LONG AN, Vietnam (AP) — One thing distinguishes 60-year-old Vo Van Van’s rice fields from the mosaic of thousands of other emerald fields in Long An province in southern Vietnam’s Mekong Delta: It’s not completely submerged. That, and the giant drone, whose wingspan resembles that of an eagle, buzzes from above as it rains down… Read More »
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have made the surprising discovery of methane emissions from a brown dwarf, or “failed star.” The finding suggests that the brown dwarf has auroras and may even be orbited by an undiscovered exomoon, the researchers said. The JWST brown dwarf discovery is surprising because these cold, isolated… Read More »
Much more methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, is being released from landfills and oil and gas operations around the world than governments realize, according to recent aerial and satellite research. This is a problem for both climate and human health. That’s why the U.S. government has tightened regulations on methane leaks and, more recently, waste… Read More »
Levels of key heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere reached historic highs last year and are rising at a near-record pace, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Carbon dioxide, the most important and abundant of human-caused greenhouse gases, reached the third-highest amount in 2023 in its 65-year record-keeping history, NOAA announced Friday. Scientists… Read More »
American oil and gas wells, pipelines and compressors are spewing three times as much gas as the powerful heat-trapping gas methane the government thinks is causing $9.3 billion in climate damage annually, according to a comprehensive new study. But since more than half of those methane emissions come from a very small number of oil… Read More »
Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have detected a “failed star,” or brown dwarf, that shows signs of having an aurora. Auroras are more familiar as the northern and southern lights, which are caused by charged particles from the sun hitting molecules in the Earth’s atmosphere. They are usually only seen at high… Read More »
At this year’s United Nations climate summit, more than 100 world leaders agreed to make farm and food systems a key part of plans to combat climate change, seeking improvements in a sector that accounts for nearly a third of planet-warming emissions. Given that more than half of these emissions come from livestock farming, meat… Read More »
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — As Planet Earth heats up, U.N. climate talks focused Sunday on contagious impacts on human health. Under a brown haze over Dubai, the COP28 summit left behind two days of loud rhetoric and calls for unity from senior leaders over concerns about health problems such as the spread of… Read More »
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Fifty oil companies representing nearly half of global production have pledged to reach near-zero methane emissions by 2030 and end routine flaring in their operations, the head of this year’s United Nations climate talks said Saturday. Activate what environmental groups call a “smoke screen.” Methane emissions are a major… Read More »
Nearly 50 oil and gas companies worldwide have pledged to shore up leaky methane systems by 2030; It’s a move that, if companies keep their promises, could quickly reduce emissions of the potent gas and prevent some climate change impacts. The pledge, announced by Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber at the United Nations Climate Change Conference… Read More »