The most recent assessment of climate impacts from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded with “very high confidence” that global warming “has...
Plastic pollution has become one of the most pressing environmental concerns but scientists discovered a new alternative – PET-like recyclable plastics made from plants.A...
Net-zero is “the economic opportunity of the 21st century”, according to an independent review commissioned by the UK government. Undertaken by the Conservative former...
Logged tropical forests are a net source of carbon emissions for at least one decade after being degraded, according to new research. Tropical forests...
Rising global temperatures have been affecting climate patterns for decades. The frequency and severity of acute events, such as wildfires on the western coast...
The latest estimates from the Global Carbon Project (GCP) show that total worldwide CO2 emissions in 2022 have reached near-record levels.
The GCP’s estimates put...
A post last week by a U-C Berkeley Business School professor got me fretting over the staggering rise in China’s fossil fuel use over the past two decades and wondering what it will take to not just rein it in but reverse it. Just since 2000, Prof. Lucas Davis wrote in Putting China’s Coal Consumption […]
