カテゴリー: Fossil fuels
Families turn to dirty fuels such as firewood, bringing fears over air pollution and fragility of energy transitionIn the ramshackle lanes of a south Delhi slum, Afshana Khatoon crouched wearily on her haunches and began lighting a small pile of firewo…
Officials hope more casual attire for public servants will save electricity during Iran war as summer heat approachesPublic servants working for the Tokyo metropolitan government are being encouraged to swap their suits for shorts this summer to combat…
President’s declaration allows officials to tackle fuel hoarding or profiteering, while energy secretary says country will lean more heavily on coalMiddle East crisis – live updatesThe Philippines president, Ferdinand Marcos, has declared a state of “n…
Typhoon Rai killed more than 400, displaced nearly 3.2 million, and destroyed more than a million homes in 2021Trixy Elle still weeps when she remembers how she and her family fought for their lives as Typhoon Rai tore across the Philippines days befor…
As deadly heatwaves become more frequent, demand for life-saving cooling is further straining India’s generation capacity Continue reading…
As the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter shifts to cleaner energy, some families fear being left behindGazing over the remains of his home, Wang Bingbing surveys a decades-old jujube tree flowering through the rubble, and the yard where he and his…
Shanxi produces more coal than India. How will it survive in China’s clean energy future?Deep in the recesses of an underground cavern, covered in dust and soot, Xu Xiaobo wondered why, having recently graduated with a degree in mechanics, he was on hi…
Surangel Whipps Jr also strongly backs Australia’s bid to host a UN climate conferenceElection 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastThe president of Palau has delivered a …
Jorge Toledo’s comments come after approvals for coal power projects increased in second half of 2024The EU’s ambassador to China has urged Beijing to stop building coal-fired power plants, saying that its rapid approval of new projects was increasingl…
Minimum quotas for purchase of coal power and new project approvals threaten major advances in renewable energy production, thinktanks sayChina’s energy production is putting coal and renewables in competition with each other, according to a new analys…
Documentary shows the gruelling labour put in by a married couple wringing out drops of black gold as their son looks for a different livingIn Saeed Taji Farouky’s impressionistic documentary, the act of manual labour gains a sensorial, almost celestia…
Researchers warn Asia will become an increasingly dangerous place to live until fossil fuels are replacedThe “hyper-violent” Typhoon Gaemi was made fiercer and more likely to strike by the climate crisis, scientists have found. They said “Asia will bec…
Countries and companies involved in oil and gas extraction to be asked to join scheme aimed at tackling global heatingFossil-fuel producing countries and companies are being asked to pay into a new international fund to help poor countries cope with th…
Incident reignites concerns over crackdown on media before crucial UN climate talks in Baku later this yearWestern journalists were refused entry to an energy industry conference in Azerbaijan earlier this month, reigniting concerns over the state’s cr…
Study finds about a quarter of health burden comes from power stations that generate just 3% of country’s electricityIndia struggles with some of the worst air pollution in the world. Now scientists have worked out which of the country’s power plants a…