The complaint in federal court in California alleges the airline relied on carbon offsets that were largely bogus.
Toyota, Daimler Truck, Hino Motors and Mitsubishi Fuso plan to cooperate in reducing carbon emissions and developing other technologies such as autonomous driving, net-connected services and electric vehicles.
May 30, 2023 9:55 PM “What happens in polar regions and high mountain regions doesn’t stay in those regions."
PHOTO: Friis Hills and Taylor Glacier; East Antarctic Ice Sheet beyond, credit: Adam Lewis. It’s a question that’s long puzzled Antarctic researchers, but Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington...
Himalayan Clean-Up mountaineer Luc Boisnard, 52, said that climbers also threw waste into Himalayan glaciers from where it would 're-emerge in 200 years'.
Namwiwat Medical Corporation (Nam), a Thai sterilised medical equipment maker and seller, aims to become a key manufacturer on the global stage by partnering with national oil and gas conglomerate PTT Plc following a successful expansion in Southeast Asia.
Frederick Cook claimed to have reached the top of the world, but a new book says he was lying Who was the first person to reach the north pole? According to American adventurer Frederick Cook, it was him. But now a new book will set out the evidence that the explorer’s 114-year-old claim was an instance of fake news on a global scale. In The Explorer and the Journalist , author Richard Evans has examined the greatest scandal in polar history, reigniting a debate that has smouldered since September 1909, when Cook, who had been missing for a year, sent out a telegram announcing he had reached the pole in 1908. Continue reading...
May 26, 2023 10:33 PM As circulation of waters in the deep ocean slows, it reduces the ability of oceans to absorb carbon dioxide and heat.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Volume 128, Issue 6, June 2023.
Dangerous slowing of Antarctic ocean circulation sooner than expected
A polar cyclone is swirling on Uranus, further showing that the planet's atmosphere is a hive of hidden activity.
Virtually every organism in Antarctica is at risk.
Earth’s declining ice is without a doubt one of the clearest signs of climate change. A new high-resolution sea-ice concentration data record has just been released as part of ESA’s Climate Change Initiative – providing new insights of sea ice concentration across the globe.
That's because chemicals banned under the 1987 Montreal Protocol are also potent greenhouse gases.
CNN — New York City is sinking under the collective weight of all of its buildings, a new study has found. This gradual process could spell trouble for a city around which the sea level has been rising more than twice as fast as the global rate — and is projected to rise between eight … The post New York City is sinking due to its million-plus buildings, study says appeared first on Egypt Independent.
Lawmakers hope the sale of carbon offsets will be a new revenue source. But many of the plan’s details are yet to be determined.
David Antonioli to step down from Verra, which was accused of approving millions of worthless offsets for major companies The head of the world’s leading carbon credit certifier has announced he will step down as CEO next month. It comes amid concerns that Verra, a Washington-based nonprofit, approved tens of millions of worthless offsets that are used by major companies for climate and biodiversity commitments, according to a joint Guardian investigation earlier this year. Continue reading...
Video: 00:01:20 Satellites play a vital role in monitoring the rapid changes taking place in the Arctic. Tracking ice lost from the world’s glaciers, ice sheets and frozen land shows that Earth is losing ice at an accelerating rate.Using information from ESA’s ERS, Envisat and CryoSat satellites as well as the Copernicus Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 missions, research led by Tom Slater of the University of Leeds, found that the rate at which Earth has lost ice has increased markedly within the past three decades. Currently, more than a trillion tonnes of ice is lost each year.To put this into perspective, this is equivalent to an ice cube measuring 10x10x10 km over Oslo’s skyline. Putting it another way, the amount of ice loss globally is equivalent to 12 000 times the annual water use...
