LIGHTYEAR ONE
It’s the world’s first solar charged car with a solar roof and hood. Always charging while in the sun, its[…]
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Author: Gail McCormick
Gail McCormick has been a leader in climate change activism for over 40 years. Her relevant award-winning art has been shown in museums, university galleries, and at the landmark UN Rio Conference. As a board member of HealthLink, she helped eradicate antiquated Massachusetts coal power plants and has been chair of Sustainable Arlington, MA. She has a Master’s degree from Columbia University. Follow her on Twitter @GailMcCormick20.
NIXING NEPA
Major revisions to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) statute could shrink the scope and timeline of environmental review. Under[…]
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SILICON SOLAR CELLS
Researchers have overcome a key obstacle in combining the emerging solar-harvesting technology of perovskites with silicon solar cells. The result[…]
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CORONAVIRUS AND CLIMATE CHAOS
COVID-19 has already disrupted crucial negotiations ahead of a November conference in Glasgow that could determine the Paris Agreement’s success[…]
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SOLAR SHEEP
With more than 2 million existing solar installations, the U.S. photovoltaic capacity could more than double over the next five[…]
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FROM SINK TO SOURCE
The world’s tropical forests are rapidly losing their ability to absorb carbon dioxide from greenhouse gas emissions. This decrease is[…]
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WASTE NOT, WANT NOT
It’s estimated that if food waste was a country, it would be the third largest emitter of greenhouse gases after[…]
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PLASTIC POLLUTION
Plastics’ consumption of oil may outpace that of cars by 2050. The production process consumes fossil fuels to make plastics[…]
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BLAST FURNACE
Heat is generated by injecting pure oxygen into a furnace. It reacts with the carbon emanating from rotting garbage in[…]
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EMBEDDED DENIAL
An Interior Department official’s efforts have led to insertion of misleading language about climate change that appears in at least[…]
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