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𝐀𝐢𝐫 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐨𝐢𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐚𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 $𝟕𝟕 𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐔𝐒 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐝𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬, 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐬 Despite global efforts to transition from fossil fuels to clean energy, oil and gas (O&G) production is nearing record levels in the United States, posing concern among health experts about what this O&G growth means for air quality and human health. These health impacts affected communities in states with high oil and gas production, as well as states with limited or no gas activity, underlining the need for comprehensive regulatory action to protect Americans from the pollutants generated by this sector. While there is extensive research on the climate effects of O&G-produced methane—a key contributor to air pollution—few studies have measured the health effects of the air pollution that O&G activity generates. Readmore; https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-05-air-pollution-oil-gas-production.html
The Biden administration has decided to authorize a mammoth ConocoPhillips oil project in northwest Alaska, rejecting arguments from environmental activists who insist it will exacerbate climate change, according to people familiar with the matter. After weeks of deliberations, senior advisers have signed off on the move, which represents one of the most momentous climate decisions yet for President Joe Biden. The approval is set to be released next week by the Interior Department, said the people, who asked not to be named because an announcement has not been made. Under the draft plan, ConocoPhillips would be permitted to drill from three locations across its Willow site in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, unlocking an estimated 600 million barrels of oil as well as some 280 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions tied to burning it. Readmore; https://phys.org/news/2023-03-biden-alaska-oil-critics-climate.html
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A bad move by the American
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It’s a crime against all of us!
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BP is selling out their assets in Alaska as the ground gets instable and pipelines are affected and starts to leak...
𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐬𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐟𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐛𝐲 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐮𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐬 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐟 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 For short-lived spring wildflowers such as wood anemone (Anemone quinquefolia) and Dutchman's breeches (Dicentra cucullaria), timing is everything. These fleeting plants, known as ephemerals, grow in temperate forests around the world, leafing out and flowering early in spring before the trees towering above them leaf out. Emerge too early, and it will still be winter; emerge too late, and it will be too shady under the forest canopy for essential photosynthesis to happen. Over their evolutionary history, these plants have figured out the best timing for their survival. But climate change is altering spring growing conditions, and plant life is changing along with it. There are many examples of plants shifting flowering time in response to warming temperatures, such as cherry blossoms opening earlier and earlier each year. However, when one part of an ecosystem shifts, will all the organisms that depend on it successfully shift too? Or will they be out of luck? And what if interconnected species respond to change at different rates, leading to disruptions in long-standing ecological relationships? Read more; https://phys.org/news/2023-03-climate-threatens-wildflowers-trees-leaf.html
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There is every need to maintain the earth and the life in it the way it was designed. Otherwise, a slight change affects everyone.
𝐍𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝟗.𝟔% 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐚𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞 For most of human history, the stars blazed in an otherwise dark night sky. But starting around the Industrial Revolution, as artificial light increasingly lit cities and towns at night, the stars began to disappear. We are two astronomers who depend on dark night skies to do our research. For decades, astronomers have been building telescopes in the darkest places on Earth to avoid light pollution. Today, most people live in cities or suburbs that needlessly shine light into the sky at night, dramatically reducing the visibility of stars. Satellite data suggests that light pollution over North America and Europe has remained constant or has slightly decreased over the last decade, while increasing in other parts of the world, such as Africa, Asia and South America. However, satellites miss the blue light of LEDs, which are commonly used for outdoor lighting—resulting in an underestimate of light pollution. An international citizen science project called Globe at Night aims to measure how everyday people's view of the sky is changing. Readmore; https://phys.org/news/2023-02-night-skies-brighter-year-pollution.html
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Industrialization: how do we strike a balance?
𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨: 𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐞? 𝐀 𝐍𝐀𝐒𝐀 𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬 Are wildfires getting worse? Unfortunately, yes. Changes in our climate, along with other factors, have led to wildfires increasing in intensity, severity, size and duration. NASA climate and wildfire expert Liz Hoy explains how and why NASA studies these events from the ground, air, and space to better understand the impacts they have on both a local and global scale. Readmore; https://phys.org/news/2023-01-video-wildfires-worse-nasa-scientist.html
𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐛𝐥𝐮𝐞-𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐥𝐠𝐚𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐥𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 In recent years, there have been increasing reports of toxic blue-green algae blooms in summer, even in German lakes, caused by climate warming and increased nutrient inputs. But humans have had an influence on the development of blue-green algae since the Bronze Age from about 2,000 B.C. This is the finding of a study by researchers from the German Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ and colleagues, published in the journal Communications Biology. Since some blue-green algae, also known as cyanobacteria, leave no visible fossil traces in sediments due to their small size, little is known about how they evolved in our lakes during the last centuries and millennia. Read more; https://phys.org/news/2023-01-humans-growth-blue-green-algae-lakes.html
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Humans polluting the environment knowingly or unknowingly have contributed to loss of biodiversity and ecosystems and rise in new harmful matters.
