In this photo taken on October 10, 2023, a man looks at a forest fire as it approaches houses in Ogan Ilir, South Sumatra. Al Zulkifli | Afp | Getty Images With El Nino in full force, officials are bracing for the worst transboundary haze in southern Southeast Asia since before the pandemic in 2019. … Read more
Apple’s first “carbon neutral” products are versions of its smartwatch. Photo courtesy Apple In September, Apple announced its next-generation smartwatch models would all have a “carbon neutral” option, at the same price as the non-carbon neutral options, starting at $249. For Apple, making a product “carbon neutral” means that it changed its operations — including … Read more
An event logo displayed in the main conference hall at the Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference (ADIPEC) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The annual strategic energy conference runs from Oct 2-5. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Chief executives of some of the world’s largest energy companies on Monday sought to defend … Read more
Nowhere is safe from microplastics. Tiny plastic pieces are in waterways, in our bodies, and now researchers have found microplastics in clouds on top of Mount Fuji and Mount Oyama. Coastal Animals Are Thriving on Plastic Pollution Out in the Pacific Ocean | Extreme Earth In a new study published in Environmental Chemistry Letters, a … Read more
“Republicans for climate change action are gold,” said Bill Gates, the billionaire climate philanthropist and investor, on Thursday at the Climate Forward event in New York City. The number of Republicans convinced that responding to climate change is a priority has “got to be a number that we manage to increase over time,” Gates said. … Read more
A.P. Moller-Maersk, is without doubt one of the world’s largest container shippers with a market share of round 17%, and is broadly seen as a barometer of worldwide commerce. Andia | UIG through Getty Pictures Copenhagen, DENMARK — Delivery big Maersk on Thursday offered its first container vessel moved with inexperienced methanol, a landmark second … Read more
NASA has launched the primary information maps from a brand new instrument monitoring air air pollution from area. The visualizations present excessive ranges of main pollution like nitrogen dioxide — a reactive chemical normally produced when fossil fuels are burned for transportation, energy era and different industrial actions, in addition to wildfires — within the … Read more
An illustration of the ClearSpace-1 mission, which is about to launch in 2026.Illustration: ESA In a tragic case of debris-on-debris crime, a defunct payload adapter that was chosen as the topic of an area particles cleanup mission was itself hit by a bit of house junk. First Full-Colour Photos From Webb Area Telescope The VESPA … Read more
TISZAROFF, Hungary — Hundreds of muddy plastic bottles, chunks of Styrofoam and different waterlogged items of garbage are piled onto a flatbed trailer on the banks of the Tisza River in Hungary — a metric ton of waste that was eliminated by hand from the waterway and its floodplain in a single day. It’s the … Read more
Delegates of the Worldwide Maritime Group are assembly in London this week for preliminary talks on implement a brand new greenhouse gasoline technique. Ucg | Common Pictures Group | Getty Pictures Within the face of a colossal and rising supply of emissions, the U.N. transport company is seeking to slash air pollution from the world’s … Read more