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Europe faces a season of deluges as the Mediterranean hits 33°C
The Mediterranean has spent the summer soaking up heat. That heat comes back out as rain.
The world is on track to warm 25% more than the official projections say
The climate models that were discarded for predicting too much warming were right, and the ones the world's climate projections rest on are running cold.
Moldova renewable auction raises questions over ownership transparency
Moldova is carrying out one of the fastest energy market reforms in Europe, but concerns have been raised over both transparency and the grid's ability to absorb additional electricity.
Uzbekistan targets 620mn kWh annual output from small hydropower by 2030
HPPs are expected to generate 620mn kWh of electricity annually, supply around 350,000 households, save 187mn cubic metres of natural gas and prevent 311,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions.
Transboundary haze from Indonesian peatland fires crosses into Malaysia, threatens biodiversity
The cross-border crisis follows a rapid surge in satellite-detected hotspots and burnt territory across Sumatra and Indonesian Borneo.
Number of mapped sinkholes in Turkey’s Konya basin reaches 739
380 of the sinkholes in Konya are "well-type" cylindrical collapses. They are deep and sheer-walled shafts that have appeared almost entirely within the past three to four decades, directly tracing the surge in deep-well industrial farming.
Istanbul-listed cement maker Cimsa to build Ireland’s largest rooftop solar plant at Mannok facility
The company has already commenced construction of the 6-MW project, which will cover approximately 38,800 square metres, equivalent to around 5.5 football pitches, and will comprise approximately 10,000 solar panels.
Solar overtakes hydropower in the EU electricity mix for the first time
Solar panels generated more electricity in the European Union than dams did in 2025, the first time that has happened.
Albania beats EU on renewable electricity but hydropower reliance brings risks
Renewable sources accounted for 105.2% of Albania's gross electricity consumption in 2025, Eurostat data shows, with only Norway and Iceland performing better across Europe.
The strongest El Niño on record will hit food prices from Brazil to Indonesia
The Pacific is warming faster than at any point in the modern record, and central bankers have started writing it into their forecasts.
Hellish scenes in Cyprus as Turkey’s problem with mountains of imported plastic waste washes ashore
Mounting pollution on northern Cypriot beaches show spillover costs of Ankara’s ambition to dominate Europe’s waste-processing trade.
Serbian wildfire sends smoke over Bulgarian capital Sofia
Heavy smoke from a large forest fire in Serbia blanketed parts of Sofia and western Bulgaria, with strong winds carrying the plume across the border.
India’s green energy InvITs boom is waiting to happen
The Indian renewable energy sector offers significant opportunities for Infrastructure Investment Trusts (InvITs) to deepen capital mobilisation in the space despite the limited existence of InvITs at present, according to a recent report.
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UNCCD COP17 addresses scourge of desertification
With up to 40% of world’s land degraded, delegates from around world gather in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, to advance solutions.
Are we headed for a "Hothouse Earth" that can't sustain human life?
A widely shared analysis says the planet is now warming at 0.48C a decade - almost three times the rate measured from 1970 to 2010.
China's electric cars are displacing more oil than the war has taken off the market
The war in the Gulf was supposed to give the West leverage over China. It has mostly accelerated China's escape from the oil market altogether.
Sar Mountain valley in North Macedonia gets a chance to heal after hydropower plans scrapped
For years, the Leshnica Valley in North Macedonia’s Sar Mountain National Park has been caught between plans to harness its mountain rivers for electricity and efforts to preserve one of the country’s most valuable natural areas.
Hungary’s green loan stock surpasses €2.8bn as energy storage gains ground
Green financing now accounts for nearly 8% of total corporate and municipal lending.
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One killed, dozens injured in Croatia wildfires
Croatian firefighters continued battling wildfires on the Adriatic coast at the weekend, with authorities saying conditions had improved somewhat on the Pelješac peninsula while assessing damage from a separate blaze near Omiš.
Europe killed 25,000 of its own people this summer for want of air conditioning
Extreme heat has killed more than 25,000 people across Europe this year, according to data compiled from government agencies and research institutions in Germany, Spain, France, the UK, Switzerland and the Netherlands.