Six months ago, negotiators at the United Nations’ Glasgow climate summit celebrated a series of new commitments to lower global greenhouse gas emissions and build resilience...
What does a sustainable civilisation look like and how do we get there? A burgeoning movement of artists and activists is seeking answers. “It is 2050....
“The 1.5°C figure is not some random statistic,” said the head of the World Meteorological Organization. “It is rather an indicator of the point at which...
Joachim Seel, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Bentham Paulos, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Will Gorman, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory America’s electric power system is undergoing radical...
The award-winning documentary titled YOUTH v GOV premiered globally on the streaming platform Netflix Friday as the youth plaintiffs featured in the film await a decision that could...
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...
In the global effort to transition from fossil fuels to clean energy, achieving a “100% renewables” electricity system is considered ideal. Some Australian states have committed...
net-zero by 2050 was a joke, but nobody’s laughing Attitude matters. Imagine that in the run-up to the 20xx Olympics your country declared: we will strive...
Transportation has been the focus, due to Tesla’s rise, but houses and commercial buildings are next When Tesla was still just an oddball upstart, there was...
Off the Massachusetts and New York coasts, developers are preparing to build the United States’ first federally approved utility-scale offshore wind farms – 74 turbines in...
For 50 years warnings have been ignored: now it will be actions and solutions that matter As a child I was fascinated with the Geodesic Dome...
Stacy Morford, The Conversation To most people, a solar farm or a geothermal plant is an important source of clean energy. Scientists and engineers see that...
The latest reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change show that to avoid massive losses and damage from global warming, nations must act quickly to...
Richard B. (Ricky) Rood, University of Michigan Global warming doesn’t stop on a dime. If people everywhere stopped burning fossil fuels tomorrow, stored heat would still...
Naomi Klein’s new book is third in a venerated series on problems we face as a species As the disasters mount and more and more are...
“If we are finally going to start taking the IPCC’s findings seriously, it follows that we must begin advancing far more aggressive climate stabilization solutions than...
“If everyone could see what I see coming,” said one scientist, “society would switch into climate emergency mode and end fossil fuels in just a few...
In face of the “escalating climate emergency,” the advocacy group Scientist Rebellion warns that IPCC summary to global policymakers remains “alarmingly reserved, docile, and conservative.” Amid...
Sam Wenger, University of Sydney and Deanna D’Alessandro, University of Sydney Large-scale deployment of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) methods is now “unavoidable” if the world is...
To most people, a solar farm or a geothermal plant is simply a power producer. Scientists and engineers see far more potential. They envision offshore wind...
Reducing fossil fuel use is important, but it’s more important to increase zero carbon energy production Increasing sustainable energy production is possibly the most important goal...
“While Americans struggle with high gas prices, these companies are doing victory laps, showering their already wealthy executives and shareholders with billions in stock buybacks and...