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The Stream, August 17, 2022: Drought May Worsen Across England, Bringing More Water Restrictions

Circle of Blue

Photo from August 12, 2022. Although the Pacific coast is no stranger to heavy rainfall, climate change has exacerbated the impacts of atmospheric rivers and other natural disasters. What’s Up With Water—August 16, 2022 — This week’s episode of What’s Up With Water covers extreme heat and drought across Europe. On the Radar.

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2021-2022 California Environmental Legislation: What’s Been Enacted?

Legal Planet

To meet these goals, the state is facilitating burgeoning carbon capture and sequestration (or storage) (CCS) technologies that capture carbon from point sources to store, as well as carbon dioxide removal (CDR), which removes carbon from the atmosphere. The post 2021-2022 California Environmental Legislation: What’s Been Enacted?

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Scientists strive for negative emissions

A Greener Life

Human activity adds more than 50 gigatons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere each year. New Solid Carbon technology might be able to lock climate-warming carbon dioxide below ocean bedrock. That means the Solid Carbon technology could be used at sea anywhere. Large-scale solutions are urgently needed. By Dr Kate Moran.

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MethaneSAT-EDF Successfully Test Methane Detection Technology To Be Used To Document Methane Emissions From Onshore Natural Gas Production In North America

PA Environment Daily

On July 10, MethaneSAT , a subsidiary of the Environmental Defense Fund , announced it has successfully tested methane detection technology to be used to measure and track methane emissions from oil and gas operators and other sectors across North America. In 2022, Europe became the primary destination for U.S.

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HotSpots H2O: As Water Systems Fail in Pakistan, Heat Wave Begets A Health Crisis

Circle of Blue

By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — May 23, 2022. Such events are becoming more common as Earth’s atmosphere continues to warm. Climate change and mismanagement sowed the seeds of a cholera outbreak. A child collects drinking water in Rajasthan, India in 2016. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue.

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Innovators in 2023 Carbon Removal Landscape

Ivy Protocol

While challenging, this could also create an opportunity to build co-benefits including job growth, biodiversity benefits, and equitable growth” (as cited in McKinsey & Company, 2022). These innovators are creating technology to extract CO2 directly from the atmosphere or prevent its release in the first place.

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The Latest IPCC Report — How Are We Doing on Mitigation?

Law and Environment

Earlier this month, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change. We’re almost certainly going to have to spend money pulling carbon from the atmosphere. I think it might be better for the IPCC to stick to the science and technology of mitigation.

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