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There are a lot of corporate climate pledges out there, and it’s easy to be cynical about them. I get it. We’ve been fed so many unsubstantiated claims (for example, …
Spot the greenwashing – The New York Times Read MoreThe federal government is banking big on the idea of a climate change “undo” button. On Thursday, the US Department of Energy declared its official intent to fund 3.5 billion …
Biden Admin Announces 3.5 Billion To Remove Carbon Dioxide Read MoreAcademics who have reviewed the impact of agriculture on the planet are calling on Australians to cut most beef from their diets. Key points: Academics call for massive cut in …
Cattle industry’s environmental impacts spark academics’ call to eat less beef Read MoreAustralia ranks as the world’s worst polluter from the use of coal, with per capita emissions from coal fired generation four times larger than the global average, new analysis shows. …
Australia ranks as world’s worst for pollution from coal fired power stations Read MoreActivists and concerned residents in Foster City plan to protest the city’s proposal to potentially euthanize more than 300 Canadian geese and goslings that some say are taking over – …
Concerns over goose poop may lead this Bay Area city to kill off hundreds of Canada geese Read MoreA few months ago, I published an assessment of long-distance shipping of green hydrogen from Namibia to Europe, finding that the shipping cost per unit of delivered energy would be …
North Africa Should Keep Green Hydrogen For Itself, Share Renewable Electricity Read MoreRapid deforestation outweighs carbon capture by remaining trees If rainforests were Earth’s respiratory system, the Amazon would be a full lung. The region holds half of the tropics’ undisturbed forests. …
The Brazilian Amazon has been a net carbon emitter since 2016 Read MoreI was one of four majority witnesses invited to testify before a House Natural Resources subcommittee hearing Feb. 15, 2022, on HR 1755, the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act. NREPA …
Carole King: ‘America’s forests are a key climate solution’ Read MoreThe dates of the world-famous cherry blossom in Kyoto have been shifted forward by climate change and urban development. New attribution research has shown how a combination of human-induced climate …
Kyoto cherry blossom dates shifted by human influence Read MoreA wind turbine and coal in Lower Saxony, Germany. The EU’s desire to wean itself off Russian hydrocarbons means it will need to find fossil fuels from other parts of …
EU plans renewables expansion, says coal needed a little while longer Read More