The oceans soak up enormous quantities of carbon dioxide, and MIT researchers say they’ve developed a way of releasing and capturing it that uses far less energy than direct air capture — with some other environmental benefits to boot. New Atlas repor…

New submitter kalieaire writes: Steve Trimble of Aviation week reports that a Hobby Club’s missing ballon might have been inadvertently targeted as a malicious UFO and subsequently shot down. When Scientific Balloon Solutions (SBS) company founder, Ron…

Dozens of road building projects across Wales have been halted or amended as part of a “groundbreaking” policy that reassessed more than 50 schemes against a series of tough tests on their impact on the climate emergency. From a report: Only 15 of the …

The world is at risk of descending into a climate “doom loop,” a thinktank report has warned. From a report: It said simply coping with the escalating impacts of the climate crisis could draw resources and focus away from the efforts to slash carbon em…

The Biden administration has outlined how states and nonprofit groups can apply for $27 billion in funding from a “green bank” that will provide low-cost financing for projects intended to cut planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions. From a report: The…

A third of the companies most linked to the destruction of tropical rainforests have not set a single policy on deforestation, a report reveals. From a report: Research by Global Canopy has found that 31% of the companies with the greatest influence on…

An anonymous reader shares an article that originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit independent news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. It was republished with permission via Ars Technica. Here’s an excerpt: R…

Oceans naturally recycle carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at a massive scale, reports NBC News. So a Canadian startup named Planetary Technologies is “attempting to harness and accelerate that potential by adding antacid powder to the ocean.”

The th…

Long-time Slashdot reader Jarik C-Bol shares Space.com’s report on “two enormous cracks” in the Earth’s crust that have opened up near the Turkish-Syrian border after two powerful earthquakes Monday:

Researchers from the U.K. Centre for the Observatio…

Pollution from livestock farming, pharmaceuticals and healthcare is threatening to destroy a key pillar of modern medicine, as spills of manure and other pollution into waterways are adding to the global rise of superbugs, the UN has warned. From a rep…