Storms such as the recent cyclone Fani remind us that climate change will expose both India and Bangladesh to future superstorms; both countries continue to fail to protect the Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest, and a major bulwark against future calamities.
Read more...Chinese and emerging economy bans on accepting plastic waste exports have put the the First World in a bind. Will they quit their plastic habit?
Read more...Another effort to cost out some of the effects of climate change.
Read more...irming up the math on the economic cost of climate change makes a bad picture look worse.
Read more...Might air travel take a serious hit from climate change before polic-makers work up the nerve to intervene?
Read more...Interior administration official promises to offer fossil fuel leases for sale in 2019 to allow drilling in previously pristine Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to commence.
Read more...Glyposphate use increases throughout the Midwest, and Bayer loses its third Roundup case. The company appears confident that higher US courts will reverse pro-plaintiff verdicts.
Read more...Trump administration continues to follow the self-regulation gospel – this time in the area of rail safety. This case study in corporate capture of American regulation is yet another area where the accidents are just waiting to happen.
Read more...Another reason to promote family farmers.
Read more...The four-day week as a management technique vs. cutting back working hours to reduce consumption: One, both, or neither?
Read more...Chinese electric vehicle sales already amount to more than half of the world’s total – and car makers and battery manufacturers are working hard to grow even faster
Read more...CO2 levels have crossed a threshold that ought to be causing alarms, yet the finding was just another news story. What can be done to cut through the climage complacency?
Read more...EPA proposes methodology change to allow states to opt to burn more coal.
Read more...Public policy nudges devised by fans of behavioral scientst Richard Thaler might not be all that they are cracked up to be.
Read more...The fashion industry struggles to be more sustainable – is the answer more regulation, or can the industry reform on its own?
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