How The Fracking Revolution Is Killing the U.S. Oil and Gas Industry
The latest installment in Mikulka’s excellent series, linking the fracking bust to the decimation of the U.S. oil and gas industry.
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New Hope for Coral Restoration with “Electric Reefs”?
Can we mobilize to restore coral reefs using “mineral accretion technology” to mobilize, now that patents no longer restrict its use?
Read more...Why We Need to Adopt Friedrich Engels’ Thinking on Science in These Times
Friedrich Engels work on working class included describing how capitalists would not contrain their environmental damage.
Read more...More CO2 in the Atmosphere Hurts Key Plants and Crops More Than It Helps
A primer on CO2 and crops.
Read more...Why America’s Future Depends on Rebuilding Our Factories
Bringing factories back to the US would have been a good idea 20 years ago. Hard to see how we get there from here now.
Read more...Green Growth vs Degrowth: Are We Missing the Point?
A broad discussion of the climate change growth versus degrowth debate and how to move forward despite those differences.
Read more...Much of the U.S. Could Be Uninhabitable by 2050
A new report confirms earlier studies that found that climate change will render a lot of the US uninhabitable in a few decades.
Read more...What Connects Grenfell Tower, Dams on the Mekong, and a Shortage of Glass Vials for Covid Vaccines? Sand!
By Lambert Strether of Corrente Readers, I have purchased Obama’s latest autobiography, along with the complimentary handtruck needed to take it home, and now I’m going to have to pull on my yellow waders and read it, as much as I can stand. So that post is coming, but that post is not this post, […]
Read more...Don’t Depend on Wall Street for Renewable Energy Investment
Why Big Finance is part of the energy problem, not the solution.
Read more...You and I May Never Summit Everest But Microplastics Already Have
Microsplastics have been found on the summit of Mount Everest; Seems no place, even earth’s most remote locations, is witout this scourge.
Read more...Investigation: How Pesticide Companies Are Marketing Themselves as a Solution to Climate Change
After decades of denial and delay by big agribusiness, the pesticides industry now appears to have become a climate champion.
Read more...Peat: Superhero of the Biosphere, in Need of Global Protection (and Yours)
Drained peatlands and peat fires emit around 10% of our greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, land-use change and forestry, yet there seems to be little effort to prevent this.
Read more...“Super Emitters”: 1% of World’s Population Causes Half of Global Aircraft Emissions
COVID-19 provides a chance to reassess our relationship with flying, a major source of global emissions.
Read more...Waste Watch: Carbon Emissions to Increase in the UK from Waste Disposal; Yet Another Reason We Need To Cease Making So Much Plastic
Absent immediate and drastic action to limit plastics use, global emissions will increase as incineration is used for waste disposal.
Read more...Save the Birds: Study Adds to Calls to Ban Dogs from Beaches During Shorebird Nesting Season
Study shows nesting shorebirds are flushed from their nests during nesting season by dogs, whether or not on leads.
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