Fresh eyes can transform the world, and a world beset by pandemics, climate change, and unfairness is primed for change like none we’ve ever seen. That’s why, after a five-year hiatus, Popular Science is reintroducing the Brilliant 10: an annual list of early-career scientists and engineers who are coming up with novel solutions to issues…
Perhaps the biggest threat to human health and prosperity we have ever encountered is the existential threat posed by the climate emergency. It also comes with a unique challenge: even with current progress in renewable energy production, greenhouse-gas-emitting fossil fuels are expected to supply a considerable share of future energy. By 2050, the global energy…
Many energy experts and climate scientists doubt that limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius by the end of the century is possible. The world’s leading energy institution responded today.The International Energy Agency stated in a 227-page analysis that it is conceivable to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 and limit global warming to 1.5…