Climate Change
-
LISTEN: Ian Parry: Carbon Pricing and the Power of a Good Idea -- IMF Podcast
Ian Parry International Monetary Fund Nov. 21, 2023 IN THIS EPISODE Carbon pricing is steadily emerging as one of the most viable solutions to reducing global emissions, but shedding its contentious ...
Read more... -
Embracing Collapse : Jem Bendell on the value of accepting what is happening to our world -- Douglas Rushkoff
Douglas Rushkoff Jem Bendell Douglas Rushkoff Nov. 19, 2023 Here’s a short excerpt from this week’s episode of Team Human, a conversation with ecolibertarian and regenerative agriculture school ...
Read more... -
Plants May Be Able To Absorb More CO2 From Human Activities Than Previously Expected -- Trinity College Dublin
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Trinity College Dublin Nov. 18, 2023 New research published in Science Advances paints an uncharacteristically upbeat picture for the planet. Ecological modeling suggests ...
Read more... -
Falling Solar Power And Storage Prices Make Global Climate Transition Cheaper Than Expected | Ulrich von Lampe
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Ulrich von Lampe -- Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change Sept. 22, 2023 In just the past 10 years, the cost of electricity from solar ...
Read more... -
Human-Driven Mass Extinction Is Eliminating Entire Branches Of The Tree Of Life | Stanford University
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Sept. 18 (Phys.org) -- The passenger pigeon. The Tasmanian tiger. The Baiji, or Yangtze river dolphin. These rank among the best-known recent victims of what many ...
Read more... -
How To Stop And Reverse Global Warming | Bing
Francis Goodwin asks Bing: How to stop and reverse global warming? July 28, 2023 (Bing) -- Global warming is a serious threat to the planet and its inhabitants. It is caused by the accumulation of ...
Read more... -
Tax the Rich to Save the Planet | Owen Gaffney
Full disk view of the Earth taken on December 7, 1972, by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft en route to the Moon at a distance of about 29,000 kilometres (18,000 mi). It shows Africa, Antarctica, ...
Read more... -
How to Green Our Parched Farmlands & Finance Critical Infrastructure | Ellen Brown
Drought-stricken farmland in California. Ellen Brown -- Web of Debt Sept. 2, 2022 There are work-arounds the United States can use to fund affordable housing, drought responses, and other ...
Read more... -
Scientists Recommend Checkpoints System To Help Guide Climate Engineering Research | Brookhaven National Laboratory
This graphic describes checkpoints and off ramps to guide research on marine cloud brightening as a proposed strategy for mitigating the impacts of climate change. Credit: NOAA Jan. 20, 2022 ...
Read more... -
Greed and Consumption: Why the World is Burning | Ramzy Baroud
NSW Fire and Rescue officers fight a bushfire encroaching on properties in Australia in December 2019. (Photo: via AJE) Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Aug. 17, 2021 Rome is scorching hot. This ...
Read more... -
RNA breakthrough creates crops that can grow 50% more potatoes, rice | University of Chicago
Credit: CC0 Public Domain July 22, 2021 (Phys.org) -- Manipulating RNA can allow plants to yield dramatically more crops, as well as increasing drought tolerance, a group of scientists from the ...
Read more...
Page 1 of 15
