Slashdot Items Tagged "environment"

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Friday March 01, 2024 @02:54PM Carbon Emissions Reached Record High in 2023, IEA Says
Friday February 16, 2024 @09:56PM California Bill Wants To Scrap Environmental Reviews To Save Downtown San Francisco
Monday February 12, 2024 @09:22PM Climate Change Reversing Gains In Air Quality Across the US, Study Finds
Monday January 22, 2024 @01:47PM Exxon Takes Activists To Court Over Emissions Proposal
Tuesday January 16, 2024 @07:59PM Human 'Behavioral Crisis' At Root of Climate Breakdown, Say Scientists
Tuesday December 26, 2023 @12:15PM Ski Resorts Battle For a Future as Snow Declines in Climate Crisis
Thursday December 21, 2023 @01:26PM Pakistan Uses Artificial Rain in Attempt To Cut Pollution Levels
Tuesday December 19, 2023 @11:44PM Hurricane Larry Dropped Over 100,000 Microplastics Per Square Meter Per Day, Study Finds
Tuesday November 28, 2023 @05:59PM Files Suggest Climate Summit's Leader Is Using Event To Promote Fossil Fuels
Tuesday November 21, 2023 @08:21PM World's Richest 1% Emit As Much Carbon As Bottom Two-Thirds, Report Finds
Friday November 17, 2023 @06:22PM Canada Court Overturns Government Ruling That Some Plastics Are Toxic
Monday November 13, 2023 @02:44PM Countries Meet in Kenya To Thrash Out Global Plastic Pollution Treaty
Saturday October 28, 2023 @02:57AM England To Diverge From EU Water Monitoring Standards
Tuesday October 10, 2023 @07:06PM California Requires Companies To Report Carbon Emissions
Monday October 09, 2023 @02:40PM Microplastics Detected in Clouds Hanging Atop Two Japanese Mountains
Thursday September 28, 2023 @02:47PM Swiss Glaciers Lose 10% of Their Volume in Two Years
Wednesday September 27, 2023 @06:18PM Antarctic Sea Ice Hits Lowest Winter Maximum On Record
Monday September 25, 2023 @04:33PM Lego Drops Plans To Make Bricks From Recycled Plastic Bottles
Tuesday September 12, 2023 @10:35AM US Behind More Than a Third of Global Oil and Gas Expansion Plans, Report Finds
Thursday September 07, 2023 @05:47PM Microsoft Signs Giant Carbon Removal Deal To Sponge Up CO2 Using Limestone
Thursday August 31, 2023 @08:29PM Shell Scraps Its $100 Million-a-Year Carbon Offset Plan
Wednesday August 30, 2023 @01:13PM EU Fossil Fuel Burning for Electricity Fell To Lowest on Record in 2023, Data Shows
Friday August 25, 2023 @11:21PM 90% of Paper Straws Contain Toxic Forever Chemicals, Study Finds
Wednesday August 02, 2023 @03:18PM Supermarket Plastic Bag Charge Has Led To 98% Drop in Use in England, Data Shows
Monday July 17, 2023 @08:36PM Green Energy Tycoon To Launch UK's First Electric Airline
Friday June 30, 2023 @07:05AM China on Course To Hit Wind and Solar Power Target Five Years Ahead of Time
Thursday June 15, 2023 @12:12PM Chipmakers Race To Curb Emissions as Demand Surges
Tuesday June 06, 2023 @04:00PM First Steps Agreed on Plastics Treaty After Breakthrough at Paris Talks
Tuesday May 30, 2023 @05:22PM Tackling Plastic Pollution: 'We Can't Recycle Our Way Out of This'
Thursday May 25, 2023 @04:51PM Supreme Court Limits EPA's Authority Under the Clean Water Act
Tuesday May 23, 2023 @01:06PM CEO of Biggest Carbon Credit Certifier To Resign After Claims Offsets Worthless
Friday May 19, 2023 @05:44PM A Crowd-Funded Startup Is Making a Coffee Cup That Can Be Eaten
Friday May 12, 2023 @04:59PM Societal Cost of 'Forever Chemicals' About $17.5 Trillion Across Global Economy
Tuesday April 25, 2023 @04:27PM VC Firms Create $60 Billion-plus Climate Tech Alliance With Backing From the UN
Friday April 07, 2023 @03:21PM Cop28 President: World Needs Business Mindset To Tackle Climate Crisis
Friday March 31, 2023 @06:56PM US Approves California Plan Requiring Half of Heavy Duty Trucks Be EV By 2035
Friday March 10, 2023 @03:12PM Biggest Carbon Credit Certifier To Replace Its Rainforest Offsets Scheme
