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Tibetan PlateauNicolas Marino/Mauritius Images GmbH/Alamy Climate change is causing winter temperatures to rise faster than summer temperatures, especially in high-altitude regions. This “asymmetric” warming could change…
Using data from near infrared spectrometer (NIRSpec) Astronomers aboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have detected carbon dioxide (CO2) and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) The frozen…
Canada’s historic wildfire season last year resulted in the burning of numerous trees, causing forests to emit more carbon than the fossil fuel emissions of most…
The researchers modeled nearly one million driving scenarios at US intersections. Aerial Photo Archive / Alamy Stock Photo You may have the habit of accelerating when approaching an intersection and then slamming on the brakes at red lights. This common habit can result in significant amounts of carbon dioxide emissions each year. But if modern
The new biomaterial, called C-ELM, incorporates live cyanobacteria in translucent panels that can be attached to the interior walls of buildings. The microbes embedded in these…
The Xingu indigenous people’s homeland in the Amazon could cover more than 900 square kilometres of dark land.Leo F. Freitas/Getty Images The Amazon’s rich soil, farmed…
British Columbia, Canada, during the 2023 wildfire season David J. Mitchell/Shutterstock Extreme heat, drought and wildfires have caused forests and other land ecosystems to emit almost…
Denmark is taking action to address methane emissions, a significant contributor to global warming. Starting in 2030, Denmark will be the first country to implement a…
A building damaged by a drone strike in Kiev in October 2022Roman Fritzina/Associated Press/Alamy A group of climate experts estimates that the first two years of…
Is removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere one of the best weapons against climate change? Climeworks, a Swiss company, believes so, as they have recently unveiled…
A startup is testing a new system to capture carbon dioxide from ship exhaust and release it into the ocean. calcareous Ships can capture their own…
Iceland’s Mammoth direct air recovery plant is the world’s largest Crime Works Over the past 250 years or so, humans have released more carbon dioxide into…
Shutterstock/MaxZolotukh It’s that time of year, at least in the northern hemisphere, when people start planning their summer vacations. I am in the market myself and…
Elephants increase carbon storage by trampling small trees and grazing on grass. Art Konovalov/Shutterstock Thanks to animals, many ecosystems may be able to store two to…
A tractor spreading powdered concrete at a silicate testing site in Irelandsilicate carbon A field trial in Ireland suggests that pulverizing the world's vast amounts of…
In August 2021, ESA/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft bound for Mercury Performed a second flyby of Venus, providing short-term observations of its guided magnetosphere. The spacecraft detected cold…
Free electric vehicle charging stations to be used in San Francisco in 2020 Liz Hafaria/San Francisco Chronicle, via AP/Alamy Thanks to the growing popularity of electric…
The Biden administration revealed updated vehicle emissions standards on Wednesday, described as the most ambitious effort yet to reduce global warming emissions from passenger vehicles. While…
algae: A single-celled organism that was once thought to be a plant (though it is not actually a plant). As aquatic organisms, they grow in water.…
Changing wastewater discharged into the ocean could help store carbonStock Photo-Graph / Alamy Reducing the acidity of the vast amounts of wastewater discharged into the ocean…
Jupiter's moon Callisto has impact crater scars on its surface and its atmosphere contains carbon dioxide gas. NASA/JPL/DLR Astronomers have discovered gaseous carbon dioxide in the…
of Sturtian “Snowball Earth” Ice Age (717 million to 661 million years ago) is considered the most extreme icehouse period in Earth’s history. In a new…
This direct air recovery system can extract carbon dioxide from the air and reuse it later, but it requires a lot of energy. Orjan Ellingvorg /…
alkalinity: An adjective describing a chemical that produces hydroxide ions (OH-) in solution. These solutions are also called basic, as the opposite of acidic, and have…
In the proposed carbon capture method, above-ground magnesium oxide crystals combine with carbon dioxide molecules from the surrounding air, causing the formation of magnesium carbonate. The…
This carbon nitride is almost as hard as diamond.Dominic Ranier and others An elusive material that scientists have wanted to create for decades has finally been…
An HTML tag can be used to define the structure, design, and functions of a webpage. The atmosphere is the envelope of gas that surrounds the…
New research published in Nature It has been suggested that the ocean’s capacity to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is 20% higher than previously thought,…
A new study finds that accounting for the long-term effects of tropical cyclones increases the global social cost of carbon by more than 20%. This increase…