How Companies Can Use Voluntary Carbon Markets to Help Protect Tropical Forests alicia.cypress… Mon, 05/22/2023 - 16:25 In 2021, 145 country leaders committed to halt and reverse forest loss by 2030. At the time, soaring demand for forest carbon credits from companies seeking to demonstrate climate action promised a new source of finance for tropical forest protection. However, in 2022, the demand for credits leveled off, reflecting uncertainty on the rules regarding the claims companies could make based on their purchases and concerns about the quality of carbon credits, especially those originating from forests. There are two general types of carbon markets that companies may participate in, voluntary and compliance markets. The voluntary carbon market consists...
Today, Monday, 22 May 2023, the Research Vessel Polarstern will leave her homeport in Bremerhaven, catching the afternoon high tide at ca 3:00 pm and bound for the Arctic Ocean. The four-week expedition, slated to end on 19 July in Tromsø, Norway, will focus on extended ecological fieldwork at the AWI’s deep-sea observatory Hausgarten and at the FRAM Ocean Observing System between Greenland and Svalbard. 50 researchers and a ship’s crew of 24 will be on board.
A strong El Niño could augur yet another wet winter for California, as well as drive the global average temperature to a record high, experts say.
The Supreme Court on Friday deferred the “scientific survey”, including carbon dating, of a 'Shivling' said to have been found at the Gyanvapi mosque complex in Varanasi during a videographic survey last year.
Ice jams on the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers caused most of the damage through a large swath of Alaska, while a quick melt of the snowpack caused a creek overflow that blocked a key highway connecting Anchorage to points east, including Canada.
The country’s most notable carbon credit project is the 1.94-million-acre Kariba forestry project owned by South Pole, the world’s leading seller of offsets.
A report from the World Meteorological Organization forecasts that global temperatures are likely to soon pass the 1.5 C limit set by the 2015 Paris climate agreement. But Canada has already blown past that threshold, so what does it mean here?
In 1912, the Titanic collided with an ice glacier and sank in the Atlantic Ocean. For the first time, a 3D scan reveals a closer look at the wreck.
Global temperatures are likely to surge to record levels in the next five years, fuelled by heat-trapping greenhouse gases and a naturally occurring El Niño weather pattern, according to a new update issued by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Wednesday.
Courtesy of Le MajesticSay the name “Cannes” and what likely comes to mind is a chaotic montage of paparazzi, glacier-sized bling, ostentatious superyachts, and entertainment royalty from Grace Kelly to Tom Cruise swanning around the fabled Croisette en route to a gala premier.“…All about glamor and vulgarity,” the Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn quipped some years back while comparing The Neon Demon, his lurid and controversial cinematic fable about narcissism, to the city itself.Indeed, although its iconic film festival debuted less than 80 years ago, the glitzy annual spectacle has since overshadowed Cannes to the extent that it’s easy to forget that this small seaside strip of France’s famed Côte d’Azur was ever anything other than a European epicenter for celebrity decadence.Read...
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Accepted Article.
The 30-minute daily show covers things like incoming storms, sea ice and big picture climate trends while reaching some of the most remote places in Alaska. But after June 30, it will no longer broadcast on public television.
May 16, 2023 3:35 PM Emissions from the Big 88, which include ExxonMobil, BP, Chevron and Shell, were responsible for 0.5 deg C rise in global average temperature.
In a bold move Russian mining powerhouse Nornickel has stepped onto the ice to engage with the indigenous people of Tukhard...
Three popular campgrounds at California's Yosemite National Park will be temporarily closed starting Monday because of a forecast of flooding as warming temperatures melt the Sierra Nevada's massive snowpack. (May 15)
Thanks to a unique geological formation carved by glaciers over 20,000 years ago, you would weigh about 1/25,000 less your average weight up here
The woman, who was injured on Grímsfjall in Vatnajökull glacier, was taken by a Coast Guard helicopter this morning from Höfn to Reykjavík. This is confirmed by the Icelandic Coast Guard’s information officer Ásgeir Erlendsson.
A strong El Niño could send global average temperatures soaring to a record high. Here's what to know about the developing climate pattern.
