New catalyst efficiently turns carbon dioxide into useful fuels and chemicals

(Brown University) By efficiently converting CO2 into complex hydrocarbon products, a new catalyst developed by a team of Brown researchers could potentially aid in large-scale efforts to recycle excess carbon dioxide.

Global Warming Could Unlock Carbon From Tropical Soil – The New York Times

Humble dirt could pack an unexpected climate punch, according to a new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature. An experiment that heated soil underneath a tropical rainforest to mimic temperatures expected in the coming decades found that hotter soils…

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: Activists sound alarm over Texas highway project

Environmental justice advocates are urging Texas officials to scrap a controversial highway expansion project, saying it would increase air pollution and bulldoze communities of color.

The Tyranny Of Global Warmists Is Worse Than You Think

“The more one has paid for a forgery, the more one defends it in the face of all the evidence to the contrary,” writes John Le Carré in his novel about espionage and deception, Smiley’s People. This certainly seems to…

‘As the tundra burns, we cannot afford climate silence’: a letter from the Arctic | Victoria Herrmann

When you stand facing an exposed edge of permafrost, you can feel it from a distance. It emanates a cold that tugs on every one of your senses. Permanently bound by ice year after year, the frozen soil is packed…

Images show Martian night sky pulsing with ultraviolet light

Vast areas of Mars’ nightside atmosphere glow and pulsate with ultraviolet light, according to images from NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft.

Images show Martian night sky pulsing with ultraviolet light

Vast areas of Mars’ nightside atmosphere glow and pulsate with ultraviolet light, according to images from NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft.

NASA finds Jangmi now an Extra-Tropical Storm

(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) NASA’s Aqua satellite obtained a visible image of Tropical Storm Jangmi after it transitioned into an extra-tropical storm.

A Giant Nuclear Fusion Reactor Hotter than the Sun to Provide Unlimited Clean Energy to the World Marks Milestone

The assembly phase of one of humanity’s most-complex engineering projects—a giant nuclear fusion reactor called ITER—launched in France.

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Canada’s last intact ice shelf collapses due to global warming – MarketWatch

Much of Canada’s remaining intact ice shelf has broken apart into hulking iceberg islands thanks to a hot summer and global warming, scientists said. Canada’s 4,000-year-old Milne Ice Shelf on the northwestern edge of Ellesmere Island had been the country’s…