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Macquarie Sells Off Solar Assets to Canada’s Fiera Infrastructure
Australian bank Macquarie has sold a 41MW bundle of solar assets to Canada’s Fiera Infrastructure, a subsidiary of investment giant Fiera Capital Corporation, for an undisclosed sum. The deal, announced yesterday, sees Macquarie hand over a set solar assets which…
Alberta (Tar Sands Capital Of The World) Invests In 600 MW Of Wind Power
Bill McKibben calls the Alberta tar sands a “carbon bomb.” Not only does it require huge quantities of energy to separate the oil from the sands, the oil produced creates more carbon emissions than other types of oil. Think of…
Arctic Report Card 2017: Ice Cover Is Shrinking Faster Compared With Prior 1,500 Years
The 2017 Arctic Report Card reflects contributions from 85 scientists representing 12 countries. The pace of sea ice area (hereafter extent) decrease is unprecedented over the past 1,500 years, according to Emily Osborne’s et al. 2017 contribution to the Arctic…
Oslo EV Parking Garage Is World’s Largest, Uses 6,000 kWh Of Electricity A Week
The Vulkan parking garage in Oslo, Norway, has the most EV chargers of any facility in the world — 102. Tesla has opened two large Supercharger stations in the US recently with up to 60 chargers each, but the Vulkan…
Meteorologist Warns Collapse of Two Antarctic Glaciers Could Flood Every Coastal City on Earth
Two of Antarctica’s glaciers are holding our civilization hostage, meteorologist Eric Holthaus wrote in a piece for Grist. Pine Island and Thwaites are among the continent’s biggest and fastest-melting glaciers – and they could unleash 11 feet of sea level…
Soil Management: Key to Fighting Climate Change?
An important tool for mitigating climate change may lie beneath our feet—soil management could increase our ability to keep carbon out of the atmosphere, a new study shows. A paper published last week in the journal Scientific Reports estimates…
Soil Management: Key to Fighting Climate Change?
An important tool for mitigating climate change may lie beneath our feet—soil management could increase our ability to keep carbon out of the atmosphere, a new study shows. A paper published last week in the journal Scientific Reports estimates that…