Allahabad high court on Friday allowed carbon-dating of the 'Shivling' at Gyanvapi mosque in Uttar Pradesh. The court ordered the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to conduct the carbon dating process of the 'Shivling' found in the premises of the mosque, without causing any damage to the structure. It set aside an October 14 order of the Varanasi District Court that rejected a plea for scientific investigation.
Monitoring fluctuating forest carbon from space
Norway has taken over the Arctic Council’s rotating presidency from Russia. The move on Thursday came amid concerns that the work of the eight-country intergovernmental body on protecting the sensitive environment is at risk because of the suspension of cooperation…
With formal co-operation with Russia on hold since its 2022 invasion of Ukraine, experts say the concept of the Arctic Council is "in tatters."
A search team found missing 19-year-old hiker Matthew Read using thermal heat signatures at Glacier National Park in Montana.
Due to global heating, ice sheets in Greenland and the Antarctic are shedding triple the ice they were 30 years ago. Sea level rise could double as a result of this polar meltdown.
Newlywed Jaime Carsi, 40, found in holiday let and wife, Mary Somerville, 39, is in serious condition in hospital A suspected carbon monoxide leak from a fridge in a holiday let in Mallorca is being blamed for the death of an Edinburgh-based financial analyst. Jaime Carsi, 40, was found dead on Saturday morning in a bed in the home in the north-east of the island. Continue reading...
New legislation to compete with China could be a landing spot for a bipartisan plan to impose a carbon border adjustment mechanism.
With a third of global carbon emissions coming from China, it is critical to the fight, according to Dirk Messner.
New genetics study finds some of the first arrivals came during the last ice age, and shortly after, in two distinct migrations Some of the first humans to arrive in the Americas included people from what is now China, who arrived in two distinct migrations during and after the last ice age, a new genetics study has found. “Our findings indicate that besides the previously indicated ancestral sources of Native Americans in Siberia, the northern coastal China also served as a genetic reservoir contributing to the gene pool,” said Yu-Chun Li, one of the report authors. Continue reading...
A tiny flightless midge which has colonised Antarctica’s Signy Island is driving fundamental changes to the island’s soil ecosystem. Research by experts at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) in collaboration … The post Invading insects transforming Antarctic soils appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.
Daily tides stoked with increasingly warmer water ate a hole taller than the Washington Monument at the bottom of one of Greenland's major glaciers in the last couple years, accelerating the retreat of a crucial part of the glacier, a new study found.And scientists worry that the phenomenon isn't limited to this one glacier, raising questions about previous projections of melting rates on the world's vulnerable ice sheets.The rapid melt seen in this study was in the far northwest of Greenland on Petermann Glacier. If it is happening in the rest of Greenland and the even bigger Antarctic ice sheet, then global ice loss and the sea level rise could jump as much as twice as fast as previously thought, according to the study in Monday's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.“It's bad...
The Commissioner of the Icelandic Police, along with the Chief of the South Iceland Police, has cancelled an alert stage due to earthquakes in Mýrdalsjökull glacier.
This winter’s remarkable snowpack offers a few more years before the lake’s ecosystem potentially collapses, unless drastic changes are made in the state’s water consumption habits.
Such a large, sudden die-off and a lack of sea ice were a red flag for scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Global temperatures are likely to reach new highs this year with the predicted onset of El Nino, a natural occurring phenomenon typically associated with the warming of the planet.
Starting in the 1940's, explosives were used on the Hay River to prevent ice jams and to protect the community from flooding.
The quakes that hit Mýrdalsjökull glacier in the early hours of this morning turned out to be bigger than the preliminary results indicated. After further inspection, the Met Office now believes that the three largest quakes were 4.8, 4.7 and 4.5 magnitude, which had previously been estimated to be 4.5, 4.3 and 4.2 magnitude.
At 9.41 am this morning, a strong earthquake swarm started in Mýrdalsjökull glacier. First, but not conclusively verified, results show that three quakes have occurred above magnitude 4.4, with magnitudes 4.5, 4.3 and 4.2.
