Gail Rajgor

Special report. Part one: how much renewable electricity capacity was installed worldwide at the end of 2012, and which technologies were the most popular?

By Matt McGrath

The levels of gases in the atmosphere that drive global warming increased to a record high in 2012.

Brad Plumer

The Lancet recently unveiled a major overview of global health risks — and one of the most eye-catching papers highlighted just how deadly air pollution has become over the past two decades.

MarketWatch.com

Global climate change and pollution from the use of fossil fuels killed nearly 5 million people around the world in 2010, according to a report released earlier this year by climate change advocacy group DARA.

RACHEL NUWER

SARAH LYALL

  WORCESTER, England — Britons may remember 2012 as the year the weather spun off its rails in a chaotic concoction of drought, deluge and flooding, but the unpredictability of it all turns out to have been all too predictable: Around the world, extreme has become the new commonplace.

Herman K. Trabish

Is SolarReserve CEO Kevin Smith right about BrightSource’s steam-to-salts storage?

David Quammen

Emerging diseases are in the news again. Scary viruses are making themselves noticed and felt.

The REN21 Secretariat Team

The topic of ‘energy’ has gradually moved over the last decades to the very top of the international political agenda. Renewable energy, in particular, has received high attention as a potential ‘win-win’ option in both the environment and development arenas.

Reuters

*70 pct of corals will suffer degradation by 2030

*To protect half of reefs, temperature rise must be under 1.5C