Slashdot Items Tagged "earth"

Date / Time Story
Wednesday April 17, 2024 @01:56PM What Caused the Storm That Brought Dubai To a Standstill?
Wednesday April 17, 2024 @12:45PM Average World Incomes To Drop By Nearly a Fifth By 2050, Study Says
Monday April 15, 2024 @08:26PM World's Coral Reefs Hit By a Fourth Mass Bleaching Event, NOAA Says
Sunday April 14, 2024 @08:32PM California Replaces Gas Plant with Giant, Billion-Dollar Grid Battery
Sunday April 14, 2024 @07:36PM Emissions Dropped 1.8% Every Year in California's Bay Area. Researchers Credit EVs
Friday April 12, 2024 @10:08PM Cloud Brightening Research Begins in California
Wednesday April 10, 2024 @05:41PM Saudi Arabia 'Forced To Scale Back' Plans For Desert Megacity
Tuesday April 09, 2024 @05:25PM March Marks Yet Another Record In Global Heat
Sunday April 07, 2024 @08:19PM US Energy Department Announces 'Blueprint' for Slashing Emissions From Buildings and Reducing Energy Use
Sunday April 07, 2024 @01:34AM Wait, Does America Suddenly Have a Record Number of Bees?
Saturday April 06, 2024 @12:38AM One of Disneyland's Longest-Running Attractions is Ditching Fossil Fuels
Friday April 05, 2024 @11:15PM US Invests $20 Billion More to Finance Clean-Energy Projects
Friday April 05, 2024 @09:25PM Heat-Trapping CO2, Methane Levels In the Air Last Year Spiked To Record Highs
Thursday April 04, 2024 @12:43PM Amazon Still Has a Serious Plastic Waste Problem in the US
Thursday April 04, 2024 @10:01AM Only 57 Companies Produced 80% of Global Carbon Dioxide
Monday April 01, 2024 @04:55PM Record Heat in Europe, Asia Closes Another Extremely Warm Month For Planet
Saturday March 30, 2024 @01:32AM Bill Gates Says Texas Shows America's Clean-Energy Future
Friday March 29, 2024 @11:44PM After Outer Space, 93-Year-Old William Shatner Leads Cruise to Antarctica
Friday March 29, 2024 @07:09PM 'Garbage Lasagna': Dumps Are a Big Driver of Warming, Study Says
Thursday March 28, 2024 @07:42PM Methane From Landfills Is a Big Driver of Climate Change, Study Says
Thursday March 28, 2024 @12:53AM A Faster Spinning Earth May Cause Timekeepers To Subtract a Second From World Clocks
Sunday March 24, 2024 @06:04PM California's Successful Dam-Removal Project Continues
Sunday March 24, 2024 @02:18PM Say Hello To Biodegradable Microplastics?
Saturday March 23, 2024 @01:39PM A Problem for Sun-Blocking Cloud Geoengineering? Clouds Dissipate
Friday March 22, 2024 @02:37PM Security and Climate Change Drive a Return To Nuclear Energy as Over 30 Nations Sign Summit Pledge
Friday March 22, 2024 @10:34AM Geologists Reject Declaration of Anthropocene Epoch
Friday March 22, 2024 @07:35AM Higher Temperatures Mean Higher Food and Other Prices
Thursday March 21, 2024 @10:43PM E-Waste Is Growing 5x Faster Than It Can Be Recycled, Says UN
Tuesday March 19, 2024 @05:45PM Only Seven Countries Meet WHO Air Quality Standard, Research Finds
Monday March 18, 2024 @06:05PM Global Ocean Heat Has Hit a New Record Every Single Day For the Last Year
Saturday March 16, 2024 @09:57PM Did the Plastic Industry Knowingly Push Recycling Myths For Decades?
