Kristy Dyer has a background in art and physics and consulted for Silicon Valley We have not one but two crises on our hands: COVID and global warming. The COVID crisis is immediate, it has killed 550,000 in North America alone. Global warming is coming slowly but inevitably, we are still headed...
VOX -Environment
What’s your “fair share” of carbon emissions? You’re probably blowing way past it.
How the right to pursue happiness through unlimited consumption harms the planet, and our kids. Our liberty-loving way of life has landed us in an encircling moral maze otherwise known as the climate crisis. That means certain of our cherished rights face a new test. While many are misled into...
Guardian - Climate Change
Polar bears and narwhals are using up to four times as much energy to survive because of major ice loss in the Arctic, according to scientists. Once perfectly evolved for polar life, apex predators are struggling as their habitats shrink and unique adaptations become less suited to an...
Green Tech Media
A new green steel venture in Sweden has been launched with bold plans to start production as early as 2024.The H2 Green Steel initiative will then scale-up to 5 million tons per year of green steel production. It would be the world’s first large-scale green steel producer, with a total of...
Google Spinoff Malta Nabs $50M Series B for Thermal Long Duration Storage
Malta has raised a $50 million Series B round to bring its super-long duration energy storage to market, the company said Wednesday.The startup spun out of Google parent company Alphabet's moonshot factory, X, in 2018. Many startups tackling energy storage breakthroughs have looked to batteries...
Steve Latour and his wife were enjoying their usual early morning coffee in the sun outside their lake house in the Kootenay region of British Columbia when they heard noises coming from the bat box attached to the side of the house. Every summer, about 150 Yuma myotis bats return to the box,...
A US art installation that will let people control a paintballing robot in a mock art gallery has been condemned by the firm that made the robo-dog. Boston Dynamics criticised the project, calling it a "provocative use" of its quadruped robot, Spot. It warned that it the "spectacle" goes ahead,...
Edward Klump and Mike Lee, E&E News reporters Widespread furor over last week's Texas blackouts showed no sign of subsiding yesterday as five grid directors announced plans to resign and new questions emerged about the grid, skyrocketing electricity bills and gas flaring. Francis Chung/E&E News...
Adam Aton, E&E News reporter Progressive promises gave way to bipartisan compromises yesterday during Rep. Deb Haaland's confirmation hearing for Interior secretary. Francis Chung/E&E News The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will question New Mexico Democratic Rep. Deb Haaland...
Emma Dumain, E&E News reporter The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will question New Mexico Democratic Rep. Deb Haaland again this morning in her bid for Interior secretary. It may be her last chance to sway GOP lawmakers, some of whom were disappointed with her performance...
The Economist explains - How dangerous are aircraft-engine failures? | The Economist explains
Two dramatic engine breakdowns - in America and the Netherlands - cause concern THERE ARE few things as bone-chilling as the thought of an aircraft engine exploding in mid-flight, particularly if you happen to be in a seat close to the fast-flying debris. Such accidents are exceedingly rare. But...
The Intelligence - “This is really do-or-die for the Tokyo games” - Olympic-sized risks in Japan | Podcasts | The Economist
Also on the daily podcast: how Britain decarbonised so quickly and South Korea’s many noisy neighbours PLANNERS ARE in a corner. Delaying or cancelling the summer tournament looks like defeat; pressing ahead looks like a danger. We take a look at the sporting chances. Britain has decarbonised...
“The president has been clear to all of us - words matter, tone matters and civility matters,” said Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary. WASHINGTON - Days after President Biden took office, the Bureau of Land Management put a scenic landscape of a winding river at the top of its website,...
New York Times - Climate Section
Huffington Post
Justin Trudeau Makes Subtle 'Leadership’ Dig At Trump During Biden Call
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday held his first virtual bilateral meeting with President Joe Biden and dissed Donald Trump without even mentioning the ex-president’s name. Trudeau thanked Biden for last month reentering the U.S. into the Paris climate accords, saying “U.S....
PHYS.ORG - Earth
A new study has discovered that not all cockroaches are equal and "super athletes", with larger respiratory systems, are more likely to win physical mating battles. The research, published in the journal Animal Behavior and led by Dr. Sophie Mowles of Anglia Ruskin University (ARU), studied...
Tiger Woods Faces Tough Recovery From Leg Injuries Sustained In Car Crash
LOS ANGELES (AP) - In a career filled with remarkable comebacks, Tiger Woods faces his toughest recovery of all. Woods was driving through a sweeping, downhill stretch of road through coastal suburbs of Los Angeles when his SUV struck a sign, crossed over a raised median and two oncoming lanes...
Levies on flying, imports and other high-carbon services could raise £27bn a year by 2030, says Zero Carbon Campaign Taxing carbon dioxide emissions would be popular with voters, polling suggests, as the government moots ways to put a price on carbon that could help tackle the climate crisis and...
Guardian - Energy
Free market can be overruled if necessary to create post-Covid growth, ex-PM advises former rival Boris Johnson must be “muscular” in reshaping the economy to bring about a green recovery from the coronavirus crisis, former prime minister David Cameron has said, calling for an active policy of...
Over the past decade, Colombia has set increasingly ambitious renewable energy goals. In 2020 alone, the government pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 51 percent and install 4,000 megawatts of new, non-hydro, renewable electricity by 2030 - about 24 percent of the country’s projected...
