The financial services arm of Korean conglomerate Samsung has committed to stop backing coal power. This makes them the first Asian insurance group to stop underwriting new coal power. Until…

A Virgin Atlantic plane has flown from London’s Gatwick airport to Orlando, Florida, using gas derived from industrial waste.  The fuel, a blend of traditional jet fuel and industrial waste…

According to NASA, the ozone hole above Antarctica shrank to its smallest size since 1988. The small size of the ozone hole in 2017 was caused by warmer temperatures in the…

WattTime, a non-profit subsidiary of the Rocky Mountain Institute, just announced they will be using satellite imaging to measure the air pollution coming from power plants and making all of their information…

In Sweden, forest fires have been reported as far north as the Arctic Circle, prompting Norway and Italy to dispatch firefighting aircraft to Sweden to help contain them. A record…

Climeworks, a climate startup from Switzerland, has retrofitted a geothermal power plant in Iceland to actively remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air whilst simultaneously generating power. The technique works…

Carol Brighton on Twitter China is decoupling the myth that economic growth & #carbon emissions are linked #SignalofChange https://t.co/QkkBAXrR6o via @Futurism

Mangroves, salt-tolerant trees with intertwining branches, have been found to be expanding from tropical zones into more temperate areas. These trees line coastlines and prefer warmer temperatures, and so have traditionally been…

Artificial Pathway Turns Carbon Dioxide into Useful Products Researchers have developed a synthetic pathway to convert carbon dioxide in the air into organic compounds like glucose. The pathway, reported in…

Netherlands based DSM has also produced a powdered feed additive through its Clean Cow project that can reduce methane emissions by 25% when fed to cattle: Mobilizing Bright Science for…

Carol Brighton on Twitter SignalofChange: The next #EVs are Airplanes. A Battery-Powered Electric Plane Just Had Its First Test Flight in Australia https://t.co/p0hHXsBa98 via @Futurism

Carol Brighton on Twitter ClimateWise #SignalofChange: #France Awards 13 U.S. Scientists With Millions in Funding for Climate Research #MakeOurPlanetGreatAgain: https://t.co/WZ8gTuhYvO via @YaleE360 France Awards 13 U.S. Scientists With Millions in…

On 19 December 2017, China took the first step towards launching its carbon market – by allocating emissions quotas for a cap-and-trade scheme. The move follows seven regional pilots launched in 2013 and…

A wildfire spanning more than 1 million acres across seven counties in California caused the state to use a the new classification ‘gigafire’. The fire was an amalgamation of several…

The Bank of England Governor Mark Carney has warned of the “profound implications” of climate change “for insurers, financial stability and the economy”. Carney said the global ‘Carbon Budget’ –…

Following international finance giants like Deutsche Bank and Societe Generale, Standard Charter has announced that it “…will not directly finance any new coal-fired power projects, including expansions, in any location.”…

The billionaires of Silicon Valley and other rich Americans are reported to be buying extensive areas of land in New Zealand in preparation for a feared apocalyptic event such as…

Signals of Change help us imagine how different the future could be. They are small but important ideas and innovations that might suggest new ways to shape a sustainable future,…

Researchers from the International Centre for Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, have used non-GM molecular breeding techniques to develop a set of durum wheat…

Carol Brighton on Twitter With 16,500 @BYDCompany electric buses in operation, Shenzhen is reportedly the world’s first major city to have an all-electric fleet – #SignalofChange https://t.co/5QFgWdM8jZ via @GreenCarReports  …

Cyclone Idai created inland oceans and left cities across Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi with more than 750 dead. Mozambique’s former first lady said that Beira “will go down in history…