Attenborough’s voice is beautiful only | The Express Tribune

Several months ago, I watched the documentary A Life on Our Planet, which has beautiful and impeccable narration by David Attenborough. In the film, he talks about his experience with nature spanning through decades. When I watched the film, I was absolutely in awe of the great body of knowledge it conveyed to the viewers in such a dramatic and entertaining way.

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Study: U.S. Fossil Fuel Subsidies Exceed Pentagon Spending

The United States has spent more subsidizing fossil fuels in recent years than it has on defense spending, according to a new from the International Monetary Fund. The IMF found that direct and indirect subsidies for coal, oil and gas in the U.S. reached $649 billion in 2015.

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Why HBO’s “Chernobyl” Gets Nuclear So Wrong

Since the start of HBO’s mini-series about the 1986 nuclear disaster, “Chernobyl,” journalists have praised the series for getting the facts of the event right, even if its creators took some creative liberties. “The first thing to understand about the HBO mini-series “Chernobyl,” wrote a reporter for The New York Times, “is that a lot of it is made up.

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Welfare Kings? Study Finds Half of New Oil Production Unprofitable Without Government Handouts

A new study published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Energy found that 50 percent of new oil production in America would be unprofitable if not for government subsidies. The study, performed by researchers at the Stockholm Environment Institute and Earth Track, Inc., found that, at prices of

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It goes completely against what most believe, but out of all major energy sources, nuclear is the safest

Our World in Data presents the empirical evidence on global development in entries dedicated to specific topics. This blog post draws on data and research discussed in our entry on Energy Production and Changing Energy Sources. Energy production and consumption is a fundamental component to econom

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When Indian Point is replaced by natural gas, radioactive emissions will increase by 50%, CO2 by 40x

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo must have been very happy last week when he announced that the two nuclear reactors at Indian Point Energy Center in Westchester County would be closing in 2020 and 2021. After all, for fifteen years Cuomo has been doing…

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Scott Pruitt Chose the Wrong Coal Mine for His Big Speech About Reviving Coal

Scott Pruitt is gearing up to tell a crew of coal miners how the Trump administration is going to make coal mining great again.

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How Nuclear Power Can Stop Global Warming

When the Atlantic Navigator docked in Baltimore harbor earlier this month, the freighter carried the last remnants of some of the nuclear weapons that the Soviet Union had brandished in the cold war. During the past 20 years more than 19,000 Russian warheads have been dismantled and processed to make fuel for U.S.

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Death Rate From Nuclear Power Vs Coal? This May Surprise You

Seth Godin recently posted this simplified chart, from an altogether more complicated one. He maintains that this is a simple yet non-exaggerated version of the complicated one. The point is that for each person killed by nuclear power generation, 4,000 die from coal.

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Trump Owns Stake In Hotly Disputed $3.8 Billion Oil Pipeline, Conflict Of Interest Looms

Activists of the Dakota Access Pipeline say they will deny a federal order to leave the land they are protesting on. The $3.8 billion pipeline is earmarked to transport 470,000 barrels per day of crude from Bakken oil fields to refineries and markets in the Midwest, East Coast and Gulf Coast.

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Renewables just passed coal as the largest source of new electricity worldwide

It’s been a long run, coal, but your reign is over. Renewable energy sources have passed coal as the largest new source of electricity in the world, according data released Tuesday by the International Energy Agency (IEA). The transition of the world’s energy sources is critical for avoiding a 2°C rise in global temperatures.

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Here are 6 reasons why nuclear needs to be a key part of America’s energy mix

This feature was produced in collaboration between Vox Creative and Nuclear Energy Institute. Vox editorial staff was not involved in the creation or production of this content. America’s nuclear energy plants are – by a wide margin – the nation’s largest source of carbon-free power. They produce clean, reliable electricity as well as well-paying jobs.

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Study Finds Biofuels Worse for Climate than Gasoline

Years of number crunching that had seemed to corroborate the climate benefits of American biofuels were starkly challenged in a science journal on Thursday, with a team of scientists using a new approach to conclude that the climate would be better off without them.

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