Friday February 17, 2023 @07:33PM MIT Team Makes a Case For Direct Carbon Capture From Seawater, Not Air
Wednesday February 08, 2023 @10:41PM Researchers Want To Launch Dust From the Moon To Help Cool Earth
Tuesday January 10, 2023 @09:50AM Camouflage Coatings Market Challenging environment and Forecast 2023-2032
Friday January 06, 2023 @07:44AM Phosgene Market Challenging environment and Forecast 2023-2032
Tuesday December 27, 2022 @09:20AM Get Cost-Effective And Environment Friendly Dymoebay Postage Labels
Tuesday December 27, 2022 @05:53AM Get Cost-Effective and Environment Friendly Dymoebay postage Labels
Tuesday December 27, 2022 @03:49AM The Importance of Regular Cleaning for a Healthy Home or Office Environment
Friday December 16, 2022 @11:57AM A Stealth Effort To Bury Wood For Carbon Removal Has Just Raised Millions
Wednesday November 30, 2022 @07:29PM EU Unveils Plans To Cut Europe's Plastic and Packaging Waste
Wednesday October 26, 2022 @07:32PM Extremophiles On Mars Could Survive For Hundreds of Millions of Years
Monday October 24, 2022 @05:03PM Plastic Recycling a 'Failed Concept,' Study Says
Wednesday October 19, 2022 @07:19PM Transparent Wood Could Soon Replace Plastics
Thursday October 13, 2022 @07:47AM Greenland Ice Sheet May Be More Vulnerable To Climate Change, Study Finds
Tuesday October 11, 2022 @02:35PM New Zealand Angers Its Farmers By Proposing Taxing Cow Burps
Friday September 23, 2022 @01:54PM Wildfire Smoke is Unraveling Decades of Air Quality Gains, Exposing Millions of Americans To Extreme Pollution Levels
Tuesday September 13, 2022 @01:01PM World Heading Into 'Uncharted Territory of Destruction,' Says Climate Report
Thursday September 01, 2022 @05:13PM Tree-Planting Schemes Are Just Creating Tree Cemeteries
Tuesday August 30, 2022 @06:16PM Germany's 9-Euro Train Tickets Scheme 'Saved 1.8 Million Tons of CO2 Emissions'
Tuesday July 19, 2022 @05:04PM Australia's Environment In 'Shocking' Decline, Report Finds
Wednesday July 06, 2022 @12:52AM Snow At One of World's Highest Observatories Melting Earlier Than Ever Before
Wednesday June 29, 2022 @06:05PM Construction Begins On 'Mammoth' Direct Air Capture Plant
Wednesday May 25, 2022 @12:51PM Gene Editing Could Increase Food Security, UK Adviser Says
Friday May 20, 2022 @01:19PM EU Drive For New Clean Energy Could See Solar Panels on All New Buildings
Thursday May 12, 2022 @06:17PM Report: 'Carbon Bombs' Are Poised To Screw Us Over Big Time
Monday May 02, 2022 @06:57PM FAA Delays Environmental Review of SpaceX's Starship Yet Another Month, To May31
Thursday April 14, 2022 @01:16PM Apple is Cleaning Up Its Most Challenging Carbon Emissions
Friday April 08, 2022 @04:05PM US Wind Energy Just Hit a Major Milestone
Monday April 04, 2022 @01:22PM A 'Liveable Future' Depends on Slashing Emissions This Decade, Major Climate Report Finds
Thursday March 17, 2022 @04:53PM Inside a Bitcoin Mine At a Natural Gas Well In Texas
Monday March 14, 2022 @10:08AM Mumbai Becomes First South Asian City To Detail Net-Zero Roadmap
Wednesday March 02, 2022 @02:32PM UN Watchdog Warns Russia Bombardment Endangers Ukraine's Nuclear Security, Calls for Restraint
Monday February 28, 2022 @10:03AM Supreme Court Will Hear Biggest Climate Change Case in a Decade
Thursday February 24, 2022 @07:51PM USPS Finalizes Plans To Buy Gas-Powered Delivery Fleet, Defying the EPA and White House
Thursday February 10, 2022 @03:58PM Inside Finland's Plan To End All Waste by 2050
Tuesday February 01, 2022 @03:56PM How the Fossil Fuel Industry is Pushing Plastics on the World
Friday January 28, 2022 @06:26PM Samsung Spilled Up To 763K Gallons of Sulfuric Acid Waste Into Austin Tributary
Thursday January 20, 2022 @08:09PM Shell's Massive Carbon Capture Plant Is Emitting More Than It's Capturing
Friday January 07, 2022 @04:35PM Road Salt Works. But It's Also Bad for the Environment.
