Audio: Indian Capital Suspends Odd-Even Car Experiment To Curb Pollution
The government of India's capital New Delhi tried an odd-even scheme for cars to curb growing air pollution. But now it says it is...
Climate Policies on Collision Course with Clean Cookstoves Drive
Climate policies could kill hundreds of thousands of South Asians if not matched with support for clean cookstoves. That was the stark...
Video: Environmental Inequality Persists in South Africa
In South Africa, inequalities remain despite the end of apartheid, including on the environmental front. The poorest populations live in...
UN Think Tank Wants to Double Clean Power Over 15 Years
Rays, wind and gravity can boost incomes, welfare and trade balances. That’s the claim of the International Renewable Energy Agency as it...
Activists on Trial for Blocking Oil Train Will Argue It Was Justified by Climate Change
In September 2014, five climate activists with Rising Tide Seattle managed to halt the passage of a crude oil train at the BNSF Delta...
Fossil Fuel Burning 'Postponing Next Ice Age'
Humanity’s burning of fossil fuels is postponing the next global ice age for at least 100,000 years, according to new research that has...
IMF Calls for Carbon Levy on Ships and Planes
A charge of US$30 a tonne on carbon dioxide embedded in international transport fuels could have raised US$25 billion in 2014, the...
The Solution for the Melting Polar Ice Caps May Be Hiding in the Rainforest
There was already dramatic evidence that our planet is undeniably warming before 30 December 2015, when the world heard that the ice at...
Is the Post-Fossil Fuel Era Now Inevitable?
Ambassador Laurence Tubiana, France's point person for COP21, wisely explained a year ago that Paris will be judged a success if it leads...
Global Action Too Slow to Curb Rising Risks Says Former UN Disaster Chief
The world's preparations to deal with disasters are not yet keeping pace with the growing threats to people and societies, said the...