We Must Protect Coral Reefs With Conservation Innovation & Technology
What are researchers and scientists around the world doing to prevent coral reef loss?
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Climate Disaster Risk Reduction & Managed Retreat, Part Two
In the second half of this two-part interview for our CleanTech Talk podcast interview series, Michael Barnard, Chief Strategist of TFIE Strategy Inc. and CleanTechnica contributor, and Anna Ziolecki and Brent Doberstein from the University of Waterloo, continue their talk about disaster risk reduction and managed retreat.
Climate Change Mitigation — Talking With Professors Doberstein & Ziolecki
In the first half of this two-part interview for our CleanTech Talk podcast interview series, Michael Barnard, Chief Strategist of TFIE Strategy Inc. and CleanTechnica contributor, and Anna Ziolecki and Brent Doberstein from the University of Waterloo, sit down to talk about disaster risk reduction and managed retreat.
Top 4 DIY Energy Efficiency Upgrades
Imagine if you could put $25 under a couch cushion, and in 5 years go back and find $1,250. That’s the type of return on investment represented in energy efficiency.
New Funding Supports Keeling Curve & Ocean pH Research
New grants for the Keeling Curve and Atlantic/Pacific ocean acidification research fill in where national funding fails.
Louisiana Hit By 3 Deadly Hurricanes This Season — Reflections While Riding Out Delta
Louisiana and the rest of the Gulf Coast face tropical storms and potentially hurricanes every year. Throughout my life, I’ve been really lucky. I was living in Shreveport and we were missed by Katrina. The first major storm I rode out was Rita.
Home Efficiency 101: Appliances, Thermal Envelope, Lighting, Plumbing, & More
Home efficiency is one of those things you may think has been done already — building code improvements surely must’ve accounted for what we’ve known about home energy use for decades now, right?
Presidential Climate Policy Report Card: Obama, Trump, & Biden — A CleanTechnica Exclusive
The climate action report card is much better for Obama/Biden and Biden/Harris than for Trump/Pence, which is unsurprising given President Trump’s rhetoric on the subject. The Obama/Biden administration could have done much more, and while a Biden/Harris administration would be much stronger on climate change action than the Trump Administration, it too has more work to do to get to a truly effective climate action plan.
Hurricane Laura Shut in More Gulf of Mexico Crude Oil Production than Any Storm Since…
According to daily estimates from the U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), Hurricane Laura reduced crude oil production in the Federal Offshore Gulf of Mexico by an estimated 14.4 million barrels over a span of 15 days, the most of any hurricane since the combined effect of Hurricanes Gustav and Ike in 2008.
There’s A Possibility Of 1 Billion Climate Refugees By 2050
In an article by How Stuff Works, the author pointed out that 1 billion people may become climate refugees by 2050.
