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Rio Olympic medals are sustainable
29 Jul 2016
Rio 2016 and the Brazilian Mint have shown their commitment to the environment by using sustainable resources in the Olympic Games’ medals.
Trump v Clinton: Worlds apart on science
28 Jul 2016
Presidential candidates begin to make clear their stark differences on climate change, energy production and stem cell research.
Rising seas threaten to swamp military bases
28 Jul 2016
Military bases along the US East and Gulf coasts are at risk of losing large chunks of land as rising sea levels from climate change swamp installations from New Hampshire to Florida.
Frydenberg: Australia's use of coal is falling
28 Jul 2016
Australia’s new environment and energy minister, Josh Frydenberg, says coal will be a declining part of Australia’s energy mix because of inexorable market forces – but he insists the Coalition’s much criticised Direct Action policy is up to the mark, and will allow Australia to meet its international emissions reduction targets.
Campaign reduces Amazon deforestation by 86%
28 Jul 2016
Amazon deforestation due to soy production has fallen 86 per cent in the last decade as a result of Greenpeace’s soy moratorium.
SPIRAL-TASTIC: Climate change in three animations
28 Jul 2016
Mesmerising new climate visuals tell the story of how emissions have stoked global warming since 1850.
Climate top priority, says Philippines leader
27 Jul 2016
Last week, he said he would not honour the Paris climate agreement. Yesterday, Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte said global warming was a “top priority”.
Scientists call for more work on 1.5deg target
26 Jul 2016
More research is needed on the risks involved in even 1.5 degrees of warming, a Scientists call for new report shows.
Air-conditioning big and getting bigger
26 Jul 2016
Globally, 2016 is poised to be another record-breaking year for average temperatures. This means more air-conditioning. Much more.
Weather disasters can fuel war in volatile countries
26 Jul 2016
Climate scientists have reported that armed fighting is prone to follow droughts, heatwaves and other weather-related calamities in turbulent countries.
Huge Episcopal church backs climate action
26 Jul 2016
The Paris Agreement on climate change has the backing of America’s largest and oldest Black church.
Power price woes are more due to gas than wind
26 Jul 2016
The past few weeks have seen extraordinarily high wholesale electricity prices in South Australia, averaging A$321 per megawatt hour, compared with A$80 per MWh for July 2015.
Australia to build first hybrid wind-solar farm
26 Jul 2016
Australia’s first large-scale hybrid wind and solar farm is set to be built near Canberra.
Google and UN launch online climate platform
26 Jul 2016
The United Nations has unveiled new software, developed in partnership with Google, to help to tackle climate change, deforestation and food production issues.
Here's what Trump delegates think about climate change
25 Jul 2016
Delegates attending the Republican convention eerre asked if they agree with scientists that climate change is happening and whether people contribute to it.
HFCs critical piece of puzzle. says Kerry
25 Jul 2016
US Secretary of State John Kerry has told envoys at the Montreal Protocol talks in Vienna that their moment to contribute to a global warming solution has come.
Get set for the hottest year on record
22 Jul 2016
The world is on track for its hottest year on record and levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have reached new highs, further fuelling global warming, the World Meteorological Organisation says.
Climate change costs are still climbing
22 Jul 2016
The massive economic and health losses that climate change is already causing across the world are detailed in six scientific papers published today.
Trudeau ready to get tough with provinces
22 Jul 2016
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the government will impose a "strong" price on carbon — and won't rule out a cap to ensure provinces meet a national standard.
UK appoints new climate change minister
22 Jul 2016
Nick Hurd, former head of Energy Africa initiative, has been handed the climate change portfolio in the UK's new department for business, energy and industrial strategy.
June marks 14th month of record temperatures
21 Jul 2016
As the string of record-breaking global temperatures continues unabated, June 2016 marks the 14th consecutive month of record-breaking heat.
Melbourne hosts 'Tesla Town'
21 Jul 2016
An Australian property group is building the world’s first “Tesla Town” in suburban Melbourne, with the first 60 homes to go on sale this week.
