Regulating Safety for Carbon Removal, Capture and Sequestration Projects in the US alicia.cypress… Tue, 10/15/2024 - 16:45 Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and carbon, capture and storage (CCS) will both play a limited, yet critical role in helping meet climate goals. However, like most nascent technologies, there are important safety considerations that need to be understood and managed before there can be widespread deployment. U.S. lawmakers have already begun developing policies that support responsible demonstration and deployment of both CCS and specific CDR approaches like direct air capture (DAC) , but more data will be needed, and further actions can be taken by policymakers to better maximize safety and minimize the potential for negative impacts across...
Saskatchewan Party Leader Scott Moe says residents would continue to be exempt from paying the federal carbon levy on home heating if he's re-elected premier on Oct. 28.
The government says this is the first time all banks will label the payment as the Canada Carbon Rebate, after years of inconsistent and vague phrasing on bank statements.
This 2012 satellite photo shows a quartet of near-identical glaciers on Canada's Ellesmere Island. The ice masses help to spark life in the otherwise barren Arctic environment.
Natural sinks of forests and peat were key to Finland’s ambitious target to be carbon neutral by 2035. But now, the land has started emitting more greenhouse gases than it stores Read more: Trees and land absorbed almost no CO2 last year. Is nature’s carbon sink failing? Tiina Sanila-Aikio cannot remember a summer this warm. The months of midnight sun around Inari, in Finnish Lapland, have been hot and dry. Conifer needles on the branch-tips are orange when they should be a deep green. The moss on the forest floor, usually swollen with water, has withered. “I have spoken with many old reindeer herders who have never experienced the heat that we’ve had this summer. The sun keeps shining and it never rains,” says Sanila-Aikio, former president of the Finnish Sami parliament. Continue reading...
At its board of directors meeting, the Qikiqtani Inuit Association (QIA) approved $14 million for the Kakivak Association to build a new daycare centre in Arctic Bay, Nunavut.
Gravity-driven sinking of “marine snow” sequesters carbon in the ocean, constituting a key biological pump that regulates Earth’s climate. A mechanistic understanding of this phenomenon is obscured by the biological richness of these aggregates and a ...
Piece that will premiere at book festival includes mine’s ‘cavernous’ effects, music by colliery bands and interviews “It was odd, but really fun,” said Adam Cooper about his time spent helping to record the sound of an empty coalmine. “To put it in one word, I’d say it sounds cavernous. But it also has its own complexities and depth to it.” Cooper and his colleagues spent time down an old drift mine to capture the “sound of carbon” for a new musical commission that will premiere this weekend. Continue reading...
The updated report, which looks only at the consumer carbon levy, comes after the office acknowledged it had also mistakenly included the impact of the industrial carbon price.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Volume 129, Issue 10, October 2024.
The pilot of the Trossachs Explorer Shuttle Bushas come to an end, having welcomed 5,137 passengers during its run from 1st July to 30th September 2024.
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Wildfires are burning through the carbon budget that humans have allocated themselves to limit global heating, a study shows. The authors said this accelerating trend was approaching—and may have already breached—a “critical temperature threshold” after which fires cause significant shifts in tree […]
Analysts say mission underscores China’s view that non-Arctic nations ‘have the right to engage in civilian operations’ in the area.
Satellite images of the Antarctic Peninsula and nearby islands reveal that the area covered by vegetation grew dramatically between 1986 and 2021 and the rate of growth has accelerated since 2016
A new study offers clues to a 179-year-old mystery that killed more than 100 explorers on the Franklin expedition in the Canadian Arctic.
Sir Keir Starmer says carbon capture clusters on Merseyside and Teesside will reignite industrial heartlands.
Doing your bit for the environment is about to become a lot more fun as London's first ever carbon-negative pub opens its doors.
University of Canterbury Associate Professor David Dempsey By Shannon Williams Carbon capture should be monetised as a commodity, and New Zealand needs to seize on its natural advantages for carbon removal,...
Forests around world being changed from carbon sinks into carbon sources, making it harder to slow global heating Wildfires are burning through the carbon budget that humans have allocated themselves to limit global heating, a study shows. The authors said this accelerating trend was approaching – and may have already breached – a “critical temperature threshold” after which fires cause significant shifts in tree cover and carbon storage. Continue reading...
Playful large white beluga whales' happy chirps leap out in an environment and economy threatened by warming water that's melting sea ice, starving polar bears and changing the entire food chain.
The board of Vatnajökull National Park has agreed to allow ice cave tours on the glacier again. There have been no ice cave tours in the area of ​​the national park since an American man died in an accident during such a trip on Breiðamerkurjökull glacier at the end of August.
