Permafrost and wetland emissions could cut 1.5°C carbon budget ‘by five years’
Emissions of CO2 and methane from wetlands and thawing permafrost as the climate warms could cut the “carbon budget” for the Paris Agreement temperature limits…
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The Carbon Brief Profile: Turkey
In the second article of a new series on how key emitters are responding to climate change, Carbon Brief looks at Turkey’s rising emissions and its…
5 “Lazy” Ways to Reverse Global Warming
The year is 2050. World leaders convene to discuss methods to negate the rapidly rising global temperatures as another category 6 hurricane finishes ravaging the…
The Carbon Brief Profile: Japan
In the third article of a new series on how key emitters are responding to climate change, Carbon Brief looks at Japan’s gradually falling emissions…
The world at a tipping point (Solar: Part 3)
This is part 3 of a three part series. See here for part 1 and part 2. Looking for belief in the history of technology…
How solar progress progresses (Solar: Part 2)
This is part 2 of a three part series. See here for part 1 and part 3. We have one really good tool for predicting…
India’s third way
From death came life. Cremation, a traditional ceremony for the 8.5 million Hindus dying each year in India, is emotionally and environmentally fraught. An estimated…
The Allam Cycle fires up
Last April the town of Laporte, Texas, was the setting for what could prove to be a turning point in the losing battle against carbon…
Environmentalism 4.0
Global leaders at the latest World Economic Forum 2018 Meeting in Davos were talking about “the Fourth Industrial Revolution”, the drastic changes that technology, Artificial…
The true carbon footprint of photovoltaic energy
The sun is an inexhaustible energy resource to generate electricity apparently without toxic pollutants or effects on global warming. Certainly, solar energy systems (photovoltaics, solar…
Pleistocene Park: protecting the future by returning to the past
It is a well-known fact that burning fossil fuels causes the buildup of greenhouse gases which leads to global warming. This results in melting permafrost…
Cockatoo Island
Located in Sydney Harbour, Australia, Cockatoo Island, between 1839 and 1869, operated as a convict penal establishment, for convicts who had re-offended in the colonies….
From Australia to El Salvador to Vietnam, the environment is finally getting its day in court
When the improper disposal of wastewater from the construction site of a joint shopping center and apartment complex threatened to contaminate hundreds of residents’ water…