The Great Biomass Boondoggle
The urgency of the climate crisis is inspiring some extreme and unproven ideas for how to hide carbon and cool the planet, such as ocean…
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Brazil sugarcane growth can meet biofuel need and not drive deforestation
Renewable fuels will not solve aviation’s climate dilemma
UN report: Pollution from planned fossil fuel production would overshoot Paris climate goals
Using language to make the world of fossil fuels strange and ugly
Are we ready for clean “meaters”?
Booking the future
London and NYC Mayors Call on Every Major City in the World to Divest From Climate-Destroying Fossil Fuels
National greenhouse gas reporting needs an overhaul – it’s time to directly measure the atmosphere
We’ll Soon Be Able to Prosper and Save the Earth at the Same Time. Here’s How
Life is pretty different today than it was 20 or even 10 years ago. Smartphones and the internet have changed the way we do business,…
Women are hit harder by climate change. Here, they are starting to fight back
Planting mangrove trees on the shores of Vietnam is helping protect against global warming – and also sowing the seeds of female empowerment. Tran Thi Phuong…
Mourning a glacier
Swiss and Icelandic scientists held funerals to mark the loss of their rivers of ice. They came dressed in black, giving sombre speeches as others…
The tricky task of tallying carbon
To slow or stop global warming, the world agrees it must cut carbon dioxide emissions. But monitoring each nation’s output of greenhouse gases is not…
Rising demand for air conditioning could make climate change even worse
But a new $1 million prize could boost climate-friendly AC technology. Between 1992 and 2016, more than 22,000 people in India died as a result…
For Cement’s Massive Carbon Footprint, Some Concrete Steps
On a scorching July morning at a testing facility outside of Paris, a cadre of scientists, engineers, and architects wearing hard hats and safety goggles…
Earth has a couple more chances to avoid catastrophic climate change. This week is one of them
Robert Hales, Griffith University; Johanna Nalau, Griffith University; Samid Suliman, Griffith University, and Tim Cadman, Griffith University Almost 200 world leaders gather in Madrid this…