World population graph: past, present, and future by Editor Source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-07-25/population-growth-world-overshoot-day/11320990 Read more of this post
Climate has shifted the axis of the Earth, study finds: Loss of water on land through ice melting and human-caused factors is changing the movement of the North and South poles
Climate has shifted the axis of the Earth, study finds: Loss of water on land through ice melting and human-caused factors is changing the movement of the North and South poles Date:April 25, 2021 Source:American Geophysical Union Summary:Melting glaciers redistributed enough water to cause the direction of polar wander to …
We need to rethink federal disaster aid
If you’re a Green subscriber and want to start getting the CityLab Daily newsletter, sign up here. If you’re a CityLab subscriber and want to start getting our daily Green newsletter, sign up here. By Leslie Kaufman What makes a disaster? When we think of calamity, most of us think of …
BIODIVERSITY News
Wednesday, 5 May 2021 Daily Report 24th Meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice On Tuesday, delegates continued discussions on the post-2020 global biodiversity framework. Delegates then considered marine biodiversity, including ecologically or biologically significant marine areas (EBSAs), and initiated discussion on the programme of work …
Global glacier retreat has accelerated: New study analyses roughly 220,000 glaciers
An international research team including scientists from ETH Zurich has shown that almost all the world’s glaciers are becoming thinner and losing mass’ and that these changes are picking up pace. The team’s analysis is the most comprehensive and accurate of its kind to date. Glaciers are a sensitive …
ESA and FAO unite to tackle food security and more
“Ethical Markets welcomes ESA’s important initiatives in using satellite information to better inform Earth System Sciences and even more important, this collaboration with FAO. However, both these global organizations still seem to have the same blind spot: the threat of global starvation due to the reliance of global food systems …
Evidence of Antarctic glacier’s tipping point confirmed
Researchers have confirmed for the first time that Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica could cross tipping points, leading to a rapid and irreversible retreat which would have significant consequences for global sea level. Pine Island Glacier is a region of fast-flowing ice draining an area of West Antarctica approximately …
On Fareed Zakaria GPS
“Ethical Markets highly recommends this common sense for Fareed Zakaria. A needed wake up call! Hazel Henderson, Editor.“ Today’s guests and topics, plus: the battle over voting rights; Taiwan and Beijing show down over pineapples; ‘net-zero’ targets lack specificity; Iran’s veiled history; and assessing Meghan’s moment … Insights, analysis …
Modeling the probability of methane hydrate deposits on the seafloor: Sandia scientists use machine learning
Science News from research organizations Modeling the probability of methane hydrate deposits on the seafloor Sandia scientists use machine learning Date: March 17, 2021 Source: DOE/Sandia National Laboratories Summary: Researchers have developed a new system to model the likelihood of finding methane hydrate and methane gas that was tested …
Mapping high-resolution methane emissions from space
The European Space Station Mapping high-resolution methane emissions from space 14/12/20202415 VIEWS54 LIKES ESA / Applications / Observing the Earth / Copernicus / Sentinel-5P Scientists have used satellite data from the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission, combined with the Sentinel-5P satellite, to detect individual methane emissions from space. While carbon dioxide is more abundant in the atmosphere, and therefore more commonly associated …