Singapore to impose green fuel levy on flights from 2026 20/2/2024

Travellers will need to bear the cost of the transition towards green jet fuel, Singapore's transport minister said as he announced the city state's plans for a levy on flight ticket prices as the aviation industry seeks a viable funding model. ...more

Dubai Industrial City strengthens regional manufacturing and circular economy in 2023 with 15% growth in F&B customers 20/2/2024

Dubai Industrial City is reporting robust annual growth for 2023 with 12 new F&B customers joining the district during the year, cementing its role as a proponent of advanced manufacturing and the regional circular economy. ...more

Very cool: trees stalling effects of global heating in eastern US, study finds 20/2/2024

Trees provide innumerable benefits to the world, from food to shelter to oxygen, but researchers have now found their dramatic rebound in the eastern US has delivered a further, stunning feat – the curtailing of the soaring temperatures caused by the climate crisis. ...more

Zero waste, more hope in South Sudan 19/2/2024

Zero energy light bulbs and sturdy bricks for schools and homes. Some innovative communities in South Sudan are reusing waste in new ways as the world rallies to ban plastic pollution by the year’s end, with help from a small team of experts led by climate and environmental scientist Shazneen Cyrus Gazdar at theUN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS). ...more

February on course to break unprecedented number of heat records 19/2/2024

February is on course to break a record number of heat records, meteorologists say, as human-made global heating and the natural El Niño climate pattern drive up temperatures on land and oceans around the world. ...more

Ill-judged tree planting in Africa threatens ecosystems, scientists warn 19/2/2024

Misguided tree-planting projects are threatening crucial ecosystems across Africa, scientists have warned. ...more

Food prices climbed during the second year of the pandemic -- and climate disasters contributed 19/2/2024

Record-breaking heat, severe drought and devastating floods have impacted food production, indirectly bringing prices in Canada to a decade high, according to the data provided by Statistics Canada. ...more

Reuters Exclusive: White House set to back tougher climate model for ethanol, sources say 19/2/2024

President Joe Biden's administration is poised to announce an adjustment to its scientific modeling for ethanol that will show the corn-based fuel to be less effective at reducing greenhouse gas emissions than previously estimated, three sources briefed on the plans told Reuters. ...more

Google to share oil and gas methane leaks spotted from space 16/2/2024

Google and environmental group Environmental Defense Fund on Wednesday unveiled a partnership to expose sources of climate-warming emissions from oil and gas operations that will be detected from space by a new satellite. ...more

Global warming, deforestation, fires combined could hasten Amazon demise, study finds 16/2/2024

Drought and heat driven by climate change and other factors threaten to cause the collapse of South America's lush Amazon rainforest system, scientists said on Wednesday in a study that found that nearly half of it could be pushed to a tipping point by 2050. ...more