Photo credit: Johan Viirok via Flickr. By Anders Lorenzen While China has now overtaken the US as the world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitter, the per capita emissions in the US are […]
Photo credit: Deepwater Wind. By Anders Lorenzen Wind farms at sea, popularly referred to as offshore wind, is something that so far has been confined to European waters. But now construction begins […]
National Geographic updated its atlas due to significant Arctic sea ice loss since 1999, reflecting major environmental changes.
By Michael Brune For anyone who cares about stopping climate disruption, last week’s Clean Power Plan announcement is a big deal. Most of the news we read and watch about climate change […]
Rousseff and Obama. Photo credit: Reuters / Kevin Lamarque. By Anders Lorenzen US President Barack Obama has been busy in the past year. After forging legally binding CO2 regulations at home, on […]
The Shell oil rig the Polar Pioneer is heading to the Arctic via Seattle. Photo credit: Coast Guard News via Flickr. By Anders Lorenzen Environmentalists are saying that Obama’s hypocrisy on climate […]
US coal producers who bet on rising Asian demand struggle to justify new export terminals as China’s coal consumption slows. Photo credit: CoalSwarm. By Sabine Muscat Slowing economic growth and tougher environmental […]
Jim Inhofe uses a snowball to disprove global warming. Photo credit: YouTube. By Anders Lorenzen A US Republican Senator last month controversially used a snowball to try to prove that global warming […]
Photo credit: Sten Dueland via Flickr. By Anders Lorenzen I recently wrote how renewables have had a record year in 2014. Investments in renewable energy sources have increased by an impressive 16% […]
Photo credit: International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) This week policy makers have begun two weeks of marathon COP20 climate negotiations in Lima, Peru. This will probably be the most important, least […]
A greener life, a greener world 