Employment in the energy sector will dramatically expand as economies decarbonize
A team calculated that a decarbonized world could lose 9.5 million fossil fuel jobs—and gain a whopping 17.4 million renewable jobs.
Jul 2021 27
Sarah DeWeerdt
Sarah DeWeerdt is a Seattle-based freelance science journalist specializing in biology, medicine, and the environment. In addition to Anthropocene, her work has appeared in Nature, Newsweek, Nautilus, Spectrum, and many other publications. Find her on Twitter at @DeWeerdt_Sarah.
Jul 2021 20
Collective battery storage could be the secret ingredient to a climate-friendly grid
A New Zealand team found that batteries could be dramatically smaller and more efficient if they are deployed collectively in neighborhoods—rather than for individual households
Jul 2021 13
Researchers devise a scheme to treat carbon debt like financial debt
If you want to take out a carbon “loan” (that is, emit more carbon than the 1.5 °C budget allows) you’ll have to pay interest on it
Jul 2021 6
First of its kind study quantifies how tree shade can cancel urban heat island effect
The presence of 20 additional mature trees in one neighborhood could lower the temperature by 1.39 degrees
Jun 2021 29
Climate lawsuits lag considerably behind state-of-the-art climate science
Better use of the latest research could aid plaintiffs seeking emissions cuts or damages in court
Jun 2021 22
Cities have a green infrastructure blind spot
Carbon footprint standards exist for buildings, but not for the landscaping that surrounds them.
Jun 2021 15
To help save the climate, ask yourself if that videoconference could be a voice call
The major determinant of the environmental footprint of Internet activities: video, especially high-definition video, a new study reveals.
Jun 2021 8
Can zero emissions and economic growth go together? Yes, but conditions apply.
The percentage of GDP required to achieve zero emissions decreases as GDP rises
Jun 2021 1
The social contagion of solar packs a lot of power
People with lots of neighbors who have solar panels are more likely to have solar panels themselves
May 2021 25
What if the conventional wisdom about the high cost of decarbonization is wrong?
There’s a glaring blind spot in climate-economy models. When they corrected it, researchers discovered a path to a green energy system that’s cheaper than the fossil fuel system it replaces