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Monitoring and preventing the spread of toxic blue-green algae blooms, and informing the public about the risk associated with them, are crucial for the well-being of local communities.
A team of researchers at the University of Oxford, working with a colleague from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, has created radiative transfer models to help estimate global temperature changes in the coming years due to the Tonga eruption last year. In their paper published in the journal Nature Climate Change, the group suggests that the impact will be large enough to push average global temperatures temporarily above the 1.5°C increase limit targeted in the Paris Agreement back in 2015. Read more; https://phys.org/news/2023-01-tonga-eruption-chances-global-temperature.html
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Great innovation
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great, hope we can all contribute to reduce the rising temperatures
𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞 Europe has been experiencing a severe drought for years. Across the continent, groundwater levels have been consistently low since 2018, even if extreme weather events with flooding temporarily give a different picture. The beginning of this tense situation is documented in a 2020 study by Eva Boergens in Geophysical Research Letters. In it, she noted that there was a striking water shortage in Central Europe during the summer months of 2018 and 2019. Since then, there has been no significant rise in groundwater levels; the levels have remained constantly low. This is shown by data analyses by Torsten Mayer-Gürr and Andreas Kvas from the Institute of Geodesy at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz). As part of the EU's Global Gravity-based Groundwater Product (G3P) project, they used satellite gravimetry to observe the world's groundwater resources and documented their changes in recent years. Readmore; https://phys.org/news/2023-01-satellite-sustained-severe-drought-europe.html
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The data is key in assisting the acceleration of right actions towards climate restoration.
𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐬, 𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 It's hard out there for a shark. A critical barometer to the health of ocean ecosystems, shark and ray populations have faced significant global declines from overfishing, habitat loss, and environment degradation. Add to the mix a slow reproductive cycle—female great white sharks take approximately 30 years to reach sexual maturity, for instance—and the broader logistical challenges of trying to monitor animals with ranges that can exceed 10,000 nautical miles, and the task of protecting sharks becomes even more daunting. But there is some good news for sharks and rays: Researchers from Virginia Tech's College of Natural Resources and Environment are part of a group of scientists that used temporal and spatial comparisons to reveal that extinction risks can be significantly reduced by having effective fisheries management and policies in place to ensure the survival of these vulnerable species. The results were recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Readmore; https://phys.org/news/2023-01-sharks-spatial-success-story.html
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Very informative.
𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐥'𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐀𝐦𝐚𝐳𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 Shaking a traditional rattle, Brazil's incoming head of Indigenous affairs recently walked through every corner of the agency's headquarters—even its coffee room—as she invoked help from ancestors during a ritual cleansing. The ritual carried extra meaning for Joenia Wapichana, Brazil's first Indigenous woman to command the agency charged with protecting the Amazon rainforest and its people. Once she is sworn in next month under newly inaugurated President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Wapichana promises to clean house at an agency that critics say has allowed the Amazon's resources to be exploited at the expense of the environment. As Wapichana performed the ritual, Indigenous people and government officials enthusiastically chanted "Yoohoo! Funai is ours!''—a reference to the agency she will lead. Readmore; https://phys.org/news/2023-01-brazil-reverse-amazon-deforestation.html
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He is the leader the amazon required.
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The destruction of the Amazon rainforest is not only a tragedy for the local communities and biodiversity but also for the entire planet as the rainforest plays a crucial role in absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and also as a source of freshwater. This is a very commendable move!
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He deserves all the support
Global warming is expected to lead to an accumulation of particularly intense hurricanes in the United States. This may substantially increase the economic losses caused by these storms. Better insurance could effectively mitigate the climate change-induced increase in economic losses. This is shown in a new study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research examining the effectiveness of climate risk insurance in the US. In the U.S., hurricanes caused more than $400 billion in direct economic losses over the historical period 1980-2014, with losses peaking at more than $150 billion in 2005, the year when hurricane Katrina made landfall. "After intense storms with high direct economic losses, the economy may need several years to recover, such that a complete recovery may not always be possible between subsequent intense storms. Our model accounts for these long-term effects of tropical cyclones on economic development that can be much larger than the immediate effects," explains Christian Otto, scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and one of the lead authors of the study, published in the journal Science Advances. Readmore; https://phys.org/news/2023-01-climate-effectively-mitigate-economic-losses.html
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The loss and damage caused by climate change effects is really depressing. Insurance is a relief.
