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Non-profits call for carbon credits to be excluded from transition plans
What's happening? A group of more than 80 non-profits, including Greenpeace, Client Earth and ShareAction, have issued a statement urging ...
Nicola Watts
July 10, 2024
Geothermal power presents opportunity for tech giants to decarbonise spiralling AI energy demand
What's happening? Google’s climate goals are threatened as data centres powering its AI products drive up emissions. Over the past ...
Dillon Creedon
July 9, 2024
Geoengineering to reduce US heat could worsen European heatwaves: study
What’s happening? The use of the geoengineering technique of marine cloud brightening (MCB) to reduce high temperatures in California could ...
Claire Pickard
July 2, 2024
Lower shipping pollution linked to rising ocean temperatures: study
What’s happening? Regulations on shipping fuel introduced in 2020 may have increased ocean warming by decreasing cloud cover, according to ...
Claire Pickard
June 26, 2024
Will we have enough batteries to satisfy demand from five Earths by 2025?
What’s happening? The growing number of battery factories being constructed globally will soon outstrip demand for lithium-ion cells, according to ...
Nicola Watts
June 20, 2024
Data centres and AI are straining natural resources
What’s happening? The US-China tech trade war and the rise of AI have spotlighted the immense resource consumption of data ...
Tom Rejwan
June 12, 2024
Edinburgh bans adverts for high-carbon products in public spaces
What’s happening? The City of Edinburgh Council has approved a ban on out-of-home advertising for high-carbon products to uphold its ...
Nicola Watts
June 4, 2024
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria found in soil across Scotland: study
What’s happening? Scientists have found bacteria resistant to antibiotics, including last-resort drugs like vancomycin, ubiquitously present in soils across Scotland, ...
Sam Robinson
May 30, 2024