Friday December 31, 2021 @12:07PM Plans To Capture CO2 From Coal Plants Wasted Federal Dollars, Watchdog Says
Monday December 20, 2021 @04:57PM The US Could Reliably Run On Clean Energy By 2050
Monday November 15, 2021 @08:34PM The US Finally Adopts a National Recycling Strategy
Friday November 12, 2021 @05:50PM London's Thames, Once Biologically Dead, Has Been Coming Back To Life
Friday November 05, 2021 @05:48PM The US Has Big, New Plans To Pull CO2 Out of the Air
Wednesday October 06, 2021 @05:00PM Google Maps Can Now Show You the Most Fuel-Efficient Route
Friday September 17, 2021 @06:38PM US, EU Pledge 30% Cut In Methane Emissions To Limit Global Heating
Friday September 17, 2021 @01:13PM 36,000 Gigatons of Carbon Heralded History's Biggest Mass Extinction
Monday September 13, 2021 @05:55PM Meat Accounts For Nearly 60% of All Greenhouse Gases From Food Production, Study Finds
Monday September 13, 2021 @05:14PM New York To Ban Sale of All Gas-Powered Vehicles In the State By 2035
Thursday September 09, 2021 @05:58PM Scientists Aim For Clearer Messages On Global Warming
Monday September 06, 2021 @09:00PM Poorly Devised Regulation Lets Firms Pollute With Abandon
Friday September 03, 2021 @04:16PM Arctic Warming Linked To Colder Winters
Tuesday August 31, 2021 @12:49PM Toxic 'Forever Chemicals' Contaminate Indoor Air at Worrying Levels, Study Finds
Wednesday August 25, 2021 @06:33PM World's First Crewless, Zero Emissions Cargo Ship Will Set Sail In Norway
Thursday August 19, 2021 @03:42PM 'Green Steel': Swedish Company Ships First Batch Made Without Using Coal
Friday July 30, 2021 @03:46PM Three Americans Create Enough Carbon Emissions To Kill One Person, Study Finds
Friday July 30, 2021 @03:42PM As China Boomed, It Didn't Take Climate Change Into Account. Now It Must.
