By Sue Landau Ever since negotiators clinched a global climate agreement in Paris late last year, the nuclear power industry has been vaunting its virtues as a low-carbon electricity source and alternative to fossil fuels threatening our planet. Now, energy experts...
By Nelson Graves Are you depressed by doomsday forecasts that see our planet and species hurtling irreversibly towards disaster? A French documentary to be featured soon in movie theaters around the world offers an antidote. “Demain” (Tomorrow) tackles...
By Sue Landau With the ink barely dry on a global accord to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, the price of oil has resumed its staggering slump. What does this mean for efforts to wean our civilization off fossil fuels and move to renewable, sustainable energy...
By Celia Bottger The end of 2015 saw a successful conclusion to the Paris Climate Change Conference. Six weeks later, clouds are already on the horizon. Nearly 200 countries sketched a path in Paris towards global carbon reductions, offering a glimmer of hope that the...
The Paris climate change talks sent a signal a carbon-free future is within reach. Now, everything can start to change. Here are some solutions. Paris Smart City 2050, copyright Vincent Callebaut Architectures The great success of the Paris climate change talks was...
By Sue Landau It was a diplomatic triumph. After two decades of fraught negotiations, 195 nations have backed a pact tackling climate change despite different interests, abilities and responsibilities. The Paris agreement is both inspiring for pulling out an accord...
As global negotiators hammer out an unprecedented climate accord in Paris, most Americans don’t believe climate change is a very serious problem. (Flickr/Russell Darling) Severe storms. Extreme precipitation. Melting ice caps. Rising sea levels. Health problems....
By Charlotte Crang If you wander by the Panthéon mausoleum in Paris this week, you will hear the bustle of children at play, giggling teens and the chatter of camera-happy tourists. It’s lovely, until you consider that they are gathered around what was...
Climate negotiators will likely come up with a landmark deal to curb carbon emissions. But it will be just a start — the end of the beginning. A visitor at the Paris climate talks, 1 December 2015 (EPA/Guillaume Horcajuelo) Climate negotiators nearing the middle...
By Nelson Graves A climate conference in Paris could mark a turning point in the fight against global warming even if countries do not commit themselves yet to adequate cuts in carbon emissions, France’s special envoy to the talks said. “Paris marks an...