Goldsmiths University London bans beef sales on campus from September, to tackle 'climate emergency'
Beef products will be banned from sale at all campus food outlets from September, as London university advances plans to become carbon...
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German environment minister calls for plastic bag ban.
Environment Minister Svenja Schulze has announced plans for a new law aiming to ban plastic bags and reduce plastic packaging. The...
Chattanooga Is The First American Airport Powered Entirely By Solar Energy
Chattanooga's been having quite a cultural moment recently, what with dozens of new restaurants and bars popping up across town. Last...
Australian solar could power Singapore within a decade
When the 720 km power cable from Norway to the UK made landfall two years ago it was hailed as the longest in the world. Now a...
Canada has created an Arctic conservation zone the size of Germany to aid rising temperatures
Canada’s Inuit people, whose lands occupy the remote northeastern region of Nunavut, live in an Arctic wilderness of raw natural beauty...
Senegal to crack down on huge plastic waste by enforcing law
Tired of seeing Senegal’s seascapes spoiled by ever-growing mounds of cheap plastic bags, authorities plan to crack down on polluters by...
In Rome you can swap plastic bottles for metro tickets
Just finished a drink? What if, instead of ending up in the trash, the container could go towards your metro fare? That’s an option just...
UNICEF is turning plastic waste into building blocks for school children in Cote d’Ivoire
UNICEF, in partnership with Colombian social enterprise Conceptos Plasticos, today announced it had broken ground on a first-of-its-kind...
Berkeley, California bans: straws, plastic bags — and now gas pipelines too
Environmentalists have cheered “valve turners” who illegally cut off oil and gas flows through pipelines. Now their political allies are...
Cooper’s Gap wind farm in Queensland, biggest in Australia will be finished end 2019
The wind farm, located between Dalby and Kingaroy in the Darling Downs region to the north-west of Brisbane, began generating in June,...
UN climate report focuses on change to land use and human diet, to keep global warming below 2ºC
Land is already under growing human pressure and climate change is adding to these pressures. At the same time, keeping global warming to...
Portugal’s solar energy auction sees record low paid for a licence - 14.76 euros per megawatt hour
Portugal’s huge auction of solar energy broke a world record, with one of the 24 licences on offer selling for 14.76 euros per megawatt...
San Francisco International Airport will ban sale of single-use plastic water bottles from 20 August
San Francisco International Airport is banning the sale of single-use plastic water bottles. The unprecedented move at one of the major...
Seychelles bans plastic bags, cups, plates and cutlery
Seychelles has banned the importation, sale and commercial use of plastic bags, cups, plates and cutlery. The importation ban took effect...
Scotland Now Generates Sufficient Wind Energy, It Could Power Two Scotlands
Seeing countless renewable energy records broken and milestones passed has been a constant source of encouraging news for our...
South Korea has banned single-use plastic bags in stores
As of April 1st, the government has now imposed a complete ban on single-use plastic bags at grocery stores and large-sized supermarkets,...
Record solar power generation in France in June
Electricity production from solar panels in France rose 15.4% to a record 1.4 terawatt hour (TWh) in June due to long sunny spells and...
Migratory Bird Sanctuaries on Coast of Yellow Sea-Bohai Gulf of China, Unesco World Heritage Site
Migratory Bird Sanctuaries along the Coast of Yellow Sea-Bohai Gulf of China (Phase I) The property features an intertidal mudflat system...
Africa’s largest wind farm launches in Kenya
Kenya’s position as a leader for renewable energy continued with this month’s launch of the Lake Turkana Wind Project. The president of...
Malawi's ban on plastic bags is reinstated, campaigners hail 'fantastic victory'
Judges overturn injunction won by plastic manufacturers after thin plastic bags were outlawed Malawi’s highest court has imposed a ban on...
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