Mauritius: Online Weather Portal Launched for Farmers
Mauritius has launched an agricultural decision support system (ADSS) to collect and disseminate timely and accurate information on...
European Wind Industry is Turning to Emerging Economies
The European Union, the world’s largest wind market by installed capacity, is ceding ground to emerging nations as they mark gusty plains...
Is the Post-Fossil Fuel Era Now Inevitable?
Ambassador Laurence Tubiana, France's point person for COP21, wisely explained a year ago that Paris will be judged a success if it leads...
Powerful Replacement in the Works for Climate Modeling Computer
One of the most powerful computers in the world dedicated to climate change, weather and other earth science research will be replaced in...
Carbon Capture a Justified ‘$1bn Bet’ Given Possible Returns
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) may have become a gamble for austerity-pressed economies but don’t walk away now, a British academic has...
Morocco: A Solar Power Gamble
Beaming in the desert, 10 kilometers away from the mountainous city of Ouarzazate, lies Noor, the world’s biggest solar power station....
Video: How Better Seeds Make Timor-Leste Climate Resilient
For places such as Timor-Leste, a small South-East Asian country that is prone to weather extremes, climate change could deliver a...
Seaweed Forests Could Help Power Tropical Islands
Harvesting seaweed ‘forests’ and feeding them into large underwater digesters could one day meet the world’s energy needs, with nine per...
Africa’s Renewable Energy Use to Rise Four-Fold by 2030
Africa is quickly adapting to modern renewable energy sources, and could more than quadruple renewable energy use to 22 per cent e by...
Uganda: 85 New Weather Stations to Be Installed
A total of 85 weather stations will be installed in Uganda over the next two years under a $1m (about Shs3.3b) project by the...