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A renewable energy boom
Some world leaders, especially in developing countries like India, have long said it’s hard to reduce the emissions that are warming the planet because they need to use relatively inexpensive – but highly carbon-intensive – fuels like coal to keep
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Climate change is a great challenge to development
Climate change poses an enormous challenge to development. By 2050, the world will have to feed 9 billion people, extend housing and services to 2 billion new urban residents, and provide universal access to affordable energy, and do so while
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Mission to Earth?
NASA monitors Earth’s vital signs via satellites and airplanes, sends scientists to the far corners of the land and under the ocean, and develops computer models of Earth’s climate processes. Why? Because Earth is the only planet that nearly eight
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Why it’s time to dispel the myths about nuclear power
This year marks the fifth anniversary of the Fukushima disaster, and the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl incident. Together, these constitute the two greatest nuclear accidents the world has ever seen. Even now, widespread confusion over these disasters still blights
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Solar is now cheaper than coal, says India energy minister
India is on track to soar past a goal to deploy more than 100 gigawatts of solar power by 2022, the country’s energy minister Piyush Goyal said. Speaking at the release of a 15-point action plan for the country’s renewable
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Leaders set landmark global goals for pricing carbon pollution
Six heads of state and government, two city and state leaders, and the heads of the World Bank Group, the International Monetary Fund and the Oecd April 21th agreed on an ambitious global target for putting a price on carbon
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Still Cleaning Up: 30 Years After the Chernobyl Disaster
This month marks the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. On April 26, 1986, technicians conducting a test inadvertently caused reactor number four to explode. Several hundred staff and firefighters then tackled a blaze that burned for 10 days
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List of Parties that have indicated their intentions to sign the Paris Agreement
The Paris Agreement will be open for signature by the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention today, 22 April, and will remain open for signature for one year. This list only contains information about States that will participate in
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It’s a record: 155 nations plan to sign Paris climate agreement today
What a way to celebrate Earth Day. A total of 155 nations, including the U.S. and China, are planning to sign the Paris Agreement on Climate Change today, April 22, which is the first day it will be open for
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The carbon cycle seen from space
Designed for Science On a Sphere, this video explains fast and slow carbon cycling on Earth. A banana is an example of fast, young carbon. A chunk of coal is an example of old, slow carbon. Carbon dioxide and vegetation
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