Cooking (Bio)Fuels in the Developing World
Approximately 2.1 billion people cook using open fires or inefficient stoves. Approximately four million people die yearly from inhaling unventilated wood, coal, or dung cooking…
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Turning Climate Anxiety Into Action
Adaptation keeps many species, including ours, alive and thriving. In nature, how fast and well you adapt decides your survival. Humans somehow thought they could…
Lithium: The White Gold of a Controversial Transition
Imagine a metal so light that it floats on water yet so powerful that it could fuel our society’s future. Once a relatively obscure element,…
Double Standard
Russia invades Ukraine, and the U.S. and the EU show solidarity and concrete help to the victims of the attack. Linear. Israel invades what remains…
Export Half-Green Methanol, Not LNG
As this is being written, it is still the metric of total CO2 emissions due to human activity worldwide, which is thought important to keep…
Iraq-China Energy Relations, Opportunities and Challenges
The Iraq-China relationship dates back to ancient times. The new era in Iraq-China relations began in 1958, with the establishment of diplomatic relations between the…
Six Lessons From the World’s Deadliest Environmental Disaster
The world’s deadliest environmental disaster got its start in 1958. Its effects are still being felt today, more than six decades later. It wasn’t an…
Ozone pollution shrinks tropical forest growth
While the ozone layer in the atmosphere protects the earth from the sun’s radiation, at the ground level, ozone is a pollutant that reduces the…
Hinckley
The remains are still there in Hinckley, Utah. The Delta Solar R&D Project stared as a technological avant-garde experiment and became a scheme fraud. In…
Cities Are Depaving for a Cooler Future
Asphalt contributes to the urban heat island effect and makes places more prone to flooding. Planners are rethinking its place in cities. It all started…
How are the EU’s coal giants decarbonising?
Can Germany and Poland, the EU’s two largest coal consumers, sustain their emissions cuts? In the EU, coal consumption rebounded in 2021 and 2022 as…
Romania’s big bet on fossil gas proves a reckless gamble
Romania has hit the EU funds jackpot, securing significant amounts for fossil gas projects. However, implementation has been sluggish. More concerningly, these projects could delay…
Divide and Conquer
It happens in Italy. “Areas that are not included in the list of suitable areas may not be declared unsuitable for the installation of renewable…