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Greenpeace & Anish Kapoor stage protest art at Shell’s North Sea platform

Greenpeace & Anish Kapoor stage protest art at Shell’s North Sea platform

Greenpeace activists placed a new artwork by artist Anish Kapoor on an operational Shell platform in the North Sea. Titled ‘BUTCHERED’, it depicts 1,000 litres of blood-red liquid spilling onto a 12m by 8m canvas attached to the gas platform,...

ClimateTech VC targets £150m for second fund

ClimateTech VC targets £150m for second fund

InvestmentEnviroTechSpecialist climate tech venture capital firm Clean Growth Fund (CGF) has announced the first close (£49m) of its second fund, targeting £150m to accelerate the next generation of net zero innovation. Two of CGF’s Fund I...

Climate Adaptation Center Receives $300,000 Grant from Barancik Foundation

Climate Adaptation Center Receives $300,000 Grant from Barancik Foundation

A $300,000 grant from the Barancik Foundation will help the Climate Adaptation Center continue to deliver accessible, peer-reviewed climate science that impacts the region and the state. Sarasota's Climate Adaptation Center received a $300,000...

Renewables in the Highlands - friend or foe?

Renewables in the Highlands - friend or foe?

By Angus MacDonald, MP for Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire. Representatives of more than 60 Highland community councils met to discuss the spread of renewables development across the region and its impact on daily life.Last week 11 MPs and...

Environment Tasmania welcomes introduction of Marine Environment Act

Environment Tasmania welcomes introduction of Marine Environment Act

Rebecca Howarth We really do welcome the announcement from the weekend to inform us that the Premier intends to commit to a new Marine Environment Act is a fantastic move and brings us in line with other states that have a more holistic and...

Environmentalists win temporary pause at Alligator Alcatraz - Baptist News Global

Environmentalists win temporary pause at Alligator Alcatraz - Baptist News Global

Climate survivor stories spotlit in new Museum of Vancouver journalism project

Climate survivor stories spotlit in new Museum of Vancouver journalism project

Renewables make up 11.5% of Oman's electricity production

Renewables make up 11.5% of Oman's electricity production

The share of renewable energy in electricity production in Oman has risen to 11.5 per cent as of last May, as part of the national strategy to increase renewable energy’s contribution to power generation to 30 per cent by 2030 and 60 per cent by...

Climate policy in Canada: Lessons from urban resilience modeling

Climate policy in Canada: Lessons from urban resilience modeling

Flooding has become Canada’s costliest natural disaster, even as it’s more frequent and severe than it has been in memory, thanks to climate change. The Federal Government’s recent $3.3 million investment in advanced flood mapping is a welcome...

Environmental regulator to cut ‘green tape’ on Lower Thames Crossing

Environmental regulator to cut ‘green tape’ on Lower Thames Crossing

The long-awaited Lower Thames Crossing (LTC) is to become the first major building project to be overseen by an environmental regulator, in a bid to cut ‘green tape’. The £10.2bn scheme, which will include a 2.6-mile twin-bore tunnel under the...

Environmental groups condemn Birim River diversion, demand urgent action

Environmental groups condemn Birim River diversion, demand urgent action

Environmental groups have strongly condemned an attempted illegal diversion of the sacred Birim River at Apapam in the Eastern Region by a mining company. In a joint statement issued today, Monday, August 18, A Rocha Ghana, the Ghana Coalition...

Environmental Friendly Class Action Against Maker of Gore-Tex Based on Speculation

Environmental Friendly Class Action Against Maker of Gore-Tex Based on Speculation

In February 2025, three law firms from Seattle, Minnesota, and New York boldly filed a Class Action Lawsuit against W. L. Gore & Associates, the manufacturer of the well-known rainproof product “Gore-Tex.” The lawsuit, submitted to the U.S....

Climate change crisis to be addressed through cooperation, foresight to future: Nepales President

Climate change crisis to be addressed through cooperation, foresight to future: Nepales President

- Advertisement - Muhammad Ilyas khan & Mudassar Iqbal Kathmandu( Nepal), Aug 18 (APP)::President of Nepal Ramchandra Paudel on Monday said that with the support of parliamentarians, cooperation with each other and foresight to the future, the...

As wildfire smoke spreads across the U.S., Republicans pressure Canada but sidestep climate concerns

As wildfire smoke spreads across the U.S., Republicans pressure Canada but sidestep climate concerns

Republicans criticize Canada over wildfire smoke affecting American air quality for a third straight summer, while avoiding any acknowledgment of climate change’s role in worsening the crisis. Tammy Webber reports for The Associated Press. In...

Top energy group calls for probe into secretive 'national lawfare campaign' to influence judges on climate

Top energy group calls for probe into secretive 'national lawfare campaign' to influence judges on climate

Fox News correspondent Mark Meredith reports on President Donald Trump’s plans to annul prior climate policy on ‘Special Report.’ NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: A prominent pro-energy group is calling on the Trump...

Trump’s Attacks on the Climate Are an Opportunity for Canada

Trump’s Attacks on the Climate Are an Opportunity for Canada

O n the first day of Donald Trump’s second term in office, he pulled the United States out of the Paris Agreement—for the second time. Two weeks later, he began purging anything to do with climate change from US government websites. Five months...

Military Development In Tibet Threatening Local Ecosystems, Regional Climate Stability: Report

Military Development In Tibet Threatening Local Ecosystems, Regional Climate Stability: Report

(MENAFN- IANS) Stockholm, Aug 18 (IANS) The expansion of the Tibet military region demonstrates a critical intersection of geopolitical strategy and environment preservation, causing complex challenges for regional security and global climate...

'Military Development In Tibet Threatening Local Ecosystems, Regional Climate'

'Military Development In Tibet Threatening Local Ecosystems, Regional Climate'

Stockholm: The expansion of the Tibet military region demonstrates a critical intersection of geopolitical strategy and environment preservation, causing complex challenges for regional security and global climate patterns, a report detailed on...

Farzana Faruk Jhumu: Meet the first Bangladeshi climate change youth adviser to UN

Farzana Faruk Jhumu: Meet the first Bangladeshi climate change youth adviser to UN

In 2018, Farzana Faruk Jhumu felt that she should give something back to society. Along with a few friends, she started 'Kathpencil', with the aim of working for children's rights. "We set up a school called Kathpencil Pathshala in a slum in...

How Jacinda Ardern’s ‘groundbreaking’ climate law has become ‘a shell’

How Jacinda Ardern’s ‘groundbreaking’ climate law has become ‘a shell’

Jacinda Ardern said climate change was her generation's "nuclear-free moment". Photo: RNZ / Samuel Rillstone When New Zealand passed the Zero Carbon Act in 2019, it was hailed as a world-first - a law with cross-party support that would enshrine...

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