UN conference hears litany of water disasters linked to climate crisis
Water is at the heart of the climate crisis, with an increasingly dire carousel of droughts, floods and sea level rise felt “making our planet uninhabitable”, the secretary general of the United Nations, António Guterres, has warned. On the second…
More Efficient Way to Suck Up CO2 From Air By Storing it in Baking Soda and Water
A new study shows that methods of sucking up atmospheric air and filtering out the CO2 can be improved by adding copper to the filter material, potentially opening up the technology to dozens more uses that could produce a meaningful difference in the fight against climate change. The addition of copper also converts the captured […]
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Why Saving the Whales Means Saving Ourselves – InsideClimate News
In 2016, disturbing footage captured on a sunny beach in Argentina went viral. The video appeared in news outlets around the world under variations of a disquieting headline: “Baby dolphin dies after a mob of tourists pass it around to…
Climate change: New idea for sucking up CO2 from air shows promise – BBC
Getty Images By Matt McGrath Environment correspondent A new way of sucking carbon dioxide from the air and storing it in the sea has been outlined by scientists. The authors say that this novel approach captures CO2 from the atmosphere…
Carbon capture projects tackling climate change – Al Jazeera English
A groundbreaking offshore carbon capture and storage site will be launched in the Danish part of the North Sea on Wednesday. Carbon dioxide captured in Belgium and transported by ship is to be injected into a depleted oil field 200km…
La Niña is finishing an extremely unusual three-year cycle â hereâs how it affected weather around the world
It’s hard to know exactly what climate change will mean for El Niños and La Niñas
This Arctic US Air Base Has Its Eyes on Russia. But Climate is a Bigger Threat – InsideClimate News
THULE AIR BASE, Greenland—On the last Saturday in September, ice had already begun to spread across the Arctic waters at the dock, closing the port for months to come. The temperature was 24 degrees Fahrenheit. Snow swept across the airport…
What is green energy? How solar power, wind help fight climate change – USA TODAY
The world is in the midst of a shift away from fossil fuels and towards carbon-neutral energy sources, a change expected to be as momentous as the coal that enabled the Industrial Revolution in the 1700s. The United States has pledged…
Can combining geothermal heat with direct air capture solve the climate crisis? – The Washington Post
Sucking carbon dioxide out of the sky — or “direct air capture,” as it is known by experts and scientists — is a bit like a time machine for climate change. It removes CO2 from the atmosphere and stores it…
Cool photographs capture new geopolitics of the melting Arctic – New Scientist
As global warming accelerates, the Arctic is changing fast. Gregor Sailer captures this deep shift in his photographs of military stations and ice monitoring kit, part of his exhibition called The Polar Silk Road Environment 22 February 2023 By Gege…
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