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...
European Wind Industry is Turning to Emerging Economies
The European Union, the world’s largest wind market by installed capacity, is ceding ground to emerging nations as they mark gusty plains...
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...
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...
Morocco: A Solar Power Gamble
Beaming in the desert, 10 kilometers away from the mountainous city of Ouarzazate, lies Noor, the world’s biggest solar power station....
NASA to Study How African Fires Affect Climate
Climate scientists have received a boost of up to US$150 million from US space agency NASA for a five year campaign to probe how air...
Seaweed Forests Could Help Power Tropical Islands
Harvesting seaweed ‘forests’ and feeding them into large underwater digesters could one day meet the world’s energy needs, with nine per...
Africa’s Renewable Energy Use to Rise Four-Fold by 2030
Africa is quickly adapting to modern renewable energy sources, and could more than quadruple renewable energy use to 22 per cent e by...
Insect Farming Could Fight Malnutrition, Environmental Stress
Farming insects on a large scale is no more of a biological or chemical hazard than other livestock farming, says a report by a European...