Archive for 2019
Canada leads the way in banning all shark fins
Tens of millions of sharks, large and small, are slaughtered each year for their fins.
Extreme heat is gripping Europe in a foretaste of climate change
"The south of France is going to become tropical," says Freddy Cerda, mayor of Gallargues-le-Montueux.
Study: We’ll need to assess short-term climate effects better
We need more research on near-term impacts of climate change, a new paper in WIRE’s Climate Change suggests.
Terawatt-scale solar ‘will reshape the global energy market’
Solar energy could upend the global energy market and become a key energy source of the future.
Arctic port development raises questions of sustainability
The Arctic has been largely inaccessible for commercial shipping and resource exploitation, but with the ice-shelf slowly receding, not only countries are preparing to benefit economically from the region’s hidden treasures – but international firms too. One of the world’s
British business group advocates for a diversified energy mix to hit net zero carbon target
The Confederation of British Industry (CBI), the UK’s largest business group, wrote to business secretary Greg Clark this week urging the UK to continue building both large-scale nuclear plants and smaller modular reactors in order to help combat the climate