This Wildly Reinvented Wind Turbine Generates Five Times More Energy Than Its Competitors
by Elissaveta M Brandon: It could power up to 100,000 households… […]
New York Law Phases Out Most Gas-Powered Vehicles By 2035
by Lora Kolodny: New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed legislation on Wednesday that effectively bans the sale of new internal combustion engine cars, off-road vehicles, light-duty trucks and equipment by 2035… […]
Inaction On Climate Change Is Greatest Threat To Health, 220 Medical Journals Warn
by Runaway climate change risks “catastrophic harm to health that will be impossible to reverse,” the editorial reads… […]
World’s Largest Carbon-Sucking Plant Starts Making Tiny Dent In Emissions
by Akshat Rathi: Startups Climeworks and Carbfix are working together to store carbon dioxide removed from the air deep underground… […]
World EV Day: Why Fleets Might Go Electric Before You Do
by Bob Fesmire: Today is World EV Day, a celebration of the electrification of transport. But while consumer vehicles take up most of the e-mobility headlines, there is another segment of the market that is poised [...]
100% Renewable Energy? Germany Can Get There By 2030, Study Claims
by John Engel: Germany can, and must, meet the targets of the Paris Climate Agreement by achieving 100% renewable energy by 2030, a new study claims… […]
Three Ways To Prevent Our Next Massive Power Failure
by Emily Pontecorvo: Hurricane Ida exposed the grid’s weaknesses. It didn’t have to be this way… […]
Is American Hydropower In Jeopardy?
by Ryan Slattery: Alarming low water levels are closing power plants and reducing production at others… […]
How Water Shortages Are Brewing Wars
by Sandy Milne: Unprecedented levels of dam building and water extraction by nations on great rivers are leaving countries further downstream increasingly thirsty, increasing the risk of conflicts… […]
What You Eat Can Impact Climate Change!
by Ocean Robbins: See 9 Foods That Harm the Planet and 11 Foods That Can Help Save It… […]
The Ancient Persian Way To Keep Cool
by Kimiya Shokoohi: From ancient Egypt to the Persian Empire, an ingenious method of catching the breeze kept people cool for millennia. In the search for emissions-free cooling, the “wind catcher” could once again come [...]
Extreme Heat Could Kill Nearly 60,000 Americans Yearly By 2050: Report
by Sarah Ruiz-Grossman: Black and Latinx people are disproportionately impacted by heat stress… […]
Can Investors Save The Amazon?
By Alexander Matthews: Some of the world’s biggest investors have been linked to deforestation of crucial habitats like the Amazon Rainforest. Can they use their financial might to stop deforestation in its tracks? […]
Hurricane Ida Rapidly Evolved Into A Monster Storm. An Oceanographer Explains Why
by Nick Shay: As Hurricane Ida headed into the Gulf of Mexico, a team of scientists was closely watching a giant, slowly swirling pool of warm water directly ahead in its path… […]
The Ancient Bond Between a Great River, Its Creatures, and My People
by Brook Thompson: “I keep a jar of unopened canned Klamath salmon in my refrigerator. I’m afraid it might be my last…” […]
Study Identifies Methane ‘Super-Emitters’ in Largest US Oilfield
by Carol Rasmussen: About half of the biggest sources of the potent greenhouse gas methane in the Permian Basin oilfield are likely to be malfunctioning oilfield equipment… […]
Infrastructure, Reconciliation Packages Bring Biden’s Emissions Target Within Reach, Schumer Says
by John Engel: The U.S. can nearly reach the Biden administration’s goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions with the approval of a bipartisan infrastructure bill and $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package… […]
Connecticut Powers Into The Lead With Breakthrough Customer Battery Program
by Todd Olinsky-Paul: With the long-anticipated approval of its new Statewide Electric Storage Program, Connecticut has just leapfrogged the rest of New England to become the new regional leader in distributed battery storage program development… [...]
