Tag: carbon dioxide
Air pollution is killing millions and rising exponentially—a shift in agriculture...
We must find a better way to prevent land use from changing.
Reintroduction of 170 European bison could help remove CO2 equivalent of...
A new study by researchers from Yale University and Memorial University of Newfoundland has found that a herd of 170 bison being reintroduced to the Țarcu mountains of Romania could help sequester carbon dioxide emissions.
Iceland opens biggest operational CO2 plant in the world
The plant, named Mammoth, is the second commercial facility opened by the company to aid in the reduction of fossil fuel emissions to combat the effects of climate change.
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Unfortunately, on a planet they are helping to overheat in a remarkable fashion, the United Arab Emirates, Iran, and Saudi Arabia have largely taken steps toward ever more carbon dioxide emissions.
Wildfires unleash deadly air crisis as Western USA chokes on toxic...
Rising wildfire smoke nullifies decades of air quality gains.
Carbon dioxide in atmosphere reaches highest levels in millions of years,...
“We have known about this for half a century, and have failed to do anything meaningful about it. What’s it going to take for us to wake up?”
‘Biggest story in the world right now’: Humanity has flipped Amazon...
The findings, said one expert, “show that the uncertain future is happening now.”
Atmospheric methane levels surge in 2020 to highest level in millions...
“If countries make plans now to put society on a path of sustained and dramatic cuts to emissions from today, we can avoid ever-rising emissions and the dangerously accelerating impacts of climate change.”
Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere hit highest level in 3...
"The rate of rise in the last decade has been faster than previous decades."
Concentration of CO2 hits record high
“The saddest thing is that this won’t be breaking news. And basically no one understands the full meaning of this.”
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Ocean temperatures 800 times more likely due to climate crisis fuel Hurricane Milton’s explosive...
According to Climate Central, a research organization specializing in climate impacts, the record-breaking sea temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico provided the fuel that allowed Hurricane Milton to intensify at an unprecedented pace.
Blowout erupts in west Texas’s Permian Basin, creating 100-Foot tower of oily water
A 1961 oil and gas well is the suspected source of a geyser eruption in the region where Permian wastewater disposal is causing a flurry of earthquakes.
Supreme Court refuses to hear Biden’s emergency abortion rule appeal, allowing Texas ban to...
This decision came on the first day of the Court’s new term and has significant implications for the legal landscape of reproductive rights across the country.
California passes first US clothing recycling law: A bold step toward sustainability in fashion
The aim is to combat the growing environmental crisis posed by the fast fashion industry and textile waste, which has increasingly burdened the state’s landfills and ecosystem.
Prestige, power, and dear old alma mater
Must higher education always genuflect before America’s highest incomes?