Dec 18 2020
OSLO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Harvard University scientists plan to fly a test balloon above Sweden next year to help advance research into dimming sunlight to cool the Earth, alarming environmentalists opposed to solar geoengineering.
Dec 18 2020
OSLO, Dec 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Harvard
University scientists plan to fly a test balloon above Sweden
next year to help advance research into dimming sunlight to cool
the Earth, alarming environmentalists opposed to solar
geoengineering.
Dec 16 2020
OSLO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A nearly "zero-emissions" building site in Oslo, using electric machinery, could be a pioneer for greener construction as the world's urban areas swell by the equivalent of a Dublin or Dallas every week, city experts say.
Dec 09 2020
OSLO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Two centuries after the first coal-powered steamships crossed the Atlantic Ocean, a Swedish company is designing a futuristic throwback: a huge, wind-driven cargo ship that could help end the fossil fuel era and limit climate change.
Nov 25 2020
OSLO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Norway is doubling the price it guarantees developing nations to keep their tropical forests standing, in a step to slow catastrophic losses and encourage big companies to invest far more in nature to combat climate change.
Sep 29 2020
OSLO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In a renewable energy experiment combining sun, water and ice, a Lithuanian power firm aims to install floating solar panels on a lake at a hydroelectric plant this year as part of a small but booming global market for “floatovoltaics”.
Mar 21 2019
OSLO On the outskirts of Oslo, a row of Fiat 500es imported from California stand parked in the snow outside the Buddy Electric dealership, part of a global flow of pre-owned electric cars to Norway powered by green subsidies elsewhere in the world.
Mar 05 2019
OSLO Airlines are doing too little in the fight against global warming, a study funded by investors with $13 trillion of assets under management said on Tuesday.
Mar 05 2019
* Delta, Lufthansa, United, ANA best at managing climate
risks
Feb 27 2019
OSLO Norway's $1 trillion (£753 billion) sovereign wealth fund, the world's biggest, said on Wednesday it planned to keep increasing its investments in Britain, and it shrugged off uncertainties about Brexit.