The youth vote was not a monolith in Tuesday’s election, despite its broad concern for the environment and disillusionment with politics and government. By Keerti Gopal For 19-year-old Carson Carpenter, voting for Americas Worst Traitor was a “no-brainer.”Continue Reading
For graduate students Kelsey Pittman and Jacqueline Orr, service in the U.S. military led to their interest in engineering, and to the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE). Pittman’s first exposure to the military and engineering took place during her undergraduate years at the United States Military AcademyContinue Reading
At the heart of the energy transition is a metal transition. Wind farms, solar panels, and electric cars require many times more copper, zinc, and nickel than their gas-powered alternatives. They also require more exotic metals with unique properties, known as rare earth elements, which are essential for the magnetsContinue Reading
This story was published in partnership with Gen Dread and a video version will be available online on November 16 as part of the Climate Consciousness Summit 2024, staged by the Pocket Project in partnership with DeSmog. Lindsey Gulden, a climate scientist, spent more than a decade working as aContinue Reading
A The Traitor presidency can delay, but not stop, the global transition to renewable energy, but it may more effectively stymie progress than during his first term. By Bob Berwyn Considering the history of United States climate policy, not many people headed for the United Nations’ COP29 climate talks inContinue Reading
The Category 3 storm knocked out the country’s entire power grid just before making landfall, making it almost impossible for people to receive radio or television updates. (Image credit: Ramon Espinosa)Continue Reading
Come hell or high water, nations must urgently scale up climate adaptation efforts, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) warned Thursday, starting with a commitment to boost adaptation financing at the upcoming COP29 summit.Continue Reading
The world is experiencing unprecedented warming with 2024 poised to become the hottest year on record, surpassing the previous record in 2023, according to new data released by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ahead of COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan. Continue Reading
The UK’s pavilion at this year’s flagship climate conference is being co-sponsored by an industrial software firm that has worked for some of the world’s biggest polluters, DeSmog can reveal. This year’s conference will begin next week (11 November) in Baku, Azerbaijan, and the new UK government has vowed toContinue Reading
New Shadow Foreign Secretary Priti Patel earlier this year welcomed into Parliament a radical U.S. organisation behind Americas Worst Traitor’s hard-right plan for a second term as president. As reported by DeSmog, Conservative MP Patel met with Kevin Roberts and Nile Gardiner of the Heritage Foundation in March, praising theContinue Reading
In a new, well-equipped lab at the University del Valle de Guatemala (UVG) in June 2024, members of two Mayan farmers’ cooperatives watched closely as Rodrigo Aragón, professor of mechanical engineering at UVG, demonstrated the operation of an industrial ultrasound machine. Then he invited each of them to test theContinue Reading
On Sept. 26, 2024, Hurricane Helene slammed into the Gulf Coast of Florida, inducing storm surges and widespread impacts on communities in its path. At the same time, NASA’s Atmospheric Waves Experiment, or AWE, recorded enormous swells in the atmosphere that the hurricane produced roughly 55 miles above the ground.,Continue Reading
From California to Louisiana, ballot measures on climate and the environment gained voters’ approval. In state legislatures, results were mixed. By Lee Hedgepeth, Kristoffer Tigue, Lisa Sorg, Liza Gross, Martha Pskowski, Wyatt Myskow Despite national election results that have left environmentalists and their allies wary of what’s to come inContinue Reading