GLOBAL
According to a new study, biomass plantations for energy production need sustainable water management in order to avoid a substantial increase in water scarcity.
GLOBAL
In a bid to ditch fossil fuels, some countries are considering carpeting deserts with solar panels...
Zhengyao Lu and Benjamin Smith 12 Feb 2021
GLOBAL
The effect that fossil fuels are having on the climate emergency is driving an international push to use low-carbon sources of energy...
Antoine Koen and Pau Farres Antunez 27 Feb 2020
GLOBAL
Oil prices shot up following the US assassination of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, rising more than $5 per barrel to more than $71 (£54) on January 6, its highest level since the Saudi oil refinery attack last September...
Mueid Al Raee 15 Jan 2020
BRAZIL
The Amazon rainforest is one of the most contested spaces for mining in the world, and the impacts of both legal and illegal operations can be devastating for the environment and the indigenous groups that call it home...
JP Casey 12 Dec 2019
GLOBAL
Our power plants may be dirty now. But unlike combustion vehicles, electric cars give us the chance to finally free ourselves from high-carbon travel...
Ranald Boydell 3 Dec 2019
SOUTH AFRICA
Anglo American restarted its Minas Rio iron ore slurry pumping after a 15-day hiatus caused by a leak...
Allan Seccombe 3 Apr 2018
SOUTH AFRICA
PIRAPORA - Brazil has lagged far behind in the shift to solar power, but the continent's biggest facility now being built in the south-east...
SOUTH AFRICA
In a first of its kind, Brics countries have come together to invest in a gold mining project in Siberia...
SOUTH AFRICA
Design flaws led to the collapse of a mine dam and the loss of 19 lives in Brazil's worst environmental disaster...
SOUTH AFRICA
JSE-listed AECI plans to start producing explosives in Australia by year-end‚ as the chemicals and explosives firm looks to reduce its reliance on South Africa's weak mining and manufacturing sectors.
Nick Hedley 30 Jul 2014
UNITED KINGDOM
LONDON, UK: The dynamic economic development of emerging markets will fundamentally change world trade by 2030, leading to the emergence of new logistics service providers to challenge the market share of established companies.
