Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 21, 2025

Biochar-amended soil can further sorb atmospheric CO2 for more carbon sequestration. link] [open access] Abstract Input of biochar into soil is considered as an efficient technology for carbon sequestration. Communications Earth & Environment, 6(1), 5.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 20, 2021

While neither idea was ever implemented, both were examples of a “technosignature” or a “technomarker” – a tell-tale indication of past or present technological activity, pointing out the existence of an advanced planetary civilization. Analogous to technosignatures, these are the signs of life on alien worlds, intelligent or otherwise.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 20, 2021

In this episode of the Physics World Stories podcast astronomers discuss the search for signs of extraterrestrial technologies. Fingerprints might include traces of pollution in exoplanet atmospheres, lights on the night sides of planets, and even the waste heat from megastructures such as Dyson spheres.

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Scientific American

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.

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Yale E360

MAY 18, 2021

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

A fortnight after calamitous wildfire swept across the Los Angeles region , forecasters are warning of four days of terrible flooding in southern and northern California caused by an approaching atmospheric river. The same counties wrecked by flooding in North Carolina from Hurricane Helene last September are confronting more. Western N.C.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

A fortnight after calamitous wildfire swept across the Los Angeles region , forecasters are warning of four days of terrible flooding in southern and northern California caused by an approaching atmospheric river. The same counties wrecked by flooding in North Carolina from Hurricane Helene last September are confronting more. Western N.C.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 9, 2024

A word about CCS : this technology has existed for decades but is only used at a handful of fossil energy facilities. C to 2°C,” and, “Implementation of CCS currently faces technological, economic, institutional, ecological-environmental, and socio-cultural barriers.”

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New Scientist

AUGUST 18, 2021

“Negative emissions” technologies involve sucking CO? out of the atmosphere. They are essential to net-zero climate plans – but does anyone know how to make them work?

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The one-year, paid fellowship is made possible by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Sea Grant College Program. Pennsylvania Sea Grant is one of 34 Sea Grant programs supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship program.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 2, 2023

Last week, MIT’s “Technology Review” reported that a small startup firm is proposing to spray reflective aerosols in the stratosphere commercially as a climate corrective. Even more seriously — and unlike removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere — SAI perturbs the climate in a different way than greenhouse gases.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 23, 2022

Such events are becoming more common as Earth’s atmosphere continues to warm. Rehman urged political leaders to act on the issue, advocating for technology upgrades, ecosystem restoration in the Indus River Valley, and enforcing a 1991 accord that governs the distribution of water between Pakistan’s provinces.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 24, 2022

But while the scoping plan talks a lot about the low carbon technologies we need, it also should be clearer about the implications for the technologies we are leaving behind, so everyone can plan for what comes next. What is a petroleum phaseout plan and why does California need one?

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Ontario can meet its growing electricity needs with renewable energy when combined with storage technologies that enable the energy to be used when needed. In fact, studies show that clean energy is a more affordable option than continuing to rely on fossil fuels. Battery storage is very cost-effective.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 7, 2025

by Christine Keiner, Rochester Institute of Technology Healthy coastal ecosystems play crucial roles in the U.S. Theyre also difficult to manage, requiring specialized knowledge and technology. economy, from supporting multibillion-dollar fisheries and tourism industries to protecting coastlines from storms.

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New Scientist

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

New technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere are growing in scale –though their effect on the climate remains negligible

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Inside Climate News

JULY 21, 2023

By Bob Berwyn While hundreds of scientists around the world are urgently advocating for a non-use agreement for atmospheric sun-dimming experiments , the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy may be looking in a different direction.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 21, 2024

Most prominently, because the approach is changing from rewarding specific technologies to rewarding anything that meets the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions threshold of “clean”—hence the “tech-neutral” label—exactly how the government goes about determining whether or not something is actually eligible will be enormously important.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 29, 2023

His research examines how digital technologies are ushering in a new form of environmental governance within food systems, specifically as it relates to sustainability assurance within aquaculture. Then the initiatives establish sustainability objectives, which are programmed into the technologies. I spoke with Sake Kruk who’s a Ph.D.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 2, 2022

Assessments by the IPCC have made clear that the most feasible way for the world to meet its target of restricting climate change to below two degrees Celsius of warming includes rapid and massive expansion of carbon removal technology – technology that would extract carbon dioxide and permanently sequester that carbon dioxide underground.

