India on track to beat its Paris targets years ahead of schedule, according to government report

In ten years, India could get almost sixty percent of its electricity from non-fossil fuel sources, according to a government forecast published this week. According to a draft of the country’s 10-year energy blueprint, the Indian government expects that 57 percent of the country total electricity capacity will come from non-fossil fuel sources by 2027 — a marked increase over the country’s Paris goals, which say that the country will reach 40 percent non-fossil fuel electricity by 2030. The draft also noted that no new coal-fired power plants would be needed to meet India’s electricity demands through 2027.

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Climate Change: Potentially Good News on Methane and Peat Carbon

Scientists studying large, ancient carbon deposits in northern peat bogs to see if climate change might push them to emit methane, have discovered that they might not. The surprising result of a new study may be an early indicator that there is one less potentially large source of a powerful greenhouse gas in Earth’s future.

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Where Forests Work Harder

New research points to a need to better understand how human-modified landscapes differ from pristine ones.

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Almost eaten in China, 37 dogs en route to Montreal

Dogs who were saved from the Yulin Dog Meat Festival in China earlier this year are on their way to Montreal and arrive at the SPCA Friday evening.

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Solar is top source of new capacity on the US grid in 2016

The US electric grid continued to transform in 2016. No new coal plants were added, and solar became the top new source of generating capacity. Combined with wind, a small bit of hydro, and the first nuclear plant added to the grid in decades, sources that generate power without carbon emissions accounted for two-thirds of the new capacity added in 2016. These numbers come from the US Energy Information Administration, which asked utilities about what sources they expected to have online at the end of the year.

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France opens world's first solar panel road in Normandy village

It is hoped that the solar panel road in Tourouvre-au-Perche could eventually provide enough energy to power the small Normandy village's street lights.

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Enter the Sapiezoic: a new aeon of self-aware global change

Humans have been altering Earth for millennia, but only now are we wise to what we’re doing. How will we use that wisdom? By David Grinspoon.

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