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Continental shelf seas—the shallow waters surrounding our coasts that provide most of the world’s seafood—are absorbing more carbon than they release, with the strength and direction of the prevailing wind proving a key control, new […]

Predicting bushfires is difficult at the best of times. But as climate change wreaks havoc with our world’s weather systems it’s getting harder and more important to get right.This post was originally published on this […]

Scientists from the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at Queen Mary University of London have developed a simple model to show how buoyant plastic can settle through the water column and they predict it […]

The European Parliament on Thursday definitively adopted rules clamping down on pollution from the tiny pellets that constitute the building blocks of most plastic products.This post was originally published on this site

What will the world look like in 2100? This question is central to a new free online game called FutureGuessr. Launched in June 2025, this new form of climate communication combines gameplay with visual climate […]

Carbon emissions from the lithium-ion battery supply chain could be cut by up to around 35% using a circular economy strategy that encompasses global cooperation, according to a paper published in Nature. The study analyzes […]

It’s a crowded Saturday morning at the downtown farmers’ market in a major Midwestern city.This post was originally published on this site

Governments in Canada’s major oil and gas producing provinces, Alberta and Saskatchewan, have touted their efforts in recent years to reduce methane emissions.This post was originally published on this site

The study published in Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment is the first to use AI to combine two types of satellite imagery to detect the location, thickness and type of oil spill in oceans, […]

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Wednesday it was now clear that efforts to cap global warming at 1.5 Celsius above pre-industrial levels would fail in the short term.This post was originally published on this site