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An aircraft carrier appears to be floating above the water in an optical illusion caused by atmospheric conditions, seen from a distance with a cityscape in the foreground and a hilly horizon in the background.
US-Israel-Iran War
US Navy’s most advanced aircraft carrier arrives in Croatia for repairs as ground troops move to the Persian Gulf
6:28
A street vendor with a cart full of assorted goods, including snacks and cigarettes, stands on a waterfront promenade as people sit along a low wall by the sea. The street is lined with people and buildings in the background, while two motorbikes with headlights on pass by on the road.
Energy
Cuba’s crisis, as told through Cuban voices
8:04
Interior of a facility showing rows of white coffins stacked on blue metal racks in a large, well-lit room.
Energy
How cremations are helping to heat homes in Denmark
7:15
A distinctive, tiered cone-shaped shrine stands on a rocky hilltop against a blue sky, with a fiery gas flare visible nearby.
US-Israel-Iran War
The tiny island at the center of the US and Israel’s war with Iran is more than just oil installations
5:08
Two Serbian flags hang on a pole surrounded by snow-covered tree branches.
DW
Serbians caught between East and West struggle to keep warm
6:30
A person walking through a dense olive grove, with expansive rows of olive trees visible in the background.
DW
Spain debates using the sun for olive harvests or solar park projects
6:42
A row of toy cars displayed indoors, featuring a prominent red toy car in the foreground with black and yellow details, alongside green, brown, and blue toy cars in the background.
Technology
In Kenya, there’s a quiet push for an electric car revolution
4:24
A person walks in front of a colorful mural depicting silhouettes of oil pumps, with a background of yellow, blue, and red hues.
Energy
Inside the high-stakes push to bring US oil companies back to Venezuela
5:39
People walking and relaxing on a sandy beach with rocks and a pier extending into the ocean.
Development
Companies pursuing renewable energy development in Colombia must work with Indigenous communities
7:09
Wind turbines turn behind a solar farm in Rapshagen, Germany, Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021. 
The Big Fix
In global electricity mix, renewables overtake coal for the first time
7:14
DW
Weaning Europe off of coal won’t be easy
10:34
Energy
How solar fuel could help decarbonize air travel
4:10
Energy
The hidden black market fueling Mexico’s cars — and its cartels
5:22
The Big Fix
Ontario approves $15 billion plan to build small modular nuclear reactors
6:36
Energy
Innovators develop devices to tap vast stores of ocean energy
7:44
Energy
Denmark is fed up with Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’
6:55
Energy
Cuba’s long-ailing power supply fails
4:21
Infrastructure
The Itaipu dam: A massive binational collaboration between Paraguay and Brazil
5:48
facade of one-story home
The Big Fix
New project seeks to solve housing crisis using mushroom byproduct and troublesome weed
4:39
Lifestyle & Belief
Capitalists Anonymous: Weary French seek help in buying and polluting less
4:08
Makaa or charcoal is often used in cooking methods in Kenya and other countries in Africa.
Energy
The push to end harmful cooking methods worldwide
6:52
Ghana officially commenced oil production in commercial quantities in 2010.
Climate Change
COP28: African nations resist fossil fuel phaseout, citing economic realities
Lower reservoir on El Hierro island
Environment
Spanish island dumps diesel for wind, water and sunshine
The traditional Iñupiaq village of Teller sits on a long spit of land separating two bodies of water off Western Alaska’s Seward Peninsula.
China cut graphite imports to the US, worrying EV carmakers. Can Canada come to the rescue?
A person in all black walks past a logo at the media center ahead of the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit.
Environment
Confidence in UN climate talks at a low point ahead of COP28 in Dubai
Aerial view of the village of Mutucal, Mãe Grande Curuçá Extractive Reserve.
The Big Fix
Rural communities in the Amazon face a complex world of carbon credits
Wind turbines turn behind a solar farm in Rapshagen, Germany, Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021. 
Ukraine
War in Ukraine spurs ‘rapid deployment’ for renewables, energy chief says
oil and gas platform surrounded by water
Energy
Norway becomes top gas supplier to Europe after Russia invasion
An offshore gas terminal is lit up amid the Atlantic Ocean as houses lay on the beachfront between the sea and the Senegal River, bottom, in Saint-Louis, Senegal, Jan. 18, 2023.
Energy
Europe looks to Senegal for new energy supply. But what’s in it for the Senegalese?
Akureyri is one of the few places in Iceland with forest.
The Big Fix
This small Icelandic city thinks big about going green
two white wind turbines outside
The Big Fix
War in Ukraine speeding up Germany’s transition to renewables
In this photo taken Wednesday Sept. 2015, a man buys kerosene at a road side stall in Harare, Zimbabwe. 
Energy
Zimbabwe struggles to keep the power on
Guyana faces risks from climate change that include rising sea levels that could eventually submerge the capital Georgetown.
