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HENGILL, Iceland (Reuters) — A Swiss company will start to extract carbon dioxide from thin air in Iceland on Thursday (October 12), seeking to transform the gas into rock far below ground in a first test of a costly technology meant to slow climate change. The engineering experiment, by Swiss firm Climeworks with Reykjavik Energy, will cost hundreds of dollars to extract each ton of greenhouse gases from nature and entomb it permanently underground. Climeworks plans […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — The widespread loss of forests in the tropics means the region emits more carbon than it captures, reversing its longtime role as a safeguard against climate change, researchers said Thursday. The analysis in the journal Science relies on 12 years (2003-2014) of satellite imagery, laser remote sensing technology and field measurements. This approach allowed scientists to focus on aspects of forest loss that were previously hard to measure, such as […]
MONTREAL, Canada (AFP) — Environmental ministers representing Canada, China and the European Union will co-host a meeting in Montreal later this month to move forward with the implementation of the Paris climate change agreement. The ministerial meeting will include representatives from some 30 countries, according to Canada’s minister of environment and climate change, Catherine McKenna. “This meeting brings together major economies and key climate actors to advance the implementation of the Paris Agreement and demonstrate […]
MONT BEGO, France (Reuters) — The survival of the giant alpine spider, scientifically known as Vesubia Jugorum, is threatened by global warming, archeologist and species specialist Marco Isaia warned. The spider lives in grassland with rocky outcrops at heights between 2,600 and 2,700 meters (8,500-8,900 feet) in the French and Italian Alps. The species, also referred to as the wolf spider, is endemic to the French national parc of Mercantour, home to the Mont Bego peak, […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — The Greenland ice sheet is likely to melt faster in the years to come, despite a recent slowdown, researchers said Wednesday after making a new discovery about the way glaciers move. Greenland contains enough ice to make the sea level mount 23 feet (seven meters) if it were to melt completely. The findings in the journal Science Advances show that ice in Greenland moves more quickly over sediment than hard rock. […]
SUNSARI, Nepal (Reuters) — Residents of floo-hit Sunsari District in southern Nepal said on Wednesday (August 16) they have been left with nothing, after the Koshi River overflowed with monsoon rains and swept away their belongings. The death toll from the flash floods and landslides that have hit Nepal have left at least 115 people dead, officials said on Tuesday (August 15), with an additional 38 people still missing. Relief workers said 26 of Nepal’s 75 […]
by Kerry Sheridan Agence France Presse MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Rising carbon dioxide levels from global warming will drastically reduce the amount of protein in staple crops like rice and wheat, leaving vulnerable populations at risk of growth stunting and early death, experts warned Wednesday. Researchers say they still don’t understand how or why carbon dioxide emissions sap protein and other nutrients from plants, but the mystery is one that could have […]
CAYENNE, France (AFP) — Two satellites including one dedicated to monitoring the effects of climate change on vegetation were successfully launched into orbit late Tuesday, launch company Arianespace said. They were launched from Korou, in French Guiana, at 10:56 pm (0136 GMT). The Vegetation and Environment monitoring on a New Micro Satellite — or Venus — is a joint effort between France’s National Center for Space Studies (CNES) and Israel’s space agency. Venus will […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Paying small amounts of cash to convince landowners not to cut down their trees is a highly effective strategy for reducing carbon emissions that drive climate change, researchers said Thursday. Trees are important because they absorb lots of carbon dioxide, which is a by-product of fossil fuel burning and is the primary of driver of global warming. The analysis of a system called “Payments for Ecosystems” in Uganda showed its […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — A business-as-usual approach to climate change will be “disastrous” for Asia, undoing much of the phenomenal economic growth that has helped it make vast inroads against poverty, the Asian Development Bank said in a report released Friday. A continued reliance on fossil fuels will see the world’s most populous region face prolonged heat waves, rising sea levels, and changing rainfall patterns that will disrupt the ecosystem, damage livelihoods and possibly even […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — Senator Grace Poe has proposed the creation of a permanent disaster mitigation agency in the face of successive earthquakes that struck the country, the latest of which is the magnitude-6.5 earthquake that hit Leyte. “Climate change is a reality and is upon us,” she said in a statement. She said the agency could replace the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, which she said could be considered an […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — If the United States fails to take decisive measures to combat climate change, it will become a poorer country facing more dramatic inequality, according to a study published Thursday. The poorest third of US counties could see income drops as great as 20 percent if current trends continue, according to the worst-case projection of the study, published in the journal Science. An interdisciplinary team of climatologists and economists based its […]
