When politicians talk about reaching “net zero” emissions, they’re often counting on trees or technology that can pull carbon dioxide out of the air. What they don’t mention is just how much these ...
Could a Pigouvian tax help solve climate change? Back in 2019, an unprecedented group of thousands of economists signed a public letter in favor of a carbon tax as the best solution to climate change.
To hear some of the biggest boosters of artificial intelligence tell it, we shouldn’t dwell on how the technology’s development is producing large and growing greenhouse-gas emissions because AI ...
Here’s a fact that may surprise you: The global fashion industry is a leading contributor to climate change. And because people don’t often make the connection between their shopping habits and rising ...
An expert in computational linguistics, Dan Loehr gave a talk at Bowdoin on how AI is and can be used to address climate change by mitigating emissions from carbon-intensive sectors, modeling climate ...
"Three years ago or so when the Covid lockdowns happened, I had a lot of time quarantined in our house to think about my life and what we're doing," Schroepfer said in a video interview Wednesday.
F or the past few years, I’ve taught an environmental-humanities course called “Witnessing Climate Change.” I’m a literary scholar and writer, so it’s mostly a writing course, but it also introduces ...
Listen and subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Pocket Casts How should we think about aging when the impacts of climate change can make the future feel so uncertain? That’s a question ...