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When researchers looked at the trade-off between reducing dependence on imported fossil fuels and increasing dependence on minerals for clean energy, decarbonization was the big win.
A new study demonstrates how flattening the curve of energy use over a 24-hour period could ease stress on the grid.
A massive global analysis reveals pharmaceuticals as the most carbon-intensive portion of the global health care system
Governments of rich countries tend to make ambitious emissions reduction pledges—but their citizens are the least willing to pay for climate action.
Northern Europeans are the least hopeful. Greeks, Spaniards, and Italians are angry and sad. And, citizens of the Global South—and the United States—are the most hopeful.
A new study tackles the fraught question and upends tidy narratives with a subtler reality: more equal countries tend to be richer, and wealth is the biggest driver of carbon emissions
Good news from a new study: New protocols could cut emissions associated with surgical anesthesia in half—with no adverse effects on patient outcomes
Plastic is lightweight and uses relatively little material, so in the big picture it crushes the competition
A new study finds that a community’s collective moral compass is an even stronger determinant of carbon emissions than politics.
Even when climate advice gets complicated and counterintuitive, people seem to pay attention.
