Nothing like this has ever happened: the heat in Africa broke thousands of records
In one day, many temperature records were recorded across the continent. Unbearable heat gripped the African continent / photo ua.depositphotos.com Thousands of temperature records were broken in…
Climate change: This February is the warmest on record – Reuters
Spring-like conditions have caused flowers to bloom early from Japan to Mexico, melting snow on ski slopes in Europe and soaring temperatures to 38C in Texas. February…
Google will use artificial intelligence and satellite imagery to monitor methane emissions
The company is teaming up with the Environmental Defense Fund to help fight climate change, Engadget reports. Although carbon dioxide gets the lion’s share of the attention…
NASA has confirmed that 2023 is the hottest year on record. But 2024 may be even “hotter”
In 2023, the Earth was about 1.4 °C warmer than the average at the end of the 19th century, when measurements first started. The world is steadily…
Apocalypse for insects. Over the past 20 years, the number of grasshoppers has decreased by a third – due to the high level of CO2 in the atmosphere
The higher content of carbon dioxide reduces the composition of trace elements in grasses, trees and algae, as a result – animals do not receive the necessary…
A powerful cannon and millions of tons of lunar dust – astrophysicists proposed a new way to cool the Earth
Scientists have proposed a potential way to solve the climate crisis — to create a solar shield around the Earth from lunar dust, which will be launched…
In Antarctica, a new (66th) colony of emperor penguins was tracked by the accumulation of their excrement from space
Scientists have discovered a new colony of emperor penguins in Antarctica with the help of satellites, which showed accumulations of bird excrement. The colony, like others, faces…
Swiss startup Climeworks captured CO2 from the atmosphere and put it underground. The result was confirmed for the first time by independent auditors
Microsoft, Stripe and Shopify are the first companies to pay Climeworks upfront for CO2 filtration and subsequent storage. The Swiss company said that the success of the…
Freon-free and environmentally friendly. Scientists have developed an alternative cooling method – ionocaloric.
Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed ionocaloric cooling, a new refrigeration cycle that they hope will help phase out refrigerants that contribute to global warming….
The Earth’s ozone layer will be completely depleted by 2066, — UN
For decades, the Earth’s ozone layer, which protects life on our planet from the sun’s harmful ultraviolet rays, has suffered from common chemicals used in everything from…
Abnormally warm winter in Europe: ski resorts are empty, gardens are blooming in the Czech Republic, and Kyiv sets temperature records for the third day in a row
The New Year brought warm winter weather to parts of Europe, and specialized websites of various countries report daily new temperature records in Switzerland, Poland, and Hungary….
Start-up Make Sunsets sprayed sulfur dioxide in the stratosphere to stabilize the climate and sells “credits” for the controversial technology – $10/gram
Make Sunsets claims to have launched special balloons that sprayed reflective particles into the stratosphere, breaking a controversial barrier in solar geoengineering. Solar geoengineering is an attempt…
Europe has doubled the rate of warming of the rest of the world – +0.5 ° C per decade
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reports on the increase in temperature in Europe – now this figure is the highest among all the continents of the world….
BBC’s ‘most ambitious environmental series yet’ looks more like a travel jolly
It doesn’t take long to identify the main problem with Our Changing Planet (BBC One), the latest series from the BBC’s Natural History Unit. It starts in…
People in glass houses… Scientist gives interview on environmental harm of conservatories – from her conservatory
They say people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones – but one green campaigner seems to have missed the memo. Environmental scientist Angela Terry appeared on Good…
It’s healthy and good for the planet, so why aren’t we eating more game?
Moore also champions game shooting as being positive for the environment, when groups, usually comprising friends, gather to socialise and shoot driven birds. “If you consider the…