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04/25/2018 / By David Williams

China plans to finance and build thousands of coal-fired power plants worldwide

China has big plans concerning renewable energy in the future. After all, increased adoption of renewable energy sources can help in China’s plan to clean up its skies and minimize the levels of pollution. But while everything seems to be on the right track domestically, quite the opposite appears to be going on outside of […]

04/25/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Energy from lasers? Chemists create a new form of CO2 that can be used as an alternative energy source

What if you could turn carbon dioxide (CO2) – a common air pollutant produced by burning fossil fuel – into an alternative source of energy? Austrian researchers have reported creating a new form of CO2 with the use of lasers, according to an article on ScienceDaily. Chemists have long dreamed of converting CO2 in the atmosphere […]

03/21/2018 / By David Williams

Israel announces plan to stop using coal, gasoline, and diesel by 2030

The United States is far from the only country that is going all-in on renewable energy sources in the next few years. Middle Eastern country Israel has decided to set its sights on achieving certain renewable energy goals as well, and it aims to rely on only natural gas and electric sources by the year […]

03/18/2018 / By David Williams

Wastewater treatment plants may soon generate electricity for cities thanks to improved microbial fuel cells

Microbial fuel cell technology shows plenty of promise for generating electricity in places where power sources may be limited, but they haven’t been perfected yet. Now a group of researchers from the Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) have shown that it’s possible to improve their efficiency with the use of modified graphite felt. After testing, […]

03/14/2018 / By JD Heyes

Schwarzenegger vows to “terminate” oil companies with lawsuits after accusing them of “first-degree murder” for causing climate change

Hollywood mega-star and former governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger used to drive a gas-guzzling Hummer and was criticized in 2008 for using a private jet almost daily to commute from his Brentwood home to his office in Sacramento. But that was then. Today, the former professional bodybuilding champion is a champion of global warming and […]

03/02/2018 / By Tracey Watson

The city of Paris is considering SUING the fossil fuel industry to recoup expenses for recent “climate damage”

It is human nature to always blame someone or something when disaster strikes. We instinctively search for a cause, a scapegoat for why things went wrong, so that we can feel there is a reason for everything, maintain our feeling of being in control, and attempt to prevent the same thing from happening in the […]

01/31/2018 / By David Williams

France plans to shut down all coal-fired power stations by 2021 in new climate change directive

French President Emmanuel Macron wants France to be the leader in the march towards a “greener” Earth. In a recent World Economic Forum meeting that was held in Davos, he announced his plans to shut down all coal-fired power plants in France by the year 2021. This announcement was part of an energetic speech made […]

10/01/2017 / By Robert Jonathan

Scientists develop clean fuel using CO2, proving again how essential carbon dioxide is to human life

Researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory say they have made a breakthrough in clean energy in relation to the process of converting carbon dioxide (CO2) into fuel using photosynthesis. In their experiment, published in the Energy and Environmental Science journal, the U.S. Department of Energy scientists at the Berkeley lab were for the first time […]

09/25/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

Deforestation impacts climate change more than fossil fuel use, new study finds

Curbing the use of fossil fuels is often singled out as the best way to tackle climate change, but a new study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters shows that the problem of deforestation should not be overlooked as it contributes far more to climate change than once believed. The new paper, which is […]

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