The rate of sea ice loss for April 2023 was slow, owing to cool conditions across the ice-covered Arctic Ocean and below-average to near-average temperatures near the ice edge. Antarctic sea ice extent remained sharply below average throughout the month. Overview … Continue reading →
Mysterious crashing and splintering noises have been heard coming from the high-altitude glaciers of Mt Everest. Scientists spent three weeks on the glacier to uncover what causes the eerie sounds.
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 "bump" for our ask. This week features " Are we heading into an ice age? ". More will follow in the upcoming weeks. Please follow the Further Reading link at the bottom to read the full rebuttal and to join the discussion in the comment thread there. At a glance In something like a Day after Tomorrow scenario, the idea that a new ice-age was just around the corner was the subject of a book, a DVD and a website created in 2002. The author was a retired architect, by the way. Fortunately for...
She has travelled the world painting impressive wildlife from the Arctic to Antarctica.
May 31, 2023 3:15 PM The complaint alleges it does not live up to advertising presenting it as “the world’s first carbon-neutral airline”.
A giant Ice Age era mastodon tooth was discovered and subsequently taken from a Northern California beach after the woman who found it left it thinking it was driftwood.
US airline pledged to go carbon neutral but plaintiffs say it is relying on offsets that do almost nothing to mitigate global heating Delta Air Lines is facing a lawsuit over its $1bn carbon neutrality claim which plaintiffs say is “false and misleading” as it relies on offsets that do little to mitigate global heating. In February 2020, the US airline announced plans to go carbon neutral , pledging $1bn to mitigate all greenhouse gas emissions from its business worldwide over the next decade. It included plans to purchase carbon credits generated from conserving rainforest, wetlands and grasslands along with decreasing the use of jet fuel and increasing plane efficiency. Continue reading...
NATO countries are in the middle of Arctic military manoeuvres, vowing on Tuesday to defend their newest member, Finland, which is hosting its first joint NATO exercise since becoming the 31st member of the Western alliance in April.
Lava flow from Big Ben on Heard Island about 4,100km south-west of Perth part of eruption first noted more than a decade ago Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast One of Australia’s two active volcanoes on an island near Antarctica – known as Big Ben – has been spotted by satellite spewing lava. The lava flow on the uninhabited Heard Island, about 4,100 kilometres south-west of Perth and 1,500km north of Antarctica, is part of an ongoing eruption that was first noted more than a decade ago. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading...
Carbon prices collapsed at the end of 2022, causing more than 20% loss to Salt Management’s carbon fund in the 12 months to March.
The global economy and investment climate have been quite volatile this month. Most economic figures have begun to show signs of slowing down, while events that affect investment have been mostly negative.
The deteriorating conditions on Mount Everest are raising concerns for the mountaineering community and the people whose livelihoods depend on the flow of visitors.
Scientists are “watching with bated breath” to see if ice will return to normal levels. The planetary consequences could be huge.
These deep ocean tides supply almost half of the world's oceans with vital nutrients and oxygen, but melting ice shelves are slowing them down.
An inquest heard Leah Churchill, 50, and her daughter Brooke Wanstall, 17, died of carbon monoxide poisoning after starting up a petrol generator inside a burger van in Whitstable, Kent.
105 articles in 60 journals by 644 contributing authors Physical science of climate change, effects A Possible Hysteresis in the Arctic Ocean due to Release of Subsurface Heat during Sea Ice Retreat , Beer et al., Journal of Physical Oceanography 10.1175/jpo-d-22-0131.1 Connections between Upper Tropospheric and Lower Stratospheric Circulation Responses to Increased CO2 , Menzel et al., Journal of Climate 10.1175/jcli-d-22-0851.1 Forcing, Cloud Feedbacks, Cloud Masking, and Internal Variability in the Cloud Radiative Effect Satellite Record , Raghuraman et al., Journal of Climate Open Access pdf 10.1175/jcli-d-22-0555.1 Implied Heat Transport from CERES Data: Direct Radiative Effect of Clouds on Regional Patterns and Hemispheric Symmetry , Pearce & Bodas-Salcedo...
