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Gene editing has the potential to improve food production by making the microbes that live with plants better at helping them do important things like use fertilizer, fight off disease, and survive drought:
https://bit.ly/3Bngfj7
Gene editing of microbes that live with plants has the potential to improve food production.
NEW REPORT: Agriculture is a substantial source of GHG emissions—accounting for ~10% of total US emissions. Unfortunately, a wide range of practices and tech that could address the problem receives insufficient R&D funding:
https://bit.ly/3iIN97l
New Report, "From Lab to Farm," highlights massive R&D funding gap for agricultural climate action.
The Tennessee Valley Authority’s nuclear fleet of 7 reactors has generated more since 2016 than the 34.2 GW California wind & solar industry. All that TVA nuclear power is publicly-owned, producing energy at cost, not for profit, and should serve as a blueprint for national decarbonization, argues Fred Stafford:
https://bit.ly/3VTclWY
And the Tennessee Valley Authority is the perfect utility to manage it.
Can we trust agriculture to make itself sustainable? BTI's Alex Smith proposes two basic rules for discerning the effectiveness of the industry's efforts to go green:
https://bit.ly/3Oqih7C
Two modest rules for discerning the truth.
To meet our decarbonization goals, we'll need to ramp up zero-carbon, nuclear energy. To do that, we’ll need to correct our misperceptions of nuclear waste, argues Matthew Wald: https://bit.ly/3UiQ7gb
To meet our decarbonization goal, we’ll need to correct our misperceptions of nuclear waste.
Gene editing has the potential to improve food production by making the microbes that live with plants better at helping them do important things like use fertilizer, fight off disease, and survive drought, argues BTI's Emma Kovak:
https://bit.ly/3Bngfj7
Gene editing of microbes that live with plants has the potential to improve food production.
The “failure” to ban fossil fuel projects in the developing countries at may actually save lives, argues BTI's Patrick Brown:
https://bit.ly/3Y5bp3N
For low-income countries, economic development necessitates more, not less, greenhouse gas emissions in the near term.
The Tennessee Valley Authority’s nuclear fleet of 7 reactors has generated more since 2016 than the 34.2 GW California wind & solar industry. All that TVA nuclear power is publicly-owned, producing energy at cost, not for profit, and should serve as a blueprint for national decarbonization, argues Fred Stafford:
https://bit.ly/3VTclWY
And the Tennessee Valley Authority is the perfect utility to manage it.
Early in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, some people thought that the Zaporizhzhia reactor complex was a military target. But now, it looks like it might be a prize of war, writes Matthew Wald:
https://bit.ly/3UDLb5B
Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia reactor complex was seen as target—now, it looks like it might be war b***y.
Advocates like to hype nature-based adaptations as solutions for the threat of natural disasters in developing countries, but what these countries really need is infrastructure, argues Juzel Lloyd:
https://bit.ly/3iJNAhY
Advocates like to hype nature-based adaptations as solutions for developing countries. That's not what those countries need.
What's driving innovation in energy? Sonal Patel takes a tour through history to understand the technology's current revival:
https://bit.ly/3Vp6s3M
What’s Driving Innovation in Nuclear Energy?
To meet our decarbonization goals, we'll need to ramp up zero-carbon, nuclear energy. To do that, we’ll need to correct our misperceptions of nuclear waste, argues Matthew Wald: https://bit.ly/3UiQ7gb
To meet our decarbonization goal, we’ll need to correct our misperceptions of nuclear waste.
Early in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, some people thought that the Zaporizhzhia reactor complex was a military target. But now, it looks like it might be a prize of war, writes Matthew L. Wald:
https://bit.ly/3UDLb5B
Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia reactor complex was seen as target—now, it looks like it might be war b***y.
Despite the TVA's proven ability to invest in and build clean energy—and in a more conservative part of the country—US politics seems incapable of recognizing TVA's potential as "big public power." Fred Stafford argues it's time for that to change:
https://bit.ly/3VTclWY
And the Tennessee Valley Authority is the perfect utility to manage it.
