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We Only Have One Earth
How Chemical Engineers Are Saving the Environment
Climate change is poised to become one of the major issues of the 21st century. Already, human beings…
Drive Sustainable Growth with Practical and Effective Climate Change Solutions
In 2019, carbon dioxide levels and greenhouse gases rose to new records, making it the second warmest year…
Blockchain can help us beat climate change. Here’s how
Smart contracts running on blockchains can unlock new ways to fight climate change and to cope with its…
Almost All The World’s Glaciers Are Shrinking-And Fast
A new study shows just how fast glaciers have lost thickness and mass over the past two decades.…
Earth Day 2021 Is Set to Galvanize Climate Action
Earth Day, celebrated annually on 22 April, will again see more than 1 billion people participating in activities…
Eurasia Group Publishes Top Risks For 2021
As we begin 2021, the United States is the most powerful, politically divided, and economically unequal of the…
They Can Capture More Carbon Than They Emit. So Why Aren’t Wooden Buildings Mainstream?
There are various ways to store excess carbon dioxide. ‘One way is to have it hidden in buildings,’…
These Are The World’s Greatest Threats In 2021
The Global Risks Report 2021 is the 16th edition of the Forum’s annual analysis and looks back at a…
Climate-Friendly Transportation In U.S. Cities
A new index on carbon-friendly transportation shows which U.S. cities are leading the fight on reducing emissions and fostering clean…
Facts About Climate Change You Need To Be Aware Of
The climate is changing, and how knowledgeable are you about it? We see the global temperature rise, warming…
5 Great Transportation Methods For The Environment
Every credible environmental scientist agrees now that climate change is taking place. The polar ice caps are melting,…
States Moving Toward Clean Energy
The U.S. officially removed themselves from the Paris Agreement on Nov. 4, an international coalition aimed at strengthening the global…
2020 Was Supposed To Be The ‘Super Year For Nature.’ What Now?
A pandemic has slowed the pace of life. It has not, however, slowed climate breakdown. Before COVID-19 appeared…
7 Expert Perspectives On What COVID-19 Means For The Planet
Experts agree that the legacy of the COVID-19 pandemic will be with us for years, even after the…
How Cities Can Combat The Dangerous Combination Of Extreme Heat And COVID
Labor Day Weekend usually signals the end of summer, but this year, it seems like the record heat…
The Geopolitics Of A Changing Arctic
The Arctic is experiencing drastic changes. Along with these changes are greater challenges to face. The Arctic region…
Earth Day 50: An Earth Day Unlike Any Other
This year, Earth Day leads the call for greater action in tackling the climate crisis. April 22 marks…
Reshaping Climate Action In A Post-Pandemic World
The COVID-19 pandemic teaches valuable lessons on how to better act on the climate crisis. For the first…
How Coronavirus Puts Climate Activism In Quarantine
These days, all the focus is on the Coronavirus, which is justified. But in the meantime, climate activism…
4 Facts Of Plastic Water Bottles And The Impact To Climate Change In 2020
The dangers of climate change are very real. They are already being felt in certain parts of the…
Human Security: Climate Change And Human Rights
Write My Paper Hub provided this professional essay sample on human rights and climate change. It is one…
To Achieve Net-Zero Carbon Cities And Buildings We Need Systemic Efficiency
We cannot solve climate change without transforming our cities and buildings. This requires massive efforts from the private…
The World’s Top Cities Face Stiff Competition, Here’s Why
As concerns about geopolitics, demographics and climate change rise and technological advances redefine established city hierarchies, the attention…
These Are The 5 Major Risks That Will Impact 2020 On A Global Scale
According to the World Economic Forum (WEF) in the latest edition of The Global Risks Report 2020 these…
How Volcanoes Influence Climate And How Their Emissions Compare To What We Produce
Everyone is going on about reducing our carbon footprint, zero emissions, planting sustainable crops for biodiesel etc. Is…
Bushfires: Can Ecosystems Recover From Such Dramatic Losses Of Biodiversity?
