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On Fuel Economy Efforts, U.S. Faces an Elusive Target
On Fuel Economy Efforts, U.S. Faces an Elusive Target One of President Obama’s signature achievements on climate has been strict new standards aimed at improving fuel efficiency to nearly 55 miles per gallon by 2025. But credits and loopholes, coupled with low gas prices, may mean the U.S. will fall well short of this ambitious goal. […]
With New Tools, A Focus On Urban Methane Leaks
With New Tools, A Focus On Urban Methane Leaks Until recently, little was known about the extent of methane leaking from urban gas distribution pipes and its impact on global warming. But recent advances in detecting this potent greenhouse gas are pushing U.S. states to begin addressing this long-neglected problem. Battered by storms and weakened with […]
Food Insecurity: Arctic Heat Is Threatening Indigenous Life
Food Insecurity: Arctic Heat Is Threatening Indigenous Life Subsistence hunters in the Arctic have long taken to the sea ice to hunt seals, whales, and polar bears. But now, as the ice disappears and soaring temperatures alter the life cycles and abundance of their prey, a growing number of indigenous communities are facing food shortages. An […]
How Forest Loss Is Leading To a Rise in Human Disease
How Forest Loss Is Leading To a Rise in Human Disease A growing body of scientific evidence shows that the felling of tropical forests creates optimal conditions for the spread of mosquito-borne scourges, including malaria and dengue. Primates and other animals are also spreading disease from cleared forests to people. In Borneo, an island shared by […]
El Niño and Climate Change: Wild Weather May Get Wilder
El Niño and Climate Change: Wild Weather May Get Wilder This year’s El Niño phenomenon is spawning extreme weather around the planet. Now scientists are working to understand if global warming will lead to more powerful El Niños that will make droughts, floods, snowstorms, and hurricanes more intense. Wild weather is gripping the planet. An El […]
Energy Landscapes: An Aerial View Of Europe’s Carbon Footprint
Energy Landscapes: An Aerial View Of Europe’s Carbon Footprint PHOTOS BY ALEX MACLEAN ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHER Alex MacLean is known for his aerial photographs documenting changes in the landscape brought about by human intervention and natural processes. MacLean is the author of 11 books and his work has been exhibited widely. Journalist Daniel Grossman worked with MacLean on this […]
Once Unstoppable, Tar Sands Now Battered from All Sides
Once Unstoppable, Tar Sands Now Battered from All Sides Canada’s tar sands industry is in crisis as oil prices plummet, pipeline projects are killed, and new governments in Alberta and Ottawa vow less reliance on this highly polluting energy source. Is this the beginning of the end for the tar sands juggernaut? In the summer of […]
How ‘Natural Geoengineering’ Can Help Slow Global Warming
How ‘Natural Geoengineering’ Can Help Slow Global Warming An overlooked tool in fighting climate change is enhancing biodiversity to maximize the ability of ecosystems to store carbon. Key to that strategy is preserving top predators to control populations of herbivores, whose grazing reduces the amount of CO2 that ecosystems absorb. As natural wonders go, perhaps the […]
Unnatural Balance: How Food Waste Impacts World’s Wildlife
Unnatural Balance: How Food Waste Impacts World’s Wildlife New research indicates that the food discarded in landfills and at sea is having a profound effect on wildlife populations and fisheries. But removing that food waste creates its own ecological challenges. The world wastes more than $750 billion worth of food every year — 1.6 billion tons of food […]
Indonesian Coal Mining Boom Is Leaving Trail of Destruction
Indonesian Coal Mining Boom Is Leaving Trail of Destruction Since 2000, Indonesian coal production has increased five-fold to meet growing domestic demand for electricity and feed export markets in Asia. The intensive mining is leading to the clearing of rainforest and the pollution of rivers and rice paddies. Standing on a hilltop in Kerta Buena, an […]
Canada’s Indigenous Bands Rise Up Against a Tar Sands Pipeline
Canada’s Indigenous Bands Rise Up Against a Tar Sands Pipeline TransCanada, the company behind the now-defunct Keystone XL, is proposing another pipeline that would ship Alberta tar sands oil to Canada’s Atlantic coast. But fierce opposition from First Nation communities could derail this controversial project. Sitting in his office on the outskirts of Montreal, Serge Otis […]
Will Paris Conference Finally Achieve Real Action on Climate?
Will Paris Conference Finally Achieve Real Action on Climate? The emission pledges from the world’s nations still fall short of the goal for limiting global warming. But as negotiators convene in Paris this week, there is cautious optimism that a significant international agreement on climate can be reached. Six years after the last negotiations crashed so […]
For Storing Electricity, Utilities Are Turning to Pumped Hydro
For Storing Electricity, Utilities Are Turning to Pumped Hydro High-tech batteries may be garnering the headlines. But utilities from Spain to China are increasingly relying on pumped storage hydroelectricity – first used in the 1890s – to overcome the intermittent nature of wind and solar power. In the past decade, wind energy production has soared in […]
On Thin Ice: Big Northern Lakes Are Being Rapidly Transformed
On Thin Ice: Big Northern Lakes Are Being Rapidly Transformed As temperatures rise, the world’s iconic northern lakes are undergoing major changes that include swiftly warming waters, diminished ice cover, and outbreaks of harmful algae. Now, a global consortium of scientists is trying to assess the toll. For more than 25 million years, Lake Baikal has cut an […]
Not on This Land: A Western Tribe Takes a Stand and Says No to Big Coal
Not on This Land: A Western Tribe Takes a Stand and Says No to Big Coal The Northern Cheyenne are opposing a proposed railroad that would cut through their ancestral lands to haul Montana coal to the Pacific coast for export. An e360 video reports on the Cheyenne’s fight against the railroad and the extraordinary coalition […]
