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An international rights group says tens of thousands of people in Pakistans eastern city of Lahore are at risk of respiratory disease because of poor air quality related to thick smog hanging over the region

The Australian state of New South Wales was gasping under the worst levels of air pollution ever recorded on Friday as smoke from widespread bushfires caused a spike in hospital visits and hazards including poor visibility for drivers.

The Australian state of New South Wales is gasping under the worst levels of air pollution recorded as smoke from widespread bushfires causes a spike in hospital visits and hazards including poor visibility for drivers.

As Bristol plans to exclude the most polluting vehicles from its centre, we look at some common cavils

Smoke haze appears to make it hard for participants in financial markets to make the right decisions. The finding has far-reaching implications.

Haze from fires across large sections of NSW and Queensland is causing unprecedented conditions leaving the vulnerable at risk

The minister also informed that a high-level task force was set up in November 2017 with the principal secretary to the Prime Minister at the helm. The task-force, he said, is closely monitoring the implementation of measures related to management of air pollution in Delhi and NCR.

Vulnerable people living in small Irish towns should stay indoors on cold evenings when pollution levels are high, two academics have said.They called for a warning system to be developed to predict when toxic air breached safe limits so the elderly and people with health conditions can stay indoors

Women in their 70s and 80s who were exposed to higher levels of air pollution experienced greater declines in memory and more Alzheimer's-like brain atrophy than their counterparts who breathed cleaner air.

Researchers linked nine causes of death with a certain type pollution when reviewing medical records of deceased veterans

Particulate matter steals lives through dementia, kidney disease, and hypertensioneven when the air quality is within the permitted levels.

Twenty-two farmers were arrested in northern India on Wednesday for setting fires to clear their fields and contributing to some of the worst air pollution in the country, a government official said.

One of the worlds filthiest companies is betting on greenery

Heavy industries could replace fossil fuels with a new solar technology.

Utilities are the most underappreciated sector in the market, according to T. Rowe Price.

The Florida Municipal Power Agency and 12 local electric utilities broke ground on the installation of around 900,000 solar panels

While most of the world says goodbye to coal, China keeps opening new plants

Total criticised on Thursday the European Investment Bank's decision to stop financing all fossil fuel projects including gas, saying companies that might switch to gas-fired power plants from heavy-polluting coal could now reconsider.

/PRNewswire/ -- The Greater Toledo Community Foundation and numerous partners today kicked off the development of a solar array, located in Toledo's Overland...

Australia can become a renewable energy exporting superpower, but timidity won't get us there.

Annual emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides on the continent are expected to double by 2030, compared to 2012 levels.

Guest “so what?” by David Middleton IEA World Energy Outlook: Solar Capacity Surges Past Coal and Gas by 204011/14/2019 | Sonal PatelSolar photovoltaic (PV) could surge ahead of coal an

BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - High-tech solutions to make cities greener already exist - from local clean power grids to electric transport hubs and intelligent buildings - but deploying them fast enough to curb climate change is a challenge, city and business officials said Wednesday.

Oil prices rose nearly 2% on Thursday following a Reuters report that OPEC and its allies are likely to extend output cuts until mid-2020, while fresh signs emerged that China had invited U.S. trade negotiators for a new round of talks.

(John Kemp is a Reuters market analyst. The views expressed are his own)

Oil prices edged lower on Thursday as fresh tensions between the United States and China over protests in Hong Kong fueled concern that a deal to end a trade war between the world's top two economies may be further delayed.

Premiums for January-loading ESPO Blend crude oil have dropped after rising to a record last month as Chinese refineries cut purchases before the Lunar New Year holidays and as refining margins fell, several trade sources said on Thursday.

Oil prices retreated on Thursday as a spat over Hong Kong added to worries of a delay in any U.S.-China trade deal, after posting steep gains in the previous session on bullish U.S. crude inventory data.

Oil refiners are often grouped together as investments. But Goldman Sachs analyst Neil Mehta found wide variances in their prospects based on their different business models and areas of expertise.

The nation's supplies of commercial crude oil and gasoline rose last week, but by smaller margins than industry observers feared.

U.S. crude stocks rose last week even as refineries hiked output, while gasoline stocks increased and distillate inventories fell, the Energy Information Administration said on Wednesday.

Global oil refiners have upgraded processing units and adjusted operations to raise output of low-sulphur residual fuels and marine gasoil (MGO) to prepare for stricter shipping fuel standards that kick in on Jan. 1, 2020.

China's Sinopec Corp is set to launch a new $5.7 billion refining and petrochemical complex in the south of the country in second-quarter 2020 using crude oil from Kuwait as a key feedstock, industry officials with knowledge of the matter said.