Wednesday March 13, 2024 @06:58PM Playing Thriving Reef Sounds On Underwater Speakers 'Could Save Damaged Corals'
Tuesday March 12, 2024 @08:44PM 'Larger Than Everest' Comet Could Become Visible To Naked Eye This Month
Tuesday March 12, 2024 @01:22PM No Big North Sea Fossil Fuel Country Has Plan To Stop Drilling in Time For 1.5C Goal
Tuesday March 12, 2024 @09:02AM How China Came To Dominate the World in Solar Energy
Saturday March 09, 2024 @06:40PM PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' To Officially Be Removed from Food Packaging, FDA Says
Saturday March 09, 2024 @01:36AM Earth Has Its Warmest February Ever - the 9th Record-Setting Month in a Row
Thursday March 07, 2024 @06:43PM Microscopic Plastics Could Raise Risk of Stroke and Heart Attack, Study Says
Wednesday March 06, 2024 @04:35PM Satellite To 'Name and Shame' Worst Oil and Gas Methane Polluters
Tuesday March 05, 2024 @04:47PM The Arctic Ocean Could Be 'Ice-Free' Within the Decade, Researchers Warn
Monday March 04, 2024 @12:11AM New Ratings for the 'Greenest' Car in America Might Surprise You
Sunday March 03, 2024 @03:00PM How AI is Taking Water From the Desert
Friday March 01, 2024 @07:20PM Helium Discovery In Northern Minnesota May Be Biggest Ever In North America
Friday March 01, 2024 @02:54PM Carbon Emissions Reached Record High in 2023, IEA Says
Wednesday February 28, 2024 @01:27AM Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier' Began Melting In Mid-20th Century, Study Finds
Saturday February 24, 2024 @01:47PM US Court Stalls Energy Dept Demand For Cryptocurrency Mining Data
Friday February 23, 2024 @07:43PM Microplastics Found In Sediment Layers Untouched By Modern Humans
Friday February 23, 2024 @12:25PM The Sun Just Launched Three Huge Solar Flares in 24 Hours.
Thursday February 22, 2024 @09:14PM Switzerland Calls On UN To Explore Possibility of Solar Geoengineering
Thursday February 22, 2024 @02:32PM Supreme Court Seems Skeptical of EPA's 'Good Neighbor' Rule on Power Plant Pollution
Sunday February 18, 2024 @02:45PM Ocean Temperatures Are Skyrocketing
Saturday February 17, 2024 @12:53AM Could Solar Water Heaters Become Popular Again?
Thursday February 15, 2024 @10:45AM Scientists Resort To Once-Unthinkable Solutions To Cool the Planet
Wednesday February 14, 2024 @02:50PM California Banned Single-Use Plastic Bags. Now It's Tossing More Plastic.
Sunday February 11, 2024 @05:41PM Computer Simulations of Atlantic Ocean Currents Finds Collapse Could Happen in Our Lifetime
Sunday February 11, 2024 @02:29AM Clean Jet Fuel Startup Fires Up New Carbon Converter
Saturday February 10, 2024 @04:40PM After 1.5-Degree Temperature Rise, What Happens Next?
Saturday February 10, 2024 @02:41AM Recycling Plants Start Installing Trash-Spotting AI Systems
Thursday February 08, 2024 @08:42PM SpaceX Launches NASA's PACE Satellite To Study Earth's Oceans, Air and Climate
Thursday February 08, 2024 @07:28PM World's First Year-Long Breach of Key 1.5C Warming Limit
Wednesday February 07, 2024 @07:46PM EPA Tightens Rules On Some Air Pollution For the First Time In Over a Decade
Wednesday February 07, 2024 @03:41PM Making Farming More Climate-Friendly Is Hard. Just Ask Europe's Politicians.
Tuesday February 06, 2024 @02:27PM The EU Proposes Slashing Pollution 90 Percent by 2040
Sunday February 04, 2024 @03:00PM Across America, Clean Energy Plants Are Being Banned Faster Than They're Being Built
Sunday February 04, 2024 @12:34AM The Fossil Fuel Industry Knew About Climate Change Since 1954
Friday February 02, 2024 @11:47PM Could We Fight Global Warming With A Giant Umbrella in Outer Space?
