by Sofia Cerda Campero | Feb 5, 2018 |
Copenhagen, Denmark Sometimes, there can be too much of a good thing. Every so often, from California to Germany, there’s news of “negative electricity prices,” a peculiar side effect of global efforts to generate clean energy. Solar farms and wind turbines produce...
by Sofia Cerda Campero | Feb 5, 2018 |
Bridgeport, Connecticut The US electricity grid is built to deal with rain, snow, winds, and lightning. But it couldn’t handle Hurricane Sandy in 2012. Across the northeastern coast, more than 8 million homes lost electricity at some point during the storm. In...
by Sofia Cerda Campero | Feb 5, 2018 |
Livermore, California Over my year of reporting on carbon-capture technology, I made it a habit to ask everyone I interviewed to suggest three others I should talk to next. The strategy yielded many useful leads, but one name got mentioned again and again. Julio...
by Sofia Cerda Campero | Feb 5, 2018 |
Who said understanding climate change has to be boring? We’ve created a game that could make it fun. Here are the rules: It’s clear we need to rapidly reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. To avoid severe, permanent damage to the Earth, humans need to reach net-zero...
by Sofia Cerda Campero | Feb 5, 2018 |
Dongying, China From smog-choked cities to sludge-filled rivers, stories about China’s environment in recent years have painted a bleak picture. But China is not the first country to put economic development above protecting the environment. All of today’s wealthy...
