Five steps to get industries on track for net zero
An industrial-scale problem… Today, industrial sectors account for nearly 40% of global energy consumption and more than 30% of global greenhouse gas emissions. The five…
Meet a scientist who’s optimistic about climate change
Chemist Dick Co’s take: We will solve climate change if we follow some basic rules of gremlin care, er, climate action Like many children of…
Petro takes office in Colombia: can he fulfil his environmental ambitions?
The veteran leftist has promised deep social and economic reforms on decarbonisation and climate adaptation as president, but faces challenges in testing times Colombia’s first…
Climate change is altering the chemistry of wine
By Ula Chrobak By Katarina Zimmer Warming, wildfires and unpredictable weather threaten to disrupt the delicate processes that underlie treasured wines. Researchers and producers are…
Just 20% of climate change studies ‘written by women’
Chioma Blaise Chikere is at the pinnacle of her career, as a professor of environmental microbiology and biotechnology at the University of Port Harcourt in…
Mexican farmers and scientists share a mission: saving a wetland
On the southern edge of Mexico City, on a patch of land surrounded by water, a farmer and a scientist recently inspected rows of small…
Climate change amplifies the risk of conflict, study from Africa shows
In October 2021, the city of Guriel in Somalia’s Galguduud region became the epicenter of fierce fighting between the national army and a paramilitary group…
Net zero: Copenhagen’s failure to meet its 2025 target casts doubt on other major climate plans
The city of Copenhagen, often celebrated as one of the world’s greenest for its cycling culture and other initiatives, recently defaulted on its pledge to…
The risks and rewards of the minerals required for the energy transition
In order to limit global temperature rises, the world will have to undergo an urgent energy transition that will leave the fossil fuel era behind….
Climate change is global, the pain is private
Imagine that your community has been battered or even destroyed by a climate change-induced flood, tornado, hurricane, or drought. Some community members have perished, including…
CCUS has still a role in the energy transition
More than 120 countries have announced commitments to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, or 2060 in the case of China and 2070 in India….
The Law of the Many
Private jets pollute more. They pollute like all planes but serve few people, which is why the amount of co2 emitted per capita is unacceptable….
Less fuel in harvesting maize
Maize is one of the New World plants nobody else had experienced before 1500. Compared with wheat or rye, it certainly looked peculiar. The grain…