Climate, Energy & Conservation
This essay is capitulation to catastrophe…. Don’t talk about it, then the public won’t know about it, then you can’t run for office on it and the country won’t act on the emergency.The postDisaster? N...
Progress in Clean Coal Combustion Is a Remarkable Achievement, So Let’s Get on with Building More New Coal Plants By Richard Storm New modern coal plants are needed for energy security, grid reliabili...
* It’s been a long time since I have done an update on the homelessness situation in San Francisco. The reason is that I have avoided the issue until sufficient evidence had accumulated to...
In northwestern Australia lies a remote and wildly diverse region called the Kimberley. There, the iron-red soils of the Pindan Country connect forests and the Great Sandy Desert, all bracketed by a v...
Guest Essay by Cliff Mass From the Cliff Mass Weather Blog Some records are more significant than others. And some records are being used to hype normal temperature variability in unfortunate ways. ...
The campaign to restore the Everglades has received a boost with completion of a key project that returns the flow of water to 55,000 acres that had once been drained for development. Experts see it a...
If we keep up our current energy policies for long enough, we can also get to the point where our thermal (fossil fuel) power plants are too old to be maintained reliably. And then, if we are lucky, w...
By Gregory Wrightstone Policymakers are demanding that farmers scale back meat production, reengineer agricultural systems, and burden consumers with higher grocery bills to prevent a fabricated clima...
AROMA MARKA, Bolivia — The rolling hills around the town of Aroma Marka are a cacophony of colors: golden-yellow, deep-red and purplish-black quinoa pods smatter the otherwise barren landscape here in...
The green Titanic has hit the iceberg of reality, says Professor Gwythian Prins. The obsession with ‘decarbonisation’ over the past quarter-century has now been shown to be a grand illusion and distra...
Microsoft, by every available accounting, was the carbon removal market. As of April 13, per CDR.fyi via ESG Dive, Microsoft accounted for 78.5% of all disclosed durable carbon removal contracts, with...
Along Earth’s coastlines, grassy wetlands flooded by seawater, called salt marshes, trap and store carbon at rates roughly 40 times higher than forests on land. As salt marshes have expanded in some r...
Climate alarmism breaks brains, and @SecretaryWright is 100% right to call out this garbage! 💪 “We’ve created this cult of climate alarmism. It scares kids, chills investment, and gives big-government...
A tiny wasp, collected in the early 1980s in Chile’s Valdivia province, lay inside an unsorted drawer in the Natural History Museum, London, for more than 40 years. After taking a close look, research...
Authorities in Honduras have seized a jaguar kept as a pet by a businessman, in a high-profile raid that conservationists say should serve as a deterrent for others engaged in wildlife trafficking. Th...
Mudskippers are amphibious fish that can live both in water and on land. Usually found in muddy landscapes, the big-eyed creatures dig tunnels through the mud with their mouths, wrapping themselves in...
Nearly a decade since Scotland established the South Arran Marine Protected Area and banned bottom trawling across much of it, life on the seafloor has thrived, a new study has found. Scientists surve...
KUTAI KARTANEGARA, Indonesia — Asniah recalls nights lying in darkness listening to cicadas and the passing hum of outboard motors after her family moved to Muara Enggelam in the 1990s, an over-the-wa...
Native plants are rapidly declining in Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu, replaced by invasive species historically introduced for ornamental and urban greening purposes, reports Mongabay contributor Bibek B...