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Nigeria’s plastic pollution is harming the environment: steps to combat it are overdue
Pius Utomi Ekpei/ AFP via Getty Images Emmanuel O. Akindele, Obafemi Awolowo University A key theme at this year’s United…
Net zero by 2050 will hit a major timing problem technology can’t solve. We need to talk about cutting consumption
Shutterstock Mark Diesendorf, UNSW Sydney Many climate activists, scientists, engineers and politicians are trying to reassure us the climate crisis…
Why Nigeria’s electricity grid collapses and how to shore it up
Motorists drive at night on a road without street light as Nigeria struggles with power outages in a commercial district…
Here’s how food waste can generate clean energy
In an effort to reduce the growing problem of food waste disposal, researchers are focusing on developing new green technologies…
The battle for AGL heralds a new dawn for Australian electricity
shutterstock Bruce Mountain, Victoria University Two events in the past week mark a watershed for Australia’s electricity industry. The first,…
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How revenues from oil and gas in Africa can be made to work for ordinary people
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What Big Oil knew about climate change, in its own words
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Global energy targets don’t deal with people’s real problems in Zimbabwe
Even if additional energy production capacity was added to the national grid through renewables, questions remain about whether access will…
Criminality isn't the only way to see electricity theft in Zimbabwe. Here is why
shutterstock Ellen Fungisai Chipango, University of Johannesburg Electricity theft is a global challenge and Zimbabwe hasn’t been spared. The country…
