It may seem like 2022 was such a slog it felt more like three years instead of one — something about the pandemic has warped time perception — but even so, on geological timescales, it was a blip. Still, the industrial policies of human civilization have long-lasting impacts, especially when it comes to our influence... Continue Reading →
Solar-powered electronics are one step closer to becoming an everyday part of our lives thanks to a “radical” new scientific breakthrough. In 2017, scientists at a Swedish university created an energy system that makes it possible to capture and store solar energy for up to 18 years, releasing it as heat when needed. Now the... Continue Reading →
Solar energy can now be stored for up to 18 years , say scientists
It’s not the end of the world. It only seems that way. Climate change is going to get worse, but as gloomy as the latest scientific reports are, including today’s from the United Nations, scientist after scientist stresses that curbing global warming is not hopeless. The science says it is not game over for planet... Continue Reading →
No obituary for Earth: Scientists fight climate doom talk
If you've got millions to spare and want to make space travel history, then now is your chance to book a flight to the International Space Station (ISS) - and perhaps even a spacewalk, too. That's something no private individual has ever done before, according to Tom Shelley, who heads the US company Space Adventures,... Continue Reading →
Battle of the planet: Space tourism versus the climate
Since the start of the 2020s, humanity has faced worldwide calamity after worldwide calamity, all of them raising questions about our survival as a species. The COVID-19 pandemic has already claimed millions of lives and not yet finished its rampage. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has raised the specter of nuclear holocaust, which many assumed has subsided... Continue Reading →
Plastic pollution could make much of humanity infertile, experts fear
LONDON (Reuters) - Thirty of the world's largest financial institutions are undermining their commitment to cutting carbon emissions by lobbying against climate regulation and by funding new fossil fuel projects, according to a report published on Friday. The report, from London-based energy and climate think-tank InfluenceMap, found that all 30 institutions are members of industry... Continue Reading →
Banks undermine their ‘net zero’ pledges through lobbying – report
Vatican hopes its pre-COP26 climate event will raise stakes in Glasgow
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican hopes a meeting where world religious leaders will take a common stand on the environment can "raise ambitions" on what can be achieved at next month's U.N. Climate Change Conference, its foreign minister says. Monday's day-long event, organised by the Vatican, the United Kingdom and Italy, brings together about... Continue Reading →
Many of the promises President Joe Biden made on the campaign trail and early in his presidency — to slash rising greenhouse gas emissions and prepare America’s aging infrastructure for a changed climate — were missing from his announcement Thursday that 21 senators had reached a bipartisan $973 billion infrastructure deal. “It is in no way, shape,... Continue Reading →
6 crucial climate actions the Senate left out of its infrastructure deal…
The vast spending power of the federal government is unmatched. So when it decides to do something, it can move markets and shape the economy. The best — and by far biggest — example of this was the decision in 1961 to send a man to the moon by the end of the 1960s; the... Continue Reading →
empowerment & inner transformation... 