Trump scraps Obama climate plan, undermining international trust
After weeks of speculation, US president Donald Trump has signed an executive order to dismantle the policies that made an international climate pact possible.Flanked by...
The frontline of the dirty air crisis, where no-one keeps a record
Every day, Mary Wanjiru’s lungs record a public health crisis to which her government has paid little attention.She has sold vegetables beside Nairobi’s Kariokor roundabout for...
Brazilian Amazon to ditch diesel for clean energy
In the small towns and villages of the Amazon there is a sound that is as familiar as the calls of the birds and...
Weekly wrap: Kenya faces climate-linked drought emergency
Four million Kenyans will need humanitarian relief next month, UNICEF estimates, in the worst drought so far this century.Researchers have found that in 2016 hot weather was made...
In Germany, a clean energy shift is politics-as-usual
When Donald Trump won the US presidency, it heralded a U-turn on all things climate change.Ask a German what difference September’s general election will...
Kenyan Met Office predicts rains to fail sparking crisis worse than 2011
The Kenyan Met Office warned on Thursday the current drought will surpass the disastrous event of 2011, with rains predicted to fail across much of the...
Melting Arctic worsens Beijing’s pollution haze, study finds
The melting of the Arctic Ocean sea ice and the greater falls of snow in Siberia may be responsible for stagnant air conditions that...
Unfinished business: Coal miners in South Africa walk away from clean up
Just outside the town of Ermelo in Mpumalanga – South Africa’s most important coal mining province – Johan Vos’ farm is littered with derelict...
Coal power pipeline shrinks dramatically in boon for climate
The capacity of coal plants in pre-construction planning worldwide nearly halved in 2016, boosting hopes of averting dangerous climate change.After a decade-long coal boom, government...
G20 report shows competing visions of a clean energy future
One report, two press releases. The world’s leading renewables and energy security analysts sent out mixed messages at a major conference in Berlin on Monday.The International...
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