Category Archives: Environment

Bad News for Oil, Good News for Water

Oil prices could be on a very nasty trajectory.

How Effective Are Electric Vehicles In Reducing Emissions?

Guess how much less CO2 electric vehicles emit than gas-fueled cars, all in, using current and prospective energy sources.

Justice Department Sues eBay Over Unlawful Sales of Pesticides, Other Products

eBay is often accused of selling fakes, like knockoff Hermes ties. The Feds are suing eBay for selling real, as in really dangerous, wares

City Caught Flat-Footed on Flood as Deluge Dredges Up Past Lessons

New York City parents, public officials and climate advocates all say the mayor and his team were ill-prepared for the effects of a storm that was on the radar days before.

No Energy Transition Unless Tech Can Make It Cost Competitive: BlackRock

What happens to countries and populations that can’t afford higher cost green energy?

US Home Insurers Are Leaving Climate Risk Areas. We Need Affordable Housing Now

When the US housing crisis meets the looming insurance crisis, only government intervention will avert catastrophe.

Fracking Fallout: Is America’s Drinking Water Safe?

After many years, concerns about the impact of fracking on aquifers are finally going mainstream.

Dangerous Scramble for Renewable Energy Resources

Demand for materials like lithium that are essential to many so-called “green energy” technologies are setting up conflicts, including war.

Cost Of Living Crisis Threatens EU Energy Transition

Worries that EU voters will reject the climate change diet, at least partly due to failure to impose sacrifices on the rich, who are carbon pigs

In Search of Safer Shelters: The Challenges of Replicating Nature

Human-made shelters don’t always keep creatures out of harm’s way. Can technology help design a better birdhouse?

The Pentagon is the Elephant In the Climate Activist Room

Ignoring the large role of the Pentagon in CO2 emissions is a huge omission in climate change remedies.

Amid Steep Global Bird Declines, Farmers Create Refuges

While this post confirms the sightings by many readers, of a fall in bird populations, it also describes a program to help rebuild their numbers.

I Posed as a Private Jet Customer. This Is What I Was Told About Emissions

Private jet companies want us to believe in “guilt-free” and “carbon-neutral” flights despite their sky-high emissions

BMW: Gasoline Car Ban Poses “Imminent Risk” To European Automakers

BMW warns that the 2035 EU mandate to end sales of new fossil fuel vehicles will be a mass death event for most EU car makers

Global Biodiversity Panel Warns Humans’ Introduction of Invasive Species Threatens Nature, Food Security

With major drivers of change set to worsen. increases of invasive alien species and their negative impacts are likely to intensify.