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Articles, Last Exit January 11, 2019

São Domingos

The São Domingos Mine is an abandoned open-pit mine in Alentejo’s Corte do Pinto, the first place in Portugal to have electric lighting. The Romans mined in the São Domingos area…

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Articles Climate Change Policy & Strategy

One Earth Climate Model

A state-of-the-art climate model, funded by the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation and released by the prestigious scientific publisher Springer Nature, offers a roadmap for meeting — and surpassing — the targets set by the Paris Climate Agreement, showing that we can solve…

Articles Coal

Australian Judge Strikes Down Coal Mine in Part Because of Its Carbon Emissions

In what is likely to be the first of many such rulings, an Australian court has ruled against a coal mine in part on grounds of the environmental damage that burning coal does by contributing to the climate emergency. Burning…

Articles Nature & Environment

If you want to know about the health of ecosystems, a good place to start is with Ants

The ghost ant is aptly named. All six of its legs, not to mention the ant’s antennae and abdomen, sport a spectral yellow — a pale hue that often fades into the background, leaving the ant’s tiny brown head and…

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Water: underground source for billions could take more than a century to respond fully to climate change

Groundwater is the biggest store of accessible freshwater in the world, providing billions of people with water for drinking and crop irrigation. That’s all despite the fact that most will never see groundwater at its source – it’s stored naturally…

Articles Nuclear

Nuclear power – breakthrough technology or eternal promise?

A new-wave nuclear power that could cut down carbon emissions, according to Microsoft founder Bill Gates, is one of the 10 Breakthrough Technologies that will change the world in 2019. A bold prediction but not ungrounded. Global greenhouse gas emissions…

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Generations arm wrestling for climate

In February, school students across the UK joined a growing international movement of school ‘climate strikes’, which has seen children skip their Friday lessons to protest over a perceived lack of government action against the threat of climate change. The…

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The Green New Deal as a catalyst for smoothing out social inequality

Humanity has a decade to reduce carbon emissions or face climate change devastation, reckons the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The United Nations’ group is dedicated to providing the world with a scientific – that is to say impartial, apolitical…

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Alternatives to standard grass lawns

Many people are surprised to learn that current lawn practices wreak havoc on the environment. Chemical fertilizers, pesticides, watering, and lawn equipment such as lawn mowers produce myriads of greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change. Fortunately, there are numerous…

Articles Nuclear

Next-gen Nukes

Back in 2009, Simon Irish, an investment manager in New York, found the kind of opportunity that he thought could transform the world while — in the process — transforming dollars into riches. Irish saw that countries around the globe…

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Better data would help crack the drought insurance problem

While drought policy raises many complex emotional, political and policy issues, it can be helpful to think of it as an insurance problem: how can we best help farmers manage climate risk? Drought insurance has been a long-standing goal and…

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