Blockchain has been touted as the next big technological advance - impacting everything from online transactions to e-government. But what does it mean for renewable energy?
In 2011, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced the country was turning away from nuclear energy in favor of a renewable future. Since then, however, progress has been limited. Berlin has wasted…
Moving to what is termed a just transition is not an overnight event. It requires careful planning, implementation, oversight and high-level political guarantees. Thankfully, in South Africa, we can…
An organization focused on increasing energy independence for American Indians is helping to bring light, jobs and new opportunities to tribal communities.
There’s something amiss in the Southwest.…
Indigenous Australians from low-lying islands in the Torres Strait argue that the government, by failing to act on climate change, has violated their fundamental right to maintain their culture.…
Climate science has struggled mightily with a messaging problem.
The well-worn tactic of hitting people over the head with scary climate change facts has proved inadequate at changing behavior or…
The latest climate models are giving disturbing answers.
Imagine spending your whole career working on a question to which you don’t want to know the answer. We know that greenhouse gas emissions…
During the Super Bowl in February, a commercial showed a Budweiser beer wagon drawn by eight Clydesdale horses rambling down a dreamy country lane past the whirling blades of a wind farm. With Bob…
My intellectual and rational understanding of it has shifted to much more of an emotional and personal one.
‘Human society under urgent threat from loss of Earth’s natural life.’ ‘The planet has…
The automotive and energy markets are on the cusp of seismic shifts. The automotive market is transitioning from simple fossil fuel-powered vehicles to smart, electric vehicles (EVs) as it enters the…
Europe can expect even greater migratory pressure from Africa unless action is taken to prevent global warming, Sir David Attenborough has said in a strongly worded warning to policymakers that time…
Trump is planning to curtail the energy market and potentially the U.S. Constitution in order to save coal, ignoring his own government’s dire warning on climate.
LOS ANGELES -- This edition of Virtually Rick is a load of garbage -- literally! But wait, there’s some good stuff in here, we’re talking not a bio mess, but biomass; a fantastic means of creating…
On land, in the seas, in the sky, the devastating impact of humans on nature is laid bare in a compelling UN report.
One million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction.
Nature…
Investors want sustainable investments, but what are the criteria? The United Nations has guidance.
The United Nations Global Compact is a series of principles (Exhibit 1) that have become a…
Global surface temperatures in 2019 are on track to be either the second or third warmest since records began in the mid-1800s, behind only 2016 and possibly 2017.
On top of the long-term warming…
By combining an unorthodox solvent and a genetically engineered bacterium, a team of researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester, Massachusetts has discovered a groundbreaking…
A low-cost shift to clean energy is now feasible for every region of the world, owing to the plummeting costs of solar and wind power, and breakthroughs in energy storage. The total system costs of…
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