Photo: Freepik Achieving «net zero» is the world’s key target for fighting climate change, which is already having serious consequences for people and nature around the globe. But the political consensus around the UK’s net zero policies has collapsed, with opponents now branding them too difficult and expensive. What does ‘net zero’ mean? Net zero…
Photo: Freepik The more time that passes, the more evidence is unearthed about the safety hazards posed by gas stoves. There have been reports linking in-home pollution from gas stoves to childhood asthma, which were deliberately hidden by the gas industry. What’s more, gas stoves pollute the environment, relying on dirty energy for power and releasing harmful gases,…
Photo: Freepik A more than $1 billion three-county solar project on one of Eastern Kentucky’s former coal mines got the stamp of approval Friday to start construction. In an Aug. 1 order, the Kentucky Public Service Commission’s Electric Generation and Transmission Siting Board said BrightNight, a private renewable power company, could build a giant solar array…
Photo: Freepik The government has increased the maximum price it is prepared to guarantee companies generating electricity from new wind farms. It comes as ministers are trying to meet challenging pledges to bring down household bills and create an electricity grid that it is almost entirely free of fossil fuels by 2030. The Department for…
Foto: Freepik Ubicada en complejo industrial de Porto de Açu, en el litoral del estado de Río de Janeiro, es la segunda planta en operación del grupo GNA. La planta térmica GNA II, mayor termoeléctrica a gas natural de América Latina, con capacidad instalada para generar 1.673 megavatios de energía y abastecer a ocho millones…
Foto: freepik Solo en la mitad del presente año, 43.000 millones de dólares han ido destinados a proyectos de petróleo y gas Aunque a muchos les pese, la demanda mundial de combustibles fósiles continúa en aumento. En esta tendencia, África está comenzando a verse como uno de los “puntos calientes” para cubrir esa demanda creciente.…
Photo: Freepik Yorkshire’s mayors have been awarded more than £2.5m by the government to invest in clean energy for libraries, schools, leisure centres and other public services. Great British Energy, the government’s clean energy company, announced that mayoral authorities across England would receive a share of a £10m grant. The East Riding, North and West…
Photo: Freepik Deep beneath Utah’s desert soil, an oil drill bored through the Earth at a blistering pace earlier this spring. Gnarly looking drill bits tore through granite at around 300 feet per hour. It was done after just 16 days. The borehole, completed in April, stretches nearly 3 miles toward the center of the Earth,…
Photo: MUMBAI (Reuters) -India’s exports are increasingly vulnerable to climate-linked risks, with over two-thirds of outbound shipments exposed to tightening net-zero regulations in major markets, a study by Net Zero Tracker, a coalition of research groups at the University of Oxford, showed on Thursday. In 2024-25, India exported goods and services worth $824.9 billion, according…