With the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, Fred Stafford argues it’s time to revive a New Deal politics of public power—one in which nuclear energy and the Tennessee Valley Authority can play vital roles:
https://bit.ly/3upTCH9
And the Tennessee Valley Authority is the perfect utility to manage it.
Nuclear energy won’t take over the entire world fast, but it is doggedly marching forward in some places and making incremental gains in others, writes Michael Moran. Here's how nuclear programs around the world are shaping up:
https://bit.ly/3OdwGUv
A look a nuclear programs around the world shows where nuclear’s future really lies—and what it will take to make the next generation of plants successful.
Can we trust agriculture to make itself sustainable? BTI's Alex Smith proposes two basic rules for discerning the effectiveness of the industry's efforts to go green:
https://bit.ly/3Oqih7C
Two modest rules for discerning the truth.
Germany’s allergy to all things nuclear long predated nuclear skepticism in other countries, but a cold winter and a failed energy transition have forced the nation to revisit its position on the technology. The outcome of this decision will very much determine the economic, political, geopolitical, and environmental future of Europe’s largest player.
Sudha David-Wilp, a senior transatlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund, digs into the history that brought Germany to this moment:
https://bit.ly/3UjYpUW
As the country faces a cold winter and a failed energy transition, it will need to overturn old dogmas to endure.
Our latest report confronts a glaring issue that the climate community and solar sector have avoided for too long: Solar manufacturing in China's Xinjiang province is linked to forced labor and environmental injustice, and we need to act.
“Ignoring the challenge at hand will only perpetuate the intertwining of solar supply chains with Chinese government repression, authoritarianism, and environmental injustice.”
Read our findings here:
https://bit.ly/3hKJOnI
As the details of the UN's new loss and damages fund are hashed out, it would be wise to make use of the obvious pathway that it creates for including nuclear energy as a climate solution:
https://bit.ly/3XFqlFP
As the details of the fund are hashed out, it would be wise to make use of the obvious pathway that it creates for including nuclear energy as a climate solution.
To meet our decarbonization goals, we'll need to ramp up zero-carbon, nuclear energy. To do that, we’ll need to correct our misperceptions of nuclear waste: https://bit.ly/3UiQ7gb
To meet our decarbonization goal, we’ll need to correct our misperceptions of nuclear waste.
A new literature review from BTI's Patrick Brown examines the latest research on temperature-related human mortality and, surprisingly, finds that deaths caused by cold and heat have been trending downward:
https://bit.ly/3UsozEW
Given the large number of deaths affected by temperature, there is significant public and scientific interest in the impact of global warming on human mortality.
Demands to preserve more land in California from development will disproportionately harm younger, largely non-white residents, argues Jennifer Hernandez:
https://bit.ly/3Vo5F2U
The state needs new conservation the least, but demands to preserve more land from development will disproportionately harm younger, largely non-white residents the most.
As the details of the new loss and damages fund are hashed out, it would be wise to make use of the obvious pathway that it creates for including nuclear energy as a climate solution:
https://bit.ly/3XFqlFP
As the details of the fund are hashed out, it would be wise to make use of the obvious pathway that it creates for including nuclear energy as a climate solution.
To meet our decarbonization goals, we'll need to ramp up zero-carbon, nuclear energy. To do that, we’ll need to correct our misperceptions of nuclear waste: https://bit.ly/3UiQ7gb
To meet our decarbonization goal, we’ll need to correct our misperceptions of nuclear waste.
Germany’s allergy to all things nuclear long predated nuclear skepticism in other countries, but a cold winter and a failed energy transition have forced the nation to revisit its position on the technology:
https://bit.ly/3UjYpUW
As the country faces a cold winter and a failed energy transition, it will need to overturn old dogmas to endure.
