Now we’re cooking with electromagnetism
Sixty per cent of the heat created by gas ranges ends up heating you and your kitchen, not the food; with an induction range, only 14 per cent of the heat is lost.
methane
A toxic threat lurks in thawing permafrost
Scientists are tracking neurotoxic methylmercury production in North America’s largest peatland.
Meat, dairy and rice production will bust 1.5 C climate target
A detailed study has shown that emissions from the food system alone will drive the world past the global heating target unless high-methane foods are tackled.
One island community’s answer to climate change? Feed everyone
Quadra Island's Climate Action Team is launching a food recovery program to tackle climate change and food insecurity in the small coastal community.
Our eating habits could add nearly 1 degree of warming by 2100
Greenhouse gas emissions from the way humans produce and consume food could add nearly 1 degree of warming to the Earth’s climate by 2100, according to a new study.
It's not easy to measure methane, say energy companies told to reduce emissions
The doors of a metal box slide open, and a drone rises over a gas well in Pennsylvania. Its mission: To find leaks of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, so that energy companies can plug the leaks and reduce the emissions that pollute the air.
Salt marsh microbes threaten to mutate the atmosphere
Turf wars between the microbes dictate how much carbon salt marshes store and how much methane they pump into the air.
Lobby group tries to sell the world on gas as ‘green’ answer to energy security
The international gas lobby playbook hinges on rebranding planet-warming natural gas as green and key to energy security, new documents reveal.
U.S. proposes rule cracking down on methane leaks from public lands drilling
The U.S. Interior Department on Monday proposed rules to limit methane leaks from oil and gas drilling on public lands, the latest action by the Biden administration to crack down on emissions of the potent greenhouse gas.
Canada lays out new regulations for methane emissions from oil and gas
The proposed changes address all major sources of methane emissions from oil and gas, but there are still questions about reporting and measuring the greenhouse gas.
Canadian methane emissions are vastly underestimated
As the federal government moves to tighten regulations on methane emissions, new assessments suggest the amount of the potent greenhouse gas escaping into the atmosphere has been significantly underestimated.
Most home compostable plastics don’t work
Most plastics marketed as “home compostable” don’t actually work, with as much as 60 per cent failing to disintegrate after six months, according to new research.
Canadian Gas Association under investigation for alleged greenwashing
A prominent natural gas industry lobby group is being investigated by Canada’s Competition Bureau for alleged greenwashing one month after health-care workers raised the alarm over one of its advertising campaigns.
Climate progress? Someone forgot to tell the atmosphere
Reality check — as the world embarks on a fourth decade of climate meetings and promises, all three major greenhouse gases are accelerating upwards, unchecked. And Canada …