Image courtesy of Argonne National Laboratory via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) Article by Christine Fisher, EnGadget Electric vehicles will play an important role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but they are not yet a perfect solution. Today, most EVs run on lithium-ion batteries made with heavy metals like...
Image courtesy of Omoeko Media via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Article by Yomi Kazeem, Quartz Africa The funding pitch for off-grid energy companies across Africa can be boiled down to one poignant statistic: the continent is home to world’s slowest electrification rate. The problem is most significant in...
Image courtesy of GoodFreePhotos.com (CC0) Article by Matt Egan, CNN Business A secretive startup backed by Bill Gates has achieved a solar breakthrough aimed at saving the planet. Heliogen, a clean energy company that emerged from stealth mode on Tuesday, said it has discovered a way to use artificial...
Image by Associated Press. Article by Christian Kreznar, via Forbes. As part of the United Nations’ Climate Action Summit last week, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the creation of a coalition to bolster the world’s infrastructure. In the face of increasingly severe weather patterns resulting...
Image via Pixababy. Article by Daniel Van Boom via CNET. A heatwave has turned Western Europe into a furnace. The Amazon is on fire. Glaciers in Iceland are melting. Earth just sweltered through its hottest five-year period on record. The seemingly never-ending newsreel of climate catastrophes can...
Image via The Circle. Article by Winona LaDuke and catwhipple, via The Circle. While armchair and facebook critics are blasting away at those of us transforming the world, blasting Alexandria Ocasio Ortiz, Ilhan Omar, and others for having a dream of an ecologically and socially beautiful world,...
Photo Rajesh Kumar Singh via AP Photo Article by Biswajeet Banerjee via Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — More than a million Indians planted 220 million trees on Friday in a government campaign to tackle climate change and improve the environment in the country's most populous state. Forest official...
Photo by Todd Korol( BLOOMBERG NEWS) Article by Bloomberg News, via DAILY REPUBLIC The hemp fields sprouting in a part of Canada best known for its giant oil patch show how climate change is disrupting the construction industry. Six years after setting up shop in the...
Photo by Christoph Hrdinka, CC Article by McKinley Corbley via goodnewsnetwork.org For the first time in history, wind energy accounted for more electrical usage in Texas than coal. The Electrical Reliability Council of Texas, which manages about 90% of the electrical flow in the state, released a report earlier...
Photo by Lorie Shaull via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0) Article by Laura M. Holson, via The New York Times Hollywood has produced quite a few fictionalized depictions of dramatic climate change. Scores of people die after Manhattan freezes in 2004’s “The Day After Tomorrow.” In “Geostorm,” released...