An inconvenient truth
High expectations are being built around the forthcoming 21st Conference of the Parties (COP-21) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which will…
Hiroshima and the Nuclear peace myth
It was 70 years ago today that the US dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on Hiroshima in Japan. Three days later, on 9 August 1945,…
Obama’s Crucial Step on Climate Change
President Obama’s Clean Power Plan has rightly been hailed as the most important action any president has taken to address the climate crisis. The new rule…
Obama’s new emissions rules likely to help shape White House race
With Monday’s release of landmark rules to combat global warming, President Obama is putting into place what probably will be the last piece of his…
UNEP and Brazil together to fight Mercury risks
Mercury can seriously harm human health, and is a particular threat to the development of fetuses and young children. It affects humans in several ways….
Pope Francis Sounds the Alarm on Climate Change
[…] Earlier in June, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, took the spiritual leader of the world’s 1.2 billion…
Stalling increase in emissions: a new trend or a temporary blip?
Spring, the season of new beginnings, also marked the beginning of something new. In March came data from the International Energy Agency (IEA) indicating global…
The rise of electricity storage: something for everybody
The barrage of news about the progress and promise of electricity storage in the last year just got another jolt from two disparate sources: the…
US legislation the key driver in the energy storage market
Last April Tesla Motors unveiled its Powerwall and Powerpack lithium ion batteries for homes and utility-scale applications, which could facilitate an increased role for wind…
The world’s first climate positive data center is built in Sweden
Up to 10 percent of the world’s electricity is consumed by the Information and Communications Technology sector alone. ICT is emerging as a new target…
More coal plants are being cancelled than built
The global coal boom has started to slow, a new report says, as more plans for new power plants are now being shelved than completed….
Russia completes design papers for Fukushima tritium removal
Russia’s Atomproekt has completed the draft design and working documents for a demonstration unit to separate tritium from contaminated water at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear…
Four reasons why the transition from fossil fuels to a green energy era is gaining traction
Don’t hold your breath, but future historians may look back on 2015 as the year that the renewable energy ascendancy began, the moment when the…