Investors will be allowed to list carbon credits on the Victoria Falls Stock Exchange after approval from the Environment Ministry and admission into the Zimbabwe Carbon Credit Registry.
The Arctic, once again at the forefront of climate change, is experiencing disproportionately higher temperature increases compared to the rest of the planet, triggering a series of cascading effects known as Arctic amplification.As concerns continue to grow, satellites developed by ESA have become indispensable tools in understanding and addressing the complex dynamics at play and the far-reaching consequences for the environment and human societies.
The panel's comments sent shock waves through the young carbon removal industry, igniting fears that its technologies could be barred from a global carbon trading program.
Smart carbon monoxide detectors make it easy to safeguard your home from these odorless gas. Here's a look at the three best models available in 2023.
Because of its proximity to Winnipeg, the park is expected to draw Canadian tourists and others to the gorge, which was carved out by glaciers.
A 1987 treaty to ban ozone-destroying gases helped delay the first Arctic summer with no ice, which is now projected to happen by 2037 at the earliest
The Montreal Protocol – which aims to reduce emissions of ozone-depleting gases – has had... The post Montreal Protocol has slowed loss of Arctic sea ice, say scientists appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Hindus, who had been demanding the right to pray at the Shringar Gauri shrine in the mosque’s outer wall, first sought carbon dating of the purported shivling, and more recently of the entire Gyanvapi complex, to ascertain the age and nature of the structure.
GeoMAP Antarctica, an open-access and comprehensive geological mapping database of Antarctica, was released today in Nature Scientific Data. Understanding Antarctica’s geosphere is, and has been, critical for understanding the continent’s … The post New map unlocks deep digital data of Antarctica’s history appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.
Sullom Voe Terminal is set to undergo a major role reversal as it becomes a hub for liquid carbon dioxide. After decades of receiving oil... Sullom Voe Terminal takes first steps in ‘carbon megastore’ vision
A startup company claims its technology — which won the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE in 2021 — can reduce the amount of CO2 emitted during the life cycle of concrete by 70 to 100 percent.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2023, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D3EE00478C, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Gabriel Alexander Alexander Lopez, Dominik Keiner, Mahdi Fasihi, Tuomas Koiranen, Christian Breyer Following current trends, the global chemical industry is set to become the largest consumer of fossil fuels. Among energy intensive industries, the chemical industry is one of the most challenging... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Global temperatures could surge to record levels in the next five years, fuelled by heat-trapping greenhouse gases and an El Nino weather pattern.
May 17, 2023 4:15 PM EU proposes to impose 20% to 35% tariffs on imports of high-carbon goods like steel, iron ore and cement from India.
Global temperatures are likely to soar to historic levels over the next five years due to increased greenhouse gases and extreme weather events, according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization.
Senate Bill 48 authorizes the leasing of state land for up to 55 years for preservation of its powers to absorb atmospheric carbon.
The shift to a circular economy could prevent 500 million tonnes of carbon emissions annually, resulting in more than US$4.5 trillion in net savings and external costs up to 2040, according to a UNEP report.
A new pilot program is meant to spur American manufacturing of materials such as steel and cement that have below-average carbon footprints.
To comply with the city's climate laws, some property managers are installing carbon capture systems, which strip out carbon dioxide, direct it into tanks and prepare it for sale to make carbonated beverages or soap.
Watchdog’s chief writes to energy bosses as Grid sets out plan to cut waits by up to a decade The energy watchdog for Great Britainwill label the decade-long wait to connect low-carbon projects to the electricity grid as “unacceptable”, amid tensions over a “blame game” for a mounting backlog of green power projects. Jonathan Brearley, the chief executive of Ofgem, has written to energy bosses to warn that the current system, whereby energy projects queue for their connection, could be replaced by new methods to match power generation with demand. Continue reading...
Flying over the Sierra Nevada, teams are using lasers to measure California's vast snowpack, tracking flood risks as the snow melts.
