Climate, Energy & Conservation
Frankly #146
On Sunday, April 26, Argentine officials stopped an unusual shipment arriving at an airport near Buenos Aires. Inside, they found so many dead and dying fish, octopuses and crabs that a national rescu...
The question is not whether coal remains part of the energy system. It is how the U.S. builds the reliable, affordable and secure energy system needed to support AI, strengthen industry and compete in...
Researchers are increasingly digitizing plant and fungi specimens and using A.I. to analyze them, work that is transforming conservation science, according to a new report.Read more on E360 →
This Phys.org article “Global rice production has nearly doubled over 50 years despite climate change” reports good news that is couched in incredulity. The authors are correct to highlight this remar...
More energy-efficient air-conditioning units could, together, save Indian households ₹69bn ($724m) a year, according to...The postAnalysis: Energy-efficient air conditioning could save Indian homes 69...
https://www.climateskeptic.org/p/net-zero-can-never-be-worth-it By MATT RIDLEY Excerpt: According to the BBC, climate change has become more alarming during the 21st century. What they once called glo...
We have petitioned the US Securities and Exchange Commission to compel publicly-traded companies to disclose the risks of an abrupt break in the supply chain from China. Our mortal geopolitical enemy ...
Off topic. Today, I’m writing on the World Cup and all the tiresome, parroted criticsm and accusations that get aimed at FIFA by mostly shallow minds. The FIFA World Cup is actually one of the world...
NAPLES — On a warm, moonlit night in May, Maurizio Simeone sat in an ambush at his desk about 10 kilometers (6 miles) south of Naples, Italy. The marine scientist and director of the Marine Protected ...
Jet fuel from refineries based in foreign countries face monumental logistical challenges to keep California airports open.The postAnother California refinery closure will threaten national and global...
In 2018, night patrol teams on Boa Vista, the third-largest island in the Cabo Verde archipelago, started noticing a change along the beaches: The loggerhead turtles were arriving in significantly lar...
It turns out that to get the really high temperatures in western Washington, the atmosphere needs to organize itself in a very specific way, generally with a strong upper-level ridge and offshore-dire...
LIMÓN DE CHAGRES, Panama — In Panama’s Rio Indio Basin, a $1.5 billion reservoir project aims to meet water demand for the next 50 years. But the project would displace dozens of farming communities, ...
Tariq Mahmood was alarmed when he found 19 sacks tucked away in a railway tunnel in the Chakwal district of northern Pakistan. Their contents were extremely disturbing: 45 rotting pangolin carcasses, ...
How can the beleaguered carbon market be saved? Carbon market pioneer Daniel Morrell’s solution is straightforward: Go back to the market’s roots by focusing less on carbon and more on biodiversity ge...
JAKARTA — Climate change has become a direct threat to the survival of the world’s rarest great ape, according to scientists, after landslides triggered by an unusually intense storm killed an estimat...
Following a grueling 14-day trek, a team of mountaineers and conservationists has photographed the elusive blue-fronted lorikeet in the highlands of eastern Indonesia’s Buru Island. This is only the s...
Rivers are known to naturally meander, change courses, braid and branch. But as rising temperatures melt glaciers and thaw frozen ground, the courses of Himalayan rivers are shifting and changing shap...
In a forest reserve in northeastern Bangladesh, two Chinese pangolins rescued from trafficking have been given a second chance at life in the wild. As poaching pushes the critically endangered species...