Photo: The Canadian Press A wind turbine is shown at a wind farm near Pincher Creek, Alberta. An energy-focused think tank says Indigenous energy sovereignty in Canada’s North is “absolutely essential and fundamental” to tackling climate change, but more support is needed. The Pembina Institute criticizes the Northwest Territories’ latest plan to reduce greenhouse gas …
In this article, I want to explain how Twitter can both follow a “free speech maximalist” ethos while having a very positive impact on not just climate change, but the future of the world in general. This article will focus on how this may affect climate change and clean technology adoption (for obvious reasons), but …
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Dec 8 (Reuters) – Canada’s TC Energy shut down its Keystone pipeline in the United States after more than 14,000 barrels of crude oil spilled into a Kansas creek, making it one of the largest oil spills crude in the United States for almost a decade. The cause of the leak, which occurred in Kansas …
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The global energy crisis triggered by Russia’s war in Ukraine has “triggered an unprecedented momentum” for renewable energy, according to a report released Tuesday by the International Energy Agency. The IEA has forecast that global renewable energy capacity will increase by 2,400 gigawatts between 2022 and 2027, an 85% jump from the growth rate of …
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The president’s special climate envoy, John Kerry, warned Thursday that the global transition to green energy is not happening fast enough. Nations around the world must accelerate the transition from fossil fuels to green energy in “large quantities” to avoid potential future human and financial impacts of climate change, Kerry said at an event hosted …
An open pit tin mine in the Brazilian Amazon.Photo: mario tama (Getty Images) As the gears engage for the world to transition to clean energy, it is becoming increasingly clear that we are going to need more minerals, such as lithium, cobalt, and nickel, which help power our cars and form the backbone of our …
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Sen. Joe Manchin (DW.Va.) is looking for other ways to push through licensing reform. Meanwhile, the Biden administration has a new rule proposal for federal building emissions, and the first offshore wind lease sale on the West Coast is winding down. It’s the night of energy and the environment, your source for the latest news …
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In 1916, Einstein completed his theory of general relativity, which describes how gravitational forces alter the curvature of spacetime. Among other things, this theory predicted that the Universe is expanding, which was confirmed by the observations of Edwin Hubble in 1929. Since then, astronomers have looked further into space (and therefore, into the time) to …
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Our society faces the great challenge of providing sustainable, safe and affordable ways to generate energy while trying to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to net zero around 2050. To date, fusion energy developments, which potentially tick all of these boxes, have been funded almost exclusively by the public sector. However, something is changing. Private equity …
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In a new breakthrough, scientists from the US Department of Energy’s Fermilab have found a way to detect dark matter using quantum computers. Dark matter accounts for about 27% of the universe’s material and energy balance, but scientists don’t know much about it. They know it’s cold, which means the particles that make up dark …
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