Tag: Fossil fuels
Why action on climate change gets stuck and what to do...
Matthew Hoffmann, University of Toronto and Steven Bernstein, University of Toronto
Work crews descended on 12 commuter parking lots in Toronto in late November 2018,...
California wildfires signal the arrival of a planetary fire age
Stephen Pyne, Arizona State University
Another autumn, more fires, more refugees and incinerated homes. For California, flames have become the colors of fall.
Free-burning fire is...
Oil companies are thinking about a low-carbon future, but aren’t making...
Lewis Fulton, University of California, Davis and Daniel Sperling, University of California, Davis
The global oil industry stands at a crossroads. Corporate leaders are weighing...
Populist alliances of ‘cowboys and Indians’ are protecting rural lands
Zoltan Grossman, Evergreen State College
The sea of red on recent election maps make it look like rural areas are uniformly populated by Republicans. And...
Trump offshore drilling plan may be dead in the water, but...
Scott L. Montgomery, University of Washington
President Trump’s effort to expand offshore oil and gas exploration has stalled, and may be dead in the water....
What makes natural gas bottlenecks happen during extreme cold snaps
Sarah Ryan, Iowa State University
When temperatures in Minneapolis fell to 27 below zero during the January 2019 polar vortex, the Xcel Energy utility urged...
Newly discovered cold-tolerant plants from Siberia could promote clean bioenergy
Charles Pignon, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Climate change is an urgent threat to societies around the world, driven by carbon dioxide emissions from fossil...
Fossil fuels are bad for your health and harmful in many...
Noel Healy, Salem State University; Jennie C. Stephens, Northeastern University, and Stephanie Malin, Colorado State University
Many Democratic lawmakers aim to pass a Green New...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
