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Thunderclouds include more than just rain and lightning. In addition to visible light radiation, thunderclouds can produce powerful bursts of gamma rays that last one millionth…
Activists are urging Uber and other ride-hailing apps to disclose data on their drivers’ workload to combat exploitation and reduce carbon emissions. Analysis by Worker Info…
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 U.S. has seen a significant decrease in greenhouse gas emissions due to the growth of clean energy, but it falls short of the targets set…
Spreading rock dust on fields can sequester carbon and reduce nitrous oxide emissions.SO-Photography/Alamy Stock Photo Spreading crushed basalt on farmland and using special fertilisers to prevent…
Google’s climate footprint reduction targets are at risk due to the rising reliance on energy-intensive data centers to power its new artificial intelligence products. The tech…
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…
The 2020 rules put limits on harmful sulfur dioxide pollution in ship emissions.Robert McGaughey / Industry / Alamy A sharp drop in sulphur dioxide emissions from…
Ten years ago, the term “net zero” was a confusing term. Today, it is an important goal in the fight against climate change and a well-known…
Cement is produced in an electric furnace for the first time at the British Materials Processing Institute.Materials Processing Research Institute A new technology could use waste…
People rally in Ottawa to support ending plastic pollutionThe Canadian Press/Shutterstock Representatives from nearly every country will gather in Canada to hammer out the details of…
WASHINGTON – The Environmental Protection Agency issued a rule on Thursday that will require coal-fired power plants to capture smokestack emissions or shut down. This new…
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…
Astronomers using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array have observed long-lasting aurora-like radio bursts above sunspots. This discovery could help us better understand the behavior…
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…
MethaneSAT artist impressionsEnvironmental Defense Fund/NASA A satellite that is expected to change the way we look at global warming methane emissions from oil and gas production…
Approximately 3% of all carbon emissions come from shipping green oak/shutterstock A container ship with a total length of 240 meters. sounion trader recently completed testing…
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…
In bottom trawling, a weighted net is dragged across the ocean floor.NarisaFotoSS/Shutterstock Bottom trawling releases about 340 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each…
The United States showed a promising decline in carbon emissions in 2023, despite economic growth, indicating a move towards a more sustainable future. Greenhouse gas emissions…
Carbon emissions from fossil fuels could finally start declining in 2024 Villanor/Shutterstock Emissions of greenhouse gases that cause global warming have been on the rise since…
This image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows MCG-01-24-014. It is a spiral galaxy with an active galactic nucleus located 275 million light-years away and is…
