Who will pay for the damage caused by climate change?
by Isabelle Gerretsen: Talking about who is responsible for climate change is a fraught debate – even more so when it comes to who ought to pay for the damage it causes… […]
Best Organic Fertilizers
by Howard Garrett: Organic growing techniques have been practiced for as long as humans have tilled the earth… […]
Japan Is Dropping a Gargantuan Turbine Into The Ocean to Harness ‘Limitless’ Energy
by Mike Mcgrae: Deep beneath the waves there’s a source of power quite unlike any other… […]
No More Dealer Markups: Ford Wants To Move To Online-Only Sales For EVs
by Jonathan Gitlin: Ford thinks its distribution model costs $2,000 more per car than Tesla’s… […]
NASA Just Bought The Rest Of The Space Station Crew Flights From SpaceX
by Eric Berger: “We will need additional missions from SpaceX to implement our strategy…” […]
There’s no healthy economy (or planet) without healthy forests
by KED Kohn: Forests are fundamental for the economy, reaching climate targets, and more… […]
Diving Brothers Found The Wreck Of The Gloucester 300+ Years After Sinking
by Jennifer Ouellette: The most significant historic maritime discovery since raising the Mary Rose in 1982… […]
Solution or Band-Aid? Carbon Capture Projects Are Moving Ahead
by Nicola Jones: Long discussed but rarely used, carbon capture and storage projects — which bury waste CO2 underground — are on the rise globally. Some scientists see the technology as a necessary tool in [...]
Geothermal Plants Could Solve America’s Lithium Supply – Boost the EV Battery Industry
bt Bryant Jones, Michael McKibben: Geothermal energy has long been the forgotten member of the clean energy family, […]
Superchargers Are No Longer Just For Teslas
by Kristin Houser:Owners of other automakers’ EVs can now use the fast chargers at select stations… […]
Revolutionary Changes In Transportation Could Slow Global Warming
Around the world, revolutionary changes are under way in transportation… […]
Norway Continues To Grow EV Share In May
by Dr. Maximilian Holland: Norway, the electric transport leader, saw plugin electric vehicle share of 85.1% in May 2022, up from 83.3% year-on-year… […]
World Map Reveals Wind And Solar Power Winners (And Losers)
by Frank Jacobs: Best in class: Denmark and Uruguay. Worst in class: Papua New Guinea, Venezuela, and Russia… […]
The Vanishing Rio Grande: Warming Takes A Toll On A Legendary River
by Jim Robbins: The Rio Grande, which flows out of the Rockies and later forms the U.S.-Mexico border, has long been impacted by withdrawals for agriculture and other uses… […]
In Tanzania, Carbon Offsets Preserve Forests and a Way of Life
by Fred Pierce: Carbon offsets have been criticized for failing to provide carbon savings and ignoring the needs of local communities… […]
Tech And Policy Experts See Reason For Optimism Dealing With Climate Change
by Robery Lempert: It’s easy to feel pessimistic when scientists around the world are warning that climate change has advanced so far, it’s now inevitable that societies will either transform themselves or be transformed… […]
Rising Authoritarianism And Worsening Climate Change Share A Fossil-Fueled Secret
by Eva Darian Smith: Around the world, many countries are becoming less democratic. This backsliding on democracy and “creeping authoritarianism,” as the U.S. State Department puts it, is often supported by the same industries that [...]
Russia’s Weaponization Of Natural Gas Could Backfire By Destroying Demand For It
by Michael Webber: In December 2006, The Economist magazine published a cover drawing of Russian president Vladimir Putin, dressed like a 1930s gangster in a dark suit and fedora hat, under the headline “Don’t Mess [...]
Living In Accord With Nature – Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers discuss how ancient myths help human beings to put ourselves in accord with the natural rhythms and cycles of life… […]
Protecting Biodiversity – And Making It Accessible – Has Paid Off For Costa Rica
by Jeffery Smith: After two years of pandemic lockdowns and border closures, global travel appears to be rebounding in much of the world in 2022. […]
U.S. Emissions Rise 4 Percent as Drivers Log a Record Number of Miles
by Benjamin Storrow: Drivers tallied 753 billion miles in the first three months of the year, the highest total on record.. […]
The Dangerous 2022 Hurricane Season Looms
By Nick Shay: The Loop Current in the Gulf of Mexico is very warm and has fueled major storms such as Hurricane Katrina. […]
Can We Cut The US’s Carbon Emissions In Half This Decade?