Renewables Made Up 92% Of New Generating Capacity In The U.S. In The First Half Of 2021
by Kenneth Bossong: Washington DC – According to a review by the SUN DAY Campaign of data recently released by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)… […]
Stunning images that wowed judges at the MUSE Photography Awards 2021
by Juan Arellano: OVERALL WINNER AMATEUR: My name is Elijah by Andrea Izzotti. Izzotti writes, “Eye contact with Sperm […]
Antarctica Is changing. The Impact Could Be Catastrophic
by Kyle Almond: Camille Seaman didn’t need Monday’s UN report to learn that the Earth has been warming at a breakneck pace… […]
It Came From the Sea–Renewable Energy, That Is
by Larry Greenemeier: Companies and governments are counting on underwater turbines, submerged “wind” farms, and wave-riding electrical generators to use ocean turbulence to keep the lights on… […]
The Greenland Ice Sheet Experienced A Massive Melting Event Last Week
by Kasha Patel: This could have short-term and long-term implications for sea-level rise… […]
July 2021 Was Officially The Hottest Month On Record
By Sara Boboltz: Last month “outdid itself” on the heat scale, a NOAA official said… […]
The Argentine River That Carries Soybeans To World Is Drying Up
by Jonathan Gilbert: Snaking its way through thousands of miles of South American rainforest and pampas and past sprawling soybean and corn farms, the Parana River is the main thoroughfare for Argentine commerce… […]
Form Energy’s New Low-Cost, Iron-Air Battery Runs For 100 Hours
by Edd Gent: Finding a way to store large amounts of energy at low cost will be vital if we want to shift our grids to renewable energy… […]
Civilization-Ending Climate Change Is Knocking On The Door — Unless We Act Now
by Thom Hartmann: We already face immense disruption and tragedy. The choice now is whether we want to save human civilization… […]
Harrowing New UN Report Finds Humans Are The ‘Unequivocal’ Cause Of Climate Change
by Chris D’Angelo and Alexander C. Kaufman: The latest review of climate literature finds that the window to avert catastrophic warming with existing tools is rapidly closing… […]
A Critical ocean system may be heading for collapse due to climate change, study finds
by Sarah Kaplan: The consequences of a collapse would likely be far-reaching… […]
Has the Electric Car’s Moment Arrived at Last?
by Craig Welch: We’re on the cusp of transitioning to electric vehicles—if Biden and Congress take the right steps. […]
Strange Behaviour Of Earth’s Core Reveals A Mystery Inside Our Planet
by Scott Sutherland: Scientists have discovered a mystery at the centre of the Earth. The solid iron core of our planet is cooling faster on one side than the other, and nobody knows why… [...]
Report: 30M Solar Homes Would Create 1.77M Jobs, $69B In Energy Savings
by John Farrell: Our new report finds that installing rooftop solar panels and community solar systems to serve the equivalent of 30 million American homes would create significant economic benefits… […]
What Is Green Energy?
by S.A. Rogers: In the past three decades, research and development in green energy has exploded, yielding hundreds of promising new technologies that can reduce our dependence on coal, oil, and natural gas… […]
Embodying The Spirit of Mother Earth’ – Guru Singh
by Guru Singh: As we’ve all seen in the news here lately, some of the world’s recent billionaires are designing industries to colonize other planets in the nearby space […]
Could One Of America’s Reddest States Be The Next Green Crypto Capital?
by Robert Hefner: By any definition, Oklahoma is deep red… […]
How Scientists Are Using The International Space Station To Study Earth’s Climate
by Erin Winick Anthony: On Earth, we often look toward the sky, longing to know what resides in the rest of the universe. Meanwhile, 250 miles above our planet, the International Space Station is looking back… [...]
Elon Musk Explains Why Tesla Solar Power Is So Cheap
by Zachary Shahan: After discovering just how much cheaper Tesla solar power was compared to the US average and state averages, I was curious to learn more. So I asked Tesla CEO Elon Musk about [...]
The Second Wave Of Renewables Is Here. What Did We Learn With The First?
by Ted Page: Billions of dollars of investment flowing into renewable energy… […]
Sandia Explores Molten Salt Batteries For Grid-Scale Energy Storage
New molten sodium batteries operate at lower temperatures using low- cost materials… […]
52% Of Emissions From Major Urban Areas Come From Just 25 Big Cities
by Nick Lavars: Around 56 percent of the world’s population currently live in cities, a figure that is expected to increase in coming decades… […]
Sweeping “Green Deal” Promises To Revamp EU Economy, Slash Carbon Pollution
by Tim De Chant: Slew of proposals still leaves the hardest cuts for future generations… […]
Global Citizen Live: A 24-Hour Broadcast Event Uniting The World To Defend The Planet
by Jaxx Artz: Global Citizen Live will feature events and performances filmed across six continents… […]
Europe Just Unveiled Its Most Ambitious Climate Plan Yet. Here’s 6 Things You Need To Know.
by Joe McCarthy: “The fossil fuel economy has reached its limits….” […]
DOE Announces Goal to Cut Costs of Long-Duration Energy Storage by 90%
U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm today announced the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) goal […]
EVs Will Gain Market Share Much Quicker than Previously Thought
Electric vehicle (EV) sales in the US, China and Europe will outstrip all other engines five years sooner than previously expected, according to new EY research and analysis. […]