Categorized in How greed and corruption blew up South Korea’s nuclear industrySeoul had a solution to the world’s energy problems. Then everything went wrong.
Categorized in The desperate race to cool the ocean before it’s too lateHolly Jean Buck is a fellow at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. This is an adapted excerpt from her upcoming book After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration (September 2019, Verso Books).
Categorized in The one number you need to know about climate changeThe social cost of carbon could guide us toward intelligent policies—if only we knew what it was.
Categorized in The American Midwest will feed a warming world. But for how long?Rising temperatures will endanger the US corn belt, a key source of calories for the growing global population.
Categorized in Inside Australia’s plan to survive bigger, badder bushfiresUnprecedented wildfires are breaking out all over the world. Is Australia leading the way in fighting them?
Categorized in India’s surging economy could doom climate efforts—unless richer nations step upNo matter how fast the country builds new solar and wind farms, that alone won’t be enough.
Categorized in Lessons from a genocide can prepare humanity for climate apocalypseThe bad news is that our slow-motion ecological catastrophe demands new ways of thinking. The good news? We’ve faced the end of the world before.
Categorized in India’s water crisis is already here. Climate change will compound it.Droughts and floods have pushed the nation’s leaky, polluted, and half-done water systems to the brink.