A Coast Guard helicopter and the rescue team in Höfn were called out to yesterday afternoon to assist a woman who was injured while skiing at Grímsfjall on Vatnajökull glacier.
Scientists are tracking a group of young black-browed albatross, who have begun their first epic journeys across the Southern Ocean. In April 2023, 26 young black-browed albatross on Bird Island … The post Scientists track the epic flight of fledged albatross appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.
Modernising Antarctic Infrastructure for Future Generations of Polar Scientists Specialist construction teams are travelling home to the UK after five months of work in Antarctica to modernise British Antarctic Survey … The post Update on construction season in Antarctica appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.
The 2022/23 Antarctic field season has ended, marking the conclusion of another successful year of scientific exploration in one of the world’s most remote and challenging environments. This field season, … The post British Antarctic Survey completes Antarctic field season appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.
A delicate succession in the Arctic Council after Russia sidelined
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Accepted Article.
The first wave of humans into the Americas during the last ice age may have hailed partly from northern China, according to a DNA study of ancient and modern Indigenous people.
NASA satellite photos show the difference between snowpack in the Sierra Nevada now and during the past three years of drought.
May 10, 2023 6:50 AM Some of the first arrivals came from China during two distinct migrations: the last ice age, and the second shortly after.
Scientists have found microbes that can do this at 15C, in a potential breakthrough for recycling Microbes that can digest plastics at low temperatures have been discovered by scientists in the Alps and the Arctic, which could be a valuable tool in recycling. Many microorganisms that can do this have already been found, but they can usually only work at temperatures above 30C (86F). This means that using them in industrial practice is prohibitively expensive because of the heating required. It also means using them is not carbon neutral. Continue reading...
Research aircraft from the Alfred Wegener Institute have been surveying the ice-covered Arctic Ocean for 30 years. The immense effort of the past 52 expeditions has paid off: 40,000 km of measurement data document the significant decrease in pack-ice thickness as a result of climate change. The time series is the only aeroplane- and helicopter-based measurement series in the world that has been carried out in the Arctic over such a long period. Currently, two Basler BT-67 aircraft are in operation: the Polar 5 and Polar 6.
The West Antarctic ice sheet grew back after severe thinning thousands of years ago – a sign that melting ice today could recover thanks to rising landmasses
A new genetic analysis found that Neanderthal noses survived natural selection by proving useful in Ice Age Europe.
A series of studies on the Southern Ocean, which encircles Antarctica, reveal how it is changing. A special issue of the Journal Proceedings of the Royal Society, led by the … The post The changing Southern Ocean: Heat and carbon appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.
The invasion of Ukraine has jeopardized scientific research in Russia’s Arctic territory.
In a precautionary update Friday, the N.W.T. government said cabins and camps on the Arctic Red River and the Peel River could be affected by high water and late ice break-up.
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Australians have been told to brace for cold and wintry conditions all weekend as a polar blast delivers heavy winds, rain and freezing temperatures.
The two-dollar coin with a black band of nickel-plated steel features the late monarch's effigy in the centre of one side and the usual polar bear on an ice floe on the other.
The Mazda3 Carbon Edition offers some excellent options. See what's available in this year's version and find out if you can get AWD along with it.
Only about 12 inches of Caliornia's snow water equivalent melted in April, leaving most of the Sierra Nevada snowpack poised to flow down downhill.
Arctic Monkeys spielen am Dienstag (02. Mai) im Rahmen ihrer Europa-Tour in der Berliner Mercedes-Benz-Arena. Hier gibt es alle Infos rund um die Anfahrt, Tickets und zu den Songs, die gespielt werden.Am Dienstag, 2. Mai, spielen Arctic Monkeys live in Berlin in der Mercedes-Benz-Arena (Kapazität 17.000 Personen). Der Einlass ist um 20 Uhr. Als Voract werden, wie bei allen Konzerten auf der Tour, Inhaler am Start sein. Am vergangenen Montag (24. April) hat die Gruppe das Premieren-Konzert ihrer „The Car“-Europa-Tour im österreichischen Linz gespielt und dabei...