by Bethany Tietjen, Tufts University [This article first appeared in The Conversation on November 2, republished with permission. COP27 began on November 6 and ended on November 20] You may…
by Rachel Kyte, Tufts University [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Something significant is happening in the desert in Egypt as countries meet at COP27, the…
by Matt McDonald, The University of Queensland [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] In a crucial meeting for tackling the climate crisis, almost 200 countries will…
By Paul Chinowsky, University of Colorado Boulder [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] The 1960s and 1970s were a golden age of infrastructure development in the…
By Matthew E. Kahn, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] A group of economists has issued a new…
By William R.L. Anderegg, University of Utah [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] When people talk about ways to slow climate change, they often mention trees,…
By Eve Darian-Smith, University of California, Irvine [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Around the world, many countries are becoming less democratic. This backsliding on democracy…
By Robert Lempert, Pardee RAND Graduate School and Elisabeth Gilmore, Carleton University [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] It’s easy to feel pessimistic when scientists around…
By Jennifer Weeks, The Conversation [This article was first published in The Conversation, republished with permission] The latest reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change show that to avoid…
by Stacy Morford, The Conversation [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] To most people, a solar farm or a geothermal plant is simply a power producer….