UK professor condemns own university over collaboration with oil giant
A senior professor has accused his own university of betraying its values by working with ExxonMobil on a project that has been condemned as greenwash.
May 14, 2024
The methane ruminations
Methane belching by grazing ruminants should not be seen as “emissions” that have to be mitigated.
May 14, 2024
Science Conference Sunrise
This knowledge, about Earth’s capacity for regulation and renewal, is still just cresting the horizon of human understanding, but as with a sunrise, the Earth is rolling us towards it. It feels inevitable.
May 14, 2024
Canceled Canadian CCS Project Deemed ‘Not Economically Feasible’
Critics say the considerable amount of financial resources already dedicated to CCS have effectively been wasted, particularly when the means to cheaply decarbonize the grid – such as solar panels or wind turbines – are already available.
May 13, 2024
Local Newspapers Are Lifelines for Climate-Disaster Communities
As floods, fires, and tornadoes surge, and daily as well as weekly publications collapse, local journalism maintains an all-too-slender lifeline in devastated rural communities like mine.
May 13, 2024
From Climate Crisis to Polycrisis
We are smart, linguistic, ultrasocial, tool-making primates who have recently stumbled upon an energy bonanza. We’ve accomplished wonders. But we have also become our own worst enemy. Collective survival will require setting aside our hubris and coming to terms with environmental and social limits.
May 13, 2024
Do Ruddy Turnstones ask Red Knots for directions?
The Internet of Animals relies on the latest products of high-tech manufacturing, and it is vulnerable to the turbulence of human power struggles. But at its heart the project is the life’s work of dedicated scientists simply doing their best to learn from animals.
May 10, 2024
The Dirt On Soil
In this series we explore why soil health matters, how it’s related to our worsening climate crisis, and what individuals and communities can do to protect it.