Wednesday July 21, 2021 @12:43PM Wildfire Smoke Spreads Haze and Health Warnings To East Coast
Friday July 16, 2021 @04:00PM Sea Walls Might Just Make Floods Someone Else's Problem, Study Suggests
Wednesday July 14, 2021 @05:46PM EU Proposes World's First Carbon Border Tax
Wednesday June 30, 2021 @02:56PM At Nearly 116 Degrees, Heat in Western Canada Shatters National Record
Monday June 28, 2021 @12:08PM Record-Crushing Heat Wave Nears Peak in Pacific Northwest
Friday June 18, 2021 @04:40PM New Wildfires Are At A 10-Year High In The Hot, Dry Western US
Wednesday June 09, 2021 @09:51AM Microscopic Animal Revived After Slumbering in Arctic Permafrost for 24,000 Years
Wednesday May 19, 2021 @11:21AM Twenty Firms Produce 55% of World's Plastic Waste, Report Reveals
Monday May 17, 2021 @05:50PM UK Plastic Waste Being Dumped and Burned in Turkey, Says Greenpeace
Thursday May 13, 2021 @08:20PM Exxon Uses Big Tobacco's Playbook To Downplay the Climate Crisis, Says Study
Tuesday May 11, 2021 @05:34PM Forests the Size of France Regrown Since 2000, Study Suggests
Thursday May 06, 2021 @09:33AM Global Heating Pace Risks 'Unstoppable' Sea Level Rise as Antarctic Ice Sheet Melts
Tuesday April 27, 2021 @03:51PM Lockdowns Cut South Asia Smog. They Could Fill Reservoirs, Too.
Friday April 23, 2021 @12:37PM Climate Crisis Has Shifted the Earth's Axis
Friday April 16, 2021 @04:25PM Facebook Reaches 100% Renewable-Energy Milestone
Friday April 09, 2021 @03:28PM In One Year a Billion Tons of Food Got Wasted
Friday April 09, 2021 @01:27PM A Third of Antarctic Ice Shelf Risks Collapse as Our Planet Warms
Tuesday March 30, 2021 @03:53PM Netflix Targets Net-Zero Carbon Footprint by End of 2022
Wednesday March 24, 2021 @03:57PM GNOME 40 Released
Monday March 22, 2021 @04:07PM Summers Could Last Half the Year By the End of this Century
Tuesday March 16, 2021 @06:00PM Lightning May Have Created an Ingredient Needed For Life To Evolve
Tuesday March 16, 2021 @05:38PM Scientists Stunned To Discover Plants Beneath Mile-Deep Greenland Ice
Monday March 15, 2021 @06:24PM Oil In the Ocean Photooxidizes Within Hours To Days, New Study Finds
Monday March 08, 2021 @12:11PM Could Plastic Roads Make for a Smoother Ride?
Thursday February 18, 2021 @01:59PM Bill Gates Says We Need More Entrepreneurs Like Elon Musk To Take on Climate Change
Monday February 15, 2021 @07:16PM An Inside Look at Cuba's Constant Struggle for Clean Water
Monday February 15, 2021 @04:22PM Climate Activist Jailed in India as Government Clamps Down on Dissent
Thursday February 11, 2021 @06:52PM Bitcoin Consumes 'More Electricity Than Argentina'
Tuesday February 09, 2021 @03:29PM Fossil Fuels Caused 8.7 Million Deaths Globally in 2018, Research Finds
Friday January 22, 2021 @02:50PM No Cases? No Chance. The Truth About North Korea and Covid-19
Wednesday January 20, 2021 @08:03PM Scientists Use Satellite Imagery To Count Elephants
Wednesday January 13, 2021 @10:07AM EPA Raises Barriers To Climate-Change Rules
Tuesday January 12, 2021 @02:58PM Electric Car Batteries Might Be Worth Recycling, But Bus Batteries Aren't Yet
Friday January 08, 2021 @04:59PM Germany's Temperature Record Smashed as Europe's Heat Wave Intensifies
