While renewable energy is needed, wind turbines cannot, for example, be built too close to residential areas due to noise and landscape factors. Then again, erecting turbines in uninhabited areas makes nature more fragmented ...
Environment
Dec 7, 2021
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Many future climate scenarios suggest that negative emissions will be needed to limit global warming. Researchers are now investigating how feasible this is.
Environment
Nov 22, 2021
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Carbon dioxide (CO2), a product of burning fossil fuels and the most prevalent greenhouse gas, has the potential to be sustainably converted back into useful fuels. A promising route for turning CO2 emissions into a fuel ...
Materials Science
Nov 17, 2021
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It must be painful for Boris Johnson to be a footnote, especially a footnote in French, but at the end of a very long two weeks, there were always only two outcomes possible at the UN climate summit in Glasgow. A Copenhagen-style ...
Environment
Nov 16, 2021
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Pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions are very welcome—but accurate monitoring across the globe is crucial if we are to meet targets and combat the devastating consequences of global warming.
Environment
Nov 16, 2021
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In Finland, peat soils account for only ten percent of agricultural land; yet they are responsible for more than half of the country's agricultural emissions. At the moment, researchers are working hard to find smart agricultural ...
Agriculture
Nov 15, 2021
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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
Nov 12, 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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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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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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