Swiss company Climeworks has opened the biggest operational direct air capture (DAC) plant in the world to pull carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The Mammoth plant, located in Iceland, is nearly ten times bigger than Orca, its second-largest plant. “Starting operations of our Mammoth plant is another proof point in Climeworks’ scale-up journey to megaton […]
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has announced a ban on the selling and distribution of lab-grown meat in the state, the first law of its kind in the United States. With the ban, DeSantis said he would be saving beef from the “global elite,” reported BBC News. “Today, Florida is fighting back against the global elite’s […]
A centuries-old town emerged in the Philippines recently when a long drought dried up a dam. Southeast Asia has been experiencing deadly extreme heat, causing school closures, work-from-home orders and withered crops. The ruins of the town of Pantabangan in Nueva Ecija province have given local residents in the rice-growing region another income source from […]
Since March, flooding and landslides throughout Kenya have killed at least 188 people, with dozens still missing, according to the country’s ministry of the interior, as AFP reported. There have been at least 125 injuries with 165,000 people displaced. The flooding has taken out bridges and roads while destroying homes and infrastructure. A flash flood […]
A new study has uncovered that flight-related emissions from 2019 are far higher than reported. Scientists reviewed data for more than 40 million flights in 2019 and calculated the total global aviation emissions to be about 911 million metric tons, well above the 604 million metric tons reported to the United Nations in 2019. While […]
According to the new Climate Damages Tax report, introducing a fossil fuel tax on companies in the richest countries in the world could generate hundreds of billions to aid the most vulnerable nations in coping with the climate crisis. The impacts of climate change disproportionately affect poorer nations that have contributed to it the least. […]
Energy ministers of the Group of Seven largest economies in the developed world — Germany, France, Canada, Japan, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States — have announced an agreement to permanently close coal-fired power plants by 2030 to 2035, or on a timeline that supports the global heating limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius […]
To meet clean energy and net-zero targets by 2030, as set during COP28, the International Energy Agency (IEA) says that rapid expansion of battery storage capacity is necessary. According to the agency, a rollout of batteries needs to increase six-fold compared to current rates in order to meet global climate goals. IEA reported that battery […]
Adam Welz’s The End of Eden is an extraordinary document of a planet under stress. Taking a deep dive into the scientific history of our planet, Welz brings the research into the moment by exploring how species around the world are being forever altered or eliminated, in ways that few people are aware. “Humans have […]
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