Europe’s islands are leading the charge in the clean energy transition
Carbon dioxide from power generation must be reduced to reach EU climate targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030 and…
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Siège Simon
Siège Simon was one of the largest coal mines in the Lorraine region of France. Geological surveys between 1817 and 1849 identified coal deposits. The…
‘We’re Taking Action Into Our Own Hands’ — A Community Stands Against a Landfill
Long Island residents and their allies seek environmental justice after decades of pollution. As you drive down East Woodside Avenue in Brookhaven, New York, a…
Poisoned city: the story of Brazil’s forgotten environmental disaster
Hundreds of tons of carcinogenic agrochemicals, including DDT, were abandoned by the Brazilian government at a factory near an orphanage on the outskirts or Rio…
Climate pollution from plastics to outpace coal emissions in US by 2030
The petrochemical industry has found a new market for fossil fuels: Plastics. With dozens of new plastics manufacturing and recycling facilities in the works, the…
Ipcc climate report: Profound changes are underway in Earth’s oceans and ice – a lead author explains what the warnings mean
Humans are unequivocally warming the planet, and that’s triggering rapid changes in the atmosphere, oceans and polar regions, and increasing extreme weather around the world,…
Nature Is Not a Machine—We Treat It So at Our Peril
Climate change, avers Rex Tillerson, ex-CEO of ExxonMobil and erstwhile US Secretary of State, “is an engineering problem, and it has engineering solutions.” This brief…
Smell something, tell something
Spanline Dixon, a retired teacher’s aide, is used to unpleasant smells. Her home in Brunswick, Ga. is near a waste and recycling facility, a water…
Are Brazil’s Amazon Policies ‘Crimes Against Humanity’?
On a tuesday afternoon in late March 2020, Zezico Rodrigues Guajajara was killed by gunmen as he was driving a motorbike near his home village on…
Old and new solutions pave way to net-zero emissions farming, studies show
New and emerging technologies could pave the way to net-zero carbon emissions agriculture in the next two decades, according to a study published in the journal Proceedings of…
Why Europe cannot afford to shun nuclear power
With the EU Parliament’s approval of the European Commission’s package of legislative proposals on climate and energy, the bloc’s ambitious emissions reduction targets of least 55% below 1990 levels…
Inside Exxon’s playbook: How America’s biggest oil company continues to oppose action on climate change
ExxonMobil continues to fight efforts to tackle climate change in the United States, despite publicly claiming to support the Paris climate agreement, an undercover investigation…
Is hydrogen the new oil?
The Tokyo Olympics will be powered by a fuel with ambition – hydrogen. The Olympic flame is already burning it. The Olympic village will be powered by…