Maritime personnel put through their paces in the Sea of Japan as melting ice opens up potential for sea lanes.
In the American West, white glaciers and snow fields are outnumbered by long-overlooked “rock glaciers.” The rock covering these vast hunks of ice makes them far less affected by warming temperatures.
Glacier ridgelines marking the border near the Matterhorn mountain are shifting as ice continues to melt.
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Two countries agree to modifications beneath Matterhorn peak, one of Europe’s highest summits Switzerland and Italy have redrawn a border that traverses an Alpine peak as melting glaciers shift the historically defined frontier. The two countries agreed to the modifications beneath the Matterhorn peak, one of the highest summits in Europe, which straddles Switzerland’s Zermatt region and Italy’s Aosta Valley. Continue reading...
Open access notables Refined Estimates of Global Ocean Deep and Abyssal Decadal Warming Trend s , Johnson & Purkey, Geophysical Research Letters: Deep and abyssal layer decadal temperature trends from the mid-1980s to the mid-2010s are mapped globally using Deep Argo and historical ship-based Conductivity-Temperature-Depth (CTD) instrument data. Abyssal warming trends are widespread, with the strongest warming observed around Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) formation regions. The warming strength follows deep western boundary currents transporting abyssal waters north and decreases with distance from Antarctica. Abyssal cooling trends are found in the North Atlantic and eastern South Atlantic, regions primarily ventilated by North Atlantic Deep Water...
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 129, Issue 19, 16 October 2024.
If we want to preserve the dwindling ice in the Arctic, cutting our emissions is no longer enough – we also need to use geoengineering to refreeze this precious ecosystem
Kirk Handley, 60, has not been heard from since September 7 and he was reported missing when he failed to return from his bid to scale the summit of the Pic du Glacier d'Arsine in the French Alps.
Michael Sfraga, from Fairbanks, is "probably the most recognized go-to Arctic expert that we have," Sen. Lisa Murkowski says.
Arctic sea ice retreated to near-historic lows in the Northern Hemisphere this summer, likely melting to its minimum extent for the year on Sept.11, 2024, according to researchers at NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). The decline continues the decades-long trend of shrinking and thinning ice cover in the Arctic Ocean. […]
The Antarctic ozone hole usually starts forming in early August, but rare warming events and a strangely elongated polar vortex this year may have delayed its arrival.
A 2012 satellite photo captured a patch of snow-covered sea ice with an uncannily similar shape to badges pinned on the uniforms of Starfleet officers in the "Star Trek" franchise.
One of the only ways to reach the sleepy town of Whittier, Alaska is through a one-way tunnel running directly beneath a glacier.
The Coast Guard's helicopter is on its way to check if more polar bears can be found in the country.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Volume 129, Issue 9, September 2024.
Michael Begg spent nearly three months aboard the Royal Navy's ice patrol vessel, HMS Protector.
After years of research, scientists studying the massive Thwaites Glacier have found little reason for optimism.
This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Over the past few years, the United States has become the go-to location for companies seeking to suck carbon dioxide out of the sky. There are a handful of demonstration-scale direct air capture (DAC) plants dotted across the globe, but the facilities planned […]
Researchers from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) used underwater robots to take new measurements of the glacier, which is the same size as Great Britain.
Northeast Greenland is home to the 79° N Glacier – the country’s largest floating glacier tongue, but also one seriously threatened by global warming: warm water from the Atlantic is melting it from below. Experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute have however now determined that the temperature of the water flowing into the glacier cavern declined from 2018 to 2021, even though the ocean has steadily warmed in the region over the past several decades. This could be due to temporarily changed atmospheric circulation patterns. In a study just released in the journal Science, the researchers discuss how this affects the ocean and what it could mean for the future of Greenland’s glaciers.
Landmark research finds 244m tonnes of organic carbon is stored in top 10cm of marine sediment in British waters Seabed habitats could capture almost three times more carbon than forests in the UK every year if left undisturbed, according to a report published on Thursday. Researchers at the Scottish Association for Marine Science (Sams) have calculated that 244m tonnes of organic carbon is stored in the top 10cm of UK seabed habitats. That includes seagrass meadows, salt marshes, kelp and mussel beds but most (98%) is stored in seabed sediments such as mud and silt. Continue reading...
Image: Appolinary Kalashnikova on Unsplash Media release | Carbon and Energy Professionals will be launching its new energy and carbon management credentials next month.
