The World’s Largest Concentrated Solar Power Plant, Big Picture

The world’s largest concentrated solar power plant, Shams 1, launched on Sunday, representing a major milestone in the development of renewable energy in the Middle East. Taking three years to build, the $600m plant is located in Abu Dhabi’s western region, the heart of the UAE’s hydrocarbon industry.

Green versus Gray: Nature’s Solutions To Infrastructure Demands

An emerging hypothesis in environmental management settings is that investment in ecosystem-based green infrastructure solutions provides economically superior environmental quality outcomes when compared to investments in technology-based or “gray” infrastructure.

When to Say No

In itself, the Keystone pipeline will not push the world into a climate apocalypse. But it will continue to fuel our appetite for oil and add to the carbon load in the atmosphere. There is no need to accept it.

Ozone Layer Above North Pole Expected to Recover

Good news for the ozone layer above the Arctic.The Montreal Protocol is showing effects: according to recent measurements, the ozone layer over the North Pole should recover by the end of the century.

Meteorologist On Climate Change: Viewers Are Less Skeptical

The number of American adults who are “very certain that global warming is not occurring” has dropped from 16 percent in 2010 to 8 percent in 2012, according to a survey released by Yale University. But a recent poll still shows a nation split over questions of whether climate change is real, whether humans play a major role in it, and what can be done about it.