China's Sinopec Corp is set to launch a new $5.7 billion refining and petrochemical complex in the south of the country in second-quarter 2020 using crude oil from Kuwait as a key feedstock, industry officials with knowledge of the matter said.

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Alphabet subsidiary X, which is the former Google X and which focuses exclusively on ambitious ‘moonshots,’ or applications of tech you might expect are science fiction, not a real product in development. Like a robot that can sort through office trash. X does a lot of its work more quietly than other Alphabet companies […]

In 2017, X quietly teased its robotics efforts as being heavily machine learning-focussed. Alphabet's X Everyday Robot Project...

Unocup, a sustainable startup, thinks it can convince New Yorkers to give up The Anthora, the staple blue and white coffee cups used by city diners for decades.

These holiday charitable, green, and gifts for a cause will brighten the day of their recipients and make you feel good, too.

/PRNewswire/ -- The Alliance to End Plastic Waste (AEPW) announced four new companies from across the plastics value chain have joined its ranks in an effort...

/PRNewswire/ -- PATHWATER is banning single-use plastic bottled water across the country in governments, airports, schools, and major retailers, garnering...

Royal Dutch Shell said Thursday it has started making petrochemical products from recycled plastic waste to eventually help combat the growing fears that the world is drowning in plastics.

The plastic litter bin cover from Peterborough was discovered on Blakeney Point in Norfolk.

The Las Vegas City Council approved a 74-cent increase to monthly trash fees after China cracked down on its imports of recycled goods.

/PRNewswire/ -- Sustainable travel gear brand Tropicfeel initiated the Zero Waste Friday movement toward Black Friday. Taking a stand against fashion waste,...

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Japan's reluctance to disclose information about the release of radioactive water from its damaged Fukushima nuclear plant is hampering neighboring countries' efforts to minimize the impact, the head of South Korea's nuclear safety agency said on Wednesday.

Japan grapples with serving Fukushima food at Olympics

Closing the San Onofre nuclear plant didn't end its threat since nuclear waste is stored at the facility, which sits on an erosion-prone bluff.

University innovators are creating machines that are at home in extreme environments

To protect the climate, we must save the most carbon at the least cost and in the least time, counting all three variablescarbon and cost and time.

Clean-up and waste storage are not the barriers they sometimes seem

Recent debates about the future of nuclear power in Australia make much of the potential of the next generation of reactors.

France's EDF cuts nuclear output forecast after quake

French utility EDF cut its 2019 nuclear power generation target in France for the second time this year due to unplanned and prolonged nuclear reactor outages, but said this would have no impact on its financial guidance.

The trend for promoting belonging risks doing a disservice to the truly public-spirited

As the debate over using nuclear energy to address climate change continues, Fukushima attempts to move on. The site of the most recent high-profile nuclear disaster is reinventing itself as a renewable energy leader in Japan.

A new North Sea crude marketed by Norway's Equinor is making inroads into Asia's top oil importers, with several cargoes set to arrive in China, India and South Korea in the coming months, refining officials and trade sources said.

One person was seriously injured in a Midland, Texas, explosion and fire on Thursday involving several storage tanks and a truck used in oilfield operations, according to a hospital spokeswoman and local media reports.

Labours green ambitions may be laudable, but its implied retrospective taxon North Sea oil would makethe U.K. an unpredictable place to invest.

Oil prices rose on Thursday following a Reuters report that OPEC and its allies are likely to extend output cuts until mid-2020, while fresh reports emerged that China had invited U.S. trade negotiators for a new round of talks.

Exxon Mobil is accelerating its biggest asset sales in decades with plans to divest up to $25 billion of oil and gas fields in Europe, Asia and Africa as it sharpens its focus on a handful of mega projects at home and abroad.

OPEC and its allies are likely to extend existing oil output cuts when they meet next month until mid-2020, with non-OPEC oil producer Russia supporting Saudi Arabia's push for stable oil prices amid the listing of state oil giant Saudi Aramco.

EnQuest says remedial work at Thistle and Heather is on track as firm boosts UKCS output by a third

(Bloomberg) -- OPEC may have no appetite to cut oil production deeper when it meets next month, but flaring political crises across the group are once again threatening supply.Unrest erupted in Iraq and Iran this month -- two of the Middle Easts biggest producers -- as people took to the streets protesting

CALGARY - A chronic shortage of truck drivers across Canada is compounding the effects of a strike at Canadian National Railway Co., says the CEO of the Forest Products Association of Canada.