By Laura Brothers Our planet is currently losing over 15 billion trees every year. There are multiple factors contributing to this changing landscape including large and small scale architecture, logging and cattle […]
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Environmental blog with a focus on climate change.
Three energy projects highlighted among the riskiest and most controversial projects in the world
The Angra 3 Nuclear Reactor. Photo credit: Rodrigo Soldon via Flickr. By Anders Lorenzen In the recently published “2015’s Most Controversial Projects Report”, three energy projects were highlighted as some of the […]
Video interview: the anti tar sands movement, Fort McMurray fire and climate change
The tar sands in Fort McMurray, Alberta. Photo credit: Kris Krug via Flickr. By Anders Lorenzen With the recent devastating Fort McMurray forest fires, the controversy surrounding the tar sands industry has been […]
‘Brexit’ would foul up EU climate policy
UK Prime Minister, David Cameron with the President of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz. Photo credit: European Parliament via Flickr. By Lewis Crofts, Chief Correspondent at Mlex A UK exit from the […]
Opinion: The problem of negative energy prices for clean energy
A german wind farm. Photo credit: Zero2Cool_DE via Flickr. By Anders Lorenzen In recent weeks, environmentalists, green groups, and pro-clean-energy fans have lauded a unique fact. Because of high clean-energy generation, the […]
Australia’s government goes after climate science
Bushfires are just one of many climate impacts which are set to increase in Australia. Photo credit: CSIRO. By Anders Lorenzen They have already abolished Australia’s carbon tax, launched a severe […]
Video comment: Fort McMurray’s 80,000 climate refugees
Photo credit: Chris Schwarz / Government of Alberta / Handout via Reuters. By Paul Beckwith Fort McMurray was incinerated in a wildfire creating 80,000 climate refugees overnight. As tragic as this fire […]
Climate induced wildfires turned out of control in tar sands heartland – video
Aerial image of the Fort McMurray wildfires. Photo credit: Nasa’s Marshall Space Flight Center via Flickr. By Anders Lorenzen The devastating wildfires in Canada`s tar sands heartland, Fort McMurray, Alberta, did according to local […]
Analysis: What will the impact of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change be for the motor industry?
Photo credit: Michael Loke via Flickr. By Anders Lorenzen Last year, world leaders representing all 195 UN member countries agreed upon a world first global deal to combat our climate crisis; the […]
Rising water and rapidly disappearing coastline: America’s first official climate refugees
Isle de Jean Charles. Source: Wikimedia. By Malee Oot Southern Louisiana is disappearing fast. In the last century, the state has lost more than 1,900 square miles of coast – an area […]
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