Hundreds of pages of previously confidential material reveal the regulator responsible for managing billions of dollars in taxpayer funds, as well as millions of carbon offsets, has serious governance issues.
Antarctica’s rapidly receding sea ice could have a negative impact on the food supply of seabirds that breed hundreds of miles away from the continent. New research led by the … The post Antarctica’s sea ice could impact seabirds’ food supply appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.
Earthquake scientists detected an unusual signal on monitoring stations used to detect seismic activity during September 2023. We saw it on sensors everywhere, from the Arctic to Antarctica. We were baffled – the signal was unlike any previously recorded. Instead of the frequency-rich rumble typical of earthquakes, this was a monotonous hum, containing only a […]
Your name will go on a journey to the frozen wilderness! New project seeks to inspire, educate and entertain the public about Antarctica. Do you dream of visiting Antarctica? Well, … The post Get your Ticket to Antarctica! appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.
UN experts called Wednesday for the creation of a global system to trace the extraction and production of critical minerals that are needed in the transition away from fossil fuels.
A carbon credit scheme in Cambodia that was put on hold after allegations of rights abuses has been reinstated after more than a year of review, a verification body said.
By adding the three emissions-heavy industries, the trading scheme is expected to cover about 60 per cent of China’s carbon emissions.
EDF’s filing recommends that the Commission reject Duke Energy’s proposed CPIRP because it does not meet interim carbon reduction requirements designated in state law and does not provide the least cost pathway to decarbonization.
I’ll admit, I never expected to shout “woo hoo!” about something done by a Cybertruck, but the expedition from Southern Florida all the way up to the Arctic Ocean completed this week is an incredible feat, one the organizers should be proud of no matter what vehicle they took, but especially in an EV. Read more...
A small team in a remote corner of Colombia is surveying every tree in an effort to better understand how much planet-warming carbon the Amazon actually stores.
No matter what injection system your car has, it's subject to carbon buildup over time. Here are some ways to prevent and clean carbon buildup in your engine.
It's not a sight you see every day in the North — a pair of futuristic-looking trucks rolling up the Dempster Highway, through Inuvik and up to Tuktoyaktuk. The drivers embarked on this trek to bring electric vehicle chargers to more communities in the North. The CBC's Dez Loreen reports.
A friendly competition meant to bridge Arctic regions and relations did exactly that in Nuuk, Greenland, over the weekend. Dubbed Pan-ArcticVision, the event saw artists from Alaska, Nunavut, Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and the Sami region all participating.
A spokesperson for the airline says it is doing ‘what we can with what’s available now’ after Environmental Defenders Office singles out ‘carbon neutral’ claim Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Climate campaigners have asked the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to investigate whether “fly carbon neutral” and other sustainability claims by Qantas are misleading or deceptive. The greenwashing complaint, filed by the Environmental Defenders Office on behalf of research and advocacy organisation Climate Integrity, urged the competition watchdog to investigate the airline’s marketing materials and the credibility of the company’s transition to net zero. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...
A mysterious 'doorway' has been spotted in Antarctica, just southeast of the Japanese-run Showa Station.
An Indian-Russian working group met in New Delhi on Oct 10 to discuss cooperation in the Northern Sea Route, focusing on polar navigation, Arctic shipbuilding projects, and training Indian sailors. They also drafted a memorandum for cargo shipping collaboration between the countries.
At high altitudes, global warming is having its strongest effect on winter temperatures – and that might mean soils there store can less carbon than we expected
A government watchdog says ICE is hindered in its “ability to maintain a safe and secure environment for staff and detainees.”
Sparse sea ice, thousands of datapoints and samples, a surprising number of animals and hydrothermal vents – those are the impressions and outcomes that an international research team is now bringing back from a Polarstern expedition to the Central Arctic. After a four-month-long Arctic season, the Alfred Wegener Institute’s research icebreaker is expected to arrive back in Bremerhaven with the morning high tide on Sunday.
The scheme under question is the fifth-largest nature-based carbon abatement scheme in the world, making the adverse findings of global significance.
Using hydrogen-powered technology, scientists from the U.K. have been pumping water up from the Arctic Ocean, and flooding the frozen ice surface on top. It's an effort to combat the effects of climate change.
A famed explorer was sure the ice hid something profound. Ninety years later, scientists have put forth the strongest evidence yet that he was right.
*One week to go – sign up now for your Ticket to Antarctica before the UK’s polar ship RRS Sir David Attenborough departs the UK this Sunday 13 October on … The post Get your Ticket to Antarctica! Your name will go on a journey to the frozen wilderness appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.
