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On February 14, 2023 we announced our Rebuttal Update Project. This included an ask for feedback about the added "At a glance" section in the updated basic rebuttal versions. This weekly blog post series highlights this new section of one of the updated basic rebuttal versions and serves as a...

PHYS.ORG - Earth

More than 100,000 people have been evacuated due to heavy rain and fatal floods in southern China, with the government issuing its highest-level rainstorm warning for the affected area on Tuesday. Torrential rains have lashed Guangdong in recent days, swelling rivers and raising fears of severe...

PHYS.ORG - Technology

Japanese auto giant Honda will open an electric vehicle plant in eastern Canada, a Canadian government source familiar with the multibillion-dollar project told AFP on Monday. The federal government as well as the province of Ontario, where the plant will be built, will both provide some...

PHYS.ORG - Biology

In Vietnam, farmers reduce methane emissions by changing how they grow rice

That and the giant drone, its wingspan similar to that of an eagle, chuffing high above as it rains organic fertilizer onto the knee-high rice seedlings billowing below. Using less water and using a drone to fertilize are new techniques that Van is trying and Vietnam hopes will help solve a...

PHYS.ORG - Technology

Tesla CEO Elon Musk faces heightened pressure with Tuesday's earnings report to reassure investors that recent stumbles are simply unexpected speed bumps - and not indications of a road to decline. The electric car maker, which enjoyed scorching growth for most of 2022 and 2023, has experienced...

PHYS.ORG - Biology

US advances review of Nevada lithium mine amid concerns over endangered wildflower

The Biden administration has taken a significant step in its expedited environmental review of what could become the third lithium mine in the U.S., amid anticipated legal challenges from conservationists over the threat they say it poses to an endangered Nevada wildflower. The Bureau of Land...

PHYS.ORG - Earth

When red-hot isn't enough: New government heat risk tool sets magenta as most dangerous level

The National Weather Service and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday—Earth Day—presented a new online heat risk system that combines meteorological and medical risk factors with a seven-day forecast that's simplified and color-coded for a warming world of...

Nature Climate Change

Extreme weather should be defined according to impacts on climate-vulnerable communities

Climate change and related extreme weather events (EWEs) are expected to widen social and health inequalities. Yet, EWE thresholds and associated adaptation strategies do not centre experiences of vulnerable communities. This study explored the impacts of temperature- and precipitation-based...

PHYS.ORG - Earth

Living creatures produce most of the methane on Earth. But scientists haven't found convincing signs of current or ancient life on Mars, and thus didn't expect to find methane there. Yet, the portable chemistry lab aboard Curiosity, known as SAM, or Sample Analysis at Mars, has continually...

Huffington Post

NAPLES, Italy (AP) - Europe is the fastest-warming continent and its temperatures are rising at roughly twice the global average, two top climate monitoring organizations reported Monday, warning of the consequences for human health, glacier melt and economic activity. The U.N.’s World...

VOX -Environment

Climate change is personal. It is not abstract. The warming climate impacts our economies, influences our politics and culture, threatens the food we eat and the water we drink; it even affects our love lives. As climate change accelerates and extreme heat and climate disasters displace more...

PHYS.ORG - Biology

Restoring coastal habitat boosts wildlife numbers by 61% - but puzzling failures mean we can still do better

Pollution, coastal development, climate change and many other human impacts have degraded or destroyed swathes of mangrove forests, saltmarshes, seagrass meadows, macroalgae (seaweed) forests and coral and shellfish reefs. We've lost a staggering 85% of shellfish reefs around the world and coral...

New York Times - Climate Section

'Discomfort May Increase’: Asia’s Heat Wave Scorches Hundreds of Millions

April is typically hot in South and Southeast Asia, but temperatures this month have been unusually high. Saif Hasnat reported from Dhaka, Bangladesh, and Mike Ives from Seoul. Hundreds of millions of people in South and Southeast Asia were suffering on Monday from a punishing heat wave that has...

PHYS.ORG - Earth

A comprehensive monitoring and evaluation of disaster risk due to linkage of residual coal pillars and rock strata

In extreme cases, such instability can trigger disasters like mine earthquakes and widespread collapse of goaf areas, potentially leading to casualties. Therefore, it is necessary to carry out monitoring and evaluation research on the risk of instability and disaster caused by the linkage of...

PHYS.ORG - Earth

AI weather forecasts can capture destructive path of major storms, new study shows

Professor Andrew Charlton-Perez, who led the study, said, "AI is transforming weather forecasting before our eyes. Two years ago, modern machine learning techniques were rarely being applied to make weather forecasts. Now we have multiple models that can produce 10-day global forecasts in...

PHYS.ORG - Technology

In December 2020, 15-year-old Tyler Schmidt took a deadly chemical to a wooded area near his home in Camas, Clark County, Washington. His body was found two days later. The chemical was determined to be his cause of death. That year, four more individuals died the same way. In 2021 and 2022, 10...

Last week, HEATED reported that Al Sharpton used his annual National Action Network (NAN) civil rights convention to spread fossil fuel industry propaganda to Black communities. HEATED reported that Sharpton personally introduced a panel titled “Affordable energy is a civil rights issue,” during...

PHYS.ORG - Technology

Lithium salts make batteries powerful but expensive. An ultralow-concentration electrolyte based on the lithium salt LiDFOB may be a more economical and more sustainable alternative. Cells using these electrolytes and conventional electrodes have been demonstrated to have high performance, as...

PHYS.ORG - Biology

Anticipating future risks of climate-driven wildfires in boreal forests

Boreal forests often bring to mind snowy tundra, vast bogs, and diverse fauna such as reindeer or moose. However, it is increasingly home to a large number of wildfire occurrences. From the large fires in Sweden in 2014 and 2018, to the devastating fires in Siberia in 2021 and Canada in 2023,...

Climate Change News - Science

Right-wing President Javier Milei has taken an axe to funding for education and scientific bodies, sparking fears for climate research A medical student walks past a placard announcing the time left before the budget for the university runs out, at the entrance of the University of Buenos Aires...