Category: Climate Action & Science

There came a point when I began to see serpents everywhere. The vision of serpents began timidly, with the faint pencil outline of the canopy that defined the site where Alessandro Arienzo, my partner,…

Architecture is born from the need to establish a relationship between human beings and the world around them. Before it is shelter, it is a way of constructing a place: a space capable of…

California just became the first state to address a problem most people don’t know they have: inefficient tires.  When automakers design a new vehicle, low rolling resistance tires are one of the least expensive…

Over 110,000 customers remained without power across the islands Monday afternoon amid widespread flooding. The post Hawaii reeling after Lala’s powerful sideswipe appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.

Print article Share Emissions from land-use change – including deforestation, loss of peatland and forest degradation – have been falling over the course of the 21st century. The latest Global Carbon Budget report, formally…

Print article Share The second-largest reservoir in the US reached a record-low water height on Saturday – just days after the country’s largest reservoir broke its own record.  Both Lake Mead and Lake Powell…

A compact SUV with a nominal third row and 45 miles of range, the updated Outlander PHEV can be a viable EV alternative—if owners plug it in. For much of the 2010s, the Mitsubishi…

The off-road specialist BC Customs will compete against Ford and General Motors for a new Army vehicle program that makes more space for hybrid EVs.  The post The US Army Takes Another Step Towards…

Following a key legal deadline last Friday, the stage is now set for the Ohio Power Siting Board to make a final decision about whether the state’s largest solar and energy storage project to…

The waters of Boston Harbor, most famous for the crates of tea hurled rebelliously into them more than 250 years ago, could soon be the site of a whole new kind of disruption. “We’re…

A failed heat pump pressure switch led to airflow testing, furnace relocation, ductwork replacement, and removal of an unused block chimney. Source: Green Building Advisor.

For our basement reno we would prefer to keep our washer/dryer along the exterior wall where the previous owners positioned them, and add shower controls/head along the same side. We’re…