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Op IJsland is de grootste installatie ter wereld in gebruik genomen om CO₂ weer uit de atmosfeer te plukken. De machine, die de naam 'Mammoth' meekreeg, moet per jaar 36.000 ton CO₂ uit de lucht halen met een soort gigantisch dampkapsysteem. Hoe werkt het, hoeveel is het klimaat hierbij gebaat en wat zijn de addertjes onder het gras?

Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC) 2024

New path to transition away from fossil fuels marred by lack of finance and loopholes COP28 in Dubai sends an important signal on the end of fossil fuels but leaves more questions than answers on how to ensure a fair and funded transition that is based on science and equity

De Europese Unie zal haar eigen energie- en klimaatdoelen niet halen op basis van de plannen die tot nog toe zijn ingediend. Dat blijkt uit een vernietigende doorlichting van Climate Action Network Europe, een koepel van milieuorganisaties.

ibrio are bacteria that cause an estimated 80,000 illnesses each year in the United States. About a dozen species of Vibrio are pathogenic to humans. V. parahaemolyticus causes the most infections in the United States, accounting for about 40% of reported cases of vibriosis, followed by V. alginolyticus, which accounts for about 20%. Most people with Vibrio infection have diarrhea. Some people might also have stomach cramping, nausea, vomiting, fever, and chills. One species, V. vulnificus, is known to cause life-threatening infections. About 150–200 V. vulnificus infections are reported to CDC each year and about one in five people with this infection die—sometimes within 1–2 days of becoming ill.

Our work complements and enhances the work of others in the fields of science, health, business, industry, culture, finance, academia, politics and civil society. Established in 2012, the GSCC is a collaborative network of people working across a number of different organisations operating across six continents and covering themes such as climate science and impacts, food and nature, finance and economics, energy, transport, industry, and multilateral climate processes.

Are we already living in the Anthropocene? For the past three years, the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) has undertaken extensive research at 12 different locations across the globe to search for geological evidence of recent planetary change provoked by industrialized humanity. The AWG’s aim was to identify a geological reference section, a so-called Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP, commonly referred to as the "Golden Spike") that would indicate the start of a new Earth epoch, the Anthropocene. The research process has been closely accompanied by the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) within the collaborative framework of the Anthropocene Curriculum. On July 11, 2023, the scientists of the AWG will present their proposed Anthropocene GSSP candidate in a joint online press conference with the Max Planck Society and former members of the HKW. The press conference takes place as a special event of the international Max Planck So

This Research Plan was prepared in response to a requirement in the joint explanatory statement accompanying Division B of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022, directing the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), with support from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), to provide a research plan for “solar and other rapid climate interventions.”

If Nature were to draw a map of the world, what would it look like? One Earth presents a novel biogeographical framework called Bioregions 2023, which delineates 185 discrete bioregions organized within the world's major biogeographical realms.

Les associations environnementales Nature & Progrès et Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Europe annoncent mardi avoir mis en demeure la veille l'État belge, via le ministre fédéral en charge de l'Agriculture David Clarinval.

The EU have introduced a new regulation on the import of products linked to deforestation – but will this reduce deforestation globally?

We face so many concurrent threats that commentators have argued that we now face an unprecedented "polycrisis" – where multiple interacting global crises produce greater harms to the planet and humanity than those crises would produce in isolation. The Wellbeing Economy Alliance has argued that the current economic design is at the root cause of this polycrisis, and with good reason.

Research published this summer found that falsehoods about global warming continue to flourish on social media sites and are often framed through the lens of Western culture wars, placing climate change alongside other hot button topics like gay and transgender rights and gun control. A separate analysis released last month found “a sprawling online network” of Spanish speakers on Twitter, TikTok and other major social platforms who “consistently amplify” climate misinformation and other right-wing conspiracy theories.

Materials put into domestic compost are failing to disintegrate after six months – the only solution is to use less. Most plastics marketed as “home compostable” don’t actually work, with as much as 60% failing to disintegrate after six months, according to research.

Three months before COP27, new research suggests the most ambitious climate pledges are also most credible.

À l’heure où les constats scientifiques s’accumulent depuis un demi-siècle (!) pour attester de ce que d’aucuns nomment un écocide en cours, l’échec du développement durable est patent : ontologiquement arrimé au maintien de l’illimitisme et de la croissance économique, pétri d’une foi technoscientifique et néolibérale, il ne produit qu’un aménagement marginal du système, n’en déplaise aux pratiques foisonnantes de greenwashing. Cet ouvrage aborde la décroissance, l’un des courants de pensée, d’action et d’expérimentation les plus avancés sur les questions de la mutation sociétale. Théorisée dès les années 1970 dans le sillage d’une pensée écologiste naissante et d’une critique fondamentale du modèle économique dominant, cette approche réaffirme depuis les années 2000 l’urgence de sortir du modèle de développement occidental. Cheminant notamment avec la pensée d’Edgar Morin et de l’École de Palo Alto, l’ouvrage questionne d’abord le sens et la portée de la décroissance initiale pour analyser ensuite les singu

A coal-fired power plant that had been mothballed has become the first of its kind to be put back on to the network in Germany, as debate rages over how Europe’s largest economy will cope without Russian gas. The facility in Lower Saxony, which is owned by the Czech energy company EGH, has received emergency permission to run until April in an attempt to boost energy production.

Europese investeringen in gas en kernenergie krijgen voortaan het label groen, zo is vorige week besloten. Dit is pure greenwashing, waarschuwen Esther Bollendorff en Olivier Vardakoulias, beleidsexperts bij Climate Action Network Europe. De EU moet erop rekenen dat de nieuwe classificatie in de rechtbank wordt aangevochten.

Following guidance from the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy and the International Commission on Stratigraphy, the AWG have completed a binding vote to affirm some of the key questions that were voted on and agreed at the IGC Cape Town meeting in 2016. The details are as follows:

L'organisation non gouvernementale Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) a relevé, via une étude, une augmentation de 53% en neuf ans de fruits contaminés par des pesticides censés être interdits sur le Vieux Continent depuis 2011.