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…
Climate Change
Brazil sugarcane growth can meet biofuel need and not drive deforestation
Sugarcane production in Brazil could expand by more than 5 million hectares (19,305 square miles) by 2030 to meet demand for ethanol biofuels, according to…
Renewable fuels will not solve aviation’s climate dilemma
Powering aeroplanes with renewable fuels is crucial for making flying less climate-damaging, but it will get aviation nowhere near climate neutrality, environmental NGOs, industry representatives…
UN report: Pollution from planned fossil fuel production would overshoot Paris climate goals
In the 2015 international Paris Climate Agreement, nearly every country [see editor’s note] agreed to try and limit global warming to no more than 2…
Using language to make the world of fossil fuels strange and ugly
They weren’t getting it. I had a room full of bright first-year university students in front of me, but confusion reigned as I tried to…
Are we ready for clean “meaters”?
Every year 66 billion animals are butchered for food. Predictions are that meat consumption will rise, with increasing demand for meat from China and other…
Booking the future
A crystal ball? Tea leaves? Astrology? How do we predict our future? The negative effects of climate change are increasing and will only escalate. Fortunately,…
London and NYC Mayors Call on Every Major City in the World to Divest From Climate-Destroying Fossil Fuels
“Instead of having to move cities, let’s move money!” Ahead of a forum for local leaders from across the globe scheduled for March, Mayors Bill…
National greenhouse gas reporting needs an overhaul – it’s time to directly measure the atmosphere
How much greenhouse gas is emitted by any individual country? With global emissions of carbon dioxide hitting a record of 36.8 billion tonnes this…
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
By Adam Levy To slow or stop global warming, the world agrees it must cut carbon dioxide emissions. But monitoring each nation’s output of greenhouse…