𝐄𝐱𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐬𝐮𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐚𝐧'𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞 UV light from the sun slowly breaks down plastics on the ocean's surfaces. Floating microplastic is broken down into ever smaller, invisible nanoplastic particles that spread across the entire water column, but also to compounds that can then be completely broken down by bacteria. This is shown by experiments in the laboratory of the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, NIOZ, on Texel. In the latest issue of Marine Pollution Bulletin, Ph.D. student Annalisa Delre and colleagues calculate that about two percent of visibly floating plastic may disappears from the ocean surface in this way each year. "This may seem small, but year after year, this adds up. Our data show that sunlight could thus have degraded a substantial amount of all the floating plastic that has been littered into the oceans since the 1950s," says Delre. Readmore; https://phys.org/news/2023-01-sunlight-plastics-ocean-surface.html
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plastics shuld not be manufactured
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Manufacturing of plastics remain the root cause of the issue.
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The world should stop adding more plastics.
𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 As the United States and other countries around the world begin to transition to utilizing green technologies on a larger scale, it will be necessary to have access to the minerals needed to build the infrastructure for those green technologies. Growing international tensions and geopolitical events, however, especially among the United States, China and Russia, have led countries to re-examine their mining and processing capabilities. For a country like China, which is dominant when it comes to mining and processing minerals, this may not have much of a negative impact as their mineral supplies continue to grow. For a country like the U.S., however, and any other country which is currently short on metal supply, decoupling from the largest mineral supplier in the world could spell disaster for the transition to green energy. Readmore; https://phys.org/news/2022-12-climate-crisis-requires-international-minerals.html
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True as this argument might be, it is a hard goal to achieve in the current economic fiasco. But a great read and needed discussion right now.
𝐈𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫. 𝐖𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐭 Clean water is becoming a scarce resource, and one in four people in the world have no access to a safe source of drinking water. Population growth and climate change are making water shortages even worse. For this reason, we have to think innovatively and utilize our water resources more intelligently. WIDER UPTAKE is a project that is testing a variety of ways of reusing water resources in five different countries. "The barriers that inhibit water reuse are common to many countries, so our aim is to identify the best solutions together," says Herman Helness, who is a Senior Research Scientist and coordinator of the WIDER UPTAKE project. Readmore; https://phys.org/news/2022-10-reuse.html
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Yes,but in gardening only maybe, since No treatment method can purify water with toxic chemicals or radioactive materials.
𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 Ancient trees—those that are many hundreds, or even thousands, of years old—play a vital role in biodiversity and ecosystem preservation by providing stability, strength, and protection to at-risk environments. In a review article publishing on October 19 in Trends in Ecology & Evolution, a team of ecologists highlight the importance of preserving these monumental organisms and present a project initiative to ensure their protection and longevity. "Ancient trees are unique habitats for the conservation of threatened species because they can resist and buffer climate warming," write the authors, including Gianluca Piovesan and Charles H. Cannon. Some of these trees, such as bristlecone pines in the White Mountains, U.S., can live up to 5,000 years and act as massive carbon storage. Readmore; https://phys.org/news/2022-10-trees-mitigate-climate.html
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Indigenous trees are also the preference of many animals as habitats. #Nature is natural.
Researchers used artificial nests to test two methods for reducing the nest predation of vulnerable and endangered ground-nesting birds. The study showed that red foxes can be more easily deceived into not eating bird eggs than raccoon dogs. The methods could be used alongside hunting and offer an alternative, non-lethal solution for creating protection for vulnerable prey. Readmore; https://phys.org/news/2022-10-endangered-birds-predators-chemical-camouflage.html
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The discovery is phenomenal and one of a kind.
