Tag: energy

How sunlight could turn seawater into freshwater for coastal communities

A summer of extreme heat and drought around the world has been a reminder that water scarcity is a pressing issue and one that will only get worse with climate change. Already, more than two billion people worldwide lack easy access to clean water, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). For some countries, desalination plants offer… Read More How sunlight could turn seawater into freshwater for coastal communities

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For Fusion Jam Tomorrow

Shobhit Mahajan; The Economic Times; December 17, 2022 At 1 am on December 5, scientists at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the US achieved a major breakthrough. For the first time they managed to squeeze out more energy from a nuclear fusion reaction than was pumped into it. Ignition,… Read More For Fusion Jam Tomorrow

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Can nuclear fusion help fuel the world?

Sushmitha Ramakrishnan The US Department of Energy will announce a major breakthrough in nuclear fusion technology this week, department spokespeople said Sunday. The milestone announcement is expected from Washington on Tuesday. The announcement was made shortly after the Financial Times reported scientists at the California-based Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) successfully generated a “net energy gain” using nuclear fusion in a lab… Read More Can nuclear fusion help fuel the world?

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From the Amazon to Australia, why is your money funding Earth’s destruction?

George Monbiot In every conflict over the living world, something is being protected. And most of the time, it’s the wrong thing. The world’s most destructive industries are fiercely protected by governments. The three sectors that appear to be most responsible for the collapse of ecosystems and erasure of wildlife are fossil fuels, fisheries and farming.… Read More From the Amazon to Australia, why is your money funding Earth’s destruction?

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Air pollution: Uncovering the dirty secret behind BP’s bumper profits

By Owen Pinnell Far removed from the world leaders making climate pledges at COP, are people like Ali Hussein Julood, a young leukaemia survivor living on an Iraqi oil field co-managed by BP. When the BBC discovered BP was not declaring the field’s gas flaring, Ali helped us to reveal the truth about the poisonous… Read More Air pollution: Uncovering the dirty secret behind BP’s bumper profits

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One Billionaire emits a Million times more CO2 than an Average Person. Protesters block Private Planes at Amsterdam

JUAN COLE Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Oxfam has a new study, Carbon Billionaires: The investment emissions of the world’s richest people. Zeroing on 150 billionaires in the sample, a tiny proportion of the top one percent numerically but a significant proportion of the latter’s wealth holdings, the study found that together they had a stake… Read More One Billionaire emits a Million times more CO2 than an Average Person. Protesters block Private Planes at Amsterdam

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Sale of oil and gas permits casts shadow over world’s second-largest rainforest

Cassie Dummett Villagers in the Congo basin rely on the forest for food, medicine and spiritual wellbeing, but an auction of exploration rights could threaten that way of life West accused of double standards over oil and gas exploration in DRC “I have lived all my life in the forest; everything I do is in… Read More Sale of oil and gas permits casts shadow over world’s second-largest rainforest

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Polluting elites

Fiona Harvey The top 1% of earners in the UK are responsible for the same amount of carbon dioxide emissions in a single year as the bottom 10% over more than two decades, new data has shown. The findings highlight the enormous gaps between what have been termed “the polluting elite”, whose high-carbon lifestyles fuel the… Read More Polluting elites

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Big oil admits ‘gaslighting’ public over green aims

Oliver Milman Fury as ‘explosive’ files reveal largest oil companies contradicted public statements and wished bedbugs upon critical activists Criticism in the US of the oil industry’s obfuscation over the climate crisis is intensifying after internal documents showed companies attempted to distance themselves from agreed climate goals, admitted “gaslighting” the public over purported efforts to… Read More Big oil admits ‘gaslighting’ public over green aims

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