Greenhouse gases can help us find advanced alien civilisations, scientists say

1 week, 1 day ago

Scientists probe secrets of Earth’s climate past

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. A team from the University of St Andrews used fossils to work out how much …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Amazon plans to use AI-designed material to reduce carbon emissions from data centres

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The carbon-filtering material, developed by Orbital Materials, showcases the power of artificial intelligence in materials science. Amazon will use the sponge-like device at an Amazon Web Services data centre With AWS being the largest cloud-computing provider globally, Amazon's adoption of such sustainable technologies highlights its commitment to tackling the environmental impact of its operations while fostering innovation. Image Credit: Reuters …

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2 months ago

Frustration grows at fossil fuel influence and structure of UN climate talks. Some call for reform

Associated Press

BAKU, Azerbaijan — Good or bad, the United Nations climate negotiations process itself became the focus of the international talks that aim to curb warming from coal, oil and natural gas. “We consider COP29 as a litmus test for the global climate architecture,” conference lead negotiator Yalchin Rafiyev said at a Friday news conference. Share Share Copy Link copied Email …

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2 months ago

COP29: Planet-heating pollution to hit all-time high, dashing hopes it would start to drop in 2024

CNN

CNN — Global levels of planet-heating pollution from fossil fuels will hit record levels this year, according to new projections, dashing hopes 2024 would be the year they plateau or fall. “The impacts of climate change are becoming increasingly dramatic, yet we still see no sign that burning of fossil fuels has peaked,” said Pierre Friedlingstein, a climate professor at …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

"Alarm bells ringing" as report finds greenhouse gas emissions growing faster than ever

Salon

The World Meteorological Organization, released its annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin earlier this week, reporting that humans are emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere at a faster rate than ever before, contributing significantly to climate change. The WMO reports historically high levels of the greenhouse gasses methane and nitrous oxide, which like carbon dioxide are common byproducts of human industry. These …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

'Words fail': WMO report finds CO2 accumulating at record levels

Raw Story

Climate-heating carbon dioxide is accumulating in the atmosphere more rapidly than at any time since humans evolved. "Greenhouse gas pollution at these levels will guarantee a human and economic trainwreck for every country, without exception." "Today's NDC Synthesis Report must be a turning point, ending the era of inadequacy and sparking a new age of acceleration, with much bolder new …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Earth is becoming ‘increasingly uninhabitable,’ scientists warn

The Independent

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “It will, however, amplify climate warming, and can also strengthen precipitation change and extreme events in many regions.” This …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Greenhouse Gas Levels Soar to Record, Warns WMO

Live Mint

Greenhouse gas levels hit record highs in 2023, with annual mean CO2 levels soaring by 2.3 PPM. This is the twelfth consecutive year of increasing CO2 levels, and the year 2023 also emerged as the warmest on record, surpassing the 2016-level. The rise in greenhouse gases is a major concern, as it contributes to climate change and extreme weather events. …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

A new study unpacks the last 485 million years of Earth's temperature history

Salon

Climate change deniers inaccurately claim that Earth's rapidly rising temperatures are the mere product of natural cycles. "As a scientist, I’m always cautious of the word 'prove,' but our work demonstrates the important role that atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations play in controlling Earth’s temperature," Emily Joan Judd, the lead study author and paleontologist at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural …

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4 months ago

Pollution of the potent warming gas methane soars and people are mostly to blame

New Indian Express

The amount and proportion of the powerful heat-trapping gas methane that humans spew into the atmosphere is rising, helping to turbocharge climate change, a new study finds. Tuesday’s study finds that in 2020, the last year complete data is available, the world put 670 million tons of methane in the air, up nearly 12% from 2000. “Methane is a climate …

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4 months ago

Human activity now fuels two-thirds of global methane emissions, report finds

LA Times

The world is moving in a perilous direction when it comes to planet-warming methane emissions, which are soaring to record highs driven largely by human activity, new research warns. Although many people associate methane with cow burps and melting permafrost, a paper published this week in the journal Earth System Science Data found that global methane emissions over the last …

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5 months ago

Spying from space: How satellites can help identify and rein in a potent climate pollutant

Raw Story

This story was originally published by Grist. The organization was coordinating the work of hundreds of scientists who “were creating more data about methane emissions from the oil and gas industry in the U.S. than anyone had,” Hamburg said, “by orders of magnitude.” The Brent Charlie oil rig is carried by the crane ship Pioneering Spirit as it waits off …

