The Chinese government is known to be obsessed with controlling every aspect of the country, from its people to traditions and language. And now, the administration has set its eyes on trying to totally control weather. Beijing is apparently trying to change the weather in a part of Tibet, which in area equates roughly in ...
Germany is reportedly thinking of implementing speed limits on its autobahn highway system as a means to reduce carbon emissions. The country was recently awarded a negative climate prize for failing to meet its emission targets. Speed limits on the autobahn In a bid to develop ways to lower the country’s carbon emissions so as ...
Simply reducing greenhouse gas emissions probably is not going to be sufficient for the planet to escape catastrophic damage from climate change, scientists say. Additional actions will be required, and one option is solar geoengineering, which could lower temperatures by methods such as reflecting sunlight away from the Earth through the deployment of aerosols in ...
Following the UN’s recent release of their 17 sustainable goals this fall, the Chinese government is taking a step back to look at just how they can contribute to meeting these goals by 2030 despite still having air pollution so bad that it has contributed to 1.6 million deaths per year in the country. These goals aim to ...
Chemical clues in waters near Marcellus Shale gas wells in rural Pennsylvania can identify new drilling-related sources of methane contamination, according to scientists. The findings provide a new tool for distinguishing potential environmental impacts of shale drilling from pre-existing methane levels commonly found in Pennsylvania waterways, the researchers said. Scientists also found that methane contamination ...
Scientists have discovered that CO2-consuming bacteria in the deepest parts of the seafloor could be turning themselves into an additional food source for other deep-sea life. Bacteria living 4000m below the ocean surface in the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone (CCFZ) are consuming carbon dioxide and turning it into biomass, a new study shows. Until now, scientists ...
About 252 million years ago, a rise in global temperatures resulted in a massive mass extinction in Earth’s history called the Permian mass extinction. Almost 96 percent of marine animals and 70 percent of land animals perished. All this happened in just a few thousand years. Scientists warn that a similar fate might await us ...
Powerful storms that cause extreme weather conditions — such as flooding across Europe and North America, with the potential to wreak social and economic havoc — could increase threefold by the end of the 21st century due to climate change. Pioneering new research, led by Dr. Matt Hawcroft from the University of Exeter, has shown new and ...
Where did Earth’s water come from? A team of Arizona State University geoscientists led by Peter Buseck, Regents’ Professor in ASU’s School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE) and School of Molecular Sciences, has found an answer in a previously neglected source. The team has also discovered that our planet contains considerably more hydrogen, a ...
Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin’s Marine Science Institute have discovered nearly two dozen new types of deep-sea microbes, many of which use hydrocarbons, such as methane and butane, as energy sources to survive and grow — meaning the newly identified bacteria might be helping to limit the concentrations of greenhouse gases in ...
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