United Nations
- It’s time we took a seat ‘at your table’: Guterres calls on world youth to keep leading climate emergency response June 23, 2019Older generations have “failed to respond properly” to the climate emergency said the UN chief on Sunday, while the young are “stepping up to the challenge” and taking the lead to slow the destructive pace of global warming.
- 24 billion tons of fertile land lost every year, warns UN chief on World Day to Combat Desertification June 17, 2019In a video message released in advance of the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, marked on Monday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned that the world loses 24 billion tons of fertile land every year, and that the degradation in land quality is responsible for a reduction in the national domestic product of up […]
- Shining a light on sustainable power: how clean energy is helping to improve camps for displaced people June 15, 2019Hauwa, from Borno State in north-eastern Nigeria, fled her home village of Adamari with her husband and four children in March, when violence struck. Now, she is in the relative safety of a UN-run camp but, with little electricity available at night, lighting is scarce, and darkness can mean danger. However, thanks to a solar-energy […]
BBC Science & Environment
- 'Jet in a box' powers remote Halley Antarctic base June 25, 2019Engineers succeed in automating science experiments at the UK's Halley research station.
- Rhino release: Epic journey to freedom in Rwanda June 25, 2019Five zoo-born eastern black rhinos have been transported from Europe to Africa.
- Nasa puts up deep-space atomic clock June 25, 2019The miniaturised timepiece will be used to overhaul deep-space navigation if it proves its worth.
Renewable Energy World
- NV Energy's new 540 MWh storage and 475-MW solar project comes at a very low price June 25, 20198minute Solar Energy, NV Energy and the Moapa Band of Paiutes announced that NV Energy selected 8minute to develop the largest solar plus storage project ever built in Nevada and one of the largest in the world.
- Power companies in New England tapping residential batteries to reduce peak demand June 25, 2019Here’s the latest wrinkle in the battery boom: National Grid Plc is paying consumers to tap electricity from their power-storage systems.
- Here's how a bird started a fire at a California solar farm June 25, 2019It may be safe for a bird to land on a wire, but not on two of them at once.