Earth Science

2022 Will Strike a New Record For Climate Pollution

The earth has nine years to avert climate catastrophe. However, we are still pumping out record levels of pollution.A chimney from the Linden Cogeneration Plant is seen in Linden, New Jersey, on April 22nd, 2022.  Credit: Kena Betancur / VIEWpressThe growing climate catastropheThe globe is rapidly coming close to a current level of climate catastrophe...

Where Human Beings Live, Microplastics End Up In Rivers

Credit: Environmental Pollution (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2022.119852An article released in Environmental Contamination, authored by Saint Louis University (SLU) researchers, demonstrates that human closeness is the best indication of microplastics being located in the Meramec River in Missouri.Something in the waterA crew of investigators, carried by Jason Knouft, Ph.D., lecturer of biology, principal researcher with the WATER Institute...

COP27: Climate Finance Needs More Transparency

Credit: CC0 Public DomainDuring the 27th World Climate Conference (COP27) in Egypt, which is now going on for two weeks, climate finance is once again a leading subject.At the 21st World Climate Conference (COP21) held in Paris in 2015, all countries concurred for the very first time to limit climate change with their reduction...

The Influence of Deforestation and Afforestation on the International Water Cycle

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainA global group of investigators has tried to analyze the effect of both logging and afforestation on the worldwide water cycle. In their paper released in the journal Nature Geoscience, the team assesses rainfall records in addition to hydrologically heavy leaf place indices to calculate modifications in surface area water over...

Modeling Recommends Iceberg A68’s 2nd Break Was Due to Ocean Current Shear Forces

Sentinel-1 imagery of iceberg A68a. (A) December 19 (partial image). (B) December 21. (C) December 22. The full separation of the calved finger is apparent on December 22 (C) but was preceded by new rifting on December 21 (B) that was previously absent on December 19 (A). Credit: Science Advances (2022).A group of scientists at Princeton...

Smartphone Data Can Help Create Global Vegetation Maps

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainNature and the environment are mutually dependent. Plant growth is absolutely depending on the environment; however, this is, consequently, firmly influenced by plants, such as in a woodland, which evaporates a great deal of water.To be able to make precise predictions regarding just how the living world may create, a substantial...

European Union sets New Records for Wind and Solar Energy Production

Solar panels are seen on houses inAlmere Noorderplassen, The Netherlands. Credit: Unsplash / Daria NepriakhinaSince the start of the war early this year, a new report discovers that approximately a quarter of the European Union's electricity has originated from wind and solar. A record-setting number and the development in wind and solar has saved...

Heat And Bacteria Recycle Blended Plastics Into Useful Chemicals

Mixed plastics are difficult to recycle, but a new process shows how it can be done.Credit: China Photos/GettyMixtures of plastics, normally a headache to recycle, have been broken down into helpful, smaller chemical ingredients in one two-step process, reported in Science on 13th October.The plastics problem facing the globe is exacerbated by the difficulty...

A New Method Can Make Plastics More Environmentally Friendly

Plastic bottles A new technique has been developed by researchers that changes polyethylene (PE), the most widely generated plastic, into polypropylene (PP), the second most produced plastics.Upcycling plastic efficiently to remove wasteThe purpose of this process is to decrease greenhouse emissions. "The world needs more and better options for extracting the power and molecular value...

Doomsday Glacier Bigger Than Florida Might Break Off In The Next Few Years, Warn Scientists

Melting glacier. credit: iStock/ fredtamashiroThe Thwaites Glacier is holding onto Antarctica's ice sheet by its fingernails, and the globe might see significant changes over the next year or two, researchers have alerted in a recently released study, CNN reported.As the world warms, giant sheets of ice near the poles have been melting off. Previously...