British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is a beneficiary of a major investment in the UK’s network of leading environmental science research centres announced today (8 October). Funding of £8.4 million, from … The post New funding to underpin long-term polar research appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.
Thailand is racing against time to meet its international commitments to reduce global warming, cutting carbon emissions by one-third within six years.
New research released today in Nature Geoscience reveals that vegetation cover on the Antarctic Peninsula has increased more than tenfold in the past four decades. Researchers from University of Exeter, University … The post Satellite observations show accelerating greening of Antarctic Peninsula appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.
The government has announced plans to commit almost £22bn over 25 years to fund carbon capture and storage Jonathan Powell, who was leading negotiations for the new government with Mauritius over the Chagos Islands, offered a robust defence of the government’s agreement in media appearances this morning. Saying it had been a long process, involving 13 rounds of negotiations, he pointed out that 11 of them had been under the previous Conservative government, and singled out Tory leadership hopeful James Cleverly for praise, saying “I think he deserves credit for starting those negotiations and leading them enthusiastically for quite a long time.” The Americans have been intimately involved in the negotiations. Every single sentence and paragraph has been through an interagency process...
Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday said planned government investments of nearly GBP22 billion ($28.8 billion) in the capture and storage of carbon emissions marked a "landmark week" for Britain.
Investment will fund two CCS clusters – but environmental campaigners have criticised plans Rachel Reeves is paving the way for a multibillion-pound increase in public-sector investment at the budget after the government announced plans to commit almost £22bn over 25 years to fund carbon capture and storage projects. In what is expected to be one of the biggest green spending promises of the parliament, the chancellor, prime minister and the energy secretary, Ed Miliband, will unveil the details on a visit to the Liverpool city region on Friday declaring a “new era” for clean energy jobs. Continue reading...
Deposits of ice in lunar dust and rock (regolith) are more extensive than previously thought, according to a new analysis of data from NASA’s LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) mission. Ice would be a valuable resource for future lunar expeditions. Water could be used for radiation protection and supporting human explorers, or broken into its hydrogen […]
Humans have been driving a global erosion of species richness for millennia, but the consequences of past extinctions for other dimensions of biodiversity—functional and phylogenetic diversity—are poorly understood. In this work, we show that, since the ...
The cryosphere observation team at the Swiss Academy of Sciences reported a loss of 2.5 percent of their volume this year.
The ships entered the ocean on Tuesday, China’s national day, in an exercise closely monitored by the US.
Heat-absorbing dust carried by winds from the Sahara compounded the effect of 'very high' summer temperatures, according to the Swiss Academy of Sciences.
Melting glaciers changed the topography of a roughly 330-foot-long segment of the border between Italy and Switzerland.
An earthquake of magnitude 3.7 occurred in Goðabunga, near Austmannabunga in Mýrdalsjökull glacier before 6 o'clock this morning.
Fast-melting glaciers along the Matterhorn have led to Switzerland and Italy redrawing part of the border they share.
The area affected by the border changes is that of the famed Zermatt ski resort, where hikers and skiers can cross freely between Switzerland and Italy’s Valtournenche valley.
Though remote, the Arctic is not immune to global politics. With Russia excluded since the Ukraine war, vital work to protect its vulnerable ecosystem is being compromised. - 2024/10 / article , Map , 2024/10 Arctic
For months a huge iceberg blocked the path of hundreds of penguin chicks but somehow they survived.
Researchers uncover an unprecedented glimpse into Ice Age life.
There are now about 600 polar bears in western Hudson Bay, one of the most threatened of the 20 populations of the white beasts.
To some people, it may seem like kids are growing up faster than ever. But that’s not the case, say researchers studying puberty in human remains from the Ice Age. They were able to determine that these humans went through puberty at the same age teenagers do today. They found this by studying the few known skeletons of long-dead adolescents. CBC's science specialist Darius Mahdavi explains more.
Plants found to photosynthesize 160 feet beneath the surface of the Arctic Ocean offer tantalizing prospects for the future.
Rising oceans are posing a global threat, particularly to low lying islands and coastal cities. What is driving this, and how can we respond? Here's what you need to know.
This video includes conclusions of the "Just have a Think" channel's creator Dave Borlace . It is presented to our readers as an informed perspective. Please see video description for references (if any). From the video‘s description : Arctic Sea ice reaches it's minimum extent each year around the middle of September. This year is one of the lowest in recorded history. Ocean temperatures have been so 'off the charts' in 2023 and 2024 that scientists fear those waters have reached their capacity to mop up after us humans and are now starting to release that energy. On our current trajectory, by 2100, our planet will reach a temperature not seen for 3 MILLION years!. So...what's the plan??? Support Dave Borlace on Patreon: https://patreon.com/justhaveathink
Searching for polar bears where the Churchill River dumps into Canada's massive Hudson Bay, biologist Geoff York scans a region that's on a low-fat, low-ice diet because of climate change. And it's getting lower on polar bears.
