Tinubu Approves Up to 80% Pay Rise for Nigerian Troops President Bola Tinubu has approved a salary increase of between 30% and 80% for about 250,000 members of Nigeria’s Armed Forces, effective from 1 September. The move is expected to increase the military’s annual wage bill by N264 billion, from N660 billion to N924…
The bloc’s crisis management chief calls for more investment and plans to be accelerated as an ominous heatwave looms. Published On 29 Jul 202629 Jul 2026 The European Union’s crisis management commissioner says the bloc needs to invest more in tackling climate change and accelerate its response, as France and Spain prepare for another crippling…
The industrial-scale sand battery in Finland’s Pornainen can cover almost one month of the town’s heating demands in the summer and as much as one week in the winter. Polar Night Energy A small town in southern Finland has turned to the world’s largest commercial sand battery to fix what many see as the most…
Adura is a joint venture between UK energy giant Shell and Norwegian firm Equinor. Its 159-page submission said that displacing imported liquified nature gas (LNG) from the United States with gas from the Jackdaw field would save the equivalent of four million tonnes of CO2 equivalent. It says that could result in around 20% more…
Dr Peter Jones has spent the past 30 years immersed – quite literally – in bogs, fens and wetlands, trying to help save the planet and earning himself the nickname The Bogfather in the process. These landscapes are now at the forefront of the climate crisis and Jones has been making an offer that policymakers…
We might only be a few days into July, but two record-breaking summer heatwaves have already provided the UK and Europe with a snapshot of their new climate. Hot on the heels of May’s heat, June saw temperature records not only broken but smashed in what the UN’s weather agency called an “extraordinary” event across…
The World Bank has abandoned its target of directing 45 percent of its financing to projects that help tackle climate change, prompting warnings that poorer countries – especially in Africa – could receive less support to adapt to a warming world. The bank’s five-year Climate Change Action Plan expired on Tuesday. Last year it put…
It was a crisp 54 degrees in Aberdeen, on the northeast coast of Scotland, last week when Kemi Badenoch, the leader of Britain’s Conservative Party, once again championed the country’s fossil fuel industry. “The war on oil and gas must end,” she insisted, prompting applause from supporters in the port city, a major hub for…
This week, thousands of scientists, policymakers, executives and activists have gathered in London for a week of climate events. The climate showed up, too. A heat dome has gripped much of Europe for days, sending temperatures across the continent and Britain soaring to deeply uncomfortable levels. Temperatures have reached 36.4 Celsius, or 97.5 Fahrenheit, in…
The modeled pathways, what we call projections, for deployment of carbon capture and storage are from text and tables in the International Energy Agency’s Energy Technology Perspectives and World Energy Outlook reports, and from correspondence with the IEA. The 2008 and 2010 projections are from the IEA’s Blue Map scenario; a second 2010 projection is…
