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Why Should Schools Teach Climate Education?

When we think about schools, we first come up with subjects such as math, science, reading, and writing. However, these subjects, while important to success, are not all that schools teach.

Climate

Nine Million Canadians Cite Climate as vote-determining issue.

Nearly eight million Canadians are “extremely” worried about climate change, and nine million see it as their top or top two vote-determining issue in this year’s federal election, but that concern might be outweighed by “affordability anxiety” about the state of the economy, according to two pie

Climate

EU finally seals ban on single-use plastics by 2021

Parliament approved a new law on Wednesday, banning throwaway plastics such as cotton bud sticks, cutlery, straws, stirrers and plates.

Environment

New Energy Tech Is Hot Among Billionaires.

Billionaires are spending more on renewable energy, storage, and battery technology.

Energy

Building The World’s Largest Solar Storage System.

Over the past year, several companies have outlined plans to build solar-and-storage systems around the world—from Australia to Arizona and to the heart of the Permian oil patch in West Texas.

Energy

Crowdfunding: an untapped funding resource for renewable energy.

DURBAN - Small and innovative renewable energy projects battle to raise funds through formal channels. One possible solution is to reach out to communities with an interest in those projects to help fund them through crowdfunding initiatives.

Energy Technology Solutions

Novel role of water in production of renewable fuels.

University of Oklahoma engineers in collaboration with the University of Tulsa have discovered a novel approach for the water-assisted upgrading of the renewable chemical, furfural, doubling or tripling the rate of conversion.

Energy Technology Solutions

Another breakthrough for energy storage? Innovative auctions made prices plummet.

Rapid and low-cost development of renewables can reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but a lack of affordable energy storage is one factor preventing wind, solar and other clean energy sources from dominating the energy mix.

Energy

Goodbye to Arguments Against Renewables. New Studies Find them as Reliable and Cheap as Fossils.

Can renewables cost less than fossil fuel generation? And are they as reliable? It appears so, especially when they are coupled with a suite of distributed energy resources (DERs), such as virtual power plants and demand response.

Energy

Rapid global shift to renewable energies can save millions of lives.

Reducing global air pollution can prevent millions of premature deaths according to an international team of scientists, led by the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry.

Energy Climate Environment

'Coal is on the way out': study finds fossil fuel now pricier than solar or wind.

Around 75% of coal production is more expensive than renewables, with industry out-competed on cost by 2025.

Energy

Deadly skin-eating fungal disease wipes out 90 amphibian species in 50 years.

Study reveals extent of chytrid fungus and how devastating it has been for frog, toad and salamander species worldwide A deadly disease that wiped out global populations of amphibians led to the decline of 500 species in the past 50 years, including 90 extinctions, scientists say.

Environment

Mosquito-spread diseases may endanger millions in new places due to climate change.

Study finds that places where people have never had the diseases could see bad outbreaks if they aren’t prepared.

Climate Environment

The destruction of the Earth is a crime. It should be prosecuted

Businesses should be liable for the harm they do. Polly Higgins has launched a push to make ecocide an international crime.

Environment

Don't know how to save the planet? This is what you can do

Should we become vegetarians? Is it OK to fly? The author of There Is No Planet B, A Handbook for the Make or Break Years, answers the big questions.

Environment

'A double-edged sword': Mumbai pollution 'perfect' for flamingos.

The flamingo population of India’s largest city has tripled. Is it thanks to sewage boosting the blue-green algae they feed on? There is an air of anxious excitement among the urban professionals and tourists on board our 24-seater motorboat as we enter Thane Creek.

Environment