Tag: carbon dioxide
Climate change is worsening seasonal allergies by boosting plant pollen production
Higher carbon dioxide levels and warmer temperatures are causing plants to increase their pollen production, which can be severe for allergy sufferers.
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.
Dead last (with an emphasis on dead!)
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.”
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Bipartisan bill introduced in House to ban use of pesticide paraquat in US agriculture
The bill would "direct the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel all existing paraquat registrations, revoke any tolerances permitting paraquat residue in food, and ban the sale and use of existing stocks upon enactment."
Why Biden’s debate disaster two years ago matters for the future
Looking ahead, a great need will be to overcome the ongoing culture of conformity that so badly damaged the Democratic Party in 2024 and helped Trump get back into the White House.
Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta
Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.
Anti-ICE protesters sentenced to decades as Trump turns ‘antifa’ label into prosecution tool
The Prairieland case transformed a July 4 protest outside a Texas immigration jail into a terrorism prosecution, with sentences from 30 to 100 years and warnings of a new federal playbook against left-wing dissent.
Alaska governor vetoes single-use polystyrene foam foodware ban
For now, polystyrene products will remain legal for use by commercial food vendors statewide.