For some time, the Earth's natural resources have been depleted faster than they can be replaced. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has set a 2030 deadline to reduce heat-trapping emissions by half to avoid climate ...
Environment
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A new satellite destined to be Europe's prime mission for monitoring and tracking carbon dioxide emissions from human activity is being put through its paces at ESA's Test Centre in the Netherlands. With nations at COP26 ...
Planetary Sciences
Nov 11, 2021
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Corporate carbon polluters plant trees to counter their CO2 emissions, but activists warn against greenwashing and say such afforestation schemes detract from the emissions reductions needed to combat climate change.
Environment
Nov 11, 2021
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Earth's atmosphere reacted in surprising ways to the lowering of emissions during the pandemic, showing how closely climate warming and air pollution are linked.
Environment
Nov 10, 2021
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Sébastien Biraud is a Berkeley Lab scientist leading an effort to identify and mitigate some of the largest emitters of methane in California's Southern San Joaquin Valley. Methane is a short-lived air pollutant and greenhouse ...
Environment
Nov 10, 2021
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There were four big announcements during the first week of COP26, the U.N. climate conference in Glasgow: on coal, finance, methane and deforestation. Of those four, the global methane pledge could have the most immediate ...
Environment
Nov 9, 2021
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On a field ringed by rolling green hills in Iceland, fans attached to metal structures that look like an industrial-sized Lego project are spinning. Their mission is to scrub the atmosphere by sucking carbon dioxide from ...
Environment
Nov 8, 2021
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Shipping, which transports 90% of the world's trade, contributes nearly 3% of global emissions—a little more than the carbon footprint of Germany. If gone unchecked, this share could increase to 17% by 2050 as the world's ...
Environment
Nov 8, 2021
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The dramatic drop in carbon dioxide emissions from the pandemic lockdown has pretty much disappeared in a puff of coal-fired smoke, much of it from China, a new scientific study found.
Environment
Nov 4, 2021
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Global carbon dioxide emissions have bounced back after COVID-19 restrictions and are likely to reach close to pre-pandemic levels this year, our analysis released today has found.
Environment
Nov 4, 2021
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