MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A new solar power plant in Mogadishu should quadruple the city’s generation capacity and cut bills, the owners said, providing relief to businesses facing crippling costs from diesel-generated electricity. Electrical power lines from the Benadir Electricity Company…

FILE PHOTO: A firefighter runs as he helps to put out a forest fire next to Fontao, Portugal September 6, 2019. REUTERS/Rafael MarchanteBRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union expects dry weather to cause unusually widespread wildfires in Europe over the…

MUMBAI (Reuters) - India began evacuating people from low-lying areas in and around Mumbai ahead of a cyclone that is expected to hit the country’s west coast on Wednesday, officials said. A man waves to his relative inside a bus…

Back in 2017,  Jamie Margolin, a Seattle high school student, founded an organization called Future Voters for 350ppm. (“Future voters” meaning young people who can’t vote yet, and “350 ppm” referring to a safe level of atmospheric carbon dioxide that…

Many of the economic risks of climate change are already crystal clear, and yet financial markets have yet to take them into account. That dangerous disconnect is the impetus behind a new report out on Monday from the sustainable finance…

LONDON (Reuters) - The United Kingdom has put forward its own Emissions Trading System (ETS) to replace the European Union’s system for trading carbon emissions, which Britain will leave at the end of this year as the Brexit transition period…

FILE PHOTO: An aerial view shows power-generating windmill turbines in a wind farm in Graincourt-les-Havrincourt, France, April 27, 2020. Picture taken with a drone REUTERS/Pascal RossignolLONDON (Reuters) - Plunging costs of renewables mark a turning point in a global transition…

From BBC Every six seconds in 2019 the world lost an area of primary forest the size of a football pitch, a study says. Read the full article