The Green New Deal as a catalyst for smoothing out social inequality
Humanity has a decade to reduce carbon emissions or face climate change devastation, reckons the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The United Nations’ group is…
Humanity has a decade to reduce carbon emissions or face climate change devastation, reckons the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The United Nations’ group is…
The search for alternative fuels struck lucky off the coast of Japan recently. Under the water and below the seabed are pockets of methane, trapped…
It was a black moment, standing before the Australian parliament clasping a lump of coal in a pose of denunciation. Scott Morrison made headlines with…
From death came life. Cremation, a traditional ceremony for the 8.5 million Hindus dying each year in India, is emotionally and environmentally fraught. An estimated…
It used to be missiles; now it’s oil, but Cuba is still in crisis. Back in ’62 the so-called Cuban Missile Crisis triggered a 13-day…
The Global Climate Index for 2018 was published in early November and – like the ones before it – the index makes grim reading. The…
US president Donald Trump is gearing up for war in the east, but not against North Korea and not by nuclear or conventional means of…
Shipping There it is on the horizon, clear as day. At half a kilometre long, it’s hard to miss the hulking outline of a container…
Three days before leaving the White House President Barack Obama sent $500 million to the Green Climate Fund. Then came Donald Trump, and that could…
Here’s what’s on Donald Trump’s climate change “hit list”, according to the respected current affairs magazine Newsweek. He will “gut” the Paris climate deal, “scrap”…
A recently launched World Bank plan sets out what is needed to boost both climate resilience and low-carbon development to protect growth and fight poverty…
Electric cars were – and still are – being hailed as a new dawn. Next up are driverless cars. Going towards self-charging driverless cars will not be an easy ride
The saga started last autumn. The allegations, however, of a huge corporate cover-up on the then emerging science of climate change date back around 40…