Five Environmental Lessons Coronavirus Could Teach Humanity, If Humanity...
It’s clear enough from the discarded masks and gloves polluting landscapes and the ocean that many humans have not grasped the environmental message of the coronavirus pandemic.
View ArticleHow The Nuclear Industry Is Getting Past A Tough U.S. Power Market
Nuclear proponents are not ready to concede that nuclear power has been priced out of the U.S. electricity market, but they're increasingly looking at other uses for reactors and other places to sell...
View ArticleU.S. Could Go Net-Zero Carbon For A Fraction Of What It Has Spent On Coronavirus
The United States could achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 for less than a third of the cost so far of the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic.
View ArticleDon’t Slaughter Your Sharks, Australia, Shark-Attack Survivor Says
A spate of recent shark attacks off Australia may have the government on the warpath against sharks again, but a famous Australian shark-attack survivor says conserving sharks is tantamount to saving...
View ArticleThe Coronavirus Lockdown Revealed The Magnitude Of Air Pollution From...
Satellite images showed noxious pollution vanishing over China and Europe when the world shut down in response to the coronavirus pandemic. But on the ground in Milan, environmental economist Valentina...
View ArticleSteel And Chemical Companies Are Preparing To Decarbonize, But They Want...
The conventional process for making steel depends at its heart on a technology developed in the Iron Age: heating iron in a way that emits a lot of carbon dioxide.
View ArticleHow Trump Inadvertently Strengthened The Paris Agreement
Trump has made the Paris Agreement stronger, European expert says.
View Article80-Year-Old Physicist Credits 17-Year-Old Activist With Shifting...
The climate-change conversation focused on responsibility to future generations until Greta Thunberg refocused it on present generations, said a renowned theoretical physicist. And that has...
View ArticleScientists Dissect The Tactics Of Climate Delayers
With climate change increasingly difficult to deny, those who would do nothing about it have turned to delay. Scientists have documented four categories of tactics.
View ArticleHumans May Not Adapt Well To Climate Change, But Ragweed Sure Does
Common ragweed, that pestilent inflamer of sinuses everywhere, shows a remarkable ability to rapidly evolve under climate change, according to a new study.
View ArticleUnsustainable Energy Production Will Stop, BP Projects
The longer society waits to address climate change, the more likely climate will change society, according to BP’s chief economist.
View ArticleHow To Read BP’s Projection Of Energy Rationing
BP’s “Delayed and Disorderly” scenario for the energy sector suggests that energy rationing may be necessary to prevent climate catastrophe, but that doesn’t mean BP expects energy rationing to take...
View ArticleHow California Wildfires Are Driving Energy Storage Beyond Lithium-Ion
When California is on fire, it needs batteries that can keep a home, a hospital, a fire station, a community center running longer than the four-hour standard of lithium-ion.
View ArticleCalifornia Sees Zinc As Likely Successor To Lithium-Ion In Energy Storage
As it strives for 100-percent clean energy by 2045, California is shifting its attention from lithium-ion batteries to zinc energy-storage technologies that can provide a charge longer.
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