energy crisis

Innovation March 16, 2023

How heat pumps of the 1800s are becoming the technology of the future

Innovative thinking has done away with problems that long dogged the electric devices — and both scientists and environmentalists are excited about the possibilities It…

Fossil Fuels, Natural Gas, Oil May 23, 2022

Can new UK oil and gas licences ever be ‘climate compatible’?

The UK made history in November 2021 by helping to secure the first mention of the need to tackle fossil fuels in a global climate…

Articles Climate Change

Climate Education Suffers From Partisan Culture Wars

Climate change education has been caught in the crossfire of the culture wars. While some U.S. states are boosting climate literacy, others are effectively miseducating children by depriving them of the skills they’ll need to face the biggest challenge of…

Articles Fossil Fuels

Ecuador faces economic dilemma after vote to ban oil drilling in the Amazon

Ecuador’s historic vote to leave the Amazon rainforest’s oil reserves underground contrasts sharply with the results of the presidential elections held on the same day, and leaves the troubled country facing an economic dilemma. On 20 August, the country voted…

Articles Nature & Environment

Finding Climate Solutions in Fairy Tales

Can traditional tales help us think productively about contemporary environmental issues? We have been exploring how fairy-tale tropes and archetypal characters offer new ways to articulate important questions. So sit back and let us tell you a story… Fever: An…

Articles Renewables

Colombia’s offshore wind power plans spark hope and caution

“The wind and the strength of our seas place us in a privileged area for the installation of wind power generation projects, and this will allow us to be the first country in Latin America to produce this type of…

Articles Renewables

Just how fast will clean energy grow in the U.S.?

To slash U.S. emissions of climate-warming carbon pollution, many experts have settled on a plan that can be largely described in two steps: Clean up the power grid and electrify everything. If electric vehicles, heat pumps, induction stoves, and some…

Articles Policy & Strategy

Who decides what ESG is and how to make investments greener – new research

More than 30 US states have proposed or implemented legislation in recent years to stop the government and its pension funds from investing in environmental social and governance (ESG) funds. These products integrate ESG issues into their investment strategies, which…

Articles Nature & Environment

Did plastic straw bans work? Yes, but not in the way you’d think

This story is part of the Grist arts and culture series Remember When, a weeklong exploration of what happened to the climate solutions that once clogged our social feeds. This story was co-published with Popular Science. It was the face that…

Articles Coal

‘How’s the Air?’ Using AI to Track Coal Train Dust

In a sloping backyard in Vallejo, California, Nicholas Spada adjusted a piece of equipment that looked like a cross between a tripod, a briefcase, and a weather vane. The sleek machine, now positioned near a weathered gazebo and a clawfoot…

Articles Climate Change

Fungi can both help, combat and prevent climate change

There are many ways to fight climate change. Using fungi to combat climate change is benign, easy, and less expensive than high-tech solutions. Industrial agriculture is a heavy contributor to climate change, and farming that uses the fungal kingdom is…

Articles Last Exit

Mount Lyell

Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company was an Australian mining company formed on 29 March 1893, based in Queenstown, Tasmania. In the early 1890s, the Mount Lyell mining operations produced more than a million tonnes of copper, 750 tonnes of…