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Climate change
Climate change (sometimes "global warming") refers to the long-term change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns on Earth over time, as well as the environmental policy that seeks to address it.
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The Morning Briefing: Carbon emissions
"The Morning Briefing" is SmartPlanet's daily roundup of must-reads from the web. This morning we're reading about carbon emissions.
4 | November 15, 2012 12:24am |
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Why wind turbine blades could one day be made of vegetables
Wind turbines have a big recycling problem -- which is why plant-based turbines are the new focus.
6 | November 14, 2012 9:12pm |
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How Cray's Titan became the world's fastest supercomputer
Big Blue's new standard bearer for computing highlights the rising influence of graphics processors.
1 | November 13, 2012 4:05am |
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New Al Gore venture makes a game of proving climate science
Enjoy rebutting climate change deniers in comments or on social media? If so, the new game Reality Drop is for you.
30 | November 12, 2012 8:00pm |
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Disrupting government as usual: 'datapaloozas,' policy gaming
'The only way you will achieve systemic change is if you are prepared to 'challenge the givens.'
November 9, 2012 4:03pm |
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Will coffee soon be a thing of the past?
Enjoy your morning coffee -- it's not going to last.
60 | November 9, 2012 5:37am |
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Are Asia's megacities prepared for superstorms?
A high number of Asian cities are vulnerable to rising sea levels and that means superstorms will have greater impacts.
2 | October 31, 2012 5:52am |
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Hurricane Sandy: a bellwether for infrastructure investment
Hurricane Sandy taught the U.S. a valuable lesson in why investing in public infrastructure is important. The devastation wrought was widely expected but also preventable.
18 | October 30, 2012 7:15pm |
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This is what a New York City catastrophe looks like
New York City's Metropolitan Transit Authority has released a video showing flooding at its South Ferry-Whitehall Street subway station. It's breathtaking.
12 | October 30, 2012 4:57pm |
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Resilience lessons from Hurricane Sandy
Hurricane Sandy could finally put an end to climate change silence and denial, and teach us to build a more resilient and climate-friendly infrastructure.
80 | October 30, 2012 1:08pm |
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Hitachi buys U.K. Horizon nuclear project
Hitachi will be taking over the U.K.'s Horizon nuclear project in order to build nuclear power stations.
2 | October 30, 2012 4:44am |
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In the future, Hurricane Sandy is invisible
And that's not a good thing.
15 | October 28, 2012 7:28am |
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Romney's last minute walkback on wind subsidies
Republican Mitt Romney has reversed his longstanding opposition to tax credits that subsidize the industry just days before the vote, to gain support in the wind state of Iowa.
5 | October 26, 2012 3:46pm |
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Beijing considers cutting car use in half
Will Beijing's drastic plan to reduce car use work?
3 | October 26, 2012 6:25am |
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Four reasons why meaningful, disruptive innovation fails
Innovation: overblown? The four reasons why modern efforts fail to live up to the word's original definition.
1 | October 25, 2012 7:37am |
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Q&A: Kim Cobb, climatologist, Georgia Tech
Climatologist Kim Cobb is working to build better climate forecasts.
11 | October 22, 2012 3:00am |
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India's poor most vulnerable to rapid biodiversity loss
HYDERABAD -- India walks a tightrope between development and conservation.
2 | October 22, 2012 12:00am |
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Shipments of LED street lights to reach 17 million by 2020?
Pike Research predicts that shipment rates for LED-based street lighting will go above and beyond 17 million by 2020.
October 16, 2012 10:37am |
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Mapping our cities' CO2 emissions
Scientists have developed a way to visualize an entire city's carbon emissions.
1 | October 12, 2012 3:00am |
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What CO2 levels are power plants releasing worldwide?
Have you ever wondered what emissions company plants are producing in your locale, and which countries are making an effort to keep pollution minimal?
17 | October 11, 2012 2:12am |