EU climate package ‘not in line with Paris goals’
21 Jul 2016
EU plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions from transport, buildings and farming through to 2030 have landed.
Britain needs $39b to tackle climate change
21 Jul 2016
Britain’s ambition to virtually eliminate its greenhouse gas pollution will cost $39.4 billion more to achieve because the government abandoned plans to spur carbon capture and storage technology.
New York island puts up climate defences
21 Jul 2016
Amid rising seas, a park on New York's Governor's Island uses Dutch ingenuity to protect itself while maintaining its beauty – with barely a seawall to be seen.
Somewhere, soon, it could be too hot to work
20 Jul 2016
Searing temperatures caused by climate change might cost global economies more than $2 trillion by 2030, restricting working hours in some of the poorest parts of the world, says the UN.
It's not easy being green when you're poor
20 Jul 2016
The transition to a clean-energy future is upon us, as shown by the huge uptake of solar panels and by the Turnbull government’s decision to set up a A$1 billion Clean Energy Innovation Fund. But what about those people who are at risk of being left behind?
UN: Kenya, Bangladesh, Jordan ‘green finance leaders’
20 Jul 2016
Move over London, Shanghai and New York: Kenya, Bangladesh, Mongolia and Jordan have been named as rising green finance leaders in a report from the UN.
Victoria approves state's largest windfarm
20 Jul 2016
Victoria has approved a $650m, 96-turbine windfarm that will be the largest in the state as it bids to become Australia's renewable energy leader.
New climate minister believes in 'moral case' for coal
19 Jul 2016
A man who recently argued there is a strong moral case for Australia to build new coal mines and export the coal to India is now in charge of the country’s climate change policy.
Philippines turns back on Paris Agreement
19 Jul 2016
The Philippines will not honour commitments it made under the Paris climate change deal, says president Rodrigo Duterte.
Canada vows national carbon price this year
19 Jul 2016
Canada will have a national price on carbon emissions by the end of this year, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says.
Britain could warm by 4deg this century
19 Jul 2016
Scientific advisers warn that, by 2100, temperatures in Britain could rise by twice as much as the internationally agreed limit set at the Paris climate conference.
UK, Germany betraying Paris deal, says UN
19 Jul 2016
The UN's climate change envoy has accused the UK and Germany of backtracking on the spirit of the Paris climate deal by financing the fossil fuel industry through subsidies.
Multi-billion carbon market fraud run from Poland
19 Jul 2016
The founder of Poland’s biggest carbon quota brokerage firm, whose name appeared in connection with the Panama Papers, has been found guilty of VAT fraud and sentenced to jail in France.
Climate change is economic problem, says Carney
18 Jul 2016
Only about one-third of the world's 1000 largest companies provide effective disclosure of the risks they face due to climate change, says Bank of England Governor Mark Carney.
Trump's man a climate denier
18 Jul 2016
Donald Trump's choice for vice-president, the conservative governor of Indiana, Mike Pence, denies climate change and is an outspoken coal advocate.
Abolition of DECC major setback for Britain
18 Jul 2016
The abolition of the Department of Energy and Climate Change has been condemned by former ministers as a major setback to British efforts to combat global warming.
Can Nauru bounce back from mining boom and bust?
18 Jul 2016
When most of us hear of Nauru we tend to think of immigration detention, or perhaps of the environmentally ruinous legacy of the island nation’s ill-fated phosphate mining boom.
Warm oceans eating into Antarctica
18 Jul 2016
Scientists say it is actually warm ocean waters, not rising air temperatures, that are eating away at the ice along part of the Antarctic's western side.
PACIFIC PLEA: NZ should join island nations' fight
15 Jul 2016
New Zealand should join forces with its island neighbours preparing to take bold action against fossil fuel producers, says Labour’s Pacific climate change spokesman.
This time, can Turnbull do climate and energy?
15 Jul 2016
Australia’s re-elected Coalition government has the opportunity to revamp its policies on climate change.
Sustainable cities must beat the pain points
15 Jul 2016
Integrating energy, water, transport, security and waste will make cities more sustainable, an international forum has heard.
