Category Archives: Global warming

Resource Nationalism on Rise in Latin America, As Fever for “White Gold,” aka Lithium, Grips the World

Countries in the region are taking greater control of the revenues generated by the minerals and hydrocarbons produced within their borders, in particular when it comes to lithium.

Ocean Summit Launches Today in France

The Ocean Summit launches today in France, a long overdue effort to grapple with marine regulatory issues, including climate change and plastics pollution.

Right to Repair: Massachusetts Auto Measure Stalls

Automakers have mounted a legal challenge to Massachusetts auto telematics right to repair statute. Will the Biden administration and the FTC seek to apply data rules and tools to vehicle telematics data?

The Great Amazon Land Grab – How Brazil’s Government Is Turning Public Land Private, Clearing the Way for Deforestation

At the U.N. climate summit in 2021, 141 countries – including Brazil – signed a pledge to end deforestation by 2030. Yet land grabs continue to place the Amazon ecosystem at risk.

What Does Climate Change Have to do with Snowstorms?

An easy-to-present example of how climate change affects weather.

Nuclear Power Is Clean, Safe and Cheap. We Need It to Stop Global Heating

Climate activist: The arguments made against nuclear power today are the same as I was making a decade ago, and I was wrong.

McKinsey: Net-Zero By 2050 Needs $9.2 Trillion Annual Investment

McKinsey gives a not surprisingly big estimate for the cost of energy transition. But it’s unlikely to have considered radical conservation.

EU Scientists and Politicians Clash Over Gas and Nuclear as ‘Sustainable’ Investments

Not surprisingly, it’s easier to move goalposts and designate gas and nuclear power as sustainable than get serious about cutting consumption

The Era of Cheap Renewables Grinds To A Halt

Long-discussed concerns about environmental costs and overall supplies of critical inputs to renewables are finally starting to materialize.

Bangladesh-Based Group Promotes Plans to Resettle Climate Refugees

Where will climate refugees go? Bangladesh-based group promotes a ten-year resttlement program

Nothing Fundamental Has Changed: Biden Administration Greenlights More Fossil Fuel Drilling Permits in 2021 for Public Lands and Waters than Did Trump in 2017

A coalition of climate groups calls on the Biden administration to use existing statutory authority as a basis for executive action to phase out fossil fuel extraction on public lands.

Beavers Offer Lessons About Managing Water in a Changing Climate, Whether the Challenge Is Drought or Floods

Beavers, nature’s engineers, seem able to dam any stream, building structures with logs and mud that can flood large areas, thus restoring ecosystems and mitigating the effects of climate change.

Africa Faces an Uphill Battle Against Western Emissions to Combat Climate Change

African nations are disproportionately vulnerable to climate change, even though .the continent accounts for the smallest share of global greenhouse gas emissions – 3.8%.

U.S. Interior Department Moves to Block Some Oil and Gas Leasing on Alaska’s North Slope

Interior Department restricts oil and gas development in Alaska’s National Petroleum Researve.

Warmest U.S. December in History Caps a Stormy, Mostly-Sizzling Year

The year 2021 produced 20 billion-dollar disasters, the second highest number going back to 1980, according to the NOAA.