Renault to face French emissions commission on Monday - Les Echos 18/1/2016

Officials from French carmaker Renault, whose offices were searched last week in a probe into vehicle emissions, will appear on Monday before a commission looking at whether carmakers have broken emissions rules, Les Echos newspaper reported on Saturday. ...more

AFED Secretary General Visits UNEP European Headquarters in Geneva 15/1/2016

AFED Secretary General Najib Saab met at the European Headquarters of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) in Geneva officials from UNEP's Green Economy, Finance Initiative and Disaster Management branches. ...more

California temporarily curbing water to spare vanishing fish 15/1/2016

Saying current water conditions pose particular peril for the state's tiny, disappearing Delta smelt, federal officials moved Thursday to temporarily reduce water deliveries for farmers and millions of other Californians. ...more

EU Parliament delays vote on new car pollution limits 15/1/2016

The European Parliament on Thursday postponed a vote on new car pollution limits that could have killed a compromise agreed by EU members, as politicians argue over whether to seek tougher limits despite the delays that would entail. ...more

South Africa suffers driest year on record in 2015 15/1/2016

South Africa suffered its driest year on record in 2015, the national weather service said on Thursday, as a drought that has threatened the vital maize crop and hit economic growth showed no sign of abating. ...more

Chemicals threaten Europe's killer whales with extinction 15/1/2016

Killer whales in European waters face extinction due to outlawed but long-lived pollutants that also threaten several species of dolphins, according a study released Thursday. ...more

Tabreed reduces carbon emissions 14/1/2016

National Central Cooling Company, also known as Tabreed, reduced the amount of energy used in air conditioning by 1.3 billion kilowatt hours during 2015 – the equivalent usage for 44,000 UAE homes. ...more

Global warming could delay next ice age for 100,000 years 14/1/2016

Global warming is likely to disrupt a natural cycle of ice ages and contribute to delaying the onset of the next big freeze until about 100,000 years from now, scientists said on Wednesday. ...more

In huge win for elephants, Hong Kong finally vows to 'phase out' ivory sales 14/1/2016

With 30,000 African elephants killed every year for their ivory, putting the species at a real and imminent risk of extinction, activists have called for the dismantling of the global ivory trade. ...more

Global mercury emissions down 30 percent as coal use drops: USGS 14/1/2016

Global emissions of mercury from manmade sources fell 30 percent from 1990 to 2010, in part from decreasing use of coal, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reported on Wednesday. ...more