Saturday January 27, 2024 @03:08AM Climate Change Cripples Panama Canal. Fixing it Could Take Years
Saturday January 27, 2024 @02:32AM 'Massive Amounts' of Carbon Sequestered for Centuries Released By Clearing Indonesia's Peatland
Monday January 22, 2024 @01:47PM Exxon Takes Activists To Court Over Emissions Proposal
Saturday January 20, 2024 @01:17AM 'For Truckers Driving EVs, There's No Going Back'
Friday January 19, 2024 @06:55AM Crime Rings Are Trafficking in an Unlikely Treasure: Sand
Friday January 19, 2024 @05:54AM Cop28 Deal Will Fail Unless Rich Countries Quit Fossil Fuels, Says Climate Negotiator
Thursday January 18, 2024 @07:32PM Greenland's Ice Sheet Melting Faster Than Scientists Previously Estimated, Study Finds
Tuesday January 16, 2024 @07:59PM Human 'Behavioral Crisis' At Root of Climate Breakdown, Say Scientists
Sunday January 14, 2024 @10:18PM Can Pumping CO2 Into California's Oil Fields Help Stop Global Warming?
Friday January 12, 2024 @11:33PM America Cracks Down on Methane Emissions from Oil and Gas Facilities
Friday January 12, 2024 @01:26PM 2023 Was Hottest Year Ever Recorded Globally, US Scientists Confirm
Thursday January 11, 2024 @07:08PM Beaver Ponds May Exacerbate Warming In Arctic, Scientists Say
Tuesday January 09, 2024 @07:48PM Earth Shattered Global Heat Record In 2023
Sunday January 07, 2024 @10:31PM The Land is Steadily Sinking Up and Down America's Atlantic Coast
Thursday January 04, 2024 @08:26PM AI and Satellite Imagery Used To Create Clearest Map Yet of Human Activity At Sea
Thursday January 04, 2024 @01:22PM Germany's Emissions Hit 70-Year Low As It Reduces Reliance on Coal
Sunday December 31, 2023 @10:41PM 2023 Will Be Remembered as the Year Climate Change Arrived
Sunday December 31, 2023 @01:00AM 20% of America's Plants and Animals are At Risk of Extinction
Saturday December 30, 2023 @03:20AM Massive Waves Pound Some California Coast Cities, Causing Floods and Injuries
Thursday December 28, 2023 @07:45AM Earth Was Due for Another Year of Record Warmth. But This Warm?
Wednesday December 27, 2023 @03:09PM Top Scientists on the One Mystery on Earth They'd Like To Solve
Wednesday December 27, 2023 @11:38AM A Sinking Nation is Offered an Escape Route. But There's a Catch.
Wednesday December 27, 2023 @09:36AM UK Students Launch Barclays 'Career Boycott' Over Bank's Climate Policies
Tuesday December 26, 2023 @05:06PM Joe Biden Plans To Ban Logging in US Old-Growth Forests in 2025
Tuesday December 26, 2023 @12:15PM Ski Resorts Battle For a Future as Snow Declines in Climate Crisis
Tuesday December 26, 2023 @01:15AM How a Surge in Organized Crime Threatens the Amazon
Sunday December 24, 2023 @10:41PM Will AI Be a Disaster for the Climate?
Saturday December 23, 2023 @04:26PM CNN Shares Hopeful Signs for Our Fight Against Climate Change
Saturday December 23, 2023 @02:09AM Livestock Surprise Scientists with Their Complex, Emotional Minds
Friday December 22, 2023 @11:32PM Bill Gates Predicts 'Supercharged' AI Innovation on Climate, Healthcare Issues
Thursday December 21, 2023 @03:15PM Why the US Is Pumping More Oil Than Any Country in History
Thursday December 21, 2023 @01:26PM Pakistan Uses Artificial Rain in Attempt To Cut Pollution Levels
Wednesday December 20, 2023 @09:31AM New Regulations Will Turn California Wastewater To Drinking Water
Tuesday December 19, 2023 @11:44PM Hurricane Larry Dropped Over 100,000 Microplastics Per Square Meter Per Day, Study Finds
Tuesday December 19, 2023 @02:58PM UK To Introduce Carbon Tax on Steel Imports from 2027
Tuesday December 19, 2023 @10:05AM India's Flooded Farmlands Mask a Water Crisis Deep Underground
Monday December 18, 2023 @08:31PM Volcano Erupts in Iceland Near Power Plant, in 'Worst-Case Scenario'
Sunday December 17, 2023 @04:21PM Could Hot Rocks Help Solve the Climate Crisis?
