Out of 186 countries, only Guyana produces enough food to self-sufficiently feed all its citizens without foreign imports, according to new research. From a report: The study, published in Nature Food, investigated how well each country could feed thei…

An anonymous reader shares a report: European “green” funds holding more than $33 billion of investments in major oil and gas companies have been revealed by an investigation, despite fossil fuels being the root cause of the climate crisis. Some of the…

“Researchers are seeking a breakthrough in technologies to tackle PFAS contamination,” reports the Washington Post — including experiments with ultraviolet light, plasma and sound waves:

“We’re in a good spot,” said Christopher Higgins, a profes…

For the first time, the growth in China’s clean power generation has caused the nation’s carbon dioxide emissions to fall despite rapid power demand growth. From a report:The new analysis for Carbon Brief shows that China’s emissions were down 1.6% yea…

The climate crisis is threatening the future of the world’s most popular fruit, as almost two-thirds of banana-growing areas in Latin America and the Caribbean may no longer be suitable for growing the fruit by 2080, new research has found. From a repo…

Though global sea levels “varied little” for the 2,000 years before the 20th century, CNN reports that sea levels then “started rising and have not stopped since — and the pace is accelerating.”

And sea level rise “was unexpectedly high last ye…

A comprehensive analysis in Science Advances reveals that humans have explored less than 0.001% of the deep seafloor — an area equivalent to merely one-tenth the size of Belgium. Oceanographer Katherine Bell and colleagues at the Ocean Discovery Leagu…

Plastic producers have pushed “advanced recycling” as a salve to the plastic waste crisis despite knowing for years that it is not a technically or economically feasible solution, a new report argues. The Guardian: Advanced recycling, also known as che…

Carbon removal technologies, potentially a $250 billion market, are failing to gain traction as buyers remain scarce. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projects a need for 10 billion metric tons of carbon removals annually by 2050, yet only…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from IEEE Spectrum: The XPrize Foundation today announced the winners of its four-year, $100 million XPrize competition in carbon removal. The contest is one of dozens hosted by the foundation in its 20-year effort t…