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Europe enters the Pyrocene age of fire that makes its own weather
"The Pyrocene is here," climate researcher Peter Dynes wrote on X on July 28, as wildfires near Bordeaux began generating huge pyrocumulus clouds intense enough to create their own weather.
EIB lends €260mn for Poland’s second-largest onshore wind farm
Tauron’s 190MW Miejska Górka wind farm in western Poland will generate enough electricity to supply nearly 200,000 households.
Wildfires ravage Southern Europe – Statista
Southern Europe’s wildfire season used to typically run from July to September, but now data shows that it is getting longer and more intense.
Sanctions on Russia backfire, leaving Spain's firefighting helicopters grounded as wildfires rage
EU sanctions on Russia have backfired, leaving Spain's best Russian-built Kamov Ka-32 firefighting helicopters grounded as severe wildfires burn across southern Europe, reported Berliner Zeitung.
Kyrgyzstan hit by highest number of mudslides in decades amid glacier melt
Eight lose lives in this year’s carnage. Six die in car swept from road.
Electrifying Asia – where EVs are reshaping power demand and fuel use
The winners are likely to be countries capable of building integrated ecosystems spanning renewable generation, batteries, charging networks and EV manufacturing.
Hungary commissions Central Europe’s largest battery storage complex
Hungary is rapidly expanding grid-scale energy storage to support its fast-growing renewable energy sector.
Europe's summer heat has broken the Bell curve, as record El Niño builds
This summer’s extreme temperatures have broken the normal “Bell curve” distribution of temperature variations and pushed it sharply to the right into record breaking highs. This is not normal – literally.
Iran adds 668 MW of generating capacity in a week as summer shortages bite
Iran added 668 MW of generating capacity in a week, including 70 MW of solar and a 160 MW combined-cycle unit at Asaluyeh, as Energy Minister Abbas Aliabadi pointed to weekly additions amid summer power shortages.
Low Danube levels threaten Serbia’s river traffic, disrupt fuel imports
Exceptionally low water levels on the Danube are threatening to disrupt river navigation in Serbia and have slowed imports of petroleum products, adding pressure to fuel supplies amid high demand and elevated global oil prices.
Super El Niño arrives more than a month early
Sea surface temperatures in the Niño 3.4 region of the tropical Pacific have remained above the +2.0°C threshold for a "super" El Niño for more than a week, reaching an anomaly of around +2.1°C by mid-July — more than a month early.
Turkey's unlicensed solar capacity hits 24.2 GW
Unlicensed rooftop and self-consumption solar capacity in Turkey reached 24.2 GW by May 2026, taking total installed solar capacity to around 27 GW, according to grid operator TEİAŞ data.
Climate change, not dams, driving Caspian Sea shrinkage, researcher says
The Caspian Sea's decline owes more to climate change than to dams or river abstraction, a water policy researcher says, with the Volga's navigation-focused dams limiting draw-off and Tehran's groundwater and wastewater plans making little progress.
The gas blamed for warming the planet is about to be used to store Ireland’s renewable electricity.
Energy Dome, a Milan-based energy-storage developer, plans to build a battery in County Offaly that uses carbon dioxide rather than lithium to store power.
PANNIER: Central Asia on cusp of ending quest for independence in electricity provision
Big hydro projects should get the region over the line.
Rare Colombian fruit offers food industry a sustainable natural blue
A Colombian company has developed one of the world's few commercially viable natural blue food colourings, extracted from the jagua fruit found in the country's tropical forests.
Hungary to offer larger-than-planned wind capacity after strong investor interest
Hungary’s government has launched a major wind power expansion programme aimed at increasing installed wind capacity more than tenfold by 2030.
Poland builds EU coalition to push ETS reform
Poland has assembled a 10-country coalition to press Brussels to slow the tightening of the bloc’s emissions trading system and reconsider a carbon market for buildings and road transport.
Cambodia clears over $1bn in renewable energy investments
Cambodia approved more than $1bn worth of renewable energy projects in the first half of 2026, strengthening its clean energy capacity and supporting broader investment growth.