Fix the climate or appease the fossil fuel industry – we can’t do both

Funding for carbon capture and storage is likely to prolong the fossil fuel era.

Jack Marley, Environment + Energy Editor, UK edition • conversation
Oct. 9, 2024 ~8 min

How mainstream climate science endorsed the fantasy of a global warming time machine

Surpassing 1.5°C of warming can be undone at a later date – using tech, land and resources that don’t exist.

Andreas Malm, Associate Professor of Human Ecology, Lund University • conversation
Oct. 9, 2024 ~8 min


Chagos Islands: how to ensure their coral reefs aren’t damaged as they return to Mauritius

The environmental impacts of a change in management and human activity depends on what, if any, development takes place and how it is managed.

Adam Moolna, Lecturer in Environment and Sustainability, Keele University • conversation
Oct. 9, 2024 ~6 min

Study finds mercury pollution from human activities is declining

Models show that an unexpected reduction in human-driven emissions led to a 10 percent decline in atmospheric mercury concentrations.

Adam Zewe | MIT News • mit
Oct. 8, 2024 ~9 min

Bubble findings could unlock better electrode and electrolyzer designs

A new study of bubbles on electrode surfaces could help improve the efficiency of electrochemical processes that produce fuels, chemicals, and materials.

David L. Chandler | MIT News • mit
Oct. 8, 2024 ~7 min

Why wildfires started by human activities can be more destructive and harder to contain

The US has seen huge wildfires in recent years, and 2024 is no exception. The vast majority of those that affect communities are started by human activity.

Virginia Iglesias, Interim Earth Lab Director, University of Colorado Boulder • conversation
Oct. 8, 2024 ~8 min

How Hurricane Helene became a deadly disaster across six states

Helene’s size and speed worsened everything from its storm surge to its extreme flooding in the mountains. And another hurricane was coming right on Helene’s heels.

Cary Mock, Professor of Geography, University of South Carolina • conversation
Oct. 7, 2024 ~9 min

Journey to a key front in climate-change fight

Amazon immersion fosters partnerships, offers students, researchers hard look at threats to economic security, environment of rainforest as Earth warms

Harvard Gazette • harvard
Oct. 3, 2024 ~24 min


A birder’s biggest enemy in rainforest: complacency

Senior integrative biology concentrator spots 121 species during research, teaching intensive in Amazon

Harvard Gazette • harvard
Oct. 3, 2024 ~7 min

Redefining the good life

Climate activist urges people to counter a culture run on fear and fossil fuel

Harvard Gazette • harvard
Oct. 3, 2024 ~7 min

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