How ancient ice-age valleys could hold the key to global ice-sheet loss
Advances in satellite technology over recent decades have allowed scientists to chart the melting of the Earth’s ice sheets in remarkable detail.
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Dutch dilemma: What is Europe willing to do for more natural gas?
The Netherlands is close to closing one of the world’s largest natural gas fields even as Europe faces acute energy shortages. Will the country be able to resist calls for continuing production that will mean sacrificing the homes and businesses of Dutch citizens?
Three myths about economic decarbonization
We have the technology, the resources, the imagination and the political measures to achieve this goal, but will it be possible with our business as usual painted green?
Review | Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations
Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations is a powerful, multidimensional work of extraordinary vision and reach whose overarching theme of humans sharing encounters with our other-than-human relations presaged a project out of the ordinary.
Land Change, Failures of Omission, and the Renaturing of Climate
Land change is a scientific term you’re not likely to hear in mainstream climate conversation, which is a shame, because what it refers to, the climatic effects of human damage to living landscapes, is a big part of the climate crisis.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 86 Kinari Webb
Kinari Webb, MD, is the founder of Health In Harmony, an international nonprofit dedicated to reversing global heating, understanding that rainforests are essential for the survival of humanity, and a cofounder of Alam Sehat Lestari (ASRI). She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
Global emissions must drop by 50% by 2030
My point is that if we’re going to really have an energy transition it will have to be primarily a transition to a much less energy intensive economy and material culture.
A Review of ‘The Age of Low Tech’ by Philippe Bihouix
The Age Low Tech is a funny, informal, practical, angry, and subtly deep book. Released in 2014, its discussion of energy crisis and supply chain fragility feel prescient to 2022.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 85 Seth Godin
Seth Godin is an entrepreneur, best-selling author, and speaker. He addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?
The Inflation Reduction Act is a new lease on U.S. climate policy: Let’s not screw it up
It’s taken over 50 years for the nation’s policymakers to put together anything approximating an integrated energy and environment policy.
Barred from the Climate Conversation
Without equal representation from the Global South, where these effects will be most severely felt, there is no hope that just solutions will be found and met.
Clam shells show how North Atlantic ‘tipped’ into Little Ice Age
To identify those components of the Earth system that might exhibit tipping behaviour in the future, we can look for abrupt changes in the past.
