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Computer models have found that recent heat waves in the north Pacific may be due to a large reduction in aerosols emitted by factories in China. The findings have been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Phys.Org reports:… Continue reading Heat Waves In North Pacific May Be Due To China Reducing Aerosols
Swedish energy company Stockholm Exergi and Microsoft have announced a 10-year deal that will provide the tech giant with more than 3.3 million tons of carbon removal certificates through bioenergy with carbon capture and storage. While the value of th… Continue reading Stockholm Exergi Lands World’s Largest Permanent Carbon Removal Deal With Microsoft
Poor countries must demonstrate clearer accounting and transparency to back up their calls for trillions of dollars of climate finance, the president of global climate negotiations has said. From a report: Mukhtar Babayev, the ecology minister of Azerb… Continue reading Poorer Nations Must Be Transparent Over Climate Spending, Says Cop29 Leader
The Earth’s magnetic field is vital for life – without it, the Sun’s radiation would sterilize the planet. But a new study suggests we wouldn’t be here at all if that magnetic field hadn’t almost completely collapsed half a billion years ago.Continue R… Continue reading Would we exist if Earth’s magnetic field hadn’t collapsed 500m years ago?
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Oil and gas equipment intended to cut methane emissions is preventing scientists from accurately detecting greenhouse gases and pollutants, a satellite image investigation has revealed. Energy comp… Continue reading Methane Emissions From Gas Flaring Being Hidden From Satellite Monitors
Large swathes of Asia are sweltering through a heatwave that has topped temperature records from Myanmar to the Philippines and forced millions of children to stay home from school. From a report: In India, record temperatures have triggered a deadly h… Continue reading Extreme Heat Continues To Scorch Large Parts of Asia
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Energy ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) major democracies reached a deal to shut down their coal-fired power plants in the first half of the 2030s, in a significant step towards the transition awa… Continue reading G7 Reaches Deal To Exit From Coal By 2035
Countries are for the first time considering restrictions on the global production of plastic — to reduce it by 40% in 15 years — in an attempt to protect human health and the environment. From a report: As the world attempts to make a treaty to cut … Continue reading Countries Consider Pact To Reduce Plastic Production By 40% in 15 Years
Oakland, California is now home to “the first commercial hydrogen fuel station for big-rig trucks in the United States,” according to the Los Angeles Times — serving 30 hydrogen fuel-cell trucks.
The newspaper says the facility “could mark the s… Continue reading America’s First Big-Rig Hydrogen Fuel Station Opens in California
An international team of scientists used 1.8 billion letters of genetic code from more than 9,500 species covering almost 8,000 known flowering plant genera to create the most up-to-date understanding of the flowering plant tree of life. The research h… Continue reading Vast DNA Tree of Life For Plants Revealed By Global Science Team