Backers of Lamu coal project lose court case
Backers of Kenya’s Lamu coal plant have been instructed by the courts to conduct a new environmental impact assessment and halt work on the project, in a ruling celebrated by local environmental groups.
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Rising warmth risks Arctic dogs’ survival
According to local scientists and specialists in Denmark, the population of the dogs – traditionally used for transporting people and goods across Greenland’s vast snowy landscape and also for sled racing
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Crackdown aims at pollution in recycling industry
China is taking steps to standardise its solid waste recycling industry, which despite being a burgeoning green sector has stoked environmental concerns due to reckless expansion. The Ministry of Environmental
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Most countries lose out with forest-to-farm conversions
Converting forests into farms is not economically viable except in selected regions, says a global study. Published last month (July) in PLoS Biology, the study by researchers from the National University
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Proposed ‘UN Urban’ would coordinate global approach to urbanisation
A global panel of experts has recommended the creation of a first-ever international body focused on urban sustainability. The panel was formed at the behest of UN Secretary-General António Guterres, who
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Plastic Fantastic? Indonesia plans to turn plastic waste into road tar
According to the country’s environment ministry, Indonesians consume a million plastic bags per minute, and rank second in the world (behind China) for dumping plastic into the sea. Cities Plastic
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Global warming could cause yield of sorghum crops to drop ‘substantially’
Sorghum is the fifth most economically important cereal in the world and is grown in some of the most arid parts of Africa and South Asia, where it is a staple food for half a billion people. The new
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Climate change is triple risk to Europe
Researchers have just issued three separate climate warnings to the citizens of Europe on the same day, in three different journals – a triple risk salvo. One group warns that, if humans go on burning
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A new, free, online tool helps citizens assess mega dams’ economic and environmental viability
Mega-dam construction is booming around the world, with promoters hyping hydropower as a green, renewable source of energy and a means of curbing climate change. But as these dams are built in the Amazon,
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Ocean oxygen depletion could happen again
It is possible to trigger ocean oxygen depletion, choking the world’s seas. The suffocation zone – the region of the deep sea floor that is now oxygen-depleted – could double in a century, because of human-triggered
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World’s “highest” village runs dry as warming hits the Himalayas
With a backdrop of the snow-capped Himalayas stretched out across a vibrant blue sky, it is hard to dispute the sign as you enter Komik that declares it to be the world’s highest village with a road.