South Korea’s Saemangeum sea wall, (so far) the world’s longest artificial dike at 33 kms. Image: By Kussy, via Wikimedia Commons This article first appeared on the www.climatenewsnetwork.net website By Tim Radford There is a way to stop Europe’s coastal cities from vanishing below the waves – enclose the North Sea. But there’s a simpler solution. [...]
By Barney Smith It is now very fashionable to decry the use of single use plastic and to insist that its’ use must be reduced. It is the more surprising that this emphasis has apparently emerged not slowly but all of a sudden. After the Blue Planet/David Attenborough broadcast, everything changed: reduction in the use [...]
By Barney Smith On Tuesday 3 March the more serious newspapers carried the story that the Government had decided that on-shore wind farms would be eligible to participate in future auctions for “contracts for difference” (CFDs). What does that mean? Why is it news? CFDs are a market-based system that relies on auctions to deliver [...]
Still afloat, but at risk: Storm surge flooding caused by Hurricane Isabel in Maryland. Image: Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons This article first appeared on the www.climatenewsnetwork.net website By Paul Brown The US state of Maryland is proposing a fossil fuel tax to pay for pre-school education and to promote electric cars. Maryland, an eastern US [...]
Harvesting the hay in Vatnahverfi, Greenland: The Arctic is greening. Image: By jtstewart, via Wikimedia Commons This article first appeared on the www.climatenewsnetwork.com website byTim Radford Lustier plant growth as greenhouse gases climb should counter global heating and atmospheric carbon build-up. But it’s not quite so simple. The Arctic is getting greener as [...]
Charging EVs in Stockholm: But where does a dead battery go? Image: By Ranjithsiji via Wikimedia Commons This article first appeared on the www.climatenewsnetwork.net website by Kieran Cooke How to dispose of old batteries from redundant electric vehicles? The good news: we can harvest their valuable parts to make new ones. Driving an electric-powered vehicle [...]
Eden gets traction with Mevalone its agrochemical product that combats Botrytis a mould that causes diseases in grapes Eden Research describes itself as a company that provides natural microencapsulation technologies to the global agrochemicals, animal health and consumer products industries. Eden was floated on London’s AIM in 2012. After spending a lot of [...]
Europe badly needs to install many more solar panels. Image: Wikimedia Commons This article first appeared on the www.climatenewsnetwork.net website by Paul Brown Europe needs new factories to harness solar power, with a huge effort to install the panels they’ll make, for the world to avoid catastrophic warming. Europe is falling well behind in the race [...]
The prototype of the new solar-driven desalination device sits atop MIT. Image: By courtesy of the researchers. This article first appeared on the www.climatenewsnetwork.net website by Paul Brown Seaside communities with plenty of sun can soon have ample fresh water without any need for electricity. An international team of scientists has developed a cheap way to [...]
Poland’s Turów lignite mine and power plant, contested by Germany and the Czech Republic. Image: By qbanez, via Wikimedia Commons This article first appeared on the climatenewsnetwork.net website by Kieran Cooke Two European states with a traditional reliance on coal are taking radically different paths as the climate crisis worsens. LONDON, 3 February, 2020 − Both [...]