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New Study Reconciles a Dispute About How Fast Global Warming Will Happen
Unfortunately, mainstream climate scientists are still right, and we’re running out of time to avoid dangerous global warming. We’re currently on pace to double the carbon dioxide-equivalent (including other greenhouse gases) in the atmosphere by around mid-century. Since the late 1800s scientists…
Online Ivory Trade Perpetuated by Yahoo Japan, Weak Legislation
Yahoo Japan is the single biggest online platform for elephant ivory sales in Japan, according to a new TRAFFIC investigation, which recorded a staggering 4,414 ivory items plus 35 whole tusks for sale over a four-week period in June and…
Businesses Including Uber and Nokia Team Up Against Climate Change
A new business alliance aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions across all sectors and ensure a climate turning point by 2020. The 21 companies forming the Step Up Declaration plan, which includes signatories such as Bloomberg, HP, Lyft, Nokia and…
EU Climate Law Could Cause ‘Catastrophic’ Deforestation
Senior climate scientists say that the world’s carbon sinks could be facing a grave threat from a wholly unexpected source: the EU’s renewable energy directive. The climate law could suck in as much imported wood as Europe harvests each year…
U.S. Military Is World’s Biggest Polluter
Last week, mainstream media outlets gave minimal attention to the news that the U.S. Naval station in Virginia Beach had spilled an estimated 94,000 gallons of jet fuel into a nearby waterway, less than a mile from the Atlantic Ocean.…
Europe Officially Has More than One Million Electric Cars
More than a million electric cars can now be seen on the streets of Europe, thanks in part to a sales surge in the first half of 2018. Europe has reached this benchmark more quickly than the United States, which…
Asia’s First Fully Solar-Powered Drone Lifts Off
In April, a group of students from the Innovation & Design Programme (iDP) at National University of Singapore Engineering developed a quadcopter drone that is powered completely with solar energy, without the need for batteries or other energy storage. In…