This article originally appeared on the author’s personal blog, and was written in that capacity. Italics are the author’s. The only sure path to stop climate change is to zero out…
Continue readingBy Erik D. Olson Earlier this week, 1 in 22 Americans didn’t have water or was on a boil water alert. Nearly 15 million people in Texas alone were without safe…
Continue readingLet’s imagine you have inherited a fortune and want to solve the world’s most pressing problems. Here’s the best way to spend your money to make a difference to climate…
Continue readingMolden recalls how bad blood almost thwarted a key program involving the sharing of water data. In that instance, he says, an international team of scientists had gathered in Nepal,…
Continue readingClimate change has become a major issue in the modern world and we all know that we now have a responsibility to undertake actions to help overturn the effects. As…
Continue readingThe latest round of national climate pledges falls “far short of what is required” to achieve the targets set out in the Paris Agreement, according to new UN analysis. A…
Continue readingBy Adam Vaughan A demonstration in Paris, France, during the 2015 climate negotiations Thibault Camus/AP/Shutterstock The world is wildly off track meeting the Paris Agreement goal of holding temperature rises…
Continue readingATTRIBUTION | February 25. 2021. 16:30 Mapped: How climate change affects extreme weather around the world In the early 2000s, a new field of climate-science research emerged that began to…
Continue readingBig dumps of powder snow are a precious gift in the best of times around the West, where 40 or 50 feet can fall during a winter, forming frozen mountain…
Continue readingWhen animals are displaced by deforestation and global warming, that often puts them and the diseases they carry in proximity to humans.
Continue readingClean energy alternatives have secured just a fraction of the marketplace today, with renewables generating around 10% of global electricity and electric vehicles accounting for about 3% of new sales….
Continue readingA strong clean energy standard is among the most vital policy steps needed to push the United States towards an entirely decarbonized economy, according to new emissions modeling from clean energy research organization…
Continue readingBy Michael Marshall Woolly Mammoths may have been wiped out by climate change and human hunting combining to devastating effect Science Picture Co/Alamy The extinction of woolly mammoths was caused…
Continue reading“I don’t think there’s anybody today that could hold a candle to what those guys could do, both physically and in terms of deep thinking about what they were seeing,”…
Continue readingTexas’ electric grid nearly melted down in the summer of 2019, when searing temperatures sent electricity demand soaring. The state’s grid operator was able to keep the lights on, but…
Continue readingA reversal in Earth’s magnetic field thousands of years ago plunged the planet into an environmental crisis that may have resembled “a disaster movie,” scientists recently discovered. Our planet‘s magnetic…
Continue readingBy Mitchell Bernard They’re burning fences, furniture, and toddlers’ toys to keep their children from freezing in Texas; heating rocks over fire pits to take inside for warmth; and dying from carbon monoxide fumes after leaving…
Continue readingOnly half (53%) of UK engineering firms think net zero by 2050 is achievable for them. 1 in 2 are currently experiencing a skills gap or limitations in their current…
Continue reading