Nordics bet on advanced biofuels to suit carbon neutrality ambitions
Scandinavian governments have raised the bar in their commitment to becoming carbon neutral and several companies have responded by developing new technologies to harness forest…
How to Support Your Children in Turning Climate Angst Into Climate Action
We must tell the truth and show through our actions that we stand with young people in their efforts. Our children are angry and frightened,…
Microsoft’s Moonshot Plan to Reverse Its Lifetime CO2 Emissions by 2050
The alarming headlines about Australia’s bush fires over the last couple weeks have heightened the global outcry over climate change, and companies, NGOs, and governments…
The role of sustainable bioenergy in delivering the European Green Deal
Fueled by the pressure of climate activists and global mass protests, EU decision-makers embraced an unprecedented focus on the climate emergency. This resulted in the…
Undone Science: When Research Fails Polluted Communities
It was nearly 30 years ago when Debbie Blackburn and her husband Scott bought a boxy, postwar house six blocks from the Ohio River in…
Smart water heating could help in South Africa’s energy crisis
MJ (Thinus) Booysen, Stellenbosch University South Africa’s energy crisis has many dimensions, from political and economic to technical and environmental. Recently, the country’s power utility,…
The Great Biomass Boondoggle
The urgency of the climate crisis is inspiring some extreme and unproven ideas for how to hide carbon and cool the planet, such as ocean…
Brazil sugarcane growth can meet biofuel need and not drive deforestation
Sugarcane production in Brazil could expand by more than 5 million hectares (19,305 square miles) by 2030 to meet demand for ethanol biofuels, according to…
Renewable fuels will not solve aviation’s climate dilemma
Powering aeroplanes with renewable fuels is crucial for making flying less climate-damaging, but it will get aviation nowhere near climate neutrality, environmental NGOs, industry representatives…
Can mobile payment apps spur green living?
Ant Forest turns an Alipay user’s environmentally friendly actions into “green energy”, which they can then use to plant and nurture a virtual tree. When…
UN report: Pollution from planned fossil fuel production would overshoot Paris climate goals
In the 2015 international Paris Climate Agreement, nearly every country [see editor’s note] agreed to try and limit global warming to no more than 2…
Using language to make the world of fossil fuels strange and ugly
They weren’t getting it. I had a room full of bright first-year university students in front of me, but confusion reigned as I tried to…
Winterproofing the grid
Winter came early for many Americans this year, as parts of the United States have already seen record-breaking cold weather in November. A dramatic new…