Over the coming years, the role of renewable energy, for example sun and wind energy, is predicted to rapidly increase. At this stage it is hard to pinpoint...
The Carbon Tracker Initiative has announced that Barack Obama’s former Special Assistant is joining its advisory board. Paul Bodnar has extensive experience in dealing in international...
Ongoing research suggests fracking is taking place at much shallower depths than first thought. Authors say there is no evidence of water contamination, but more research...
Climate change makes 20 times more likely for corn and wheat crop production to decrease, significantly affecting food prices and availability in the long-term, according to...
By the end of the century, more than half of the world’s population could be exposed to “stagnant atmospheric conditions”, which would keep pollutants low in...
A student pressure group has delivered 15,000 signatures to Universities UK, an advocacy organisation, in an effort to persuade British higher education institutions to cut their...
The board of trustees at the prestigious Californian university Stanford has decided not to make any more direct investments in coal mining companies, saying the energy...
Wind farms can provide enough surplus energy to develop energy storage technology capable of stockpiling three days’ worth of uninterrupted power, a new study has found....
BP’s 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has slowed down the heartbeats of tuna fish, which in some cases had led to cardiac arrest...
A public opinion survey has demonstrated that most US citizens think that the country’s government should be doing more to tackle climate change. The poll, which...
A study has said that New York City could be powered by energy from wind, solar and hydro technologies with intelligent and long-sight investment into renewables. With...
In yesterday’s Times, Rupert Murdoch’s favourite climate writer, Conservative peer Matt Ridley, attacked anecdotes about extreme weather as those of a pub bore. Apparently, Arctic springs...