To make meaningful progress on climate change, cows and wheat fields will have to become radically more efficient.
Tag: Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Playing Host to Climate Conference, Poland Promotes Coal
As delegates to a United Nations climate conference discussed ways to tackle global warming, Poland made clear that it will not give up on coal anytime soon.
Brazil Backs Out of Hosting 2019 Climate Change Meeting
Brazil was an influential player in efforts to tame climate warming and mitigate its effects. It is now moving in the opposite direction.
Macron Has a Long-Term Vision. But the French Have Urgent Needs.
Ordinary people say President Emmanuel Macron “seems to be deaf” to their daily struggles, speechifying about the fate of the planet while overlooking their pain. They are now demanding he listen.
The World Needs to Quit Coal. Why Is It So Hard?
Coal, the most polluting of energy sources, shows no sign of disappearing three years after the Paris agreement, when world leaders promised decisive action against global warming.
Feature: Palm Oil Was Supposed to Help Save the Planet. Instead It Unleashed a Catastrophe.
A decade ago, the U.S. mandated the use of vegetable oil in biofuels, leading to industrial-scale deforestation — and a huge spike in carbon emissions.
11 Things We’d Really Like to Know: Will We Survive Climate Change?
Possibly. There is ‘no scientific support for inevitable doom,’ one expert notes.
‘Like a Terror Movie’: How Climate Change Will Cause More Simultaneous Disasters
By the end of this century, some parts of the world could face as many as six climate-related crises at the same time, researchers have concluded.