Why it’s so hard to kick fossil fuels out of sport

The UK has banned tobacco adverts at sports games since 2002. There is no equivalent for climate-wreckers.

Theo Lorenzo Frixou, PhD Candidate, Social Sciences, Loughborough University • conversation
Oct. 8, 2024 • ~6 min

China leads the net zero transition – here’s what we can learn from its progress in Beijing and Hong Kong

China has spent ten times more on clean energy than either the US or Europe over the past five years.

Natalie Sum Yue Chung, PhD Candidate, Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment, Princeton University • conversation
Sept. 30, 2024 • ~8 min

Climate change is a pollution problem, and countries know how to deal with pollution threats – think DDT and acid rain

Pollution solutions start with public pressure, often in the face of industry pushback and slow-moving political responses.

Alexander E. Gates, Professor of Earth and Environmental Science, Rutgers University - Newark • conversation
Sept. 23, 2024 • ~10 min

Climate change is a pollution problem, and countries have stopped similar threats before – think DDT and acid rain

Pollution solutions start with public pressure, often in the face of industry pushback and slow-moving political responses.

Alexander E. Gates, Professor of Earth and Environmental Science, Rutgers University - Newark • conversation
Sept. 23, 2024 • ~10 min

Rare Florida fossil finally ends debate about how porcupine jaws and tails evolved

Modern North American porcupines are at least twice the size of their southern cousins and have stronger jaws. But how long have they looked that way?

Natasha S. Vitek, Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York) • conversation
Sept. 20, 2024 • ~6 min

The UK and Ireland’s climate was tropical 26 million years ago - here’s why that matters now

Reconstructions suggest that rainfall rates may exceed 1.4m per year as a new norm. This would have massive implications for the future of food security in the UK and Ireland.

Matthew Pound, Associate Professor, Northumbria University, Newcastle • conversation
Sept. 12, 2024 • ~5 min

A 149 million-year-old pterosaur is Britain’s largest flying animal – how scientists proved it from a single finger bone

The Jurassic pterosaur’s size was estimated from only its finger bone.

Jason Gilchrist, Lecturer in the School of Applied Sciences, Edinburgh Napier University • conversation
Sept. 12, 2024 • ~8 min

Under both Trump and Biden-Harris, US oil and gas production surged to record highs, despite very different energy goals

Trump aggressively supported fossil fuels. The Biden-Harris administration focused on replacing them with clean energy. Yet, data show the US oil and gas industries still thrived under both.

Valerie Thomas, Professor of Industrial Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology • conversation
Sept. 9, 2024 • ~9 min

US oil and gas production surged to record highs under both Trump and Biden-Harris, despite very different energy goals

Trump aggressively supported fossil fuels. The Biden-Harris administration focused on replacing them with clean energy. Yet, data show the US oil and gas industries still thrived under both.

Valerie Thomas, Professor of Industrial Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology • conversation
Sept. 9, 2024 • ~9 min

Oil and gas communities are a blind spot in America’s climate and economic policies

Limiting damage from climate change means cutting fossil fuel use. Many towns that rely heavily on oil and gas production aren’t prepared for that future, as a former White House advisor explains.

Noah Kaufman, Senior Research Scholar in Climate Economics, Columbia University • conversation
Sept. 5, 2024 • ~9 min

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