The latest International Energy Agency Electricity Market report predicts that while the world’s electricity demand growth slowed only slightly in 2022, renewables, together with nuclear power will meet the vast majority of the increase in global demand through to 2025, making significant rises in the power sector’s carbon emissions unlikely.

New research at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of California Riverside demonstrates how global warming could make plants a future threat to air quality. And then there’s the sand…