Saturday December 16, 2023 @05:43PM Can We Help Fight the Climate Crisis with Stand-Up Comedy?
Friday December 15, 2023 @11:44PM Is Climate-Friendy Flying Possible? The US Tries Subsidizing Sustainable Aviation Fuels
Friday December 15, 2023 @08:24PM Biggest Solar Flare In Years Temporarily Disrupts Radio Signals On Earth
Friday December 15, 2023 @11:10AM Stop Planting Trees, Says Guy Who Inspired World to Plant a Trillion Trees
Wednesday December 13, 2023 @07:40PM Low-Frequency Sound Can Reveal That a Tornado Is On Its Way
Wednesday December 13, 2023 @04:06AM COP28 Nations Agree for First Time To Transition Away From Fossil Fuels
Tuesday December 12, 2023 @04:03PM US Climate Bill 'Ignites New Zeal' Around the World for Government Climate Efforts
Tuesday December 12, 2023 @02:51PM The Climate Summit Starts To Crack a Tough Nut: Emissions From Food
Monday December 11, 2023 @03:22PM Cop28 Draft Agreement Calls for Fossil Fuel Cuts But Avoids 'Phase-Out'
Monday December 11, 2023 @12:04AM UK's First Carbon Capture Plant Turns CO2 Into Jet Fuel
Sunday December 10, 2023 @10:30PM Hidden Impacts of Ferocious Volcanic Eruption Finally Revealed
Sunday December 10, 2023 @05:02PM Saudi-Led Fight Against COP28 Deal 'Outrageous', Shows 'Panic' Officials Say
Friday December 08, 2023 @09:29AM 'Unprecedented Mass Coral Bleaching' Expected in 2024, Says Expert
Thursday December 07, 2023 @11:57PM Global Carbon Emissions From Fossil Fuels To Hit Record High
Thursday December 07, 2023 @06:44AM India Calls Out Inequalities at COP28 Climate Summit
Wednesday December 06, 2023 @07:30AM Earth on Verge of Five Catastrophic Climate Tipping Points, Scientists Warn
Tuesday December 05, 2023 @08:40PM Western US Wildfires Undo Two Decades of Air Quality Progress
Monday December 04, 2023 @12:05PM US Joins in Other Nations in Swearing Off Coal Power To Clean the Climate
Saturday December 02, 2023 @09:01PM Plants May Be Absorbing 20% More CO2 Than We Thought, New Models Find
Friday December 01, 2023 @11:51PM Investing $30 Billion, the UAE Announces the World's Largest Climate-Focused Investment Fund
Friday December 01, 2023 @10:36PM Why Mexico Wants You to Virtually Adopt an Axolotl Salamander
Wednesday November 29, 2023 @10:44AM Deal To Keep 1.5C Hopes Alive is Within Reach, Says Cop28 President
Tuesday November 28, 2023 @05:59PM Files Suggest Climate Summit's Leader Is Using Event To Promote Fossil Fuels
Tuesday November 28, 2023 @05:51PM American Airlines To Turn 10K Tons of CO2 Into Buried Carbon Blocks
Monday November 27, 2023 @01:37PM Germany To Compensate Power Users Hit by Grid Bottlenecks
Sunday November 26, 2023 @10:29PM Could Airports Make Hydrogen Work As Fuel?
