Climate Change Is Fueling Record-Breaking Heat
The human fingerprint on this week’s extreme heat. Soaring temperatures shattered records from Ottawa to Oman this week, as the Northern Hemisphere endured an oppressive hot spell….
Investment in renewable power in India topped fossil fuels for the first time in 2017, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).
This is one of the most striking insights contained within the IEA’s annual update of global energy investment, which was published today. It gives an…
This idea helped rescue a city of 3.8 million from a water crisis
When water shortages loomed in Chennai, India, one man’s campaign to conserve rainwater saved the day July 10, 2018 — Twenty-five years ago, Chennai, a…
Ukraine’s Donbas bears the brunt of toxic armed conflict
Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region is an area with a fairly favourable climate, home to high plant biodiversity. In spring, several species of feather, sheep fescue…
Spanish Socialists face a coal vs. climate dilemma
Brussels is ramping up the pressure to drop coal, but doing so could cost the fragile government crucial votes. Spain’s new Socialist government is trying…
Science denialism is dangerous. But so is science imperialism.
Calls for strict science-based decision making on complex issues like GMOs and geoengineering can shortchange consideration of ethics and social impacts. “Your scientists were so…
The World Cup of Climate Change
In the game of tackling climate change, who would be the champion? By Tan Copsey and Bridgette Burkholder The World Cup starts today. Billions of…
The US nuclear power plants ‘at risk’ of shutting down
Nuclear power plants generate more than half of the US’s low-carbon electricity. However, record low gas prices associated with the US fracking boom have made many existing…
Frankenstein: the real experiments that inspired the fictional science
Giovanni Aldini’s experiments with a human corpse. Wellcome Collection, CC BY-SA Iwan Morus, Aberystwyth University On January 17 1803, a young man named George Forster…
China and EU can lead on climate action
Special Representative for Climate Change Xie Zhenhua, China (L) EU Commissioner for Energy and Climate Action Miguel Arias Canete (R) attend the second Ministerial on…
Here’s what you need to know about carbon pricing
As the world weighs strategies for keeping climate change in check, more and more countries, communities and businesses are embedding the cost of carbon into…
Paul Romer and William Nordhaus – why they won the 2018 ‘economics Nobel’
Sergey V. Popov, Cardiff University William Nordhaus and Paul Romer have been awarded the 2018 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences (colloquially known as the…
Ozone pollution in US national parks is nearly the same as in large cities
“Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue” John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra (1911) Most…