The sheer scale and intensity of the Australian bushfire crisis have led to apocalyptic scenes making the front…
The Brazilian Amazon Was In Flames, And Now Australia. But What Do Their Governments Have To Do With It?
Australia is witnessing the worst forest fires of its modern history, provoked by months of droughts and record…
The Beginning And The End Of Wildfires
Wildfires, forest fires, bush fires, or grass fires —all of these simply refer to uncontrolled fires that wipe…
Australian Bushfires: In Fact, There’s Plenty We Can Do To Make Future Fires Less Likely
One of the dominant ideas buzzing around the internet is that there’s little we can do to escape…
Australia’s Bushfires Are A Wake-Up Call: We Must Build A More Humane Economy Before It’s Too Late
Economists used to admire scientists. Now they ignore them at our peril. Back in the 1800s, scholars in…
5 Lessons On How To Save Our Relationship With Nature In 2020
Our relationship with the natural world is broken. A million species are threatened with extinction. We can fix…
The Paralyzing Link Between Climate Change And Land Use
A recently released International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) special report reveals that an estimate of 23% of…
The Madrid Climate Talks Failed Spectacularly. Here’s What Went Down
The United Nations’ COP25 climate talks concluded on Sunday morning in Madrid, almost 40 hours overtime. After two…
The Squaring Truth About Circular Economies
The concept of a circular economy has been steadily gaining momentum as of recent years. While on the…
A Vision For A Sustainable Battery Value Chain In 2030
The development of the battery value chain is of great interest since it has significant economic value and…
Climate Emergency: Dropping The Pretense
Extreme weather had displaced roughly 20 million people each year over the past decade. This is according to…
The Global Disparity in Carbon Footprints
Global carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) rose in 2o18, after four years of successive stability. This is what was…
How We Can Recycle More Buildings
More than 35 billion tonnes of non-metallic minerals are extracted from the Earth every year. These materials mainly…
The Five Corrupt Pillars Of Climate Change Denial
The fossil fuel industry, political lobbyists, media moguls and individuals have spent the past 30 years sowing doubt…
State Of The Earth 2019: Red Alert
The State of the Earth is not an annual message that we look forward to. The report published…
12 Simple Ways You Can Reduce Bushfire Risk To Older Homes
Seventy-five years of Australian research into how houses respond to bushfire has identified 21 main weak points in…
Environmental Stress Is Already Causing Death – This Chaos Map Shows Where
Over 12 days at the start of October 2019 eight people were killed, more than 1,300 injured and…
Climate Change, Pandemics, Biodiversity Loss: No Country Is Sufficiently Prepared
There’s little that the left and the right agree on these days. But surely one thing is beyond…
As The Climate Changes, Architects And Engineers Need To Design Buildings Differently
In the past seven years, four major disasters have caused serious disruptions in the Northeast and Midwest United…
Countries with the Biggest Decrease in Carbon Emissions
In the global effort to reduce our carbon emissions, which countries are on the lead? Here’s the top…
The Biggest Threat To Our Oceans Is That We’ve Taken Them For Granted
‘Most of the people on the planet … think the ocean is a problem for them. They fear…
The Future Of Urban Consumption In A 1.5°C World
In order to maintain a climate-safe future, the world needs to stay within the established greenhouse gas (GHG)…
We Can’t Save The Planet Unless We Fix Our Destructive Throwaway Economy
Extending the lifetime of all washing machines, notebooks, vacuum cleaners and smartphones in the EU by just one…
Five Things Every Government Needs To Do Right Now To Tackle The Climate Emergency
If targets were enough to beat the climate crisis, we would have cause for celebration. The UK, Norway,…
Not convinced on the need for urgent climate action? Here’s what happens to our planet between 1.5°C and 2°C of global warming
Many numbers are bandied around in climate emergency discussions. Of them, 1.5°C is perhaps the most important. At…