For Brad Plumer's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
Nations remain extraordinarily dependent on fossil fuels and are struggling to shore up supplies precisely at a moment when scientists say the world must slash its use.
The United States and China announced a joint agreement Wednesday to "enhance ambition” on climate change, saying they would work together to do more to cut emissions this decade while China committed for the first time to reduce methane, a potent greenhouse gas. The pact ...
Toyota, Volkswagen and the Nissan-Renault alliance did not join the pledge, and the governments of Japan, the United States and China — three of the largest car markets — also abstained.
Huge winter storms have plunged large parts of the central and southern United States into an energy crisis this week as frigid blasts of Arctic weather crippled electric grids and left millions of Americans without power amid dangerously cold temperatures. The grid failures were most ...
When it comes to ethanol, the United States may have reached its limit — at least for now. In 2007, Congress passed a law that would require the nation to use more ethanol and other biofuels each year. But for reasons of chemistry and economics, ...
Space is getting awfully messy. The amount of debris in Earth's orbit keeps multiplying each year, damaging satellites and putting astronauts in harm's way. If the problem gets severe enough, it could eventually make low-Earth orbit unusable. Scientists have known about the space trash problem ...
The U.S. job market is slowly improving, and most economists expect that gradual recovery to continue this year. Yet one of the most disturbing trends of the Great Recession is still very far from being reversed. America's middle-class jobs have been decimated since 2007, ...
