Kelp forest. Photo by Robert Schwemmer/NOAA/Wikimedia Commons. Human activity, mostly the burning of fossil fuels, has raised Earth’s atmospheric carbon content by 50 percent, from 280 parts per million to…
On January 17, 2023, China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced that the country’s population fell in 2022 by 850,000 people from 2021, which was the first population decline witnessed…
A large white rooftop covered in solar panels. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. Despite all the renewable energy investments and installations, actual global greenhouse gas emissions keep increasing. That’s largely due…
Photo by Stephen Yang/The Solutions Project/Flickr The passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) constitutes the boldest climate action so far by the American federal government. It offers tax rebates…
Suncor’s refinery, located in Commerce City, near Denver, is the largest refining operation in the Rocky Mountain region with a capacity of 90,000 barrels per day. Photo from Flickr. Similar…
