Nuclear Energy for Climate Germany is failing to meet its climate targets. Germany aims to be CO₂-neutral by 2050. It cannot meet its...

Standing forests sequester carbon, a crucial service to our planet threatened by climate change. Forests shelter wildlife. The...

“The fastest way to phase down fossil fuel use is via a steadily rising carbon fee collected from fossil fuel companies.“ James Hansen,...

In my graphic book Let’s Save the Planet, my young protagonists praise wind turbines, calling them “wind angels” and declaring, “We love...

La Bataille pour le Climate (The Battle for the Climate) by Myrto Tripathi Clear, well reasoned, factual but not excessive technical,...

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is part of the Gulf Stream, an ocean circulation system that carries warm water...

The 1994 Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) was designed to promote inter-governmental cooperation in the energy sector and to boost investment...

In mid February, a massive winter storm overwhelmed much of North America, knocking out power grids in the freezing weather. In Texas,...

Isabelle Boemeke is a 30-year-old Brazilian model living in California, interested in science, and worried about the climate (as we all...

“Oil has made and destroyed empires.” Oil, along with its sister fossil fuels coal and natural gas, has given us a heretofore...

The French pride themselves on being a rational people, with reason: didn’t they give the world a metric system which combines sizes,...

Is the Biden Plan for a Clean Energy Revolution Cause for optimism?

The French Law on Energy Transition for Green Growth (LTECV) stipulates that the share of nuclear in electricity generation, currently...

On June 30, 2020, Unit 2 of the Fessenheim Nuclear Power Plant in Alsace (eastern France) will be permanently shut down. Unit 1 was...

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is dispatching equipment to more than 40 countries to enable them to use a nuclear-derived...

NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using modified Copernicus Sentinel 5P data processed by the European Space Agency....

22 February 2020. This date marks the permanent closure of the first of two reactors at the nuclear power plant in Fessenheim, eastern...

Methane gas (CH4) may be produced in two ways. Thermogenic methane, the source of most natural gas reserves, is produced by the effects...

The German policy of Energiewende, the shift away from nuclear energy in favor of renewables, is failing the tests of climate, economy,...

Emissions trading systems enable countries to buy and trade credits from others that have reduced their GHG emissions. Countries that...