Earth News

Why Finland’s new nuclear reactor is good news for electricity bills

Olkiluoto 3 is Western Europe’s first new reactor in over 15 years, launching hours after Germany shut down its last three plants.

17/04/2023

Earth News

What can the UK learn from its neighbours to improve public transport?

Could a huge cash injection could bring the UK’s public transport in line with Europe?

13/04/2023

Climate

Phase out coal five times faster to stop ‘climate chaos’, report warns

A report has urged countries to close all coal plants by 2040 or face ‘climate chaos’.

06/04/2023

Earth News

Free money? Solar farms bringing funding and fury to the US midwest

A solar project in Missouri, US has put local farmers on alert and raised concerns about their lifestyle.

05/04/2023

Ecotech

Could abandoned mines hold the answer to storing renewable energy?

Could dropping containers of sand down mine shafts give us a way to store renewable energy?

29/03/2023

Ecotech

Sweden smashes wind power record - but ‘backwards’ on climate

Sweden set a record for wind energy in February. Why is a climate report warning it’s ‘going backwards?’

28/03/2023

Ecotech

German solar school hopes to train ‘unbelievable number of people’

As German solar demand surges, a new school has opened to train workers.

22/03/2023

Ecotech

How is this tiny country leading Europe’s solar power drive?

This tiny country is short on land. But a forward-thinking government and innovative solutions are overcoming the lack of space.

08/03/2023

Earth News

Could ‘catching’ wasted heat solve the energy crisis?

Engines often ‘run hot’, as anyone with an overactive laptop knows. But where does this heat go - and how can we harness it to heat our homes?

27/02/2023

Earth News

Wind turbines aren't to blame for whale deaths in the US, say experts

Why do some conservationists, and Donald Trump, think that wind turbines are killing marine mammals?

21/02/2023

Earth News

Renewable energy to become world's top source of electricity by 2025

Renewables will ‘dominate’ surge in electricity demand over next two years, data show.

09/02/2023

Tech News

This ‘artificial leaf’ can make hydrogen from sunlight and thin air

Scientists in Switzerland have designed a device that extracts water from the air and uses sunlight to turn it into hydrogen.

12/01/2023

Europe News

Is EU's hydrogen revolution achievable in time to meet climate goals?

The European Commission wants to produce 10 million tonnes of hydrogen per year by 2030.

05/01/2023

Ecotech

What are the risks of transitioning to ‘green’ hydrogen?

If hydrogen leaks into the atmosphere, the benefits of using it over fossil fuels could be completely wiped out, scientists warn.

29/12/2022

Ecotech

US scientists have just made a major breakthrough for fusion energy

Huge amounts of money have been spent around the world on developing nuclear fusion.

12/12/2022

Earth News

Could the UK reverse a ban on onshore wind farms?

New onshore wind projects could soon be allowed where communities welcome them.

28/11/2022

Home

Europe’s energy crisis is boosting green hydrogen. Is it the future?

The challenge of making hydrogen using only clean energies has long been to get the costs down to compete with fossil-based hydrogen. Then came the Ukraine war.

24/11/2022

Ecotech

Inside San Francisco's bold plan to cut air pollution

“San Francisco believes in climate action as a whole, people care” says mayor London Breed. So what is the city doing to fight it?

05/11/2022

Earth News

China to build the world’s largest wind farm in Taiwan Strait

Once completed, the new wind farm will have a power generating capacity equivalent to all of Norway’s power plants combined.

25/10/2022

Earth News

Massive French lithium mine set to open as electric car sales surge

French minerals company Imerys is set to open a massive lithium mine in France which could produce 34,000 tonnes of the rare earth metal per year.

24/10/2022