Archive for May 2024
Can corn ethanol really help decarbonize US air travel?
Last week, the U.S. Treasury Department released a set of highly anticipated and contentious tax-credit guidelines meant to spur production of sustainable aviation fuel, or SAF. U.S. airlines burned over 12.4 billion gallons of jet fuel in 2023, nearly all of which were derived from fossil fuels. A mere 0.2 percent…
Read MoreThe growing clean energy backlog, in five charts
For the past four years, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have been tracking a major threat to the U.S. clean energy transition: the backups and bottlenecks in connecting proposed solar, wind, and battery projects to the electricity grid. LBNL’s team laid out its latest…
Read MoreHouston’s flood problems offer lessons for cities trying to adapt to a changing climate
Too much pavement and old drainage systems are just two of the problems communities face.
Read MoreHow the Miccosukee Tribe plans to stop oil drilling in the Everglades once and for all
The proposal comes amid continued interest in expanding oil production within the Big Cypress National Preserve, an Everglades wilderness the tribe considers sacred.
Read MorePangong Lake in Winter
Months before the arrival of tourists and migrating birds, this high-elevation lake on the Tibetan Plateau was glazed with ice.
Read MoreTexas inmates are being ‘cooked to death’ in extreme heat, complaint alleges
With the threat of another hot summer ahead, advocates asked a federal judge to declare 100-degree-plus conditions in uncooled Texas facilities unconstitutional.
Read MoreA Tulip Frenzy in the Netherlands
The peak of the blooming season brought vibrant colors to the Dutch landscape.
Read MoreCloudy With a Chance of Eclipse
NASA citizen scientists collected thousands of photographs and temperature readings that are being used to study the relationship between total solar eclipses and clouds.
Attacks on Environmental Journalists Growing Worldwide, UN Report Finds
A new U.N. report warns that environmental journalists across the globe are facing growing violence and intimidation.
Read MoreThe country’s first new aluminum smelter in 45 years could cut production emissions by 75%
Century Aluminum Company hopes half a billion dollars in federal funding will help it revive a dying industry while making it less polluting.
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