Demands to preserve more land in California from development will disproportionately harm younger, largely non-white residents, argues Jennifer Hernandez:
https://bit.ly/3Vo5F2U
The state needs new conservation the least, but demands to preserve more land from development will disproportionately harm younger, largely non-white residents the most.
What's driving innovation in nuclear energy? POWER magazine's Sonal Patel takes a tour through history to understand the technology's current revival:
https://bit.ly/3Vp6s3M
What’s Driving Innovation in Nuclear Energy?
WEBINAR: Join us tomorrow @ 1 PM ET for a discussion of the US department of energy's progress on developing an equitable process for siting a federal consolidated interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel.
Register below:
https://bit.ly/3EgnOJd
Premature shutdowns of nuclear plants in developed countries have caused additional annual CO2 emissions equal to combined annual emissions from 37 African countries. Learn more in our latest analysis:
https://bit.ly/3FJ34Ms
Nuclear energy won’t take over the entire world fast, but it is doggedly marching forward in some places and making incremental gains in others, writes Michael Moran. Here's how nuclear programs around the world are shaping up:
https://bit.ly/3OdwGUv
A look a nuclear programs around the world shows where nuclear’s future really lies—and what it will take to make the next generation of plants successful.
“Ignoring the challenge at hand will only perpetuate the intertwining of solar supply chains with Chinese government repression, authoritarianism, and environmental injustice." A sobering warning from our latest report:
https://bit.ly/3hKJOnI
Can we trust agriculture to make itself sustainable? BTI's Alex proposes two basic rules for discerning the effectiveness of the industry's efforts to go green:
https://bit.ly/3Oqih7C
Two modest rules for discerning the truth.
Nuclear energy won’t take over the entire world fast, but it is doggedly marching forward in some places and making incremental gains in others, writes Michael Moran. Here's how nuclear programs around the world are shaping up:
https://bit.ly/3OdwGUv
A look a nuclear programs around the world shows where nuclear’s future really lies—and what it will take to make the next generation of plants successful.
We must examine the history of uranium extraction on Native lands to understand the disproportionate harm it caused to Indigenous communities and other marginalized groups—and how to make things right, argues Ariel Gould:
https://bit.ly/3geOTEA
The history of extraction on Native lands shows what went wrong—and how to make things right.
As the U.S. Department of Agriculture's only farmer-driven federal research program, the SARE Program awards competitive grants directly to farmers, ranchers, research universities, and more to advance sustainable agricultural practices across the US. Here's how the valuable program works:
https://bit.ly/3XcEKsK
SARE Explained: The Value of Farmer-Driven Research and Education
Advanced nuclear reactors are on the way, but the United States isn’t making the fuel to run them, warns Matthew L. Wald:
https://bit.ly/3Atw3k5
Advanced reactors are on the way, but the United States isn’t making the fuel to run them.
WEBINAR: Join us for a discussion of the 's progress on developing an equitable process for siting a federal consolidated interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel.
📅 Nov. 29 @ 1:00PM
Register below:
https://bit.ly/3EgnOJd
“Ignoring the challenge at hand will only perpetuate the intertwining of solar supply chains with Chinese government repression, authoritarianism, and environmental injustice.” New report from Seaver Wang and Juzel Lloyd:
https://bit.ly/3hKJOnI
We must examine the history of uranium extraction on Native lands to understand the disproportionate harm it caused to Indigenous communities and other marginalized groups—and how to make things right, argues Ariel Gould:
https://bit.ly/3geOTEA
The history of extraction on Native lands shows what went wrong—and how to make things right.
"Wicked Polarization"
http://www.amazon.com/Wicked-Polarization-Breakthrough-Journal-ebook/dp/B00B50GHC4/
"Love Your Monsters: Postenvironmentalism in the Anthropocene"
www.amazon.com/Love-Your-Monsters-Postenvironmentalism-ebook/dp/B006FKUJY6/
"Break Through: Why We Can't Leave Saving the Planet to Environmentalists"
http://www.amazon.com/Break-Through-Environmentalism-Politics-Possibility/dp/0618658254
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