Energy Outlook Offers Grim Fossil Fuel Forecast
The status quo guarantees future dominance of fossil fuels, according to an authoritative government projection.
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Greenhouse Gas
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There’s No Negotiating With Nature
Two new studies show that the effects of changing climate are with us regardless of where governments or public opinion stand.
A Second Life For Orbiting Carbon Observatory?
As the need to measure carbon absorption takes on global political and environmental import, researchers are rushing to resurrect a project that literally crashed and sank.
Vulcan Logic and the Missing Sink
Researchers studying a mashup of existing data are tracking exactly where carbon is entering — and exiting — the atmosphere.
Concrete Solutions for Climate Change
New concrete manufacturing processes are not only green, they take carbon out of circulation.
Berkeley’s Ray of Hope Gets Brighter
Vice President Joe Biden expands idea to use special district bonds to pay for your solar power dreams.
Planetary Boundaries? Go Ask the Romans
Scientists propose guardrails for how far mankind can push the planet tomorrow, while others examine how far collapsed civilizations pushed it yesterday.
Ponderous Polluters Let a Little Light Shine in
A cargo ship that generates some of its power from the sun may shine a light on ways to reduce transportation's dirty little secret — the world's oil-powered fleets are hideous global warmers.
Carbon-Fighting Cost Falls Unevenly
The states producing the most carbon per capita are financially the states least-capable of paying for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Reducing the ‘Car’ Part of Carbon
Regulators in car-mad California have made a statement about reducing carbon in the atmosphere, and while its specifics have their critics, expect the rest of the nation to grudgingly follow along.