9 reasons why the EU’s bank is no climate leader
As declarations emerge from Paris about the billions and trillions of dollars needed to combat the affects of climate change, the world’s largest public lender,…
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Energy Storage: the key to renewables success
For some years now, scientists have been proposing the exhaustion of fossil fuels. The idea of finding a way to make renewables as primary and…
Climate denialism: a brief history
In the late 1970s, scientists first came to a consensus that global warming was likely to result from increasing greenhouse gases released by the burning…
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Climate Change “Tipping Points” and the Fate of the Earth
Paris always worth a mass?
The COP 21 final accord is seen by many as crucial to move world societies towards resilient, low-carbon economies. Not everyone agrees
Carbon capture and storage: the black sheep of green energy?
Mixed fortunes for this unloved carbon-cutting technology
White Rose wilts under green cuts
September 2015 saw a major setback in plans to deploy carbon capture and storage (CCS) in the United Kingdom, as Drax Power withdrew support from…
South Africa’s Road to Growth is Paved With Coal
South Africa is already largely urbanized. Today, nearly two-thirds of South Africans live in urban centers. Although the rate of urbanization is slower in South…
Rise in CO2 could restrict growing days for crops
While plants in temperate zones may benefit from higher temperatures, global warming’s impact in the tropics threatens catastrophe for food security. LONDON, 20 June,…
4 Signs the Tide May Be Turning Against Lion Hunting, and 1 It Isn’t
Who could shoot a lion? That’s the question many people are asking on social media and in protests outside the offices of big game hunters,…
Entering the Nuclear Age, Body by Body – The Nagasaki Experience
Korean and Chinese workers, prisoners of war, and mobilized adults and students had returned to their work sites; some dug or repaired shelters, others piled…
Nuclear fusion, the clean power that will take decades to master
Nuclear fusion is what powers the Sun and the stars – unleashing huge amounts of energy through the binding together of light elements such as…
Egypt revives Suez dream amid global trade slump and escalating insurgency
Egypt has revived the Suez Canal on a grand scale with a flourish of patriotic fervour, vowing to reignite world trade almost a century and…