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Barh Super Thermal Power Station (India). Photo credit: Abhinav Paulite

Articles, Coal, Renewables January 1, 2021

The green and the black

As the profound global impact of Covid-19 continues to unfold, those whose job it is to forecast the future have had to scramble for their…

Articles, Coal, Policy & Strategy January 9, 2020

Clean coal: a mirage or a forced marriage?

What’s the real meaning of affordable energy? Something you can buy cheaply or something you can rely on to improve your well-being? The answer is…

Climate Change, Coal, Fossil Fuels, Nature & Environment, Renewables November 28, 2019

The moment of truth for coal, oil, and gas in Latin America

New UN report calls for end to fossil fuel production – even in developing regions such as Latin America The message is clear: if we…

Coal, News & Comments, Renewables November 4, 2019

Analysis: Renewables could match coal power within 5 years, IEA reveals

Renewable sources of electricity are set for rapid growth over the next five years, which could see them match the output of the world’s coal-fired…

Coal, News & Comments, Policy & Strategy October 31, 2019

We Need a Just Transition—Because We Should Abandon Coal, Not Coal Workers

Taking care of those communities distressed by the shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy is an economic and ethical imperative. The coal industry is…

Coal, Fossil Fuels, Oil September 5, 2019

Analysis: global plastics boom fueled 2018 CO2 emissions rise

The world added more non-fossil power last year than ever before, but energy demand rose by even more. Last year’s rise in global CO2 emissions…

Climate Change, Coal, Fossil Fuels, Nature & Environment August 26, 2019

We can’t expand airports after declaring a climate emergency – let’s shift to low-carbon transport instead

Jefim Vogel, University of Leeds; Joel Millward-Hopkins, University of Leeds, and Yannick Oswald, University of Leeds The world may finally be waking to the reality…

Coal, Policy & Strategy, Renewables July 18, 2019

Implementing Germany’s coal exit proposal – the road ahead

Germany’s coal exit commission has agreed on a proposal on how the country can manage to phase out its single largest source of greenhouse gas…

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Articles Climate Change Policy & Strategy

What Joe Biden’s US election victory means for climate change

Joe Biden’s US election victory has been hailed as a significant turning point in US policy on everything from racial injustice to the Covid-19 pandemic. But there are few areas where the president-elect differs from his predecessor more than climate change, a topic that…

Articles Climate Change

Warmer climate and Arctic sea ice in a veritable suicide pact

Their ‘death spiral’ is a vicious melting-warming feedback, leading to more melting of snow and ice and still more warming, an ongoing cycle. Think of it as a suicide pact on ice – global warming and Arctic sea ice in…

Articles Biomass

Are forests the new coal? Global alarm sounds as biomass burning surges

The forest biomass industry is sprawling and spreading globally — rapidly growing in size, scale, revenue, and political influence — even as forest ecologists and climatologists warn that the industry is putting the planet’s temperate and tropical forests at risk,…

Articles Nature & Environment

The plastic myth and the misunderstood triangle

Of all the plastic we’ve ever produced, only 9% has been recycled. So what happened to all that plastic you’ve put in the recycling bin over the years? Hands up if you grew up thinking that recycling plastic waste is…

Articles Power to X Renewables

Hydrogen: where is low-carbon fuel most useful for decarbonisation?

Is hydrogen the lifeblood of a low-carbon future, or an overhyped distraction from real solutions? One thing is certain – the coal, oil and natural gas which currently power much of daily life must be phased out within coming decades.…

Articles Nature & Environment

Wildfires’ toxic air leaves damage long after the smoke clears

When researchers arrived in this town tucked in the Northern Rockies three years ago, they could still smell the smoke a day after it cleared from devastating wildfires. Their plan was to chart how long it took for people to…

Articles Climate Change

Climate literacy is essential for effective change

We need to make it easier to understand basic climate science and emissions reductions. We know less than we think we know about climate. And we know even less than that about our carbon footprint. This doesn’t mean we’re all idiots.…

Articles Climate Change Green Tech Sustainability

China’s new carbon neutrality pledge: what next?

Experts react to President Xi’s statement that China will up its climate ambition by striving for carbon neutrality by 2060. In a virtual address to the 75th UN General Assembly on 22 September, Chinese President Xi Jinping said China would…

Articles Innovation Policy & Strategy

Ring out the old, ring in the new

Now is the time to plant the seeds of innovation. The pandemic has been too global and too prolonged to be considered just one of those temporary situations. Better to forget the let’s-get-back-to-2019 prayers. They are filled with hopes of…

Articles Coal Renewables

The green and the black

As the profound global impact of Covid-19 continues to unfold, those whose job it is to forecast the future have had to scramble for their calculators. This has proved just as true for the widely cited projections of global energy…

The Lost Bayou: Grand Bayou

Grand Bayou, LA. At one time, it was a lively community of close-knit families, until they were forced to leave. ©2020. Garde Voir Ci magazine. Nicholls State University Department of Mass Communication.

World Rainforest Day

Rainforests cover only 2 percent of the planet’s surface area but are responsible for more than 25% of all Western medicine and house more than 50% of the world’s plant and animal species.

Coal

The green and the black

Greening China’s overseas energy projects

In a Fight Over a Colombian Coal Mine, Covid-19 Raises the Stakes

Big in Japan

The big Muddy River’s long, turbulent relationship with coal

India’s future energy options all add up to coal, agree the experts

The Carbon Brief Profile: Canada

Undone Science: When Research Fails Polluted Communities

Winterproofing the grid

Clean coal: a mirage or a forced marriage?

The moment of truth for coal, oil, and gas in Latin America

Analysis: Renewables could match coal power within 5 years, IEA reveals

We Need a Just Transition—Because We Should Abandon Coal, Not Coal Workers

Analysis: global plastics boom fueled 2018 CO2 emissions rise

We can’t expand airports after declaring a climate emergency – let’s shift to low-carbon transport instead

Implementing Germany’s coal exit proposal – the road ahead

The Lost Bayou: Grand Bayou

World Rainforest Day

Plastic litters one of the world's remotest islands - Henderson Island