Dumb & Dumber: The global assault on environmental laws
Without environmental laws we’d all be breathing polluted air, drinking foul water, and living in a perpetual silent spring — where nature and wildlife had…
Is Trump Launching a New World Order?
The Petro-Powers vs. the Greens That Donald Trump is a grand disruptor when it comes to international affairs is now a commonplace observation in the…
Waterloo study says insurance industry dangerously unprepared for extreme weather
As historic flooding caused by climate change devastates communities in New Brunswick and British Columbia, new research from the University of Waterloo reveals the insurance…
The Three Meanings Of E=mc², Einstein’s Most Famous Equation
It’s so much more than mass-energy equivalence; it’s the key to unlocking the quantum Universe. For hundreds of years, there was an immutable law of…
This is how Big Oil will die
It’s 2025, and 800,000 tons of used high strength steel is coming up for auction. The steel made up the Keystone XL pipeline, finally completed…
Can the Great Lakes Become Fishable, Drinkable, and Swimmable Again?
A joint United States–Canada report maps out the way to clean up the world’s largest freshwater ecosystem As Mark Mattson waited to speak to Canada’s…
Bright Lights, Green City
How a handful of community organizers got the biggest city in America to take on the one of the most powerful industries on Earth. Some…
100% renewable electricity worldwide is a new cost-effective reality
A global power system fully based on renewable energy is no longer a long-term vision, but a tangible reality. Last year, Costa Rica has beaten…
Meet Europe’s two ‘most exciting’ CO2 capture and storage projects
A plan to pipe CO2 emissions from industries around the Port of Rotterdam and a hydrogen transport hub in the north of England have been…
Engineers compete to detect methane leaks, a powerful climate pollutant
In their labs at the University of Colorado, research scientists Dirk Richter and Petter Weibring were busy building lasers to detect gasses when Richter heard…
Corridor of Power
For over a decade Pakistan’s growing economy has been held back by a chronic shortage of electricity; supply has often fallen short by over 20%…
The odd triangle
It used to be missiles; now it’s oil, but Cuba is still in crisis. Back in ’62 the so-called Cuban Missile Crisis triggered a 13-day…
Humberstone and Santa Laura
Two former saltpeter refineries located in northern Chile, in the Atacama Desert. Founded in 1872, the Saltpeter works and the towns constructed around them became obsolete fifty years later, after two…