Climate Change

How Not To Be a Boiled Frog

Blink.

Greenhouse Gases

Efficiency Gains via Electrification, or Why We Should Electrify Everything We Can

Decarbonizing the economy by electrifying everything in it will mean we need less total energy.

The World Coal Export Market

It's a dirty business. But somebody always decides to do it.

Climate Train

When traveling what is the "best" climate change choice?

Materials

Steel

Steel is one of the pillars of modern civilization but its production emits far more CO2 than the aviation industry. Material substitutes for steel simply don’t exist on the kind of scale needed. Reducing the carbon impact of steel production faces major technical and economic challenges.

The Day Bores Became Exciting

Oilfield down-hole skills may lead to viable large-scale closed-loop geothermal. It's a trend to watch.

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Australia's bad coal habit

Can Ticks Invade Canada Faster?

Some North American tick species seem to be expanding northward more quickly than their physiological cold tolerance allows. A new paper proposes an explanation.

How-to

Resilience Borne of Disaster

After experiencing disasters, many places around the world are rebuilding to be more resilient in future. We can learn from the experience of others how to assess our local hazards and risks and upgrade our infrastructure, so as to lessen the damage from future events.

Climate Change

Trees

Trees are beautiful and maybe more. Updated: July 2, 2025

Climate Change

Coffee - Climate Change Gets Personal

Coffee – many of us can’t live without our daily fix, but what is the environmental footprint of our daily cup(s), and what impact does a warming planet have on the future of coffee production?

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Climate Change

Directly View ISS Methane Data

Climate Change

In Hot Water

To talk climate, we need to talk class, comfort—and coffee.

Agriculture

Agrivoltaics

Agrivoltaics, a technique that combines various forms of agricultural production underneath, or adjacent to, photovoltaic installations, provides multiple, synergistic benefits: agricultural, ecological, and financial. The worldwide scope of agrivoltaics is currently small, but is growing.

Climate Change

Flyby

You take a good, hard look at Sagan's "pale blue dot." You learn surprising things.

Climate Change

Hydrogen Economy - hype or hope?

Climate Change

Flooding

With climate-adaptive approaches to flood management and wetland conservation, every dollar spent yields many dollars back in flood damage reduction.

Hey, we're just following (customer) orders

Climate Change

Fire insurance

Climate Change

Climate Politics

An excess of unworthy events becomes worthy of commentary.

Climate Change

Slow Apocalypse

Why is humanity moving so slowly to respond to climate change?

Climate Change

Gassy knolls: Automation finds the 10 worst methane hotspots

A methane-hotspot tool uses satellite data to find problem regions. We need this tool — and others like it — to stop climate change.

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Climate Change

Methane leaks: It's the little ones that'll get us in the end

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Climate Change

Climate consequences: Fire

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Climate Change

DIY: Explore Sentinel-5P's methane data