Saturday November 25, 2023 @04:16AM Brazil Signs On To Global Climate Deal To Triple Renewable Energy
Friday November 24, 2023 @09:51AM World's Biggest Iceberg on the Move After 30 Years
Friday November 24, 2023 @08:16AM Toxic Air Killed More Than 500,000 People in EU in 2021, Data Shows
Friday November 24, 2023 @05:08AM Deaths From Coal Pollution Have Dropped, But Emissions May be Twice as Deadly
Wednesday November 22, 2023 @12:05PM Aftershocks Can Occur Centuries After Original Earthquake, Says Study
Tuesday November 21, 2023 @08:21PM World's Richest 1% Emit As Much Carbon As Bottom Two-Thirds, Report Finds
Tuesday November 21, 2023 @12:43PM Forest Service Plans Carbon Dioxide Storage on Federal Lands
Monday November 20, 2023 @11:24AM World Facing 'Hellish' 3C of Climate Heating, UN Warns Before Cop28
Saturday November 18, 2023 @07:18PM Why Bill Gates Remains Hopeful about Innovative New Climate Solutions
Friday November 17, 2023 @07:56PM USDA's Plant Hardiness Zone Map Shows Half the Country Has Shifted
Friday November 17, 2023 @01:29PM EU Allows Use of Controversial Weedkiller Glyphosate for 10 More Years
Wednesday November 15, 2023 @11:50AM EU Agrees Law To Curb Methane Emissions From Fossil Fuel Industry
Tuesday November 14, 2023 @07:36PM A Supernova 'Destroyed' Some of Earth's Ozone For a Few Minutes In 2022
Tuesday November 14, 2023 @03:30PM Delhi Plans To Unleash Cloud Seeding in Its Battle Against Deadly Smog
Monday November 13, 2023 @07:19PM The Lego-Like Way To Get CO2 Out of the Atmosphere
Monday November 13, 2023 @02:44PM Countries Meet in Kenya To Thrash Out Global Plastic Pollution Treaty
Sunday November 12, 2023 @09:35PM America's First Commercial Carbon-Sucking Facility Opens in California
Wednesday November 08, 2023 @03:41PM 2023 on Track To Be the Hottest Year on Record, Say Scientists
Wednesday November 08, 2023 @03:05AM North Greenland Ice Shelves Have Lost 35% of Their Volume In Last Half-Century, Study Finds
Sunday November 05, 2023 @06:12PM Will Sodium Batteries Become an Alternative To Lithium?
Sunday November 05, 2023 @03:59PM Bill Gates Urges 'Impatient Optimism' on Climate Change Innovations
Saturday November 04, 2023 @11:30PM Spacecraft Metals Left In the Wake of Humanity's Path To the Stars
Friday November 03, 2023 @08:21PM US Approves Massive Windfarm Project Off the Coast of Virginia
Monday October 30, 2023 @09:33PM Asteroid Dust Caused 15-Year Winter That Killed Dinosaurs, Scientists Say
Monday October 30, 2023 @09:11AM The Race To Destroy PFAS, the Forever Chemicals
Friday October 27, 2023 @09:52AM Scientists Call Out Rogue Emissions From China at Global Ozone Summit
Thursday October 26, 2023 @03:33PM UK Regulator Trying To Block Release of Shell North Sea Documents
Tuesday October 24, 2023 @10:09AM Global Shift To Clean Energy Means Fossil Fuel Demand Will Peak Soon, IEA says
Monday October 23, 2023 @03:01PM Nestle, Volvo Among 130 Companies Urging COP28 Agreement To Ditch Fossil Fuels
Monday October 23, 2023 @02:17PM Rapid Ice Melt in West Antarctica Now Inevitable, Research Shows
Saturday October 21, 2023 @06:33PM Plans Abandoned for First 1,300-Mile Carbon-Capture Pipeline Across the US
Friday October 20, 2023 @11:53PM 'Solar for Renters' Offers Americans Netflix-Style Subscriptions to Clean Energy
Friday October 20, 2023 @10:41PM 21 Species Moved From 'Endangered' to 'Extinct' in America
Friday October 20, 2023 @02:15AM Pipeline Dreams: The Desert City Out To Surpass Phoenix By Importing Water
Tuesday October 17, 2023 @09:40AM EU To Crack Down Further on Microplastics After Glitter Ban
