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FILE PHOTO: Methane bubbles are seen in an area of marshland at a research post at Stordalen Mire near Abisko, Sweden, August 1, 2019. REUTERS/Hannah McKay

Urgent methane cuts needed to rein in climate change: UN

Methane has a much higher heat-trapping potential compared with carbon dioxide and it breaks down in the atmosphere much more quickly than CO2, meaning cutting methane emissions can have a climate...

File photo of climate protestors displaying a banner outside the venue where Swiss bank Credit Suisse holds the company’s annual shareholder meeting in Zurich, Switzerland on 26 April, 2019. PHOTO: REUTERS

When giant banks aggressively promote fossil fuels

Greta Thunberg. Photo: Collected.

Activist Greta Thunberg to testify to US Congress on fossil fuel subsidies

Shafiqul Alam, environmental economist. Sketch: TBS

Internalising the external costs of fossil fuels

Heavy equipment excavate anthracite coal from a strip mine in New Castle, Pennsylvania, US, July 13, 2020. Picture taken July 13, 2020. REUTERS/Dane Rhys/File Photo

How private equity squeezes cash from the dying US coal industry

This is not only a question of political wishful thinking but also a good economics Photo: Reuters

EU to seek fossil fuel phase-out in energy charter treaty talks

File Photo: US President-elect Joe Biden delivers a pre-Thanksgiving speech at his transition headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, US, November 25, 2020. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts/File Photo

Biden poised to halt fossil fuel leasing on federal land

Investing in off-grid renewables creates growth by connecting some of the 3.5 billion people who currently lack access to sufficient electricity. Photo: Reuters.

Renewable energy for European electricity exceeds fossil fuels in 2020

Trump administration readies oil bidding in Alaska wildlife refuge

Scientists successfully turn CO2 into jet fuel

File photo: Turbines of Kutubdia wind power show the potential of using renewable energy without having to recourse to any coal-based source. The photo was taken in Kutubdia island recently. Photo: Mumit M/TBS

Fossil fuel: World rapidly ditching, likely to stay here

This is not only a question of political wishful thinking but also a good economics Photo: Reuters

UK to end aid for overseas fossil fuel projects

This is not only a question of political wishful thinking but also a good economics Photo: Reuters

Biden plan to end US fossil fuel subsidies faces big challenges