Rock stars: the academics answering the construction sector’s hardest question
Our assistant editor talks to the PhD students on a mission to crack low carbon cement.
Why Carbon Capture and Storage matters: overshoot, models, and money
In the second article in our CCS series, Bertie Harrison-Broninski explains why CCS has a different status to other saviour tech: its place in climate modelling.
Is Rio a blueprint for urban climate action in the Global South?
Lauren Sneade takes a look inside Rio’s City Hall at the team tackling the climate crisis in a city where development is as crucial as climate action.
What is happening with Carbon Capture and Storage?
In the first in a new series of long reads explaining CCS, Bertie Harrison-Broninski digs into how the tech works, whether we’re on track with deployment, and what we can learn from CCS’s track record.
Should rivers have rights?
Polluted with waste and chemicals, and threatened by sprawling urbanisation, our rivers are dying. Some countries are giving them legal personhood for protection – will it work?
Laying waste to waste
The Design Museum in London’s ‘Waste Age’ exhibition shows that we cannot afford to wait to transition towards a circular economy, says Lauren Sneade.
Central Asia’s minerals offer hope for the clean energy transition
Roman Vakulchuk of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs discusses his research into untapped minerals in Central Asia that could be used for the global clean energy transition.
Rethinking net zero: why Holly Jean Buck’s ‘Why Net Zero is Not Enough’ is not enough
There are a lot of issues with the net zero framework – Holly Jean Buck’s new book could go further in imagining alternatives, says Bertie Harrison-Broninski.
Follow the science: but whose science, and to where?
Reading ‘Science Fictions’ by Stuart Richie, our Assistant Editor Lauren Sneade delves into what happens when academia and the media promote problematic research.
Temporality, fiction and climate – reading Mark Bould’s ‘Anthropocene Unconscious’
Our assistant editor reviews Mark Bould’s new book, ‘The Anthropocene Unconscious’, and questions whether we will be able to solve the climate crisis in time, and with time.
