Five Tactics to Use Behavioral Science to Combat Climate Change
Environmental and climate scientists are clearly not providing enough evidence to make people adopt climate-smart ways of living. Would then behavioral science help? Here...
A concerning lack of bugs
A couple of years ago, an article in the Science magazine reported the alarming cleanliness of car windshields—cleanliness not as in lack of dust...
Vouching Against Juicing In Support of Chewing Fruits
Why do people continuously juice their fruit and vegetables instead of biting into them?
A week ago, I was invited to a friend’s house for...
Stopping the desert
According to the UN, 24% of land globally is degrading and threatened with desrtification. Trends are only getting worse, considering climate change and mismanagement.
The...
Protests and controversy as political games unravel in COP24
“We strongly believe that no country should have to sacrifice economic prosperity or energy security in pursuit of environmental sustainability,” said US president’s adviser...
Cost of Carbon Capture Just Got Lower Thanks to New Tech
In view of the alarming rates of global warming, ongoing discussions in Katowice are evaluating measures of decarbonizing the economy. With the energy sector...
Climate Change Conference in Katowice: Countdown for action and costs for inaction
December 2nd, 2018 sees the opening of the 24th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)....
Climate Change Contributing to Evolving Migrant Crisis on US Border
Things are rough in Central America. The thousands of people who are currently headed north the the USA are fleeing violence and economic hardship,...
$1 Billion Approved for Climate Projects in Developing Nations
A U.N.-supported reserve has endorsed more than $1 billion for 19 new ventures to enable creating nations to handle environmental change.
During the four-day meeting...
US Farmers are Increasingly Terrified by Climate Change
Research forecasts Iowa corn yields could drop in half within the next half-century thanks to extreme weather – yet it’s not part of the...
