Australian soil researchers are quickly bringing to scale a technique for inoculating crop seeds with carbon-sequestering fungi. They claim that yields increase seven percent with the treatment, and that soils sequester 2.6 tons more tradable carbon per hectare.
James Balog, a photographer best known for his remarkable time-lapse glacier photos, has been chasing the climate story for decades. A new book compiling his work, "The Human Element," is due out later this year. And the environmentally minded staff at New Hampshire Public Radio has launched a new podcast series on the growth of offshore wind that shows how Big Oil may be morphing into Big Breeze.
The Canadian climate campaigner Seth Klein and colleagues have produced a truly impressive video arguing that we need to respond to the climate crisis with the same vigor that we brought to beating fascism in the 20th century. (Meanwhile, Klein's sister, Naomi, and his brother-in-law, Avi Lewis, announced that they are joining the faculty of the University of British Columbia; Naomi Klein will help lead the creation of a new Centre for Climate Justice.)
ScoreboardAnnals of Our Ongoing Disintegration: a Bitcoin-mining firm has found a new way to power its operations: burning waste coal, i.e., the stuff that's so marginal and so dirty that no one bothered to burn it the first time round. Each Bitcoin transaction now takes about ten minutes to process, requiring enormous energy use. (By comparison, a credit-card transaction takes less than a second and uses 0.0002 per cent of the energy.) And, as a Duke Law School expert noted recently in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, "Ransomware can't succeed without cryptocurrency," so avoiding that risk may require shutting down a booming piece of the global economy.
A new oil field slated for Namibia and Botswana threatens a hundred and thirty thousand elephants, according to a new report -- about 30 percent of all the elephants in Africa.
Bloomberg reports new data: in nearly half the world, it's now cheaper to build and operate new wind or solar-energy plants than it is to run existing coal-fired power facilities.
A project funded in part by the government of Denmark will sponsor 10,000 "student-led energy projects" around the world between now and 2030. In the process, it hopes to "train 50,000 agile and employable youth workers, with a particular focus on reducing the energy skills gap in developing nations, and for women."
Warming UpCheck out the New York City Labor Chorus singing their green-tinted version of the "Hallelujah" Chorus ("Life on Earth! So Amazing!").
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