idhima Pandey was just nine years old in 2017 when she filed a lawsuit against the Indian government for failing to take action against climate change. Pandey’s fierce, astounding passion for the…
Manmade sea walls and the effects of climate change eating away at Stockton beach, and locals are rallying to save it.
Noel Burns started work on Stockton beach as a council lifeguard in 1971 and…
Sanitary products litter Europe’s beaches, and 200,000 tonnes a year end up in UK landfill. Meet the people fighting for ‘environmenstrual’ alternatives.
Ella Daish has lost count of how many tampon…
A conservation group plans to buy the largest privately owned sequoia grove as the climate crisis threatens the species’ future.
Few living beings have experienced as much as the giant sequoias.…
On September 23, the United Nations opened its Climate Action Summit here in New York, three days after the Global Climate Strike, led by Greta Thunberg, swept through thousands of cities worldwide.
Almost 400 all-time high temperatures were set in the northern hemisphere over the summer, according to an analysis of temperature records.
The records were broken in 29 countries for the period…
Women may be underrepresented in clean energy careers in general, but there is no shortage of Yale women alumni working in renewable energy. Credit the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental…
Experts in energy and environmental fields weigh in on the need for an urgent transition to alternative energy.
As energy demand rises around the globe, so does concern about climate change. The…
The Climate Crisis is very much in the news now. This is a global problem, but some of the solutions are happening at a local or regional level.
Craig Lewis of the Clean Coalition gave a spirited…
After economic theorist Jeremy Rifkin predicted the rise of The Hydrogen Economy 17 years ago, history failed to cooperate with him. The US, then hooked on foreign oil and destined to run out of its…
Energy efficiency is the most cost-effective and comprehensive solution to solving the climate crisis–and it can help improve our health, cut energy bills, and address equity challenges. But some…
Renewable energy sources including hydropower are set to account for 49 percent of the world’s electricity generation by 2050, up from 28 percent in 2018, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (…
There are 1.85 billion, billion tonnes of carbon on Earth, with more than 99% of it resident beneath our feet.
Scientists from the Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO) project have spent 10 years assessing…
A 19-year-old South African student has created her own brand of edible, biodegradable straws. Leila Siljeur, a chemical engineering student of Stellenbosch University, developed Eat Me Straws as a…