalists by saying it could license further oil and gas drilling in the North Sea, months before it hosts a climate change summit.
Toronto, Canada (SPX) Mar 24, 2021 - The debate about what happened in Texas in February had a lot of finger pointing. The polar vortex of extreme cold weather, with temperatures in Dallas dropping to -9C on February 15th, set in motio
Paris (AFP) March 24, 2021 - The world's leading banks have provided the fossil fuel industry with $3.8 trillion in financing in the five years following the signing of the Paris climate accord, a group of non-governmental organisations said Tuesday.
Gothenburg, Sweden (SPX) Mar 24, 2021 - Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology have produced a structural battery that performs ten times better than all previous versions. It contains carbon fibre that serves simultaneously a
Boston MA (SPX) Mar 24, 2021 - The cost of the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries used for phones, laptops, and cars has fallen dramatically over the last three decades, and has been a major driver of the rapid growth of those te
Linkoping, Sweden (SPX) Mar 24, 2021 - One prospective source of renewable energy is hydrogen gas produced from water with the aid of sunlight. Researchers at Linkoping University, Sweden, have developed a material, nanoporous cubic sili
London (AFP) March 23, 2021 - Britain's transition to carbon neutrality is gathering momentum, Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey declared Tuesday, citing the positive impact of US President Joe Biden.
Toronto, Canada (AFP) March 20, 2021 - Delegates of Canada's Conservative Party rejected a resolution calling on the party to recognize the reality of climate change, snubbing a plea from the faction's leader to take the environment more seriously.
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Mar 19, 2021 - A partnership of aerospace specialists has launched the world's first in-flight emissions study using 100 percent Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) on a wide-body commercial passenger aircraft. Airbus
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 18, 2021 - Hydrogen is a pollution-free energy source when it's extracted from water using sunlight instead of fossil fuels. But current strategies for splitting or breaking apart water molecules with cataly
London (AFP) March 18, 2021 - Britain's carbon dioxide emissions have halved from their 1990 level, taking the country half-way to its net-zero 2050 commitment, a study indicated Thursday.
