Carbon Dioxide Concentrations in Atmosphere Hit Record High
Greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere have reached a record high, new figures have shown. According to the World Meteorological Organization's (WMO) Gas Bulletin, average concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere reached 407.8 parts per million in
Australia’s catastrophic bushfires should be an inflection point
There are not many political messages that can slip through a closed window or a locked door, but that’s just what happened last week in Australia’s biggest city. Climate change didn’t just come knocking; it slithered in under every
Lib Dems unveil manifesto, pledging to remove barriers to solar
The Liberal Democrats party has released its manifesto for the upcoming general election, promising to ramp up support for renewables. Under a Lib Dem leadership, community and decentralised energy would be expanded, with a requirement for all new homes
Who won the general election climate debate?
Corbyn and Berry best informed on issues as leaders battled to top each others’ commitments With Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage refusing to take part, Channel 4’s climate debate was a pretty straightforward affair, with the leaders of the
It’s the End of the World as They Know It
On election night 2016, Kim Cobb, a professor at the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Tech, was on Christmas Island, the world’s largest ring-shaped coral reef atoll, about 1,300 miles south of Hawaii. A climate scientist,
OPINION: Solar and battery storage: A clean solution to a dirty problem
You can hear—and smell—them everywhere you go in the world’s poorest countries. Diesel-burning back-up generators wail through neighborhoods at all hours, cough noxious pollutants into the air, and account for a disproportionate amount of consumers’ spending on electricity. For
Extinction Rebellion begin hunger strike outside Tory and Labour offices demanding urgent climate change action
Demonstrators call on government to back ‘three demands bill’ amid international fast Extinction Rebellion protesters have begun a hunger strike outside the Conservative and Labour parties’ headquarters to demand urgent action on climate change. Over 200 demonstrators in the
Apocalypse Got You Down? Maybe This Will Help
Searching for a cure for my climate crisis grief. One day early this fall, 19 people gathered in a small event space in Red Hook, Brooklyn, and sat in a circle. They included an immigration lawyer, a therapist, an
Powering the investment case for battery storage
The U.K. government was the first major economy in the world to pass laws to end its contribution to global warming by 2050. But to achieve this ambition is going to take some major changes – not least of