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New York Times - Climate Section

PHYS.ORG - Earth

The Philippine Coast Guard on Friday raced to offload 1.4 million liters of industrial fuel oil from a sunken tanker and prevent an "environmental catastrophe" in Manila Bay. One crew member died when the MT Terra Nova sank in rough seas nearly seven kilometers (4.3 miles) off Limay municipality...

PHYS.ORG - Earth

Authorities evacuated nearly 300,000 people and suspended public transport across eastern China on Friday, as Typhoon Gaemi brought torrential rains already responsible for five deaths in nearby Taiwan. Gaemi was the strongest typhoon to hit Taiwan in eight years when it made landfall on...

PHYS.ORG - Earth

An "out of control" wildfire has devoured up to half of the main town in western Canada's popular Jasper National Park, authorities said Thursday, with 400 foreign firefighters called in to help battle the blaze. While the fire has so far caused no casualties, as many as 25,000 residents and...

PHYS.ORG - Technology

Engineers develop a recipe for zero-emissions fuel: Soda cans, seawater and caffeine

A sustainable source for clean energy may lie in old soda cans and seawater. MIT engineers have found that when the aluminum in soda cans is exposed in its pure form and mixed with seawater, the solution bubbles up and naturally produces hydrogen - a gas that can be subsequently used to power an...

MIT - Research

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PHYS.ORG - Earth

Paris Olympics promote sustainability for good reason: Climate change is putting athletes and their sports at risk

Europe is in the midst of a heat wave, and while Olympic athletes in Paris for the 2024 Summer Games might be spared the worst of it, the weather will still be hot. As global temperatures have risen, major sporting events like the Olympics and FIFA World Cup have had to adapt to high heat and...

A coal-fired power plant that started running more than a century ago is about to get a long-overdue retirement, and its electricity will be replaced by a solar farm and a battery storage system on an existing brownfield. The project in Painesville, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, is one of about...

Yale Climate Connections - Transportation

Stay in the know about climate impacts and solutions. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Yale Climate Connections As the world races to decarbonize everything from the electricity grid to industry, it faces particular problems with transportation - which alone is responsible for about a quarter...

Yale Climate Connections - Energy

Stay in the know about climate impacts and solutions. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Yale Climate Connections About two hours north of New York City, amid the lush forests and babbling brooks of the Catskill Mountains, sits a new housing development - where every home is designed to avoid...

Historic Investments and Accountability Push Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Efforts In Right Direction, Says EPA Mid-Atlantic Administrator

On a recent afternoon, Adam Ortiz, administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Mid-Atlantic region office, and Bill Dennison, a professor and vice president at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES), gathered to discuss a favorite, albeit complicated...

PHYS.ORG - Earth

'Self-healing' glass: Study shows gamma radiation induces defects that are healed at room temperature

Self-healing glass may sound like a science fiction concept, but new research from the University of Central Florida demonstrates it's much closer to reality. In a new study published in the journal Materials Research Society Bulletin, UCF College of Optics and Photonics (CREOL) Pegasus...

PHYS.ORG - Earth

A soft needle in an oceanic haystack: Scientists discover a new species of chordate

The Cambrian fossil record indicates that most animal phyla had diversified and inhabited the Earth's oceans approximately 518 million years ago. But even though chordates - the group that includes vertebrates like humans - were part of this early animal diversification, they make up a...

PHYS.ORG - Earth

London's Mayor Sadiq Khan on Thursday claimed success for his expanded pollution toll zone for motor vehicles, pointing to a drop in levels of a harmful air pollutant since its controversial introduction. Levels of nitrogen oxides from cars were 13 percent lower than they would have been had the...

Climate Change News - Energy

Canada's Olympics kit provider hit with greenwashing complaint in France

Lululemon is accused by environmental group of using “misleading” sustainability claims despite growing emissions Team Canada athletes pose for a photo at the reveal of Lululemon's uniforms for the Paris 2024 Olympics, in April 16, 2024. REUTERS/Carlos Osorio Sports clothing firm...

PHYS.ORG - Earth

Carbon oxides on Uranus' moon Ariel hint at hidden ocean, Webb telescope reveals

The surface of Uranus' moon Ariel is coated with a significant amount of carbon dioxide ice, especially on its "trailing hemisphere" that always faces away from the moon's direction of orbital motion. This fact presents a surprise because even at the frigid reaches of the Uranian system - 20...

Open Air (Carbon Capture)

Give it a try here: https://openaircollective.com/cdr.ai/\n\nThere is a lot of questionable chatter and opinion about CDR online and in the media. Some of it is outright false, rooted in misunderstanding, oversimplification, or even deliberate attempts to distort. This needs to change if CDR is...

Washington Post - Climate and Environment

While many vintners are forced to grapple with extreme weather brought on by climate change, some regions are seeing more consistent harvests and better-quality wines. Climate change is transforming wine. We’ve seen devastating wildfires threaten or destroy recent harvests in California,...

PHYS.ORG - Earth

Climate change will bring more turbulence to flights in the Northern Hemisphere, analysis finds

A type of invisible, unpredictable air turbulence is expected to occur more frequently in the Northern Hemisphere as the climate warms, according to new research. Known as clear air turbulence, the phenomenon also increased in the Northern Hemisphere between 1980 and 2021, the study found. The...

PHYS.ORG - Earth

Climate-smart coffee: Researchers explore Robusta coffee as alternative to Arabica

Crave that cup of coffee in the morning? Globally, consumers drink more than 2.2 billion cups daily. Someone grows all that joe: More than 100 million farmers worldwide produce coffee. Coffee beans consumed across the globe come from two species: Coffea arabica and Coffea canephora, also known...