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Enviro News Wrap: Australia’s Heat; Government’s Climate Assessment; Shell’s...
GlobalWarmingisReal contributor Anders Hellum-Alexander wraps-up and comments on the climate and environmental news headlines for the past week: Australia is becoming too hot to inhabit in some areas....
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Enviro News Wrap: Growth in US Solar; Changing Perceptions of Global Warming;...
GlobalWarmingisReal contributor Anders Hellum-Alexander wraps-up and comments on the climate and environmental news headlines for the past week: Growth in the solar industry in the US is strong and...
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U.S. Pledges Far-Reaching Climate Cooperation with China and Japan: the...
John Kerry made climate change a centerpiece of his first Asia tour as Secretary of State over the weekend, signing agreements with both Japan and China for cooperation in implementing practical...
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Enviro News Wrap: Fossil Energy and Safety; Fracking and Earthquakes; China...
GlobalWarmingisReal contributor Anders Hellum-Alexander wraps-up and comments on the climate and environmental news headlines for the past week: One of the problems with the dirty energy industry is...
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Enviro News Wrap: Young Americans Reject Denial; the Politics of Solar;...
GlobalWarmingisReal contributor Anders Hellum-Alexander wraps-up and comments on the climate and environmental news headlines for the past week: Young people in America believe in science: when polled...
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U.S. Solar Trade Group Protests China’s Polysilicon Tariffs
China’s Ministry of Commerce on January 20 imposed punitive five-year duties as high as 57 percent on imports of polysilicon – the raw material for solar photovoltaic (PV) cells and modules – from U.S....
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China Issues EV, New Energy Vehicle Mandate
As a steady stream of dramatic photos posted on the Internet shows, China has a big problem with air pollution; huge in fact. Reliance on coal-fired power plants for electricity and a skyrocketing...
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Understanding Beijing and China’s Air Pollution Problem
Three decades of rapid industrialization have made China an economic powerhouse and geopolitical force to be reckoned with. It has also polluted and degraded the nation’s air, water and land,...
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Chinese-Swedish Auto Manufacturer Seals $12 Billion EV Deal
Air quality in Beijing has been making headlines, and for the wrong reason – breathing it threatens your health. China’s government issued its second-ever ¨red¨ smog alert this past week following...
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China Cuts Coal; US Wind Power Reaches New Heights
Two significant developments highlight the growing global momentum behind efforts to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. First, China’s central government on February 29 announced it will scale down...
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East Asia Typhoon Intensity on the Rise as G20 Leaders Meet in China
Those living in East Asia’s coastal areas will be buffeted by more intense typhoons in coming years as a rising trend in western Pacific Ocean temperature continues, according to a groundbreaking...
View ArticleChinese Solar Import Tariff Petition Creates Controversy – or Jobs?
The analysis by US ITC petitioners Suniva and SolarWorld Americas stands in stark contrast to projections made by US SEIA and GTM Research. The post Chinese Solar Import Tariff Petition Creates...
View ArticleEnviro News Wrap: Tipping Points; Climate Change and Food Prices; Heat Waves...
GlobalWarmingisReal contributor Anders Hellum-Alexander wraps-up and comments on the climate and environmental news headlines for the past week: Does our global ecosystem have a climate change tipping...
View ArticleWeakness in OECD Economies Doesn’t Stop Global CO2 Emissions from Reaching...
Global CO2 emissions reached another record high in 2011, driven by growing use of fossil fuels in rapidly industrializing countries such as China and India. The US still tops the world by far in terms...
View ArticleGlacial Melting, Growing Population and Agricultural Practices Threaten...
This confluence of factors is posing severe challenges not only locally in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region's Tarim River basin, but regionally across Central Asia and beyond. A joint...
View ArticleDrying Up: How Should China Deal with Growing Threat of Water Scarcity and...
Now facing a water crisis, China cannot rely on large-scale infrastructure projects to solve the problem, according to a new ADB report, which proposes a three-pronged solution based on reducing demand...
View ArticleEnviro News Wrap: Nano over Copper; Greenpeace Turns 40; More Americans...
GlobalWarmingisReal contributor Anders Hellum-Alexander wraps-up the climate and environmental news headlines for the past week: Nanotechnology is replacing copper wires with carbon tubes for...
View ArticleEnvironmental News Wrap: COP16, Climate Skeptics No More, Emissions Down in...
GlobalWarmingisReal contributor Anders Hellum-Alexander wraps-up the climate and environmental news headlines for the past week: The United Nations Climate Negotiations in Cancun, Mexico have begun....
View ArticleEnergy Ministers meet in US to Discuss Clean Energy: Who will be in the clean...
The race for the clean energy future comes to Washington, DC today—only symbolically if the US doesn’t seize the moment. Energy ministers from 20 countries that account for over 80% of the world’s...
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