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

'Worrisome': Global methane spike imperils climate goals, study warns

Raw Story

Methane emissions are rising faster than expected, a new study has warned, and the surge is putting global climate goals at risk. The study, published Monday in Frontiers in Science, found that methane emissions have risen quickly since 2006, with the growth rates for atmospheric methane seeing an "abrupt and rapid increase" in the early 2020s. "The growth rate of …

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6 months ago

Rotten eggs chemical detected on Jupiter-like alien planet

The Hindu

The planet known as HD 189733b, discovered in 2005, already had a reputation as a rather extreme place, a scorching hot gas giant a bit larger than Jupiter that is a striking cobalt blue colour and has molten glass rain that blows sideways in its fierce atmospheric winds. Researchers said on Monday new data from the James Webb Space Telescope …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope solves mystery of this puffy exoplanet

Hindustan Times

Two independent teams of researchers have answered the question as to why the warm gas-giant exoplanet WASP-107 b is so puffy. Data collected from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, combined with observations from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, revealed that the interior of the exoplanet WASP-107 b might be hotter, and the core might be much more massive than what was …

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8 months ago

James Webb Telescope discovers super-Earth outside the Solar System

India Today

The James Webb Telescope has delivered exactly what it was intended for. The world's most powerful observatory has detected atmospheric gases on a planet outside the Solar System, which has a rocky surface like Earth. James Webb Telescope cannot capture a direct image of 55 Cancri e. Nasa said that the planet orbits so close to its star that its …

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8 months, 1 week ago

Earth observation data to drive $3 trillion in economic benefits by 2030: WEF

Hindustan Times

Earth observation has the potential to drive over $3 trillion in cumulative economic benefits globally by 2030, while also advancing a wide range of climate and nature solutions, a new World Economic Forum report said on Tuesday. The report identifies five key areas: 1) environmental monitoring – satellites and aircraft-borne sensors can monitor CO2 and methane emissions, pinpoint emissions sources …

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8 months, 2 weeks ago

Forget Mars, are there aliens on… K2-18b? Discovery of planet twice as big as Earth emitting gas 'only produced by life' sparks huge excitement among astronomers

Daily Mail

Astronomers could finally show that alien life does exist on a distant planet following observations today. Planet K2-18b – which is more than twice as big as Earth and 120 light-years away – sits within the habitable zone of its star in the Leo constellation. Scientists made an exciting and potentially ground-breaking discovery in the search for alien life - …

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10 months, 1 week ago

Methane: the tricky hunt for hidden emissions

BBC

Methane: the tricky hunt for hidden emissions Getty Images Agriculture is the largest human source of methane emissions A new satellite will measure global methane emissions, but why does agriculture's contribution remain so elusive? BAE Systems The new MethaneSat aims to detect methane leaked from oil and gas fields around the world Yet the oil and gas industry is also …

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10 months, 1 week ago

Environmentalists launch satellite to track world’s worst methane leakers

The Independent

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Methane emissions have been overlooked and hard to detect for far too long,” said Dr Kelly Levin, the chief …

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1 year, 1 month ago

India welcomes Dubai consensus even as new flanks open

The Hindu

Amid the global consensus in Dubai to transition away from fossil fuels, India welcomed the agreement though new avenues of opposition may have opened that it will have to address in future climate negotiations. A line says: “.Accelerating and substantially reducing non-carbon-dioxide emissions globally, including in particular methane emissions by 2030.” While the global conversation around reducing methane deals with …

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1 year, 1 month ago

The limitations of CCS and CDR and their grip on our future climate | Explained

The Hindu

December 12, 2023 10:00 am | Updated December 13, 2023 07:57 pm IST - Bengaluru At the COP28 climate talks underway in Dubai, draft decisions thus far have referred to the abatement and removal of carbon emissions using carbon capture and storage and carbon-dioxide removal technologies. At COP28, the term “unabated fossil fuels” has come to mean the combustion of …

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1 year, 1 month ago

The greenhouse gas breakthrough that should give us hope

The Independent

Cop28 has been mired in controversy over comments by its host, Sultan al-Jaber, about whether it’s necessary to phase out fossil fuels to limit global warming. “The signs coming from the Cop28 are all positive to that end, with a lot of progress being made on reducing methane emissions, as well as the pledge to triple renewables by 2030, which …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Sunday quiz | Easy like Sunday morning

