Consumers Will Pay For Carbon Pricing Costs
Carbon pricing sounds like the simplest solution to the world’s emissions problem: if you want to emit, you have to pay for it. Europe has pioneered carbon pricing efforts with Continue Reading
Rapidly intensifying hurricanes shattered records in 2020
It all started with Hurricane Hanna, which swirled in from the Gulf of Mexico to Padre Island, Tex., on July 25. Originally forecast to move into South Texas as a Continue Reading
U.S. greenhouse gas emissions set to drop to lowest level in three decades
The 9 percent fall has been partially offset by extreme forest fires The coronavirus pandemic triggered a sharp drop in air travel and in greenhouse gas emissions, which fell a Continue Reading
An Unlikely Alliance of Farm and Environmental Groups Takes on Climate Change
An aerial view of mostly harvested farmland at sunset on Oct. 30, 2020 in Lacona, Iowa. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images The American Farm Bureau Federation, the country’s largest and most Continue Reading
Biden Plans to Move Fast With a ‘Climate Administration.’ Here’s How.
President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr., eager to elevate climate change issues throughout his administration, is already drafting orders to reduce planet-warming pollution and seeking nominees who will embed climate policy Continue Reading
Why 2021 Will Be A Banner Year For Renewable Energy In The U.S.
A Joe Biden administration is bound to usher in a 180-degree pivot on climate change from the outgoing presidency. But with control of the Senate hanging in the balance with Continue Reading
Graphene’s Big Moment In Energy May Have Finally Arrived
Ultrathin, incredibly strong, superconductive, cheap–and impossible to use. Those are some of the unfortunate oxymorons that have been used to describe graphene, the gee-whiz nanomaterial that was supposed to forever Continue Reading
These Places Are Bound to Burn and People Keep Moving There
As climate change contributes to ever-worsening fire seasons in the Western U.S., more people are moving to the very areas most likely to burn. Of the 15 counties with the highest Continue Reading
Strongest Storm of Hurricane Season Strikes Central America
Hurricane Iota slammed into Central America late Monday with ferocious winds and rain, threatening to cripple a region already reeling from a deadly storm two weeks ago. Iota, the most powerful Continue Reading
China Urges Steps to Reduce Emissions as Cities See Pollution
China’s environmental regulator has asked authorities in some northern provinces to take measures to reduce emissions, as air pollution is expected to continue next week. Northern provinces including Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong Continue Reading