Clean coal: a mirage or a forced marriage?
What’s the real meaning of affordable energy? Something you can buy cheaply or something you can rely on to improve your well-being? The answer is…
Booking the future
A crystal ball? Tea leaves? Astrology? How do we predict our future? The negative effects of climate change are increasing and will only escalate. Fortunately,…
London and NYC Mayors Call on Every Major City in the World to Divest From Climate-Destroying Fossil Fuels
“Instead of having to move cities, let’s move money!” Ahead of a forum for local leaders from across the globe scheduled for March, Mayors Bill…
National greenhouse gas reporting needs an overhaul – it’s time to directly measure the atmosphere
How much greenhouse gas is emitted by any individual country? With global emissions of carbon dioxide hitting a record of 36.8 billion tonnes this…
Of Science, Fear, and Nuclear Radiation
For Andrew Maidment, the chief of physics for the Department of Radiology at the University of Pennsylvania, it was one of the oddest phone calls…
We’ll Soon Be Able to Prosper and Save the Earth at the Same Time. Here’s How
Life is pretty different today than it was 20 or even 10 years ago. Smartphones and the internet have changed the way we do business,…
Women are hit harder by climate change. Here, they are starting to fight back
Planting mangrove trees on the shores of Vietnam is helping protect against global warming – and also sowing the seeds of female empowerment. Tran Thi Phuong…
Mourning a glacier
Swiss and Icelandic scientists held funerals to mark the loss of their rivers of ice. They came dressed in black, giving sombre speeches as others…
The tricky task of tallying carbon
To slow or stop global warming, the world agrees it must cut carbon dioxide emissions. But monitoring each nation’s output of greenhouse gases is not…
Rising demand for air conditioning could make climate change even worse
But a new $1 million prize could boost climate-friendly AC technology. Between 1992 and 2016, more than 22,000 people in India died as a result…
For Cement’s Massive Carbon Footprint, Some Concrete Steps
On a scorching July morning at a testing facility outside of Paris, a cadre of scientists, engineers, and architects wearing hard hats and safety goggles…
Earth has a couple more chances to avoid catastrophic climate change. This week is one of them
Robert Hales, Griffith University; Johanna Nalau, Griffith University; Samid Suliman, Griffith University, and Tim Cadman, Griffith University Almost 200 world leaders gather in Madrid this…
How Cheap Must Batteries Get for Renewables to Compete With Fossil Fuels?
While solar and wind power are rapidly becoming cost-competitive with fossil fuels in areas with lots of sun and wind, they still can’t provide the…
COP25 to keep ocean focus despite moving to Madrid
Next month’s UN climate talks have moved from Chile to Spain but will retain the “blue COP” theme Civil unrest led the leader of Chile…
The moment of truth for coal, oil, and gas in Latin America
New UN report calls for end to fossil fuel production – even in developing regions such as Latin America The message is clear: if we…
Climate explained: how volcanoes influence climate and how their emissions compare to what we produce
Michael Petterson, Auckland University of Technology Everyone is going on about reducing our carbon footprint, zero emissions, planting sustainable crops for biodiesel etc. Is it…