The Hindu

Easy like Sunday morning: It’s all gas! YES NO Answer : Hydrogen SHOW ANSWER 3 / 10 | This gas makes up 24% of the mass of the universe but is relatively rare on Earth. YES NO Answer : Helium SHOW ANSWER 4 / 10 | This gas is named after the Sun god, and although a noble gas, it …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Scientists cook ‘alien haze’ that could help us find extraterrestrial life

The Independent

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Scientists have cooked up the "alien haze" of distant planets, in an effort …

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1 year, 1 month ago

UN report says world is racing to well past warming limit as carbon emissions rise instead of plunge

Associated Press

Earth is speeding to 2.5 to 2.9 degrees Celsius of global warming since pre-industrial times, set to blow well past the agreed-upon international climate threshold, a United Nations report calculated. The United States’ Inflation Reduction Act, which has $375 billion in spending on clean energy, by 2030 would reduce yearly emissions of carbon dioxide by about 1 billion metric tons, …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Greenhouse gases hit record high in 2022: UN

The Hindu

Greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere hit new record highs in 2022, with no end in sight to the rising trend, the United Nations warned on November 15. The UN's World Meteorological Organization said levels of the three main greenhouse gases — the climate-warming carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide — all broke records last year. "Despite decades of warnings …

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1 year, 2 months ago

UN says greenhouse gases in atmosphere hit record high in 2022

Al Jazeera

Leader of UN’s meteorological agency says the world is still ‘heading in the wrong direction’ and must cut use of fossil fuels. The United Nations says the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere surged to new highs last year as climate change fuelled extreme weather across the globe. In a bulletin released on Wednesday, the UN’s World Meteorological Organization …

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1 year, 2 months ago

‘Every bit matters’: Six key takeaways from the latest U.S. climate report

LA Times

The dire effects of human-caused climate change are worsening and they threaten to bring more extreme heat waves, droughts, floods and wildfires unless urgent actions are taken, scientists warned in a major national report. Efforts to adapt to climate change and curb the burning of fossil fuels have expanded since the last assessment was issued in 2018, the report says, …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Mapping methane: Satellites seek out gas-spewing waste sites

Al Jazeera

A first-of-its-kind waste map under development shows methane emissions at landfills around the world in new fight against climate change. Surprises came quickly when the Global Methane Hub, a non-profit that seeks to reduce emissions of the potent greenhouse gas, began looking at satellite images taken of landfills from around the world. The hub recently announced it received a $5m …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Planet Earth Is On Life Support, Scientists Warn

Huff Post

If Earth were a human, it would already be in the emergency room. An international team of scientists on Tuesday issued a new assessment of planetary health that says the world has entered “uncharted climate territory” and that “life on planet Earth is under siege.” The report, published in the journal BioScience, found that 20 of 35 identified “vital signs” …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Refrigeration chemicals are a nightmare for the climate. Experts say alternatives must spread fast

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1 year, 3 months ago

Exciting findings, new ideas in hunt for alien life

Hindustan Times

New Delhi: Is there life in other worlds? “Hycean worlds are substantially more accessible for atmospheric observations and are therefore more likely to reveal possible signatures of life than rocky planets, if they indeed harbour life,” Madhusudan said. Before going into what Hycean worlds are like, it helps to understand first what it means to search for “signatures of life”. …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Signs of life? Why astronomers are excited about carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere of an alien world

The Hindu

This question is nearly as old as humanity itself. Scientists in the United Kingdom and the United States have just reported some very interesting chemical traces in the atmosphere of a planet called K2-18b, which is about 124 light-years from Earth. Discovered in 2015 by the Kepler Space Telescope’s K2 mission, it is a type of planet called a sub-Neptune. …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Boiling Point: Would filling a new reservoir give off lots of greenhouse gases?

LA Times

This story was originally published in Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment. The Sites Project Authority has presented much smaller estimates of greenhouse gases using different methods, and the agency’s leaders have set a goal of making the project “net-zero” in emissions. “I hope that they look at this as a piece of the overall …

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1 year, 4 months ago

The coming years will be the hottest ever

Hindustan Times

In 2015, in Paris, the nations of the world committed themselves to trying their best to prevent the planet warming by more than 1.5°C from its pre-industrial state. It said there was a 66% chance that the world would exceed the 1.5°C threshold in at least one of the next five years. Even if the 1.5°C target is not breached, …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Our 'Scorched Planet' is getting hotter, and no one is immune to rising temperatures

