White House to write to UN to inform of US intention to withdraw from climate deal, but remain engaged in hope of securing “more favourable” terms
Government electricity authority says coal’s impact on health and environment tipped balance in favour of a gas and renewable-focused future
Developer TuNur this week applied for authorisation to build a massive solar plant on the edge of the Tunisian Sahara, with undersea grid connections to Europe
Those who rely on Mount Kenya’s glaciers for water have turned against one another as the rivers fed by the mountain dry up
After rising at an average of 6% over the preceding decade, India’s coal consumption has risen at 2.2% a year since 2015, analysis from Greenpeace Energydesk shows
Euracoal accuses the European Commission of using air pollution legislation to implement climate policy, in breach of procedural rules
Early warning systems and early action funds are needed to prevent repeats of the 2015/16 famine, experts warn in response to latest science
High costs and a lack of public charging stations pose a challenge to bold EV target, say experts, not helped by inconsistent government policy
Farmers in Kenya’s Rift Valley are being forced from their farms by drought then hit by rising food prices as maize shortages bite
Opposition parties accuse the Kenyatta administration of failing to plan for poor harvests, as inflation bites ahead of an August general election
A valuable fungus reputed to be an aphrodisiac has been disappearing from the mountains of Nepal, taking with it a valuable source of income
Matt Canavan, who has strongly backed Adani’s Queensland mega-mine, is third senator in recent weeks to be caught out by dual citizenship rule
India’s future is still tied to coal and fixing woeful inefficiency of plants will create huge new generation at a price solar cannot match
Revenue raised by a tax on coal was originally intended to support renewables, but a Scroll.in investigation revealed it is being spent on an unrelated policy
Six protesters were killed in the Mandsaur district of Madhya Pradesh in June. Meet the bereaved families driven to despair by erratic weather and a tough market
Car giant’s move away from the internal combustion engine will fuel Chinese dominance in emerging clean technology
Indian solar manufacturers are likely to go bust when a World Trade Organization ruling kicks in later this year, experts say, increasing the dominance of Chinese imports
Farmers along the lower Nile have little information to guide them as upriver barrage threatens to compound the impacts of global warming
Embattled president is regularising illegally occupied land at knock-down prices, in a move environmentalists fear will lead to more deforestation
NGOs warn that a project supposed to reduce deforestation could have the opposite effect, opening up large areas to industrial logging