Climate Change

This article is sponsored by Antenna Group.  Although I am unsure of the exact year, I remember attending a renewable energy conference in the mid-2000s. It had the feel of a millennialist religious movement, complete with prophecies of a messianic world. It wasn't the promise of wolves and lambs living…

But a close look at energy and emissions data around the world shows that there are a few bright spots of good news, and a lot of potential progress ahead.  For example, renewable sources make up a growing fraction of the energy supply, and they’re getting cheaper every year. Countries…

The current cold weather snap gripping the UK feels like a world away from the record-high temperature recorded during the summer months of 2022. With extremes of heat and cold expected to increase around the world as climate change affects weather systems, an ever-more-pressing question will arise about how people…

What can old bones teach us about adapting to climate change? More than you’d think. In a new paper published in the journal PNAS last week, 25 archaeologists and anthropologists analyzed thousands of years’ worth of human remains from nearly every continent to learn how ancient people responded to rapid…

January 22, 2023 10:10 AM Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here. Sustainability isn’t just a buzzword to satisfy investors and customers. Business survival in a world increasingly threatened by extreme heat and weather events affects the livelihoods of consumers, disrupts essential operations and chokes…

AP Photo/Rick Bowmer Steam is emitted from smokestacks at a coal-fired power plant on Nov. 17, 2021, in Craig, Colo. President Biden deserves high praise for rejoining the Paris Climate Accords at the recent COP27 Summit and steering his major climate change legislation — the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) —…

Harold Davis, who's 29 years old, bought this truck and snowplow in the fall. Opportunities to use his new plow have been few and far between. Mara Hoplamazian/New Hampshire Public Radio hide caption toggle caption Mara Hoplamazian/New Hampshire Public Radio Harold Davis, who's 29 years old, bought this truck and…

Researchers from the University of Washington have highlighted how climate change presses and pulses have impacted Magellanic penguins. The scientists split the effects of climate change into two separate components. Pulses are short-term, like heat waves, and pressers are long-term effects, like changes in ocean currents and such. Studying the…

At the beginning of Ann-Helén Laestadius’ novel Stolen, 9-year old Elsa skis to her family’s reindeer corral in northern Sweden as the low winter sun sets. Elsa, who is Sámi and comes from a family of reindeer herders, relishes the freedom of skiing alone, and caring for the animals. Hoping…

Bringing the subject of climate change into the classroom will support future generations’ efforts to protect our planet and conserve resources, the head of UAE philanthropic organisation Dubai Cares has said. Climate change “should always be part of” the education agenda and education will be an important part of the…