This Climate Policy Could Save the Planet

Here’s a smart way for us to limit carbon emissions and keep global warming below 2 °C. International climate-change negotiators are focused on keeping global warming at or below 2 °C above historical levels—the limit beyond which the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says the consequences of global warming will become catastrophic. But even though negotiators may have finally […]

How Old Is Too Old for a Nuclear Reactor?

The nuclear industry’s efforts to keep aging plants operating highlight questions about nuclear power’s future in the U.S. As the ongoing climate summit in Paris has moved from rosy exhortations by world leaders to the gritty, behind-closed-doors business of crafting an international agreement on limiting emissions of greenhouse gases, one theme has emerged: it is now broadly acknowledged that any […]