Growing demand for cleaner energy sources means offshore wind farms are being built all over the world. More than 5,000 turbines must be installed each year until 2050 to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit). But in certain regions, like California, it is difficult to build ... read more

Imagine if governments were to simply transfer money, unconditionally, to people living in or using key conservation areas throughout the world, from Indigenous people in the Amazon rainforest to cattle herders roaming the plains of East Africa or fisherfolk living in coastal Indonesia. This is the conservation basic income, or ... read more

Millions of Americans will find themselves in Memorial Day traffic this weekend, inching toward an elusive beach or barbecue. Others will spend hours at the airport, navigating long lines and flight delays. In much of the country, the only ways to manage a weekend getaway is by car or by ... read more

AI chatbots and image generators run on thousands of computers housed in data centers like this Google facility in Oregon. Tony Webster/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA Generative AI is the hot new technology behind chatbots and image generators. But how hot is it making the planet? As an AI researcher, I often ... read more

This article originally appeared in Nexus Media News and Ambrook Research. For years, Paul Danbom let good fertilizer go to waste. On his 900-head dairy farm in Turlock, California, he was buying fertilizer for his distant cornfields. Meanwhile, he was paying to dispose of millions of gallons of perfectly good ... read more

If you want to recycle a plastic bottle or styrofoam container, you might turn it over to see the triangular recycling symbol on the bottom. But while that may tell you what kind of plastic it’s made of, it doesn’t really tell you what you can recycle at your curb. ... read more

Over the past year and a half, we’ve seen corporations across the globe— including the nations in which they operate—lose sight of previous climate goals. For example, in 2021, coal-fired energy rose by 8%, largely driven by countries trying to rebuild their economies in the aftermath of the pandemic and ... read more

Egyptian workers push Coca-Cola branded refrigerators, provided free to grocers, through a Cairo street. Mohammed Al-Sehiti/AFP via Getty Images Coca-Cola is one of the world’s most widely recognized brands. Its global reach, spanning more than 200 countries, was the theme of a 2020 commercial that showed families drinking Coke with ... read more

If you wait for the bus in Los Angeles on a hot day, there’s a good chance that you’ll be standing in the sun: The majority of the city’s 8,000 bus stops don’t have shelters or even shade from a tree. As the planet heats up and extreme heat becomes ... read more

MIAMI — After months of “will he or won’t he” deliberation, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis virtually announced his candidacy for president today. The disastrous Twitter event coincided with a fundraiser at the Four Seasons in the bustling Brickell neighborhood of Miami. Though the doors of the extravagant hotel were blocked ... read more

The town of Eagle Mountain, California, ceased to exist in 1983. Located near Joshua Tree National Park, it had long served as a company town for a mining company called Kaiser Steel, where it was home to 4,000 mine workers and their families. But when the mine shut down, the ... read more

Honolulu has lost more than 5 miles of its famous beaches to sea level rise and storm surges. Sunny-day flooding during high tides makes many city roads impassable, and water mains for the public drinking water system are corroding from saltwater because of sea level rise. The damage has left ... read more

Washington State Governor Jay Inslee is known for his never-ending fight for climate action. The state will run on 100% clean electricity by 2045. It’s phasing out new sales of gas and diesel cars and trucks by 2035. A cap-and-invest bill puts a limit on emissions and makes big polluters ... read more

Unless countries intensify their commitments to climate action, a new study argues that Earth is heading toward temperatures that could lock a staggering one-third of the planet’s population in extreme heat before the end of the century. Average global temperatures have already climbed 1.2 degrees Celsius (2.2 degrees Fahrenheit) since the Industrial Revolution, ... read more

If you type your address into a new online tool, it will tell you the estimated carbon footprint of your house or apartment building—including both the emissions from construction and the energy used to run it. “Forty percent of greenhouse gases come from buildings, and we kept talking to people ... read more