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Greenpeace activists, some dressed in business suits and wearing smoke stack hats, 'greenwash' BP's Calgary headquarters with large letters spelling out 'TAR SANDS' in Calgary, Thursday, April 15, 2010. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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Canadian oil and gas industry making risky play over greenwashing law: experts

Experts in communications and greenwashing say Canada's oil and gas industry is making a risky play in so fully scrubbing environmental claims from...

Phoenix, Arizona, U.S., June 6, 2024. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File photo
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From construction to crude oil, how do U.S. industries deal with extreme heat?

Extreme heat has companies in the United States changing the way they work. One frequent response: work less. Here is how heat affects...

FILE - A man pours cold water onto his head to cool off on a sweltering hot day in the Mediterranean Sea in Beirut, Lebanon, July 16, 2023. As temperatures and humidity soar outside, what's happening inside the human body can become a life-or-death battle decided by just a few degrees. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)
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How does heat kill? It confuses your brain. It shuts down your organs. It overworks your heart.

With much of the United States, Mexico, India and the Middle East suffering through blistering heat waves, worsened by human-caused climate change, several...

FILE PHOTO: People drive past a coal-fired power plant in Shanghai, China October 21, 2021. REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo
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Major Chinese asset managers have no plans to phase out fossil fuel investments, Greenpeace says

Major Chinese asset managers have billions of dollars invested in fossil fuels with no plans for a phase out, a new Greenpeace report...

FILE PHOTO: Solar panels are pictured at a solar energy park in Saelices, Spain, May 11, 2022. Picture taken with a drone. REUTERS/Guillermo Martinez/File Photo
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Europe’s solar power surge hits prices, exposing storage needs

Mismatch between demand and supply as solar power generation soars could shift investment to much needed storage solutions

FILE PHOTO: A private security guard walks between rows of photovoltaic solar panels inside a solar power plant at Raisan village near Gandhinagar, in the western Indian state of Gujarat, February 11, 2014. REUTERS/Amit Dave/File Photo
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Solar can provide 20% of world electricity on northern summer solstice, thinktank says

LONDON – The world has enough solar power capacity to generate a fifth of its midday peak electricity needs on the longest day...

FILE PHOTO: Muslim pilgrims walk with umbrellas on the third day of the Satan stoning ritual, amid extremely hot weather, during the annual haj pilgrimage, in Mina, Saudi Arabia, June 18, 2024. REUTERS/Saleh Salem/File Photo
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Explainer: How climate change fuels extreme heat worldwide

Climate change is driving dangerous heat waves across the Northern Hemisphere this week and will continue to deliver dangerous weather for decades to...

Decarbonizing Canada's electricity grid could lead to a significant uptick in merger and acquisition activity in the renewable energy sector, a new report says. Power transmission lines and wind turbines as seen with the Rocky Mountains in the background near Pincher Creek, Alta., Thursday, June 6, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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Net-zero grid could spark flurry of deal-making in renewables sector: report

Decarbonizing Canada's electricity grid could lead to a significant uptick in mergers and acquisitions in the renewable energy sector, a new report says

A painted lady butterfly in Zvernec. Researchers say 58 of Albania's 207 butterfly species are at risk (AFP)
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‘Nature’s mirror’: Climate change batters Albania’s butterflies

Researchers say 58 of Albania's 207 butterfly species are at risk

Chimneys from the coal-powered Mount Piper power station are be seen behind trees near the town of Lithgow, located west of Sydney in Australia, February 26, 2017. REUTERS/David Gray/ File Photo
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Clyde Russell column: Australia’s nuclear power proponents have questions to answer

If there is to be a genuine debate on what form of generation is best to replace Australia's ageing and increasingly unreliable fleet...

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