Friday January 01, 2021 @09:46PM Canada's Last Fully Intact Arctic Ice Shelf Collapses
Friday December 25, 2020 @05:08PM A New Population of Blue Whales Was Discovered Hiding in the Indian Ocean
Friday December 25, 2020 @12:50PM Discovery of 'Cryptic Species' Shows Earth is Even More Biologically Diverse
Wednesday December 16, 2020 @05:04PM The First Person In the UK To Have Air Pollution Listed As a Cause of Death
Friday December 11, 2020 @06:04PM How the Nature Conservancy, the World's Biggest Environmental Group, Became a Dealer of Meaningless Carbon Offsets
Friday December 11, 2020 @12:47PM EU Member States Agree 55% Cut in Carbon Emissions by 2030
Monday December 07, 2020 @10:46PM Coca-Cola, Pepsi and Nestle Named Top Plastic Polluters For Third Year In a Row
Monday December 07, 2020 @03:55PM In Rare Show of Solidarity, 14 Key Nations Commit To Protect Oceans
Friday December 04, 2020 @11:21PM China Expanding Weather-Control Program To Make Artificial Rain, Snow
Wednesday November 25, 2020 @07:44PM 1% of Farms Operate 70% of World's Farmland
Friday November 13, 2020 @05:14PM Rising Levels of Carbon Dioxide Increasing Extreme Weather Events in Australia, Report Finds
Wednesday November 11, 2020 @07:11PM Occidental Is First US Oil Major To Target Net Zero Emissions
Monday November 09, 2020 @06:13PM Emissions From US Industrial Facilities Fell Nearly 5% In 2019
Tuesday October 27, 2020 @03:50PM Japan's New Leader Sets Ambitious Goal of Carbon Neutrality by 2050
Thursday October 15, 2020 @05:44PM Chilling Report Suggests 1 Out of 5 Countries Could Be Headed For Ecosystem Collapse
Tuesday October 13, 2020 @04:43PM Finnish Startup Unveils Machine That Takes Office-Air CO2 and Converts It Into Fuel
Thursday October 08, 2020 @06:32PM EU Parliament Votes For 60% Greenhouse Gas Emissions Cut By 2030
Monday October 05, 2020 @04:05PM More Than 14m Tonnes of Plastic Believed To Be at the Bottom of the Ocean
Wednesday September 30, 2020 @08:38PM Greenland's Ice Melting Faster Than At Any Time In Past 12,000 Years
Tuesday September 29, 2020 @06:05PM Denmark: We Can Slash CO2 By 70% In a Decade And Still Have Welfare
Wednesday September 23, 2020 @10:51AM Climate Disruption Is Now Locked In. The Next Moves Will Be Crucial.
Thursday September 17, 2020 @04:02PM Amazon Defends Working With Oil Companies To Reach Its Zero-Carbon Goal
Tuesday September 15, 2020 @03:07PM How Big Oil Misled The Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled
Monday September 14, 2020 @05:24PM Sir David Attenborough Delivers Stark Warning In BBC Doc 'Extinction: the Facts'
Friday September 11, 2020 @04:58PM Wildlife In 'Catastrophic Decline' Due To Human Destruction, Scientists Warn
Friday September 11, 2020 @04:13PM The Pringles Tube Is Being Redesigned Because It's a 'Recycling Nightmare'
Thursday September 10, 2020 @11:11PM Earth Barreling Toward 'Hothouse' State Not Seen In 50 Million Years, Epic New Climate Record Shows
Thursday September 03, 2020 @04:44PM Study Suggests Fresh Asphalt Is a Significant Source of Air Pollution
Wednesday September 02, 2020 @08:49PM EU Draft Plan Targets Free Carbon Credit Cut For Most Industries
Monday August 31, 2020 @03:22PM Big Oil Is in Trouble. Its Plan: Flood Africa With Plastic.