𝐁𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐋𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 Freshwater ecosystems are threatened by a host of environmental stressors from human activities. Among the most insidious and impactful of these is invasion by non-native species. Over the past two centuries, established populations of nearly 190 non-native species of invertebrates, fishes, plants and microbes have been discovered in the Great Lakes basin. They were introduced through several sources and pathways including canals, pet release, bait bucket dumping, aquaculture escapes and—most notably—ballast water discharge from transoceanic ships. Readmore; https://phys.org/news/2022-10-ballast-invasive-species-great-lakes.html
A day after 230 whales were found stranded on the wild and remote west coast of Australia's island state of Tasmania, only 35 were still alive despite rescue efforts that were to continue Thursday. Half the pod of pilot whales stranded in Macquarie Harbour were presumed to still be alive on Wednesday, the Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania said. Readmore; https://phys.org/news/2022-09-stranded-whales-die-pounding-surf.html
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So sad
𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐝𝐨 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 As the old saying goes, many hands can make light work. They can also work together to make light vanish. Urban light pollution is a large-scale issue, but individual households can help their communities turn down the lumens while still ensuring safety. Nancy Clanton, chief executive of the lighting engineering firm Clanton & Associates in Boulder, Colorado, is passionate about sustainable illumination. Readmore; https://phys.org/news/2022-09-pollution.html
𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞: 𝐀 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐮𝐫𝐛𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐬 Trees play an essential role in the well-being of city dwellers—but for how long? An international research team, including a CNRS researcher from the Ecology and Dynamic of Anthropogenic Systems laboratory at the University of Picardy Jules Verne (Laboratoire Ecologie et dynamique des systèmes anthropisés, CNRS/Université of Picardy Jules Verne), has published the first global risk assessment for tree species planted in cities in the current context of increasing temperatures and decreasing annual precipitation due to climate change: 56–65% of these species are already at risk today, and this figure could rise to 68–76% by 2050. Readmore; https://phys.org/news/2022-09-climate-threat-urban-trees.html
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The sooner we stop Burning fuel the more we can save
In May 2022, a group of monsoon researchers conducted "Earth Summit Mission 2022: Scientific Expedition and Research on Mt. Qomolangma" within the Himalayan Mountains. This mission implemented new advanced weather observation technologies, methods, and means to investigate both the vertical change characteristics and interaction mechanisms of the region's prevailing westerlies and monsoonal flow. Research data covered all six spheres, or atmospheric layers, near Mt. Qomolangma, also known as Mount Everest, the highest mountain on Earth. Readmore; https://phys.org/news/2022-09-exploring-synergy-westerlies-monsoon-mt.html
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𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝'𝐬 𝐥𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 More than half the world's 117 million lakes experience ice cover for part of the year. But with the rise in global temperatures, the timing of seasonal ice formation and loss are changing at rapid rates. Since 1979, the average timing of lake ice break-up across the Northern Hemisphere has advanced by 8 days. This 8-day advancement has resulted in excess lake warming with numerous implications for lake ecosystems. A new paper published in Nature Communications by Dr. Iestyn Woolway of Bangor University and colleagues at Peking University has concentrated on Northern Hemisphere lakes, using satellite images to study nearly a thousand lakes and modeling over 100,000 to calculate the effects of the increased ice-free days on the water temperature. Read more; https://phys.org/news/2022-09-world-lakes-excess.html
While much of Europe is on drought alert, Pakistan is awash. Data captured from space by Copernicus Sentinel-1 on 30 August was used to map the extent of flooding that is currently devastating Pakistan. Heavy monsoon rainfall—ten times heavier than usual—since mid-June have led to more than a third of the country now being underwater. This catastrophic flood has claimed the lives of more than 1,100 people and more than 33 million, one in seven Pakistanis, have been affected by the flooding. Homes, croplands and infrastructure have been washed away. Prime Minister of Pakistan, Shehbaz Sharif, describes the flood as the worst in the country's history and says it will cost at least $10 billion to repair damaged infrastructure. Readmore; https://phys.org/news/2022-09-image-pakistan-inundated.html
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Images of damaged coastlines, oily sheens, containment booms and endangered wildlife are part of every offshore oil spill. And while a response team arrives and the clean up gets underway, UBC Okanagan researchers are now exploring how to effectively handle the waste created from that spill. As part of a Multi-Partner Research Initiative sponsored by Fisheries and Oceans Canada, UBCO engineers are conducting new research to help the oil spill response industry and its regulators enhance response preparedness and efficiency in Canadian waters. A new research study, published recently in the Journal of Hazardous Materials, conducts a lifecycle assessment of oil spill waste mitigation and how to properly dispose of the refuse. Readmore; https://phys.org/news/2022-08-oil.html
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Dear Sheila wanjiru Nduta Thank you for getting your climate love to level 2! We have reached out to University of British Columbia and requested a response. I will keep you updated on any progress! /Adam We Don't Have Time
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Great to discover this more in depth
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Oil spills should never happen, but it is good to see that solutions to reuse the waste collected from them are being researched
Growing up in Fairhope, Alabama, in the mid-20th century, Gregory Benford engaged in more than his share of character-building employment. In sun-parched farm fields, he chopped sugar cane and bagged potatoes. On shrimping and fishing boats operating out of Mobile Bay, he hauled in nets laden with the ocean's produce. Those years of toil on the land and water planted a seed in Benford's young brain that would, decades later, sprout into CROPS, a nascent commercial enterprise he co-founded that may prove to be one of the most practicable and effective approaches to solving climate change ever devised. Readmore; https://phys.org/news/2022-08-climate-industrial-solutions.html
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Quite alarming