By Emily Deanne Shower shoes? Check. Extra-long sheets? Yep. Energy efficiency checklist? No worries — we’ve got you covered there. If you’re one of the nation’s 12.1 million full-time undergraduate college students, you no doubt have a lot to keep in mind as you head off to school. If you’re reading this, climate change is […]
By Simon Evans Machines that suck CO2 directly from the air could cut the cost of meeting global climate goals, a new study finds, but they would need as much as a quarter of global energy supplies in 2100. The research, published Monday in Nature Communications, is the first to explore the use of direct […]
The demand for faster and faster delivery times reveals the dark side of summertime’s Black Friday. And, it’s not just Amazon getting in on the action and promising absurdly quick deliveries. Walmart, eBay and Target all offer bargains on fast, free shipments. “The time in transit has a direct relationship to the environmental impact,” said […]
Sending dozens of emails a day, making a quick call on WhatsApp, uploading some photos to the cloud, watching a short viral clip on YouTube: It’s all part of the digital daily life around the world. For the individual, it may be “just one photo” or “just a few minutes of video,” but, taken together, […]
Australia’s love affair with fossil fuels has it setting new records for carbon emissions, year after year, and seeing a decline in renewable energy sources, according to new research from Ndevr Environmental, an emissions-tracking organization, as the Guardian reported. Once again, Australia set a new record for its greenhouse gas emissions, which was fueled by […]
By Johannes Friedrich, Mengpin Ge and Andrew Pickens A lot has happened since countries met in Paris in 2015 and agreed on an accord to combat climate change. So far, more than 140 countries have ratified or otherwise joined the Paris agreement, representing more than 80 percent of global emissions. Several major economies, including Canada, […]
By Tim Radford If humans burn all the fossil fuels at their disposal—and this could happen in the next two centuries—researchers predict that the planetary atmosphere would match the one that witnessed the days of the dinosaurs at the dawn of the Jurassic period, around 200 million years ago. By the 23rd century, planetary temperatures […]
By Leo Hickman The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the U.S. space agency, has released an “eye-popping” three-dimensional animation showing carbon dioxide emissions moving through the Earth’s atmosphere over the course of a year. It says the 3-D visualization is “one of the most realistic views yet” of the “complex patterns in which carbon […]
The Finnish government has announced plans to stop using coal, one of the the dirtiest fuels on the planet, by 2030. “Finland is well positioned to be among the first countries in the world to enact a law to ban coal … This will be my proposal,” Minister of Economic Affairs Olli Rehn told Reuters. […]
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