UK merges climate and business departments
15 Jul 2016
New British PM Theresa May has merged the climate and business departments in a move critics say will threaten investor confidence in the green sector.
Brexit will force EU to make deeper cuts
15 Jul 2016
Brexit will force the European Union’s remaining 27 countries to spend billions of euros on cutting carbon emissions more deeply to compensate for the UK leaving, according to experts.
France stops supermarkets from throwing away food
15 Jul 2016
France has banned supermarkets from throwing away unwanted food, and the ruling could lead to wider action on food waste across Europe.
Climate emerges as critical Clinton election weapon
15 Jul 2016
Belief in global warming and policies to tackle greenhouse gas emissions are becoming a key dividing line ahead of the US election.
Biodiversity below safe levels across half the world
15 Jul 2016
The variety of animals and plants has fallen to dangerous levels across more than half of the world’s landmass due to humanity destroying habitats to use as farmland, scientists have estimated.
TTIP proposal casts doubt on G20 climate pledge
14 Jul 2016
Trade negotiators in Brussels are proposing new loopholes on a G20 pledge to phase out fossil fuel subsidies within a decade, according to the latest leaked TTIP proposals.
Global warming is shifting Earth's clouds
14 Jul 2016
The reaction of clouds to a warming atmosphere has been one of the major sources of uncertainty in estimating exactly how much the world will heat up from the accumulation of greenhouse gases, as some changes would enhance warming, while others would counteract it.
Battery subsidy scheme set for 'urgent' overhaul as costs run out of control
16 Dec 2025
Australian Energy Minister Chris Bowen has announced big changes to the government's battery subsidy scheme amid claims most of its $2.3 billion budget has been spent in just six months.
EPA erases references to human-caused climate change from websites
19 Dec 2025
EPA has scrubbed references to people’s contribution to rising temperatures from some of its climate change webpages.
Verra cancels four tree planting projects in China. And starts reviews of 45 more projects
16 Dec 2025
“Multiple carbon projects in China are facing serious allegations regarding the authenticity of government approval documents."
France updates its 2050 carbon neutrality roadmap
17 Dec 2025
To mark the 10th anniversary of the Paris Agreement, France released a revamped climate plan promising to phase out oil and gas and sharply increase electricity use.
Net-zero scenario is ‘cheapest option’ for UK, says energy system operator
15 Dec 2025
A scenario that meets the “net-zero by 2050” goal would be the “cheapest” option for the UK, according to modelling by the National Energy System Operator (NESO).
The ecological havens flourishing beneath power lines
19 Dec 2025
Initiatives to foster native wildflowers, grasses and shrubs are turning utility corridors into wildlife corridors.
‘Not normal’: Climate crisis supercharged deadly monsoon floods in Asia
12 Dec 2025
Cyclones like those in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Malaysia that killed 1,750 are ‘alarming new reality’.
Pacific fisheries summit gives a boost to albacore and seabirds
19 Dec 2025
Much of the world’s albacore tuna catch, which usually ends up in a can, comes from the southwestern Pacific Ocean, where fishery managers just passed a new set of conservation rules.
Arctic endured year of record heat as climate scientists warn of ‘winter being redefined’
18 Dec 2025
Region known as ‘world’s refrigerator’ is heating up as much as four times as quickly as global average, Noaa experts say.
Are rainforests now a cause of, rather than the answer to, climate change?
15 Dec 2025
A new study finds that Africa’s forests, responsible for one-fifth of global carbon removal, are beginning to generate carbon as the result of human activity.
Thousands of climate disasters are not included in official reports from Amazonian countries
12 Dec 2025
More than 12,500 extreme weather events impacted the Amazon and its population in 10 years, but countries have not generated enough information about it, according to a new scientific study.
UN environment report 'hijacked' by US and others over fossil fuels, top scientist says
11 Dec 2025
A key UN report on the state of the global environment has been "hijacked" by the United States and other countries who were unwilling to go along with the scientific findings, the co-chair has told the BBC.
