19 March 2018
NewsletterGlobal energy giants forced to adapt to rise of renewables
Companies face world where falling cost of solar and wind power pushes down prices.
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Companies face world where falling cost of solar and wind power pushes down prices.
The Trump administration has promised vast changes to U.S. science and environmental policy - and we're tracking them here as they happen.
Underwater sea walls and artificial islands among projects urgently required to avoid devastation of global flooding, say scientists.
A difference of just half a degree of global warming, from 1.5 to 2 degrees Celsius, would mean that an additional 5 million people worldwide will have the land where their homes are located be permanently submerged underwater, according to a new study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters.
Public data from a network of state air monitors around the Houston Ship Channel is hard to interpret and is often inadequate, leaving Latino-majority neighborhoods like Cloverleaf unaware of whether the air they breathe is safe.
Los datos públicos de una red de monitores estatales del aire alrededor del Canal de Navegación de Houston son difíciles de interpretar y a menudo son insuficientes, dejando a vecindarios de mayoría latina, como Cloverleaf, sin saber si el aire que respiran es seguro.
“It’s a win and a step forward.”
“The number of stress-activated health conditions people reported was quite staggering."
The controversial practice looms large in state environmental laws, federal regulation and global plastic treaty negotiations.
While industry claims it could be part of a circular plastics economy, experts say that chemical recycling is extremely damaging to the environment and provides no real benefits.