An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: Arete Glacier Initiative has raised $5 million to improve forecasts of sea-level rise and explore the possibility of refreezing glaciers in place.
Off one atoll, just south of the Maldives…

An anonymous reader shared this report from the Wall Street Journal:

Five years ago, Airbus made a bold bet: The plane maker would launch a zero-emissions, hydrogen-powered aircraft within 15 years that, if successful, would mark the biggest revolutio…

“Honeybee colonies are under siege across much of North America…” reported the New York Times last week. [Alternate URL here.] Last winter beekeepers across America “began reporting massive beehive collapses. More than half of the roughly 2.8 million…

“Using electrochemistry, University of Oregon researchers have developed a way to make iron metal for steel production without burning fossil fuels…” the University of Oregon wrote last year. “Decarbonizing this step would do roughly as much to reduc…

Discover magazine reports that a team of researchers have produced evidence that the ancient building blocks for water have been here on earth “since early in the planet’s history, according to a study published in the journal Icarus.”
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“Seismologist Deborah Kilb was wading through California earthquake records from the past four decades when she noticed something odd,” reports CNN, “a series of deep earthquakes that had occurred under the Sierra Nevada at a depth where Earth’s crust …

About one sixth of global cropland is contaminated by toxic heavy metals, researchers have estimated, with as many as 1.4 billion people living in high-risk areas worldwide. From a report: Approximately 14 to 17% of cropland globally — roughly 242m he…

Rice, the world’s most consumed grain, will become increasingly toxic as the atmosphere heats and as carbon dioxide emissions rise, potentially putting billions of people at risk of cancers and other diseases, according to new research published this w…

A ground-breaking project to suck carbon out of the sea has started operating on England’s south coast. From a report: The small pilot scheme, known as SeaCURE, is funded by the UK government as part of its search for technologies that fight climate ch…

The climate crisis has tripled the length of ocean heatwaves, a study has found, supercharging deadly storms and destroying critical ecosystems such as kelp forests and coral reefs. From a report: Half of the marine heatwaves since 2000 would not have …