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Canadian Wildfires Are Cutting Solar Power Output Across Europe
Smoke plumes originating from Canadian wildfires are crossing the Atlantic Ocean and reducing solar power generation across Europe, according to a report by New Scientist published on 4 August 2026. T...
Ethstat CEO: Urgency and Political Will Drive System Change
Yasmin Halai-Carter, CEO of social enterprise Ethstat, has reflected on how the Covid-19 pandemic revealed the latent capacity for rapid systemic change when urgency and political will align. Her rema...
Five Million European Properties Face Heightened Wildfire Risk by 2050
Nearly five million properties across Europe are projected to face heightened wildfire risk by 2050, according to analysis from Climate X. The findings underscore the growing physical climate threat f...
UK Harvest 2025 Earliest in 20 Years, AHDB Reports
The UK's 2025 harvest has officially been recorded as the earliest in 20 years, according to the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB). The finding comes from the organisation's First ...
Car Park Solar Canopies: Why Not Pave the Lots First?
A question submitted to The Guardian's long-running reader-reply series has put a familiar solar siting debate back in the spotlight: why are solar farms being built over green space when vast expanse...
Car Park Solar Canopies: Why Not Cover Tarmac First?
A question posed by a reader from Middlesbrough, Chris, has sparked renewed public debate about solar farm siting decisions — specifically, why developers continue to install photovoltaic (PV) arrays ...
Renewable Energy Advances Reshape Climate Politics, McKibben Argues
Advancements in renewable energy are reshaping the political landscape around climate change, according to a new analysis published by The New York Times. Environmentalist and author Bill McKibben arg...
Solar Panel Recycling: The Missing Piece of Sustainable Solar
The solar industry's rapid expansion is drawing increasing attention to a challenge that sits at the far end of the project lifecycle: what happens to photovoltaic (PV) panels when they reach the end ...
UN Warns Intense El Niño Threatens Drought, Floods and Wildfires
The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has issued a stark warning that a historically strong El Niño weather pattern is developing, with the potential to significantly disrupt rainfall patterns a...
UK Drought Puts Crop Harvests at Severe Collapse Risk
A serious drought affecting the United Kingdom is placing crop harvests under significant threat of collapse, according to a report published by BusinessGreen on 31 July 2026. The warning signals a de...