Issues & Trends

http://securingamericasfutureenergy.cmail20.com

Saudi Arabia is ready for a world without oil.

http://www.nytimes.com - Matt Richtel and Fernanda Santos

The first Alaska wildfire of 2016 broke out in late February, followed by a second there just eight days later.

http://www.pv-tech.org- Andy Colthorpe

Using PV, wind and CSP, a ‘Supergrid’ interconnecting North Africa and Europe could take both regions close to 100% renewable energy by 2050, but would require political will and ambitious market design, an expert at Fraunhofer ISE has said.  

http://www.scidev.net - Lou Del Bello

Global conflicts now often last longer than they did, and they are becoming more complex to understand and address. Some of the worst civil wars, for example in Syria or South Sudan, have now lasted so long that young children born there hardly remember peace.

http://www.bloomberg.com - Tom Randall

Humanity's experiment with planetary warming has reached a new level of extremes. Last month was the hottest February in 137 years of record keeping, according to data released Thursday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

http://www.reuters.com - Ben Hirschler

As the world focuses on Zika's rapid advance in the Americas, experts warn the virus that originated in Africa is just one of a growing number of continent-jumping diseases carried by mosquitoes threatening swathes of humanity.

https://www.washingtonpost.com - Chris Mooney

For the second time in a month, leading scientists have closely tied the ancient history of the vast Antarctic ice sheet to a key planetary parameter that humans are now controlling — the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

http://www.eurasiareview.com

A new NASA study finds that the recent drought that began in 1998 in the eastern Mediterranean Levant region, which comprises Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, and Turkey, is likely the worst drought of the past nine centuries.

http://www.pv-tech.org - Tom Kenning

PV Cycle, a not-for-profit compliance and waste management programme solar PV technology in Europe, has achieved a record recycling rate of 96% for silicon-based PV modules.

Previous records stood at around 90%, a PV Cycle spokeswoman told PV Tech.

http://www.climatechangenews.com/ - Ed King

Hottest year on record linked to soaring levels of drought, heatwaves and rising seas, but better warning systems mean fewer deaths