Forbes How Is First Solar’s Series 6 Transition Progressing?ForbesFirst Solar is getting ready to roll out its Series 6 modules next year. The panels are viewed as one of First Solar’s most important product launches in years, as they allow it to compete more directly with silicon-based panels in terms of both …First Solar, Inc.…

Quartz Inside the Chinese border town where North Koreans get their solar powerQuartzAt least some North Koreans are embracing solar energy as a solution to the isolated country’s outdated and unreliable energy infrastructure. In the busy Chinese border town of Dandong, personal solar panels are being bundled into packages aimed at …

Nature.com Limiting global warming to 1.5 °C may still be possibleNature.comA team of climate scientists has delivered a rare bit of good news: it could be easier than previously thought to limit global warming to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, as called for in the 2015 Paris climate agreement. But even if the team is…

CBC.ca Global warming speeds up due to Pacific ‘flip’ – Technology … – CBC.caCBC.caAfter slightly slowing for the past 15 years, global warming is once again rising more quickly due to a decade-long weather pattern that warms and cools the …The ‘slowdown’ in global warming is over warns Met Office | Daily …Daily MailA Pacific flip…

New York Times US Governors at UN Assembly: ‘You Have Allies’ on Climate ChangeNew York TimesBut with the Trump administration vowing to leave the Paris agreement on climate change — affirmed on Monday by Gary D. Cohn, the chief White House economic adviser, at a meeting with allied ministers — Democratic state governors are taking…

The Nation. This Department Is the Last Hideout of Climate Change Believers in Donald Trump’s GovernmentThe Nation.Think of this as the new face of homeland security: containing the damage to America’s seacoasts, forests, and other vulnerable areas caused by extreme weather events made all the more frequent and destructive thanks to climate change. This is…

New York Times The Real Unknown of Climate Change: Our Behavior – The New …New York TimesScientific predictions about Earth’s sensitivity to greenhouse gases have generally held up. But no one can predict how much more carbon pollution people will …Barrie Dunsmore: Looking straight into the eye of climate changevtdigger.org all 72 news articles »

VICE en_us Phoenix Will Be Almost Unlivable by 2050 Thanks to Climate ChangeVICE en_usSorry to put such a fine point on this, but even without climate change, Phoenix, Arizona, is already pretty uninhabitable. Don’t get me wrong, I spend a fair amount of time there, and I love it—particularly in the fall and winter—but without…

Inhabitat Beyond “catastrophic” climate changeBulletin of the Atomic ScientistsA paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences makes the case for a new category of climate change so risky that it goes beyond “dangerous” and even “catastrophic.” The authors call the new category “unknown.” It doesn’t have …New study shows a 1-in-20 chance…

The Guardian How to win the battle against ‘sanitary’ wasteThe GuardianPerhaps it is no coincidence that the record-breaking fatberg was discovered during a week of coordinated nationwide beach clean-ups, run by volunteers (Monster fatberg found inside London sewer, 13 September). Fatbergs like the “monster” found in … and more »