Canada's environment minister approved Wednesday a controversial offshore oil project expected to see 300 million barrels of oil extracted over 30 years—and to set back efforts to curb climate change.
Environment
Apr 7, 2022
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Plastic pollution is a global problem, contaminating terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems. Microplastics—plastic particles smaller than five millimetres in size—infiltrate and circulate in the global planetary ...
Environment
Mar 30, 2022
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As governments try to navigate a path to a safe climate in the 21st century, the public debate has focused on net zero, carbon taxes, electrification and renewable energy. Mining is rarely an anchor point of the discussion, ...
Environment
Mar 23, 2022
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Chemists have developed a nano-scale structure that combines copper, gold and silver to work as a superior catalyst in a chemical reaction whose improved performance will be essential if carbon capture and utilization efforts ...
Nanomaterials
Mar 16, 2022
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Researchers warn that permafrost peatlands in Europe and Western Siberia are much closer to a climatic tipping point than previous believed.
Earth Sciences
Mar 14, 2022
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Mumbai announced detailed plans to zero out carbon emissions by 2050, a target that puts it two decades ahead of India's national goal and makes it the first city in South Asia to set such a timeline.
Environment
Mar 14, 2022
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The No. 1 movie on Netflix in recent weeks has been "Don't Look Up," a fictionalized account of scientists struggling in vain to sound the alarm on a comet that is about to destroy Earth. Using the comet as a thinly veiled ...
Environment
Jan 26, 2022
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Taxing corporations and consumers for the amount of carbon emissions they generate can be a great way to deal with climate change—so say many leading politicians, economists and environmental activists. In Canada, we've ...
Economics & Business
Jan 25, 2022
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Latin American forests—one of the world's greatest assets in the fight against climate change—will likely continue to shrink in size and economic clout, but not necessarily in their ability to help fight global warming, ...
Ecology
Dec 23, 2021
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If all countries adopted the same tax on carbon emissions and returned the revenues to their citizens, it is possible to keep the global temperature from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius while also benefiting well-being, ...
Environment
Dec 1, 2021
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