Has the phrase “reduce, reuse, recycle” grabbed your attention? The concept of recycling seems to be at the heart of every conversation around climate action. But a lot of misconceptions hover around the recycling process, which may lead you to believe you’re making a bigger positive impact on the environment than you truly are. Here, […]
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Music Fans Want to Hear from Artists About Climate Change
You may not realize it, but Taylor Swift is the best thing to happen to voter rolls since Donald Trump. In September, after she encouraged her Instagram followers to participate in National Voter Registration Day, Vote.org saw its biggest spike in years, as thousands of Swifties became soon-to-be voters. “I’ve heard you raise your voices,” […]
Read MoreEnergy Efficiency is Making Headway at COP28 Climate Conference
Home Articles Energy Efficiency is Making Headway at COP28 Climate Conference climate tech Doubling the annual pace of energy efficiency progress would achieve half of the emissions reductions needed by 2030. December 12, 2023 This article was originally published by Grist and is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of […]
Read MoreDiverse Forests Store More Carbon Than Monocultures
It pays to mix it up—planted forests containing more than one tree species can store several times as much carbon as monocultures, as shown in a meta-analysis published in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. Researchers have long known that biodiversity increases forest productivity, but the effects demonstrated in the recent publication are “quite striking […]
Read MoreHopeless COP28 is Most Hopeful Climate Summit in Years
Credit: DimaBerlin/Shutterstock Faith in UN climate conferences is at a new low. If we wanted a final straw, the appalling and yet somehow unsurprising revelation that the United Arab Emirates had planned to use its position as host of the latest annual gathering, known as COP28, as a platform for making new oil deals should […]
Read MoreKatharine Hayhoe Teaches Climate Science From the Heart
“If new information came out on dark matter in the universe, scientists could publish it, and most people in the general public—if they even heard about it—would say ‘sure, that’s OK, I agree,’” she said. “But if new information came out on climate change, which for 15 years now has been the most politically polarized […]
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