Nature can save the world’s cargo vessels a fortune. Image: By Stephen Crowley on Unsplash This article first appeared on the Climate News Network. net website by Tim Radford Laboratories can make energy from greenhouse gases, power smartphones with their own radiation, and cut shipping costs naturally. And each could become reality. Researchers have found ways to [...]
Arsenal FC’s battery-powered London home. Image: By Ronnie Macdonald, via Wikimedia Commons This article first appeared on Climate News Network. Net By Paul Brown The fastest-expanding industrial sector on the planet is now electricity storage − a battery boom which heralds an end to the need for fossil fuels. Billions of dollars are being invested worldwide [...]
Ouarzazate, the world’s largest solar power plant, in Morocco. Image: By Marc Lacoste, via Wikimedia Commons This article first appeared on Climate News Network.net by Kieran Cooke There are countries that are in earnest about the way humans are overheating the planet, the climate change resisters; and there are others that give what is one [...]
This article first appeared on the Climate News Network.Net website By Alex KIrfby A British study says consumers must be able to make sustainable choices more easily on products containing palm oil. − Companies selling products which contain palm oil need to be upfront about where it comes from, so as to relieve consumers of [...]
By Stewart Dalby Some of you might remember that I began last year’s Christmas message saying that 2017 had been a year of mixed fortunes for Greenbarrel. In February 2017 our original website Greenbarrel.org crashed. Various attempts made to resuscitate it failed. The three founders of Greenbarrel myself, Barney Smith and Julian Singer spent from [...]
The global climate is heading fast for crisis. Image by Ankit Gupta on Unsplash This article first appeared in Climate News Network.Net by Alex Kirby The annual UN global warming conference is over. Despite some progress, the Katowice climate talks show political action still lags far behind the science. LONDON, 17 December, 2018 − By tradition, United Nations conferences on [...]
Sellafield: Its plutonium is now classed as “an asset of zero value”. Image: By Simon Ledingham, via Wikimedia This article first appeared in Climate News Network.Net By Paul Brown Nobody knows what to do with [...]
This article first appeared on Climate News Network.net by Alex Kirby Growing enough greenery to provide cleaner fuel and slow climate change will need a biofuel land grab: a 10 to 30-fold rise in land devoted to green crops. LONDON, 21 November, 2018 − Replacing fossil fuels with alternatives derived from some natural sources may [...]
Forests store carbon – but how effectively is unclear. Image by Manuel Meurisse on Unsplash This article first appeared in Climate News Network by Tim Radford How forest carbon storage affects climate change is a vital part of scientists’ calculations. But fresh uncertainties keep on sprouting. LONDON, 6 November, 2018 – Two new studies have just made one of the [...]
Norway’s Froan Island – in urgent need of reliable energy. Image: By Carl Dons/NTNU UB, via Wikimedia Commons This article first appeared in Climate News Network.Net By Paul Brown Hydrogen power and renewable energy offer hope to islanders and others in remote communities who now have to rely on fossil fuels. Thanks to a project combining [...]