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For more than a week this past February, the city choked on the acrid smoke that forced schools and business to close. It racked up millions of dollars in lost production and an estimated 60 million dollars in firefighting costs as the city tried to combat yet another fire at Kin... Read more »
Piet Willem Chevalier and his organization I Love Windpower are bringing affordable community based wind energy. Recent developments in Mali are complicating things but Mr Chevalier’s vision, workshops and hard work are providing not only knowledge and skills, but a sense of id... Read more »
Earlier today a group of prominent EU business leaders met with EU President Barroso, Commissioner Connie Hedegaard, Commissioner Potočnik and other senior European Commission officials for discussions on climate, energy and natural capital. The meeting focused on how the EU can... Read more »
Economic degradation and climate change pose the greatest systemic threat to Asia’s long-term economic security and prosperity, a senior ADB official has warned.... Read more »
Solar energy is following the same path to commercialization as other traditional energy sources spurred by federal incentives, according to a new study from the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. ... Read more »
South Korea's lawmakers approved a national emissions trading scheme on Wednesday to tackle its growing greenhouse gas emissions, overcoming strong industry opposition and joining a growing number of nations to put a price on carbon.... Read more »
Even though the stakes are as high as they are, our allies in the climate movement rise higher. Whether they’re riding trains across the country to take on an oil pipeline, challenging youth to power the world and solve energy poverty, or calling on the leader of a country to v... Read more »
In flood-hit fields in the Philippines, farmers are testing a hardy new variety of rice that can survive completely submerged for more than two weeks. In Kenya's Kibera slum, poor urban families are turning around their diets and incomes just by learning to grow vegetables in sac... Read more »
Is the Arctic being militarized? As nations and corporations look north to unlock natural resources in the melting Arctic Ocean, military buildup is accelerating at the pole, too.... Read more »
Ecuador is eyeing the international Green Climate Fund as a way to help pay for its plan to trade oil for forests, a top government representative said.... Read more »
Canada has cut an odd figure as host of the International Polar Year conference, which draws to an end today. Hundreds of scientists from around the world are in Montreal to discuss the dramatic changes to the Arctic's biodiversity, energy dynamics and ice melt.... Read more »
Every Friday we select our favourite videos from the climate movement to feature on TckTckTck. Let us know what you think of our choices in the comments section below.... Read more »
High on a windmill, hidden amongst the cherry orchards and the wheat fields of Eastern Czech Republic, is a painting of a raven with a piece of bread in its mouth. The prophet St. Elias the Tishbite was kept alive by ravens feeding him bread when he was hidden in the desert. This... Read more »
Global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions will peak in 2016 in line with economic growth in emerging economies and then decline slowly to 2020 on a “best case global outlook”, Deutsche Bank said in a report released yesterday.... Read more »
The west Indian state of Gujarat is flipping the switch on Asia’s largest solar power field as part of its 600 megawatt solar energy addition to India’s power grid.... Read more »
Native Virginian and Sierra Club member Tim Whitley was earning his MBA at the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School when he attended two presentations that fortuitously connected two of his animating passions: combating climate change and alleviating globa... Read more »
Governments are falling badly behind on low-carbon energy, putting carbon reduction targets out of reach and pushing the world to the brink of catastrophic climate change, the world's leading independent energy authority will warn on Wednesday.... Read more »
Music for Relief has launched a new campaign to address the issue of energy poverty.... Read more »
This report questions whether there is an alternative model for development that can deliver adequate standards of living for all but without high consumption rates and unsustainable environmental damage.... Read more »
Commissioned by trade body RenewableUK, the Ipsos-Mori poll found that 43% see the UK subsidy as good value for money against 18% who do not.... Read more »
Indigenous communities around the world are highly vulnerable to climate change but instead of seeing them as victims, policy-makers should tap into their centuries-old knowledge of adapting to extreme weather patterns, aid workers say.... Read more »
The 400-strong Eskimo community in Newtok in western Alaska is living on shaky ground. Literally. The permafrost – the permanently frozen subsoil – on which the village is located is melting as temperatures warm.... Read more »
Innovating and stepping up the pressure on governments are the bywords for civil society participation in the run-up to Rio+20, a conference with the ambitious goal of changing the way humankind relates with the planet. ... Read more »
More than 200 college students pushed two-wheelers Backwards in an effort to spread awareness on the rising carbon emission levels in Bangalore and encouraged the public to use sustainable modes of transport like walking, cycling etc.... Read more »
For Talent Mabika, collecting trash is part of his life. At first he was so ashamed of this job that he always left home under the cover of darkness and returned after sunset, with bags of plastic bottles. ... Read more »
Environment Canada weakened a draft version of regulations to crack down on pollution from coal-fired power plants following pressure from the industry, newly-released federal records have revealed.... Read more »
The European Union has delayed a decision on whether to classify oil sands as a "dirty" form of crude oil, bringing praise from Canadian officials.... Read more »
The biggest environmental protest in Canada’s history took place in the streets of Montreal today on Earth Day. People from all across Quebec rallied to tell Prime Minister Stephen Harper that they do not support his decision to withdraw from the Kyoto protocol.... Read more »
Mexico's Senate unanimously approved landmark climate change legislation yesterday that sets the country on a pioneering path to drastically reduce its domestic greenhouse gas emissions.... Read more »
In the spirit of Earth day, here's a look at our marvelous blue marble and the ways people and other living things are responding to global warming.... Read more »
