In Win for Environment, Court Recognizes Social Cost of Carbon
If someone was tallying up all the benefits of energy efficiency programs, you’d want them to include reducing climate pollution, right? That’s just common sense….
“Holy Grail” of Renewable Energy Storage is Fast-Approaching
In 2009, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) created its Advanced Research Projects-Energy (ARPA-E) division to fund energy storage projects conducted by scientists at Harvard,…
Planet Nine: A World That Shouldn’t Exist
Earlier this year scientists presented evidence for Planet Nine, a Neptune-mass planet in an elliptical orbit 10 times farther from our Sun than Pluto. Since…
A Breakthrough Carbon-Capturing Algae Project
A research photobioreactor designed to capture significant amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) from power plant flue gas for high-density algae cultivation is showing promise. The…
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…