Sunday October 15, 2023 @09:18PM California Begins World's Largest Dam Removal/River Restoration Projects
Sunday October 15, 2023 @07:13PM Google's AI-Powered 'Project Green Light' Speeds Traffic, Reduces Fuel Consumption and Carbon Emissions
Sunday October 15, 2023 @06:21PM Long-Dormant Viruses Are Now Waking Up After 50,000 Years as Planet Warms
Saturday October 14, 2023 @05:44PM Climate-Driven Heat Extremes May Make Earth Too Hot for Billions of Humans
Friday October 13, 2023 @06:45PM Hydro Dams Are Struggling To Handle the World's Intensifying Weather
Friday October 13, 2023 @11:28AM Antarctica Has Lost 7.5tn Tonnes of Ice Since 1997, Scientists Find
Thursday October 12, 2023 @06:12PM People Send 20 Billion Pounds of 'Invisible' E-Waste To Landfills Each Year
Thursday October 12, 2023 @12:12PM Half a Billion Cheap Electrical Items Go To UK Landfills in a Year, Research Finds
Tuesday October 10, 2023 @02:51PM Climate Crisis Will Make Europe's Beer Cost More and Taste Worse, Say Scientists
Tuesday October 10, 2023 @10:17AM EU Will Do 'as Much as Possible' To Drive Out Fossil Fuels, Climate Chief Says
Monday October 09, 2023 @02:40PM Microplastics Detected in Clouds Hanging Atop Two Japanese Mountains
Monday October 09, 2023 @12:38AM Can These Fungus-Studying Scientists Make the Planet More Resilient to Climate Change?
Saturday October 07, 2023 @07:03PM Germany Will Keep Keep Its Coal Power Plants on Standby For Another Winter
Friday October 06, 2023 @08:29PM The Ozone Hole Above Antarctica Has Grown To Three Times the Size of Brazil
Thursday October 05, 2023 @11:54AM September Broke the Global Heat Record by a 'Gobsmackingly Bananas' Margin
Thursday October 05, 2023 @11:37AM UN Report Urges Global End To Fossil Fuel Exploration by 2030
Tuesday October 03, 2023 @10:09AM Report Claiming Net Zero Will Cost UK Trillions Retracted Due To 'Factual Errors'
Sunday October 01, 2023 @11:27PM US Energy Department Funds 'Energy Earthshots' to Speed Clean-Energy Innovations
Saturday September 30, 2023 @02:23PM Mosquitoes Are a Growing Public Health Threat, Reversing Years of Progress
Saturday September 30, 2023 @01:21AM Heat Pumps Twice As Efficient As Fossil Fuel Systems In Cold Weather
Friday September 29, 2023 @11:09PM Will EVs Send OPEC Into a Death Spiral?
Friday September 29, 2023 @04:43PM Six Young People Take 32 Countries To Court Over Climate Change
Friday September 29, 2023 @12:32PM How a Thinktank Got the Cost of Net Zero for the UK Wildly Wrong
Thursday September 28, 2023 @02:47PM Swiss Glaciers Lose 10% of Their Volume in Two Years
Wednesday September 27, 2023 @06:22PM Bids For ISS Demolition Rights Are Now Open, NASA Declares
Wednesday September 27, 2023 @06:18PM Antarctic Sea Ice Hits Lowest Winter Maximum On Record
Saturday September 23, 2023 @02:13PM California Startup Hopes to Harvest Desalinated Drinking Water from the Ocean Floor
Saturday September 23, 2023 @01:50AM New Study Could Upend How We Think About the Ozone Layer and Health
Wednesday September 20, 2023 @04:34PM French Drillers May Have Stumbled Upon a Mammoth Hydrogen Deposit
Wednesday September 20, 2023 @12:09PM Almost Everyone in Europe is Breathing Toxic Air
Tuesday September 19, 2023 @06:08PM Space Drugs Factory Denied Reentry To Earth
Tuesday September 19, 2023 @02:16PM Antarctic Sea-Ice at 'Mind-Blowing' Low Alarms Experts
Saturday September 16, 2023 @01:19AM How Exxon Tried to Undermine Climate Change Science
Friday September 15, 2023 @11:43AM Oil Companies Granted Licences To Store Carbon Under the North Sea
Wednesday September 13, 2023 @08:40PM Conditions On Earth May Be Moving Outside the 'Safe Operating Space' For Humanity