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decarbonization

E-fuels are better for the climate than fossil fuels, so why haven’t they taken off yet?

By Chad Small | Climate Change

Can electrically conductive bricks replace fossil fuels?

By Phil McKenna | Climate Change

cows in Switzerland against mountains

Does ‘net zero’ mean zero cows?

By John Lynch, Raymond Pierrehumbert | Climate Change, Special Topics

two people performing hard labor in a cobalt mine

The problem with decarbonization tunnel vision

By Peter Sutoris | Climate Change, Nuclear Weapons

rendering of a proposed nuclear reactor building

Say no to small modular reactors: Stop normalizing the exploitation of nature

By Erin Hurley | Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Opinion, Voices of Tomorrow

Inequality is a climate problem

By Jessica McKenzie | Climate Change

power storage and wind farm, Australia

Laying the groundwork for long-duration energy storage

By Jeremy Twitchell | Climate Change

Sign text: Exxon knew about climate change since 1981. Denied it anyway.

Exxon Mobil predicts global temperature increase over 2 degrees Celsius by 2050

By Lyric Aquino | Climate Change

transmission lines

Want clean energy, fast? ‘Streamlining’ environmental reviews could have the opposite effect

By Dustin Mulvaney | Climate Change

A wind farm off the coast of Sweden, aerial photograph

An energetic exchange on the costs of decarbonizing Europe

By Amory B. Lovins, Robert Rosner, Sabrina Fields | Climate Change, Nuclear Energy

There is no Plan B for dealing with the climate crisis

By Raymond Pierrehumbert | Climate Change

How to decarbonize? Look to Sweden

By Raymond Pierrehumbert | Uncategorized