Financing a new, climate-friendly metropolis
As climate change risk rises, economies are adapting to curb its harmful effects. What cities are doing to mitigate these risks is coming into focus.
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Why are positive climate feedbacks so negative?
If your colleague or child does well and you give her or him positive feedback, that’s good.
Can we integrate natural ecosystems in urban Asian spaces?
Emerging Asian economies are fast expanding, and an associated phenomenon has been that of rapid urbanization.
What Facebook and Apple can teach other tech titans
Peeling back corporate declarations about 100 percent renewable energy is kind of like shucking a late-season ear of Jersey corn: removing the top layer of husk is pretty easy, but you never know what exactly you'll find as you pick away at the cob silk.
Learning from California’s clean energy ambition
Recently, a disquieting pattern has emerged. Moderate national leaders — on both the center-left and center-right — in some of the world’s richest and most advanced countries are finding it far easier to talk about climate change than to actually fight it.
Mining for emissions reductions? Strike while the earth is cool
Companies involved in natural resource extraction and refinement are uniquely positioned to both benefit and suffer from society’s response to climate change.
Sick of coal yet?
Last week, the Trump administration offered up its revision to former President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan, the keystone of U.S. climate policy.
Now is an incredible opportunity to make an impact on plastic
Is this the decade when we solve ocean plastic — or repeat the mistakes of the past?
What’s going on in the world of plastic?
I’m not easily impressed by advances in sustainable business — I’ve been watching them happen in fits and starts for three decades — but I’ll confess to being astounded by what’s going on these days in the world of plastic.
The Arctic’s ‘last bastion’ of sea ice is breaking up for the first time on record
The sea ice off the coast of northern Greenland is normally some of the thickest in the entire Arctic, with ridges of ice piled as high as 70 feet in some places.
