Canada Ignores Calls to Address Climate Pollution from Industrial Logging
As the COP28 Climate Conference concludes this week, spotlighting global efforts for climate action, a glaring omission remains in Canada’s commitment to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.
In a disappointing move that undermines transparency and...
Air Force delivers helicopters for remote science campaign
A massive Royal Australian Air Force aircraft, usually used to move military equipment and distribute humanitarian aid, has delivered two BK117 helicopters to Antarctica for the first time. The helicopters will be used this...
Pumpkin waste: three ways to stop your leftover lantern becoming a Halloween horror story
This Halloween, around 18,000 tonnes of pumpkins will go to waste in the UK alone. That’s because, of the 30 million purchased each year, about half go entirely uneaten. That’s £27 million worth of...
NOAA uses artificial intelligence to translate forecasts, warnings into Spanish and Chinese
NOAA’s National Weather Service (NWS) has provided manual translations of weather forecasts and warnings in Spanish for the past 30 years, but now the agency has a new tool to be more accurate, efficient...
Antarctic sea ice hits record low maximum extent for 2023
Antarctic sea ice has likely reached its maximum extent for the year, at 16.96 million square kilometers (6.55 million square miles) on September 10, according to scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data...
Supergiant iceberg makes surrounding ocean surface colder and less salty
The melting of the supergiant iceberg A-68 had a huge impact on the ocean around South Georgia, in sub-Antarctica, and significantly changed the Southern Ocean’s temperature and saltiness, with potentially major consequences for this...
BPA’s evil cousin
Most people have heard of BPA — but researchers say its chemical cousin, BADGE, is leaving scores of workers, artisans and individuals at risk.
BADGE, short for bisphenol-A diglycidyl ether, BADGE, has gotten far less...
The Coral Restoration Consortium – 2023 Coral Bleaching Guidance
Bleaching is reaching severe levels throughout the tropics with more reports coming in daily. This extreme heat stress due to the predicted El Niño, is arriving a month earlier than expected. Corals can recover...
Global shipping can halve emissions without impacting trade, study finds ahead of key UN...
The global shipping industry can reduce emissions by nearly 50% by the end of the decade, according to a new study by CE Delft. These findings come as the UN’s International Maritime Organization (IMO) is about...
U.S. Power Grid: Inadequate For Future Dominated By Renewables?
Our outdated power grid is indeed a significant hindrance to efforts to combat climate change. One of the key issues is the grid’s limited capacity to integrate renewable energy sources (solar, wind, etc.), a...
Lawsuit Launched Over Federal Failure to Protect Manatees
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.— The Center for Biological Diversity, Harvard Animal Law & Policy Clinic, Miami Waterkeeper, and Frank S. González García sent a notice today of their intent to sue the U.S. Fish and...
Country Overshoot Days 2023
A country’s overshoot day is the date on which Earth Overshoot Day would fall if all of humanity consumed like the people in that country.
Country overshoot days are published on January 1st of each year. In...
