Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Scientists attribute the drought’s severity to climate change, deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, and the La Niña weather pattern. After a decade of dry conditions, a drought in Brazil is straining the country’s economy, energy systems, and environment. Reservoirs are dwindling, causing major deficits in hydroelectric power.

Rainforest

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 16, 2021

It finds more evidence that severe weather events are linked to carbon in the atmosphere and that those weather events are becoming more extreme. The report stated unequivocally, for the first time, that climate change is occurring due to “human influence,” namely the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation.

2021

Inside Climate News

JULY 14, 2021

The study, which found greater depletion of carbon storage in the heavily deforested eastern Amazon, confirmed previous research that used satellites or hands-on measuring techniques.

Rainforest

Real Climate

APRIL 6, 2023

The issue here is a disturbed carbon cycle that now is out of balance because carbon has been taken from Earth’s crust and injected into the atmosphere. Humans work hard to add greenhouse gases such as CO 2 into the atmosphere. Perhaps it would be wiser if it was on the front page and expressed even more directly?

Climate Change

Legal Planet

JULY 25, 2023

Methane has a comparatively short life in the atmosphere (about 12 years, as opposed to 100 years or more for CO2) and high potency (84 times stronger than CO2, averaged over 20 years). Next time: ending deforestation. Here’s Part 1 , Part 2 , and Part 3 ). Download as PDF The post Emergency? Part 4 appeared first on Legal Planet.

Deforestation

Frontiers

APRIL 5, 2022

The Unseen Effects of Deforestation: Biophysical Effects on Climate.

Deforestation

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In particular, he said, “reliance upon coal, on the other hand, could aggravate the ‘greenhouse effect,’ whereby excess carbon dioxide (which accompanies coal burning) traps heat inside the earth’s atmosphere, thus possibly melting the icecaps and raising the level of the oceans.”

Carbon Dioxide

Frontiers

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Deforestation fires in Brazil and Indonesia accounted for 3% and 7%, respectively, of the planet’s total greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in 2019 and 2020, finds a new study in Frontiers in Climate. In 2019, Indonesia lost 31,000 km 2 of forest to deforestation fires. Deforestation fires emissions. Deforestation fires emissions.

Greenhouse

A Greener Life

JANUARY 11, 2024

degrees Celsius warmer than in the 1850-1900 pre-industrial period, when humans began burning fossil fuels on an industrial scale, pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The Copernicus Climate Change Service added, that in 2023 the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere rose to the highest level ever recorded at 419 PPM.

2023

Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

As the atmosphere continues to warm, severe weather events have gone from occasionally urgent to relentless assault. . Restoring trees along deforested riverbanks, for example, can shade the ecosystem and cools the river during extreme heat. On the Au Sable, the threat is a slow burn.

Climate Change

A Greener Life

APRIL 19, 2023

Products that bear the label “carbon neutral” are supposed to be produced with no added emissions to the atmosphere. The National Forests Foundation advertises that for every $2 donation, they’ll plant two trees that will remove or offset 1 metric ton of CO2e from the atmosphere for the life of those trees. But can you trust it?

Deforestation

Legal Planet

JULY 18, 2023

C of warming without removing carbon from the atmosphere – in other words, carbon capture (or, to use less controversial nomenclature: carbon removal) in some form. Here’s Part 1 and Part 2 ). The bigger controversy and bigger set of potential emergency actions focuses on industrial carbon capture.

Fossil Fuels

Circle of Blue

APRIL 12, 2023

This Week’s Top Water Stories, Told In Numbers 17 Number of atmospheric rivers that have brought much-needed rainfall to a dry California in recent months. billion project would “exacerbate flooding during the rainy season,” deforest “spiritually-significant forests,” and block fish migration.

2023

A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

We can damage the stability of the atmosphere on both sides of the equation – by emitting too many greenhouse gases, or by reducing the earth’s CO2-absorbing capacity (for example, by chopping down rainforests). We can also build on and improve this take-up of CO2 , also known as carbon sinks, by planting more trees or restoring wetlands.

Rainforest

Physics World

JANUARY 19, 2022

Weighing just 260 kg each, they will fly in very-low-Earth orbit at heights of roughly 550 km, which means that atmospheric drag will pull them down within a few years so they don’t end up as yet more space junk. The wider commercial space market could generate revenue of $1 trillion or more by 2040.

Fossil Fuels

Edouard Stenger

MARCH 20, 2017

This is the third year in a row that emissions from energy are flat, yet, climate scientists report that our atmosphere is seeing its carbon content grow faster than ever. So, why is the amount of carbon in our atmosphere is increasing fast if our emissions from energy are stable ? Deforestation is one.

