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Great Green Wall Project

Transforming desert into productive land.

Carbon stocks tougher than we thought

Where does carbon go when carbon goes out? More than we thought ends up in non-living material ... a persistent form of storage.

Hydrogen Economy - hype or hope?

Flooding

With climate-adaptive approaches to flood management and wetland conservation, every dollar spent yields many dollars back in flood damage reduction.

Fire Spotting

A constellation of fire satellites will be a fabulous tool to protect us all.

The great COVID-tech tick exploit

Hackers and gamers don't need to read the rest of this article because the headline says it all. Everybody else, keep reading. An "exploit" is a weakness, flaw, or hidden characteristic in a system that can be applied in unexpected — and often transformative — ways. It'

Hey, we're just following (customer) orders

Is 2025 the year "Pumpenfreude" becomes a thing?

EV range anxiety may never end ... in the same way that you've always worried about finding a late-night petrol station when you need one.

More than enough materials for green power

Hang on to your hat. You're going to be surprised by this.

Fire insurance

Economic Perspective

Clean energy and GDP: 2nd inning

2024 looks to set another record for clean and green technologies globally.

Climate Politics

An excess of unworthy events becomes worthy of commentary.

Clean and green: the new normal

Economic Perspective

Clean and green: the new normal

The energy arc of the world swings towards clean.

Gigawatts more offshore wind: coming in 2025

Gigawatts more offshore wind: coming in 2025

This will blow the doors off your DeLorean.

A family watches an obviously-dangerous monster crawling towards them, but they are not worried. The monster is slow.

Slow Apocalypse

Why is humanity moving so slowly to respond to climate change?

A fat tabby cat looks onto a field filled with solar panels and wind turbines.

Just ... maybe

Global renewable energy capacity continues to rise quickly.

Down under levels up with top-down panel

Down under levels up with top-down panel

Australia gets in on the new approach.

A hump of grass, giving off gas.

Gassy knolls: Automation finds the 10 worst methane hotspots

A methane-hotspot tool uses satellite data to find problem regions. We need this tool — and others like it — to stop climate change.

Want impressive greenhouse gas reductions in an urban area? Get rid of the cars.

Paris in the (low-carbon) spring

Have you ever been to Paris? It has been, in the past, a city known for crazy, fast-moving traffic. This was observably, objectively true. All you had to do was stand to watch the Arc de Triomphe (from a safe distance). Witness the unpredictable, circling cars: drunken pirañas circling a

Methane leaks: It's the little ones that'll get us in the end

Methane leaks: It's the little ones that'll get us in the end

Worker in a hardhat and coveralls, using a laptop while sitting in front of a petroleum plant.

Methane mitigation jobs

Jobs are transforming to meet demands of the changing energy markets.

Climate consequences: Fire

Climate consequences: Fire

DIY: Explore Sentinel-5P's methane data

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DIY: Explore Sentinel-5P's methane data

Ever hear of the Sunset fire in LA? Nope? That's because it never had a chance.

Sunset

Sometime the best news of the day is what you don't hear.

Intense debate

Intensity measurements have a particular use, but we shouldn't rely on them as barometers of progress.