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HumanNature

JANUARY 30, 2025

Candidate in the Department of Chemistry at Colorado State University Earths atmosphere is one of our greatest shared resources and provides many ingredients required for life. We breathe oxygen from the atmosphere, weather systems distribute water, and the ozone in the upper atmosphere protects us from harmful radiation.

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New Scientist

MAY 15, 2024

The direct air capture industry got a boost last week with the opening of Mammoth, the largest plant yet for sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, but questions remain about whether the technology can scale up

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 31, 2022

by Klaus Lackner, Arizona State University Two centuries of burning fossil fuels has put more carbon dioxide, a powerful greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere than nature can remove. There is so much CO2 in the atmosphere now that most scenarios… Read more →

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

Dr. Susan Avery, a physicist and atmospheric scientist, is the former director of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Massachusetts. The corporation’s “low carbon” roadmap relies heavily on unproven and unscaled technologies. She’s also professor emeritus at University of Colorado at Boulder.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 17, 2022

As human activities continue to spew heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere, temperatures rise and cause the air to become “thirstier.” As more new water reuse technologies are adopted, resilience is increased and the cost of a shortage is reduced. Explore new technologies. One example is seawater desalination.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 23, 2023

That adds up to something in the ballpark of fifty million tons of CO2 that California kept out of the atmosphere during that decade beyond what happened in the power sector nationally. Over the course of the decade, then, about a quarter of California’s reduction was over and beyond the national trend.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 4, 2023

After the war, the US conducted atmospheric nuclear tests in the Pacific Proving Grounds in the Marshall Islands and in Nevada and many more underground. But the nuclear tests, and particularly the atmospheric tests, were enormously destructive to the land and communities that were exposed to their explosive power and radiation.

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Physics World

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Addressing this serious problem using existing technologies is a key part of the United Nation’s sustainable development goals – with the organization declaring that everyone should have access to five litres of safe drinking water every day. The lack of access to safely managed drinking water now affects some 2.2 billion people worldwide.

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Scientific American

AUGUST 20, 2024

government are investing billions of dollars in carbon capture technology to suck greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere. Tech firms, oil companies and the U.S. Can it save the warming world?

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Real Climate

JUNE 25, 2022

This follows from the need to run for much longer simulation periods (centuries, as opposed to days) (a factor of ~5000 more computation), and to include more components of the climate system (the full ocean, atmospheric chemistry, aerosols, bio-geochemistry, ice sheets etc.) another factor of 2). Beautiful visualizations were created.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 31, 2025

CDR refers to deliberate human activities that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and durably store it in geologic, terrestrial, or ocean reservoirs or in long-lived products. OAE attempts to artificially increase the oceans carbon sink, i.e., its ability to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 6, 2021

Farmers have, for years, known about their theoretical ability to offset carbon emissions by managing their land in a way that captures carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and stores it in the soil — a set of practices sometimes referred to as regenerative agriculture. Read the full post at State of the Planet.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

To give the Commission credit where due — and it is due in many places — on one point closely related to these projections, they were uncommonly and admirably frank: Noting the risks and the stark tradeoffs posed by aerosol pollution in the lower atmosphere. Current and coming advances in carbon-free technology will help, of course.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 21, 2023

An innovative and sustainable chemistry developed at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory for capturing carbon dioxide from air has been licensed to Holocene, a Knoxville-based startup focused on designing and building plants that remove carbon dioxide from atmospheric air.

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Physics World

MARCH 19, 2022

That is the conclusion of astronomers who have developed a detailed 3D model of the atmosphere of WASP-121b, which is a “hot Jupiter” that is about 850 light-years from Earth. The team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology observed WASP-121b using a spectroscopic camera aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 21, 2022

That process sends a powerful shock wave inward, heating and compressing the fuel to extraordinarily high pressures and temperatures (a hundred billion atmospheres and millions of degrees) – just enough, it turns out, to coax deuterium and tritium, both isotopes of hydrogen, to fuse into helium as Eddington originally postulated.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 3, 2022

This decision wrongfully precludes the agency’s authority to set robust power plant carbon pollution standards in line with today’s technologies and practices adopted on a sector-wide basis. Atmospheric concentrations of heat-trapping emissions are on a relentless upward trajectory , as is the increase in global average temperatures.

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