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I Saw a Vision of Chocolate’s Future in an Amsterdam Brownie

The real-life Willy Wonkas of confectionary are racing to cut the use of expensive cocoa. Their creations are delicious, but there's a downside, too. #Africa #Agriculture #City #Climate Change #Cote D'ivoire #Ghana #Science #Sustainability #Weather

2025-11-3 9:05pm Bloomberg Lara Williams ($) 2,000 words

Rated 2025-11-12 6:44am

Harnessing America’s Heat Pump Moment

The tech works. The policy’s in place. So why are heat pumps still a hard sell? What's stopping America from going all-in on heat pumps? #Climate Change #Home #Technology

2025-10-10 11:52am Heat Pumped Joseph DeNatale 2,000 words

Rated 2025-10-25 4:43pm

This power source is 15,000 ft below the ground | Bill Gates

A company called Fervo Energy is hoping to supercharge geothermal power with an innovative new approach to turning the earth’s heat into power. #Climate Change

gatesnotes.com Bill Gates 1,000 words

Rated 2025-9-6 2:43pm

Opinion | My 500-Mile Journey Across Alaska’s Thawing Arctic

I had read about how the rapid warming of the Arctic was upending the landscape and its people. Now I’ve seen it. #Climate Change #Global Warming #Weather #Wildfire

2024-12-15 6:00am The New York Times Jon Waterman ($) 2,000 words

Rated 2024-12-15 7:06am

Colorado’s Bold New Approach to Highways — Not Building Them

The state has made it harder to widen highways, and transportation officials are turning their eyes to transit. #Climate Change #Colorado #Global Warming #Transportation

2024-5-31 2:00am The New York Times Megan Kimble 3,000 words

Rated 2024-6-1 5:50pm

Vaclav Smil and the Value of Doubt

David Owen interviews the author and scientist Vaclav Smil, whose books on environmental issues include “Size: How It Explains the World” and “How the World Really Works.” #Climate Change #Environmentalism #Renewable energy #Science

2024-2-20 3:00am The New Yorker David Owen 4,000 words

Rated 2024-3-19 10:44pm

America Is Using Up Its Groundwater Like There’s No Tomorrow

Unchecked overuse is draining and damaging aquifers nationwide, a data investigation by the New York Times revealed, threatening millions of people and America’s status as a food superpower. #Agriculture #Climate Change #Global Warming #Water

2023-8-28 2:19pm The New York Times Mira Rojanasakul, Christopher Flavelle, Blacki Migliozzi, ... ($) 5,000 words

Rated 2023-9-26 7:16am

Is It Hot Enough Yet for Politicians to Take Real Action?

Bill McKibben writes on the recent temperature records set amid a global heat wave, on a global cascade of climate-change-related floods and disasters, and the lack of political will in Canada and the U.S. to take on the needed confrontation of oil and gas interests. #Canada #Climate Change #Global Warming #Wildfire

2023-7-11 11:18am The New Yorker Bill McKibben 2,000 words

Rated 2023-7-12 9:00am

The Last Days of Berlin's Gas Streetlamps

Looking at the German city in a different light. #City #Climate Change #Design #History #Politics

2023-6-1 7:00am Atlas Obscura Alex Rennie 2,000 words

Rated 2023-6-1 11:45pm

Small modular reactors produce high levels of nuclear waste

Small modular reactors, long touted as the future of nuclear energy, will actually generate more radioactive waste than conventional nuclear power plants, according to research from Stanford and the University of British Columbia. #Climate Change #Infrastructure

2022-5-30 12:00pm Stanford News Stanford University 1,000 words

Rated 2023-4-30 8:05am