The Big Business of Burying Carbon
Applicants for EPA carbon-storage permits must persuade the agency that they can contain both the plume of injected carbon dioxide and a secondary plume of saltwater that the CO2 displaces…
Russia Should Pay for Its Environmental War Crimes
As Russian bombs and bullets have shattered buildings and ended lives, Ukrainian scientists have scrambled to catalog the war’s effects on the country’s natural biodiversity. Darting outside to check on…
Video Shows Tsunami-Like Clouds, Internet Calls It “Terrifying Yet Majestic”
The video has garnered more than 90,000 upvotes and over 2,200 comments.Nature is filled with a lot of surprising scenarios and one breathtaking visual of clouds captured in a video…
How to Make the Video Game Industry Greener
“How many more warnings do we need? The science is clear, it’s unequivocal.” Author and researcher Ben Abraham is pissed. We’re speaking in April, a few days after the IPCC…
A Pandemic Tragedy on Brazil’s Lago Verde
“Alter do Chão has a history of being a matriarchal village,” Neca explains. “If you did a survey here, you’d see that 70 percent of households are run by women.”…
‘Thinkwashing’ Keeps People From Taking Action in Times of Crisis
These make for some serious shortcomings to this imagined techno-utopia. But that doesn’t make these direct-air carbon capture efforts entirely useless. While these machines cannot decarbonize on our behalf, they…
How to Embrace Despair in the Age of Climate Change
Via the digital channels of Extinction Rebellion LA, Charlie came across an article I published arguing that activism wasn’t always the answer to eco-anxiety and eco-grief. Afterward, Charlie reached out…
With the Clock Running Out, Humans Need to Rethink Time Itself
Another day, another deadline: To limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, greenhouse gas emissions must peak “at the latest before 2025,” according to the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on…
‘Vampire Energy’ Is Sucking the Life Out of Our Planet
Priya Vijayakumar, CEO of WattIQ and an expert in unmanaged energy, explains that at the industrial level, 21 percent of all electricity consumed by buildings is wasted. “There’s all this…
The Deadly Cyclone That Changed the Course of the Cold War
Frustrated, Frank got back in the Vauxhall to get to his next meeting. The car inched with the traffic past walls full of political slogans splashed in red paint in…