Environment

UK clean energy projects receive £24 million to keep towns warm

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WB/Argentina: Greater Flood Protection in the Salado River Basin will benefit 1.4 million people

More than 1.4 million people will benefit from a new loan approved on April 6th by the World Bank Board of Directors for US$ 300million to strengthen flood protection in the Salado river basin within the Province of Buenos Aires.

Cost of renewables fell in 2016, lowering global investment in clean energy – UN

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A wind mill at the Parque Eólico Camilo Ortega Saavedra wind farm in the Department of...

New IUCN programme to help carnivores and humans coexist across Africa

The new programme aims primarily to halt the decline of lions, leopards, cheetahs, wild dogs and Ethiopian wolves, increasingly threatened by poaching, habitat fragmentation and human encroachment on wild habitats. Made possible by funding from the...