Studies have shown that even hunting on land — caribou, birds, human trash — takes so much energy that bears don't really gain any more calories than those that sit and starve.
The Met Office has warned Britain to brace for further flooding as well as a chilling Arctic Blast after 48 hours of extreme weather saw torrential rain, flooding and freak 'mini-tornados'.
Field trials indicate that pumping seawater onto the snow on top of Arctic sea ice can make the ice thicker, offering a possible way to preserve sea ice throughout the summer
Researchers have discovered that Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier is melting at a much faster rate than anticipated, which could cause seas to rise to an apocalyptic level.
Professor Ian Chubb led the review of Australia’s lucrative carbon credits market and he’s far from happy with the conduct of a government agency at the middle of it.
EDF statement on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issuing its finalized guidance for regulated exchanges listing carbon credit-based derivatives.
As a six-year investigation into the Thwaites glacier in Antarctica wraps up, the scientists involved are pessimistic for the future of this glacier and the consequences for sea level rise
A financial regulator is expected to impose “guidance” on some market transactions. “There’s been a lot of concern about the integrity of the [voluntary] carbon market,” said the leader of a nonprofit.
New science briefing summarises results of the ambitious international collaboration to study Antarctica’s most worrying glacier Cambridge: A vast area of the Antarctic Ice Sheet continues to retreat as a … The post Grim outlook for Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.
Thwaites collaboration finds glacier has stabilized somewhat—in the short term
The ring might have acted like a giant sunshade, causing a cooling effect that might have unleashed an ice age.
Near a wooden hut high up in the Kyrgyz mountains, scientist Gulbara Omorova walked to a pile of grey rocks, reminiscing how the same spot was a glacier just a few years ago.
BC NDP Leader David Eby announced the policy shift Thursday at a campaign event in Vancouver, in response to a question from Global News.
An area of missing Antarctic sea ice twice the size of Texas adds to concerns that the ice has seen a lasting “regime shift”, with consequences for ecosystems and global ocean circulation
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The tech giant is getting a bargain price on carbon removals by giving a new startup a decade to deliver on the deal.
Linette Boisvert turned a childhood love of snow into a career as a sea ice scientist studying climate change. Name: Linette BoisvertTitle: Assistant Lab Chief, Cryospheric Sciences Branch, and Deputy Project Scientist for the Aqua SatelliteFormal Job Classification: Sea Ice ScientistOrganization: Cryospheric Science Branch, Science Directorate (Code 615) What do you do and what is most interesting […]
Rising temperatures causing largest glacier in Dolomites to lose 7-10cm of depth a day, according to scientists The Marmolada glacier, the largest and most symbolic of the Dolomites, could melt completely by 2040 owing to rising average temperatures, experts have said. Italian scientists who are monitoring glaciers and the impact of climate emergency, and who took part in a campaign launched by environmentalist group Legambiente, the international commission for the protection of the Alps (Cipra), with the scientific partnership of the Italian Glacier Committee, said on Monday the Marmolada was losing between 7 and 10cm of depth a day. Continue reading...
Last year Antartica’s ice was 1.6m sq km below average – the size of Britain, France, Germany and Spain combined. This week it had even less ice than that Sea ice surrounding Antarctica is on the cusp of reaching a record winter low for a second year running, continuing an “outrageous” fall in the amount of Southern Ocean that is freezing over. The Antarctic region underwent an abrupt transformation in 2023 as the sea ice cover surrounding the continent crashed for six months straight. In winter, it covered about 1.6m sq km less than the long-term average – an area roughly the size of Britain, France, Germany and Spain combined. Continue reading...
Reykjanes and Vatnajökull glacier are on the International Geological Union's (IUGS) list of 100 geological heritage sites on the planet.
Antarctica is covered by a miles-thick ice sheet, but was that always the case? And when was the coldest continent ice-free?
The discovery of photosynthesis under snow-capped Arctic ice could mean life exists in parts of the ocean previously thought uninhabitable.
Recent agreements, including between Xi and Putin, seek China-Russia collaboration on shipping routes, research and tech in the region.
Why are microplastics so prevalent in the Arctic, and what is known about how they affect human health and development?