Collaborate Disseminate
Scorching weather has baked Europe in more days of “extreme heat stress” than its scientists have ever seen. The Guardian: Heat-trapping pollutants that clog the atmosphere helped push temperatures in Europe last year to the highest or second-highest l… Continue reading Europe Baked in ‘Extreme Heat Stress’ Pushing Temperatures To Record Highs
An anonymous reader shared this report from CNN:
On a slice of the ocean front in west Singapore, a startup is building a plant to turn carbon dioxide from air and seawater into the same material as seashells, in a process that will also produce “green… Continue reading Startup is Building the World’s Largest Ocean-Based Carbon Plant – and It’s Scalable
South America’s Amazon River has reached its lowest level since measurements began, according to the Washington Post, while temperatures “hovered above 110 degrees Fahrenheit” for nearly a week as April began in the capital of Mali. “Nights offered lit… Continue reading Could the Earth’s Record Hot Streak Signal a New Climate Era?
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Ocean waves crashing on the world’s shores emit more PFAS into the air than the world’s industrial polluters, new research has found, raising concerns about environmental contamination and human ex… Continue reading Ocean Spray Emits More PFAS Than Industrial Polluters, Study Finds
An anonymous reader shares a report: A storm hit the United Arab Emirates and Oman this week bringing record rainfall that flooded highways, inundated houses, grid-locked traffic and trapped people in their homes. […] In the UAE, a record 254 millime… Continue reading What Caused the Storm That Brought Dubai To a Standstill?
Average incomes will fall by almost a fifth within the next 26 years as a result of the climate crisis, according to a study that predicts the costs of damage will be six times higher than the price of limiting global heating to 2C. From a report: Risi… Continue reading Average World Incomes To Drop By Nearly a Fifth By 2050, Study Says
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Monday declared that Earth is in the midst of a “4th global coral bleaching event” that’s been documented over the last 14 months in every major ocean basin, including off Florida in the United Sta… Continue reading World’s Coral Reefs Hit By a Fourth Mass Bleaching Event, NOAA Says
Meanwhile, in Southern California, nonprofit news site Canary Media reports that an old gas combustion plant is being replaced by a “power bank” named Nova.
It’s expected to store “more electricity than all but one battery plant currently operating i… Continue reading California Replaces Gas Plant with Giant, Billion-Dollar Grid Battery
Aboard the deck of a World War II-era aircraft carrier, University of Washington scientists flicked the switch on a glorified snow-making machine,” reports the Seattle Times. They describe the scientists “blasting a plume of saline spray off the coast … Continue reading Cloud Brightening Research Begins in California
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: It was billed as a glass-walled city of the future, an ambitious centerpiece of the economic plan backed by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to transition Saudi Arabia away from oil dependency. Now… Continue reading Saudi Arabia ‘Forced To Scale Back’ Plans For Desert Megacity