( Sustainability Times ) – Emissions from the burning of fossil fuels are driving climate change, which imperils the health of life on the planet and so harms us all. Yet the burning of fossil fuels also harms us directly by contributing to a variety of diseases, many of them life-threatening. “Long-term exposure to ambient […]
Is there a climate link to Miami’s condo catastrophe?
By Laureen Fagan | – ( Sustainability Times) – The tragic collapse of an oceanfront condominium near Miami has captured attention across the world, and the search for some 159 people lost in the rubble remains a top priority for rescue crews. But investigators are beginning to look at what caused the catastrophe too, and […]
How Renewables could Forestall an Egypt-Sudan-Ethiopia War over the Grand Renaissance Nile Dam
By Laureen Fagan | – ( Sustainability Times) – Renewable sources have the power when it comes to the energy future of East Africans, but they also may prove a solution to a complicated diplomatic and geopolitical problem. That’s according to scientists at Belgium’s Vrije Universiteit Brussel, who say that adding solar and wind energy […]
On Top of Causing Deadly Global Heating, Fossil fuels cause 1 in 5 Adult deaths each year
( Sustainability Times) – Researchers at Harvard University in the United States, working with colleagues at the University of Birmingham, the University of Leicester and University College London in the United States, estimate in a new study that exposure to airborne fine particulate matter (PM2.5) from fossil fuel emissions resulted in nearly one in five […]
Oil’s Götterdämmerung: Why Covid-19 could Hasten the end of Fossil Fuels
( Sustainability Times) – Last week the oil market took another plunge that saw the price of one barrel of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) fall 8 percent to $10.45 on Tuesday.. Last Monday, WTI crashed by 25 percent and rocked the market, yet the decline was relatively minor compared to what happened two weeks ago […]
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