Union Of Concerned Scientists

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The Union Of Concerned Scientists studied the ‘well to wheel’ conundrum and came up with the following conclusion: “We found that battery electric cars generate half the emissions of the average comparable gasoline car, even when pollution from battery manufacturing is accounted for.”
How clean is an electric car, really?

  Greta Thunberg and David Attenborough may be separated greatly by age and experience, but both have arguably done more in the past year than a(...)

People watch Indian prime minister Narendra Modi’s address to the nation at a shop in Jammu on Wednesday. Photograph: Jaipal Singh/EPA
India claims space power status as it shoots down satellite

India claimed on Wednesday to have successfully shot down one of its own satellites with an indigenously developed anti-satellite missile, making it t(...)

The world’s first SMR began operations in June 2018. The AP1000 was built by US manufacturing giant Westinghouse Electric Co, and is about 400km to the south of Shanghai
Given carbon emissions failure, should Ireland look at small nuclear reactors?

Ireland is struggling to reduce its greenhouse gases even while making great strides in harnessing wind power, so is there a case for looking at devel(...)

Illustration: Michael Viney
Sun worship takes work in December, the dullest month

It takes a good while for the sun to clear the mountain these mornings. But when we’re lucky, it strikes the crystal hanging in the window and flashes(...)

New report shows average world temperatures on course to far exceed goal set in the 2015 Paris Agreement. Photograph: Matt Alexander/PA
Problem of making Paris accord stick dominates UN climate summit

Negotiations at the UN summit in Poland, now entering their final political phase, continue to be dominated by issues around the strictness of a ruleb(...)

Fire near a home atop a ridge near Big Bend, California earlier this month. File photograph: Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images
Climate change will cost US economy billions, says report
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  • November 23, 2018, 20:43

Climate change will cost the US economy hundreds of billions of dollars by the end of the century, damaging everything from human health to infrastruc(...)

In this undated photograph provided by the North Korean government, leader Kim Jong Un watches the missile test on Wednesday.
US warns North Korea it will be ‘utterly destroyed’ if war breaks out

The United States has warned the North Korean leadership that it would be “utterly destroyed” if war were to break out, after Pyongyang test fired its(...)

Fiji’s prime minister speaks at the opening of the COP 23 Fiji UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn on Monday. Photograph: Martin Meissner/AP
Syria to join Paris climate agreement leaving US isolated in stance

Syria said on Tuesday that it intends to join the 2015 Paris agreement for slowing climate change, isolating the United States as the only country op(...)

Greenpeace members protest against diesel emissions. According to T&E, if one takes a measurement of a car’s whole-life carbon dioxide emissions, as opposed to merely localised exhaust pipe emissions, diesel cars actually cause the emission of more CO2 than an equivalent petrol car.
Researchers say diesel worse for CO2 than petrol

Much of the talk at last week’s Frankfurt motor show was about diesel, and how it’s still a critical fuel source for the future of motoring. In spite (...)

A South Korean man in Seoul watches a television report on a recent North Korean ballistic missile launch. Photograph: Jeon Heon-Kyun
US flies bombers over Korean peninsula after missile test

The United States has flown two supersonic B-1B bombers over the Korean peninsula in a show of force on Sunday after Pyongyang’s recent tests of inter(...)

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