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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NGO and PepsiCo feud over deforestation, labour claims
American food and beverage giant PepsiCo is under fire from environmental campaigners Rainforest Action Network (RAN) for using palm oil tainted with deforestation and labour abuses, but has dismissed
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Climate models forecast extreme rainfall
Nobel literature laureate and songsmith Bob Dylan certainly got it right: a hard rain is going to fall. As global temperatures rise, extremes of torrential rain will increase accordingly, with the heaviest
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Choked by traffic, Bangkok revs up to beat air pollution
There are two pictures Thai air pollution expert Supat Wangwongwatana likes to show whenever he talks about Bangkok’s transition, in a little over a decade, from a city blanketed in smog to one boasting
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Build resilience to prevent repeat crises- UN chief
The head of the United Nations said on Wednesday it was vital to help fragile regions grow resilient and ward off future crises as well as address humanitarian disasters when they erupt. UN Secretary-General
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Climate change brings more Sahel storms
Climate change has already made a difference to life in the West African Sahel, the arid belt of land stretching from the Atlantic to the Red Sea which separates the Sahara desert from the African savanna.
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Cambodia dismisses claims of illicit sand exports despite ban
Cambodia’s government on Friday dismissed accusations by an environmental group that the country is still exporting sand, despite a national ban, saying a vessel seen loading the material in a video the
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Pacific Ocean shift could see 1.5C limit breached within a decade
Global average temperatures could pass 1.5C above pre-industrial levels within the next decade, new projections suggest. The timing of when we actually hit the 1.5C threshold will depend heavily on
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Indonesia to build ‘world’s largest’ tidal power plant
The Indonesian government has approved a plan to build what has been billed as the world’s largest tidal power facility in the ecologically rich Indonesian island of Flores. The new plant, known as
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China shames rogue firms amid anti-pollution push
In a show of anti-pollution resolve, China has begun shaming rogue firms that had allegedly polluted environment and even blocked government inspections. The Ministry of Environmental Protection made
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Tech firms must go beyond Congo’s “conflict minerals” to clean supply chain- study
Abuses linked to mining in countries such as Myanmar and Colombia are being overlooked by technology companies focused only on eliminating “conflict minerals” from war-torn parts of Africa in their supply