Energy
Guyana’s discovery of oil reserves has the nation split between boosting the economy and preserving the environment
A coal-fired power station in Witbank, South Africa , Monday, Oct. 11, 2021.
Energy
Scheduled blackouts roll South Africa into electricity crisis
A general view of Mes Aynak valley is seen some 25 miles southwest of Kabul, Afghanistan, March 2, 2022. Buildings on top are offices of Chinese mining company MCC that won the contract to exploit the world's second-largest copper mine.
Afghanistan
A Chinese company strikes a deal with the Taliban to extract oil from Afghanistan
Shopkeepers and workers wait for electric power at a market following a power breakdown across the country, in Lahore, Pakistan, Jan. 23, 2023.
Economics
Lights out in Pakistan as energy-saving move backfires
Felled trees on Karipuna territory in the Amazonian state of Rondônia.
Environment
Lula empowers Brazil’s Indigenous peoples with their own ministry. But environmental protection remains a key concern.
firefighters in a line
Climate Change
The world kept warming in 2022. Is the 1.5-degree Celsius target within reach?
The beach at the popular tourist resort of Puerto Peñasco in the state of Sonora, Mexico, September 2018.
Energy
Mexico’s clean energy plan could run into trouble at leaders’ summit
grassy mountain
Climate Change
An unseasonably warm winter in Europe threatens ski resorts, tourism
Baker David Buelens puts the baguettes into a basket at a bakery, in Versailles, west of Paris, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022. 
Business, Economics and Jobs
A bakers’ rebellion looms in France to defend baguettes
a mom and son
Barcelona’s children find safety in numbers as they bike to school in herds 
Delegates began to share their concrete visions on what they believe the future plastic treaty could look like at the first meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-1).
Environment
Negotiators meet in Uruguay to map out global plastics treaty
Demonstrators show "stop oil in Africa" written on their hands during a protest with Stop Pipelines coalition against pipelines in East Africa.
Energy
Land issues at the heart of Uganda’s oil showdown
After the discovery of commercial quantities of oil in 2006, Hoima, Uganda, is being referred to as “Oil City,” Hoima, Uganda, November 2022.
Energy
Why African countries like Uganda are investing in fossil fuels
Evaporation ponds in the Atacama salt flat
Energy
Global demand for lithium is changing Chile’s Atacama Desert
Sameh Shoukry, president of the COP27 climate summit, left, speaks during an opening session at the COP27 UN Climate Summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt
Climate Change
COP27: UN chief tells climate summit, Cooperate or perish
A woman rides her bicycle toward Broekzijdse Molen windmill as the sun sets between the villages of Abcoude and Driemond, near Amsterdam, Netherlands, Saturday Oct. 29, 2011.
Lifestyle
Europe deliberates if it should keep daylight saving time
Traditional firewood and pressed sawdust bricks used to be a cheap way to heat your home in Latvia. But with inflation and soaring demand, wood heat has tripled in cost so far this year — and winter hasn't yet begun.
Energy
Latvians brace for harsh winter under new austerity measures to lessen dependency on Russian energy
Wind catchers in Yazd, Iran are an ancient form of natural air conditioning.
Energy
Long before electricity, wind catchers of Persia kept residents cool. Climate-conscious architects are taking notes.
People sit in a shallow pool of water in the riverbed of the Jialing River, a tributary of the Yangtze, in southwestern China's Chongqing Municipality, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2022. 
Climate Change
China endures ‘heat wave from hell’ with record-breaking temperatures
An auto rickshaw driver pushes his vehicle next to a banner that says only those vehicles with QR codes will be given fuel at a fuel station in Colombo, Sri Lanka
Energy
Amid fuel crisis in Sri Lanka, bicycling is no longer a ‘poor person’s mode of transport’
Double the usual number of fishing boats are seen at the Dikkowita Fisheries Harbor, a main harbor in the Colombo area of Sri Lanka
Economics
Sri Lanka’s fuel shortage is hurting the country’s fishing industry
cars in line
Energy
Sri Lankans wait in line for days to refuel their vehicles amid shortages, economic crisis
view of the city
Energy
Solar power is the ‘only business that’s booming’ amid financial and electricity crises in Lebanon, experts say
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman review a military honor guard during a welcome ceremony, in Ankara, Turkey
Global Politics
MBS visits Ankara as Turkey attempts to repair relations with its regional rivals
A motorcyclists watches as an employee of a fuel stationin fills petrol, in Mumbai, India
Energy
India, China growing markets for shunned Russian oil
People walk across the famed Shibuya scramble crossing as the sun sets behind the skyscraper, Oct. 11, 2021, in Tokyo.
Energy
A Tokyo train company moves to become net-carbon neutral
Berat Haznedaroğlu, director of the Istanbul Microalgae Biotechnologies Research and Development Center at Boğaziçi University, stands by a racetrack algae pool, a motor to one side.
Energy
This Turkish lab is turning algae into jet fuel
wood pellets in hand
Energy
Biomass energy may soon lose its green label in the EU