Wednesday August 26, 2020 @01:41AM Bird Deaths Down 70 Percent After Painting Wind Turbine Blades
Monday August 24, 2020 @07:08PM Children Raised In Greener Areas Have Higher IQ, Study Finds
Thursday August 20, 2020 @06:00PM Greenland Lost 586 Billion Tons of Ice In 2019
Monday August 10, 2020 @05:02PM EPA To Rescind Methane Regulations For Oil and Gas
Thursday August 06, 2020 @04:54PM Germany Plans To Dim Lights At Night To Save Insects
Friday July 31, 2020 @04:15PM Germany is Banning Single-Use Plastic Straws, Cotton Buds and Food Containers
Monday July 27, 2020 @07:09PM What the Heroin Industry Can Teach Us About Solar Power
Friday July 24, 2020 @12:48PM The Great Climate Migration Has Begun
Tuesday July 21, 2020 @10:04AM Apple Says Its Supply Chains and Products Will Be Carbon Neutral by 2030
Saturday July 18, 2020 @12:21AM The Entire World's Carbon Emissions Will Finally Be Trackable In Real Time
Friday July 17, 2020 @04:41PM South Korea Commits $61 Billion For 'Net-Zero Society' By 2025
Tuesday July 14, 2020 @02:36PM Biden Announces $2 Trillion Climate Plan
Monday July 13, 2020 @06:26PM Sustainable Engineers At Kenoteq Are Reinventing the Brick
Monday July 13, 2020 @05:31PM Johnnie Walker Maker Creates Plastic-Free Paper-Based Spirits Bottle
Wednesday July 08, 2020 @09:02PM New Study Detects Ringing of the Global Atmosphere
Thursday July 02, 2020 @05:30PM Core of a Gas Planet Seen For the First Time
Thursday July 02, 2020 @02:38PM World's Pile of Electronic Waste Grows Ever Higher: Study
Tuesday June 30, 2020 @07:56PM Earth's Final Frontier: The Global Race To Map the Entire Ocean Floor
Monday June 29, 2020 @09:59AM Amazon Eliminates Single-use Plastic in Packaging in India
Thursday June 25, 2020 @03:43PM California Set To Require Zero-Emissions Trucks
Wednesday June 24, 2020 @09:17PM Arctic Records Its Hottest Temperature Ever
Tuesday June 23, 2020 @11:48AM Amazon Unveils $2 Billion Fund To Invest in Startups Building Sustainable Technology
Wednesday June 17, 2020 @07:41PM Scientists Find Way To Pollinate Plants With Soap Bubbles As Bees Decline
Friday June 12, 2020 @01:35AM Plastic Rain In Protected Areas of the United States
Tuesday June 09, 2020 @05:33PM Commonwealth Nations To Protect Coral Reefs With Satellite Technology
Thursday June 04, 2020 @11:01AM Spain Readies Big Reduction in Single-Use Plastics From Mid-2021
Tuesday May 26, 2020 @05:33PM Why Glass Frogs Have See-Through Skin Becomes Clear In Study
Wednesday May 20, 2020 @06:08PM Cold War Satellites Inadvertently Tracked Species Declines
Wednesday May 20, 2020 @06:02PM Carlsberg and Coca-Cola Back Pioneering Project To Make Plant-Based Bottles
Tuesday May 19, 2020 @04:23PM Microsoft Debuts Windows Package Manager For Your Dev Environment
Wednesday May 13, 2020 @06:21PM Moths Have 'Secret Role' As Crucial Pollinators, Research Finds
Friday May 08, 2020 @10:46PM Caddis Fly Larvae Are Now Building Shelters Out of Microplastics
Thursday April 23, 2020 @04:05PM Insect Numbers Down 25% Since 1990, Global Study Finds
Monday April 20, 2020 @04:19PM A North Dakota Utility Wants To Build the World's Largest Carbon Capture Facility At a Power Plant
Wednesday April 15, 2020 @04:03PM Microsoft's New 'Planetary Computer' Project Will Use Global Environmental Data To Support Sustainability
Monday April 06, 2020 @03:24PM Great Barrier Reef Suffers Its Most Widespread Mass Bleaching Event On Record
Wednesday April 01, 2020 @07:50PM Evidence of Ancient Rainforests Found In Antarctica
Tuesday March 31, 2020 @09:04PM Report Reveals 'Massive Plastic Pollution Footprint' of Drinks Firms
Tuesday March 31, 2020 @04:08AM Trump Administration, In Biggest Environmental Rollback, To Announce Auto Pollution Rules
Thursday March 26, 2020 @05:44PM Virginia Is the First Southern State With a 100 Percent Carbon-Free Electricity Goal
Wednesday March 25, 2020 @06:49PM World's Wind Power Capacity Up By Fifth After Record Year
Tuesday March 17, 2020 @05:38PM California Loses Up To $1 Billion In Crops Each Year Because of Air Pollution, Study Finds
Thursday March 12, 2020 @05:30PM Preliminary Study Reveals How Long the Coronavirus May Linger On Various Surfaces