NPR

Our 'Scorched Planet' is getting hotter, and no one is immune to rising temperatures Author Jeff Goodell warns a new climate regime is coming: "We don't really know what we're heading into and how chaotic this can get." And one of the scary things that's happening right now - not just with heat, but heat is the clearest expression of …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Watch | Earth looks like gas giant Jupiter as carbon emissions engulf the planet

India Today

Climate change has worsened the situation on the planet as greenhouse gas emissions continue to raise global temperatures and wreak havoc across the world. See Pics | Mercury looks bruised and battered in new pictures WATCH CO2 ENGULF EARTH IN NASA VISUALISATION The visualisation shows the amount of CO2 being added into the atmosphere in 2021. "Scientists are carefully monitoring …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Planet warming at ‘unprecedented rate’, study finds

Al Jazeera

Human-induced warming has been increasing at a rate of 0.2 degrees Celsius per decade, scientists say in a new study. From 2013 to 2022, “human-induced warming has been increasing at an unprecedented rate of more than 0.2 degrees Celsius per decade,” 50 top scientists warned on Thursday in a sweeping climate science update. World leaders will be confronted with the …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Science This Week | New exoplanet 13 times the mass of Jupiter found, Ozone layer recovery delayed and more

The Hindu

From discovering a new exoplanet with a mass 13 times that of Jupiter to tracing the evolutionary history of butterflies, find the week’s latest findings and discoveries from the world of science. Scientists discover new exoplanet with mass 13 times that of Jupiter A new Jupiter-size exoplanet with the highest density known till this date and mass 13 times than …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Only around 13% of global methane emissions regulated: Study

The Hindu

Researchers have showed through a review that only around 13% of global methane emissions are regulated, despite methane emissions causing at least 25% of current global warming. The researchers focused on 281 policies worldwide, 255 of them currently in force, that aim to monitor and reduce methane emissions examining the geographical coverage, strength and effectiveness of the policies. But fossil …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Science For Everyone: The Importance of Greenhouse Gases, And Their Role in Climate Change

ABP News

Science For Everyone: Welcome back to "Science For Everyone", ABP Live's weekly science column. The atmospheric gases which trap heat in the atmosphere, and absorb and re-emit infrared energy from the atmosphere and the Earth’s surface, are called greenhouse gases. Greenhouse gases allow sunlight to pass through the atmosphere, but do not let some amount of Earth's heat escape the …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Can the climate crisis push us to make flying greener?

The Hindu

Published : Apr 26, 2023 17:07 IST - 6 MINS READ Before the COVID-19 pandemic, when the global aviation sector was flying high in 2019, it contributed almost 6 per cent of the planet-warming greenhouse gases in our atmosphere. “It doesn’t require much effort to make these changes,” said Markus Fischer, divisional director at the German Aerospace Center, adding that …

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1 year, 10 months ago

‘Planet in the crosshairs’: UN chief demands rapid emission cuts

Al Jazeera

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the latest report by UN climate scientists ‘could not come at a more pivotal time’. The head of the United Nations called for scientists to serve up “cold hard facts” to push governments into making policies that curb climate change before a key global warming threshold is passed. In a video address to delegates, UN Secretary-General …

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1 year, 10 months ago

U.N. takes step towards new way of tracking greenhouse gases

The Hindu

The United Nations announced on Monday that it had taken a significant step towards trying to fill a key gap in the fight against climate change: standardised, real-time tracking of greenhouse gases. The U.N.'s World Meteorological Organisation has come up with a new Global Greenhouse Gas Monitoring Infrastructure that aims to provide better ways of measuring planet-warming pollution and help …

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1 year, 10 months ago

‘Forbidden’ world could change our understanding of how planets form

The Independent

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Scientists have found a planetary system with a “forbidden” world, which could rewrite …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Energy agency chief: “No excuse” for high methane emissions

Associated Press

MOMBASA, Kenya — The International Energy Agency on Tuesday accused fossil fuel industries of doing too little to curb methane emissions and undermining global climate goals to limit warming. Economic uncertainty, high energy prices and concerns over the security of supply — which should have led to emissions cuts in 2022 — were ineffective as methane emissions remained “stubbornly high,” …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Editorial: 2022 brought more heat and pollution. We’re still careening toward climate disaster

LA Times

New climate data show that 2022 was among the hottest years on record but that U.S. greenhouse gas emissions just keep rising. Another study showed the amount of heat being taken up by Earth’s oceans reached another record high last year. And it’s another stark reminder that despite some recent progress on climate policy, such as the passage of the …

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