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Alaskan Glaciers Have Not Melted This Fast in at Least Four Centuries

Rising temperatures are causing glaciers in Alaska's Denali National Park to melt faster than at any time in the past 400 years, according to new research. The study was published in the Journal...

Apple Now Globally Powered by 100% Renewables

In its continued efforts to "combat climate change and create a healthier environment," Apple announced Monday that its global facilities are now powered with 100 percent clean energy. All of the tech giant's...

EPA Moves to Relax US Vehicle Emission Standards

Scott Pruitt, the head of the US Environment Protection Agency (EPA), has revealed plans to roll back emissions standards for vehicles in a move that could impact the country's transport emissions for...

Repowering UK Wind Farms Low-Cost Option To Increase Renewable Generation

Repowering and upgrading ageing UK wind farms as they near the end of their scheduled lifespan could increase the UK’s generating capacity by 1.3 gigawatts, providing a highly cost-effective means of increasing...

Norway Aims for Electric Planes to Help Slow Climate Change

Norway—home to the world's highest per capita number of all-electric cars—is also planning to go emission-free in the friendly skies. The Scandinavian country aims to be the first in the world to switch...

Flooding and Heavy Rains Rise 50 Per Cent Worldwide in a Decade, Figures Show

Global floods and extreme rainfall events have surged by more than 50 per cent this decade, and are now occurring at a rate four times higher than in 1980, according to a...

Government Floats Proposals to Phase Out Coal and Oil Heating from 2020s

The government has launched a Call for Evidence on its plans to phase out high-carbon fossil fuel heating systems, such as coal fires and oil burners, over the next decade. In a document...

McDonald’s to Take Major Bite Out of Carbon Footprint with New Science-Based Targets

McDonald's has become the first global restaurant company to set greenhouse gas targets in line with global climate science, it claimed today as it launched a raft of new green commitments. The fast...

Anchovies and Chips: WWF Warns of Climate Threat to Iconic Dishes

Many of the UK's most popular dishes could become much more expensive, or even disappear altogether, over the coming decades as a result of climate impacts. That is the stark warning contained in...

Report: Unchecked Climate Change Will Lead to Widespread Biodiversity Loss

The world will see enormous losses of biodiversity across all species groups on every continent by the end of this century if we do not make deep cuts to global greenhouse emissions,...

African Development Bank Secures $52.5 Million For 100 Megawatts Of Zambia Renewable Energy

The African Development Bank has this week secured $52.5 million in funding from the Green Climate Fund for Zambia’s Renewable Energy Financing Framework which will seek to finance 100 megawatts (MW) of...

Fifth Third Bank Commits & Succeeds In Going 100% Renewable With Single Solar PPA

Ohio-based Fifth Third Bank has become the first Fortune 500 company, the first bank, and the first RE100 member to achieve its goal of securing 100% of its power consumption with renewables...

Researchers Unveil Several Ways to Limit Global Warming to 1.5°C by 2100

A group of researchers led by International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis has used new modelling scenarios to showcase several ways with which to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C by 2100. According...

Seaweed Sneakers Look Fly, Could Help Save the Environment

Would you wear sneakers made from kelp? What if they looked as stylish as any other shoe, and could help reduce the massive impact of the textile industry? A new textile component called...

Microsoft Inks First Asia Renewables Deal in Sunseap Rooftop Solar Tie-Up

Microsoft has signed its first renewables deal in Asia, inking an agreement with Singaporean solar firm Sunseap to buy all the electricity from a new 60MW rooftop solar project. The deal, announced yesterday,...

Keeping Global Temperature Increase Below 1.5 Degrees Celsius Unlikely, Says IPCC Draft Report

Every September, the Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change releases a report on global warming, but that report doesn’t take shape overnight. It is the result of nearly a year’s worth of work...

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