Now is not the time to kiss the biofuels goodbye
The European Commission’s proposal to scrap the mandate for the use of biofuels and, in effect, to ‘kiss biofuels goodbye,’ is a catastrophic policy based…
The ultimate disruptor is Mother Nature
The Paris Agreement to tackle global warming is bigger than most realise and may be the signal that the marketplace was waiting for to unleash…
Did Brexit Kill The Oil Price Rally?
Oil prices fell again on Monday after last week’s rout following the Brexit vote, deepening the losses and killing off a multi-month oil price rally….
Duke Energy flexes political muscle on fracked gas, coal ash
Duke Energy is facing serious regulatory battles in its home state of North Carolina, with climate-action groups doggedly trying to block the company’s planned fracked…
Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentration Has Passed the Point of No Return
Monday, 23 May 2016 By Dahr Jamail A recent trip up Washington State’s Mount Rainier brought home to me how rapidly things are changing, even…
Mining under the sea
I have been sailing for 6 days so far. In my opinion, it is right to explain to the taxpayers in the Netherlands (but more…
The number one thing we can do to protect earth’s oceans
May 23, 2016 — When New England fishers complained of working harder and harder to catch fewer and fewer fish, Spencer Baird assembled a scientific…
‘Great Wall of Africa’ planned to hold back the Sahara
A massive-scale project proposed by the African Union, partly funded by the EU, will see a wall of trees erected at the edge of the…
Plastic Bags Might Kickstart the Carbon Capture Industry
You just can’t drink enough soda to create a market for bottling and storing all the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. But as researchers…
What the U.S. can learn from European coal miners’ second act
By Joshua Zaffos/High Country News Europe and the U.S. have taken different paths in response to climate concerns and coal declines. People linger at an…
Silk Road revisited
A city within the city. It is the new Midwest Commodity Exchange Center (MCEC), the core of the metal products trade park in Xi’an. Positioned…
Monreale mine: a view from the past
From the top of the hill you can see the Monreale Castle on the right: a reminder of a glorious past. Next, the green stretching…
The solar voyager
While Solar Impulse 2, the aircraft powered by solar energy is reaching the end of its journey around the World, another “eco” international industrial enterprise…
The pros and cons of biomass
When most people talk about renewable energy they are referring to wind and solar power, which tend to dominate the news and their deployment is…
Isogo: a minimalist shrine to clean coal
Modern cities are ever more hungry for power, but increasingly prefer to keep their power plants out of sight and out of mind. Whilst the…
Bee Active! Fight Against Climate Change
Buzz! Buzz! What’s the buzz about bees? In order for plants to reproduce, they must be pollinated, and honeybees are one of the most important…