by John Timmer: There are multiple routes to drop carbon emissions by 50% by 2030… […]
Beyond Magical Thinking: Time to Get Real on Climate Change
by Vaclav Smil: Despite decades of studies and climate summits, greenhouse gas emissions continue to soar… […]
Can Gravity Batteries Solve Our Energy Storage Problems?
by Alasdair Lane: Could a cutting-edge technology that harnesses one of the universe’s fundamental forces help solve our energy storage challenge? […]
The EU Is Replacing Russian Oil With Solar Energy
by Cate Lawrence: Solar is the secret sauce to less reliance on oil… […]
In the Wake of Coup, Gold Mining Boom Is Ravaging Myanmar
by Emily Fishbein: With a military junta retaking power last year, a gold rush is increasingly despoiling rivers in the Myanmar state of Kachin, polluting water with mercury, destroying riverbanks and farmland, and disrupting the [...]
Ireland’s ‘Hydrogen Valley’ Adds to European Clean Energy Achievements
by Jemma King: Another week, another step forward for European renewables dominance. […]
Tesla Rival Says it Will Build $30K Electric SUV in Ohio
by Veronika Bondarenko: Now that a star-crossed deal has closed, new plans are being rolled out to compete with the sector’s king… […]
Maana Electric’s TerraBox Turns Sand And Electricity Into Solar Panels
by Ashwini Sakharkar: The Luxembourg-based startup Maana Electric will soon be testing its TerraBox, a fully automated factory the size of several shipping containers that takes sand and produces solar panels… […]
Lunar Soil Has The Potential To Generate Oxygen And Fuel
Soil on the moon contains active compounds that can convert carbon dioxide into oxygen and fuels, scientists in China report May 5 in the journal Joule… […]
A First: Scientists Grow Plants In Soil From The Moon
Scientists have, for the first time, grown plants in soil from the Moon… […]
Salt Scourge: The Dual Threat Of Warming And Rising Salinity
As rising seas increase saltwater intrusion and soaring temperatures cause greater evaporation, scientists say that the mounting levels of salt in waters and in soils pose a major climate-related danger and could become a leading [...]
Al Gore Says Climate’s Best Hope Lies In Cities And Solar Power
by Annie Sneed: In an exclusive interview Al Gore also maintains that the Trump administration is relinquishing U.S. climate leadership to China and India… […]
Climate Change: Al Gore Gets Inconvenient Again
by Michael Mann: Michael Mann views the US statesman’s second film probing climate change… […]
Al Gore At Cannes: ‘Trump Cannot Stop The Solutions To The Climate Crisis’
by Gwilym Mumford: The former US vice-president and environmental activist said there was hope in the fight against climate change – but the world and the US had to act… […]
The New Optimism Of Al Gore
by Josh Schwartz: Al Gore wants to make a point about cellphones, and he has a helpful set of slides on his laptop… […]
San Antonio Taps Quidnet Energy to Build Big Underground Battery
San Antonio will use pressurized water pumped underground to store energy on a scale most batteries can’t match, in a deal with Bill Gates-backed Quidnet Energy… […]
Kiri Westby – What Does It Mean to Leverage Privilege?
by Kiri Wesby: Three recent examples we can all emulate. […]
Rivian Wins $1.5 Billion Incentive Package For Georgia Plant
Electric-pickup maker Rivian Automotive Inc. will receive $1.5 billion in state and local incentives to build a massive plant near Atlanta, bolstering the company’s production efforts despite local resistance to the project… […]
Mercedes-Benz Foresees EV-Only Production Lines Within A Few Years
by Victoria Waldersee and Ilona Wissenbach: Mercedes-Benz expects to have factories producing exclusively electric vehicles (EVs) by the second half of the decade […]
VanMoof’s New Ebikes Are Part Of A Masterplan To Become The Tesla Of Two-Wheelers
by Collum Booth: The S5 and A5 are the company’s newest electric bikes… […]
More Bad News For Fossil Fuels: Silicon-Lithium EV Batteries Deliver Next-Level Performance
by Tina Casey: EV batteries already deliver long range and quick charging times, and new silicon-lithium technology will bump those performance markers up to the next level… […]
Mercedes Opens Battery Plant for Alabama-Made Electric SUVs
Mercedes-Benz Group AG opened a battery factory in Alabama months before the luxury-car maker starts assembling electric SUVs […]
Hold On, Why Does Norway Get the World’s Fastest EV Charger!?
The Terra 360 can fully charge EVs in less than 15 minutes. […]