How Growing Sea Plants Can Help Slow Ocean Acidification
By Nicola Jones, Yale Environment 360
Researchers are finding that kelp, eelgrass, and other vegetation can effectively absorb CO2 and reduce acidity in the ocean. Growing these plants in local waters, scientists say, could help mitigate the damaging impacts of acidification on marine life.
Abrupt Sea Level Rise Looms As Increasingly Realistic Threat
By Nicola Jones, Yale Environment 360
Now, a growing number of studies are raising the possibility that as those ice sheets melt, sea levels could rise by six feet this century, and far higher in the next, flooding many of the world's populated coastal areas.
The Carbon Counters: Tracking Emissions in a Post-Paris World
By Nicola Jones, Yale Environment 360
In the wake of the Paris climate agreement, developing countries find themselves in need of analysts capable of monitoring their emissions.
A Scarcity of Rare Metals Is Hindering Green Technologies
By Nicola Jones, Yale Environment 360
A shortage of "rare earth" metals, used in everything from electric car batteries to solar panels to wind turbines, is hampering the growth of renewable energy technologies.