by Awesome Author | May 2, 2021 | Environment
This year brought some bad news on the climate change front: researchers found that ice is melting faster worldwide, and there’s a greater sea-level rise anticipated. The rate of ice loss each year has increased by 60%. A study of the Greenland ice sheet found that...
by Awesome Author | Apr 11, 2021 | Environment
When the CO2 we emit costs money, we generally produce less of it. Economists worldwide point to carbon pricing as the most effective way to reduce emissions. Why? Because carbon pricing reduces greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to the lowest cost possible, where that...
by Awesome Author | Mar 21, 2021 | Environment
New research published earlier this year shows how tackling supply chain emissions can be a game-changer in the worldwide battle against climate change. Net-Zero Challenge: The Supply Chain Opportunity from the World Economic Forum and the Boston Consulting Group...
by Awesome Author | Dec 12, 2020 | Environment
The ocean has been around for billions of years. Yet, we only started measuring oceanographic variables in the late eighteenth century. We’ve got a long way to go before we can fully understand it. What we do know is that it’s changing at a rapid pace—and...
by Awesome Author | Dec 2, 2020 | Geography, Nature & Weather
For years (and we mean many years), the ocean helped us mitigate the early effects of human emissions by absorbing greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide and heat, from the atmosphere. As a result, more than 90 percent of the warming that happened on Earth between 1971...