-
Figures show a 4% reduction in the national annual emissions of carbon dioxide, with coal now burning at its lowest level in at least 150 years
-
Capacity Market scheme accused of making consumers pay conflicting subsidies for highly polluting plants
-
Political science What a fracking inquiry in Fylde tells us about planning, politics and power
Laurence WilliamsLaurence Williams: A recent public hearing in Lancashire highlights the limits of evidence in determining the pros and cons of fracking -
Committee asks how Venancio Salas Junior – captain of a large coal freighter –continued to work in Australian waters after three crew died in suspicious circumstances
-
Investment in 1,500 new coal plants around the world could be wasted if action on climate change and pollution prevent them from being used
-
Federal map of earthquake vulnerability finds threat to seven million people in central and eastern US amid increasing oil and gas production
-
From coffee shortages to Leonardo DiCaprio’s filming nightmares, put your extreme weather knowledge to the test
-
Record year for renewables also sees financial investment by developing countries overtake that of the developed world in 2015, research shows
-
Karl Matheisen: Scotland’s last coal power station is set to close and by the end of the year just six UK stations will remain. But in a challenging market, can these keep firing until the government’s 2025 deadline for the end of UK coal?
-
Former NASA climate director James Hansen and a team of scientists claim a mechanism in the climate could rapidly raise sea levels by metres
-
Bank says writedowns have risen $100m to $900m in a month thanks to commodity prices but analysts point to a crisis for coal industry
-
There are communities that sacrifice so much so we might have cheap energy - Morwell in eastern Victoria is one of those places
-
The biggest plant of its kind in Britain has been generating electricity for 46 years, with closure marking ‘end of an era’ for coal power in Scotland
-
As the deadline for power stations to shut down approaches, the community rallies around a future in renewable solar energy
-
Europe has taken its first shipment of shale at the Swiss operator’s Norwegian plant, raising concerns about the future of shale gas and fracking in the UK
-
World Water Day research finds 44% of coal plants, and 45% of planned coal power plants, in areas of water stress
-
Canada’s Lax Kw’alaams show us how we can be saved: by loving the natural world and local living economies more than mere money and profit
-
Autumn brings no relief following a record-breaking summer driven by rapid global warming, the Climate Council report says
-
Last week BP announced it was ending its Tate sponsorship after 26 years, citing a ‘challenging business environment’. We look back at protests staged by the art collective, from a mass exorcism to a live tattoo event
Topics
- Energy
- Coal
- Climate change (Environment)
- Energy industry
- Mining (Business)
- Fracking
- Oil
- Gas
- Queensland
- Great Barrier Reef
- Mining (Environment)
- Climate change (Science)
- Pollution
- Renewable energy
- Australian politics
- Asia Pacific
- Coral
- Natural disasters and extreme weather
- Wildlife
- Fossil fuel divestment
Common ground The human face of fracking in North Dakota – in pictures