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- Campaigners try again to stop Norway drilling for oil in Arctic Tue, 5 Nov 19, 6:01pmActivists take government back to court, saying plans violate people’s environmental rights
- Brussels allows UK to subsidise fossil fuel generators Fri, 25 Oct 19, 3:14amGreen light clears way for payments of £990m to gas, coal and nuclear power firms
- Concerns as EU bank balks at plan to halt fossil fuel investments Wed, 16 Oct 19, 1:09amLast-minute lobbying forces delay to ambitious move by European Investment Bank
- Nobel prize in chemistry awarded for work on lithium-ion batteries Wed, 9 Oct 19, 9:08pmJohn B Goodenough, M Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino honoured for development that sparked portable technology revolution
- Nobel prize in chemistry awarded for development of lithium-ion batteries – as it happened Wed, 9 Oct 19, 10:26pmJohn B Goodenough, M Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino made laureates for development that sparked portable technology revolution
- Europe’s recharged antitrust chief makes her five-year pitch to be digital EVP Wed, 9 Oct 19, 8:30amEurope’s competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager, set for a dual role in the next Commission, faced three hours of questions from members of four committees in the European Parliament this afternoon, as MEPs got...
- More than half of Europes native trees face extinction Tue, 1 Oct 19, 2:30amEurope’s endemic trees are threatened by extinction, states a recent International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) assessment on biodiversity...
- 'Human rights before mining rights': German villagers take on coal firm Mon, 30 Sep 19, 11:48pmResidents say they will not be ousted by energy firm seeking to expand the Garzweiler mine
- Fight the power: why climate activists are suing Europe’s biggest coal plant Thu, 26 Sep 19, 7:36pmFuture of Poland’s Bełchatów power station under scrutiny as grassroots groups and NGOs take radical action
- Swedish newspaper stops taking adverts from fossil fuel firms Thu, 26 Sep 19, 2:00pmDagens ETC says ban is crucial for its credibility and urges other media to follow suit
- Hinkley Point nuclear plant building costs rise by up to £2.9bn Thu, 26 Sep 19, 2:38amEDF Energy blames ground conditions for rise but says energy bills will not go up
- Google announces 18 new renewable energy deals Fri, 20 Sep 19, 6:00amGoogle today announced its largest package of renewable energy deals yet. Worth a total of 1,600-megawatts, the package includes 18 deals in the U.S., Chile and Europe. This brings Google’s current set of wind and solar...
- iFixit gives Fairphone 3 a perfect 10 for repairability Thu, 12 Sep 19, 1:15amHere’s something the hermetically sealed iPhone can’t do: Score a perfect 10 for repairability. Smartphone startup and social enterprise Fairphone’s latest repairable-by-design smartphone has done just that,...
- UK facing EU outrage over ‘timebomb’ of North Sea oil rigs Wed, 4 Sep 19, 2:00pmGermany leads complaint against plan to leave polluted remains of Shell rigs in place
- Climate activists plan to use drones to shut down Heathrow Airport next month Thu, 29 Aug 19, 10:00pmA UK group of climate activists is planning to fly drones close to Heathrow Airport next month in a direct action they hope will shut down the country’s largest airport for days or even longer...