A recent review of the US energy sector has discovered that despite the past decade’s oil and gas boom, the green economy employed 10 times as many people as the fossil fuel industry, and was worth $1.3 trillion, or about 7 per cent of US GDP. Lucien Georgeson and Markread more
One of the more prevalent dangers posed by the accelerated warming of the Arctic is the release of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, from thawing permafrost. A team of Russian scientists from the Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) have reported discovering at least two powerful methane plumes rising from the floorread more
A comprehensive new report released by the UN is warning that the world’s oceans are in danger, currently facing a scourge of unnatural warming, rising, acidifying, and deoxygenating. Covering over 361 million square kilometers (139 million square miles), the oceans sprawl over 71 percent of the Earth’s surface, and itsread more
Unprecedented flooding has again struck Texas in the Houston-Beaumont region. At least 2 people have died as up to 48 inches of rain have fallen in some areas. Meanwhile, the National Hurricane Center is tracking 11 tropical storms worldwide and young people, led by Sweden’s Greta Thunberg, are protesting climateread more