Carbon Dioxide

Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

and renewable energy, co-benefits and trade-offs around land use and deforestation concerns, and exploration of funding options. In order to keep up with demand for beef and leather, 21 million ha of deforestation has occurred in the Brazilian Amazon between 2000 and 2015 to support cattle. The experts discussed the use of.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

JULY 16, 2025

Panama and Ghana stressed the possible jus cogens character of large-scale atmospheric pollution and climate destruction. Vanuatu and the Melanesian Spearhead Group suggested that the right to a healthy environment, essential to self-determination, may itself constitute a jus cogens norm, citing submissions by Samoa and El Salvador.

Law

A Greener Life

APRIL 1, 2022

It’s now widely acknowledged that to avoid catastrophic climate change we’ll need to physically remove CO2 from the atmosphere. By mid-century onwards, as much as 1 billion tonnes of carbon will need to be removed from the atmosphere each year.

Ocean

Environment, Law, and History

JANUARY 12, 2022

In particular, he said, “reliance upon coal, on the other hand, could aggravate the ‘greenhouse effect,’ whereby excess carbon dioxide (which accompanies coal burning) traps heat inside the earth’s atmosphere, thus possibly melting the icecaps and raising the level of the oceans.”

Carbon Dioxide

Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

The greenhouse effect is a popular name for the earth’s warming effect which occurs naturally when gasses in the atmosphere trap heat from the sun and prevent it from escaping back into space. Understanding Climate Change & Greenhouse Gas Emissions.

Climate Change

ESA

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Methane is a greenhouse gas that has more heat-trapping power than CO2, although it also clears out of the atmosphere much faster than does CO2. The deforestation accord is especially encouraging because it has so many side benefits. The companies involved also pledged to cut their emissions as part of this initiative.

Fossil Fuels

Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

So, if our answers to climate change and air pollution are growing, with even global coal consumption peaking, why is there still more and more carbon dioxide in our atmosphere? Meanwhile, as WRI reports , Brazil and Indonesia have seen higher levels of deforestation. Mother Earth is hurting.

Carbon Dioxide

A Greener Life

MAY 12, 2024

Additionally the continuation and the increasing deforestation rates globally which releases CO2 from the atmosphere, the failure to switch to less intensive farming methods and the limits of the oceans to store CO2 makes the challenges an uphill struggle.

Fossil Fuels

Vermont Law

JULY 31, 2023

The social cost of carbon is an economic tool used to determine how much the cost is, in dollars, of emitting another ton of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. As carbon dioxide builds up in the atmosphere, it also traps heat surrounding the planet. Additionally, the war in Afghanistan caused mass deforestation, and U.S.

Carbon Dioxide

A Greener Life

JANUARY 13, 2023

On side B we all have all the carbon removed from the atmosphere by forests, soil and wetlands. Deforestation is an ongoing problem, so it is unlikely that Madagascar will be carbon negative for long. If we were to imagine a set of scales, on side A we have all the carbon emitted by energy, industry, transport, etc.

Paris Agreement

A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The boundaries range from climate change to the biosphere and deforestation , and from pollutants & plastic to nitrogen cycles and freshwater. The researchers add that for the first time, there’s now also scientific evidence that makes it possible to quantify the boundary of atmospheric aerosol loading. Graphic credit: PIK.

Climate Change

Acoel

JANUARY 18, 2022

billion to help South Africa shift from its current dependence on fossil fuels for power generation toward a clean and renewable electricity system.

2030

Vermont Law

APRIL 13, 2020

The environmental issue addressed here is that certain agricultural practices, like converting forests to ranchland, release large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere and severely disrupt ecosystems. stem from land cover change, such as deforestation, afforestation/reforestation, and wood harvesting. come from deforestation.

Deforestation

Environmental Science

JULY 22, 2018

Satellites, for example, are used in meteorology to track weather systems and to monitor atmospheric fronts to predict what the weather will do next. Known as ENSO, they are opposite effects of the same process and are defined as an oscillation (a variation in magnitude) between the temperature of the atmosphere and the ocean.

Atmosphere

Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

Replacing these massive carbon sink forests with machinery which continuously pumps vast amounts of carbon dioxide into the Earth’s atmosphere is increasing the rate of global warming. For example, the rate of deforestation in indigenous territories has increased to 71% since the Brazilian president Jair Bolsanro was elected [4].

Rainforest

Manning Law

JUNE 8, 2020

CO 2 levels in the atmosphere hit an all-time high in early May. Think of the atmosphere as a bathtub, and emissions as the water that flows from the tap. Keeping wild spaces wild, stopping deforestation and restoring degraded land to protect biodiversity, boost food production and store carbon. The tub is still filling.

2020

Acoel

APRIL 14, 2023

And land use changes (predominantly deforestation, wetland depletion, land degradation, and infrastructure development) are now influencing rainfall patterns and how rain is apportioned between so-called “green water” (soil moisture and water vapor) and “blue water” (surface water and aquifers).

Climate Change

Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

In Peru, a group of young people sued the government for failing to formulate and execute a national policy and plan to curb deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon ( Álvarez et al. In Colombia, the Wayúu indigenous communities promoted an action to annul the environmental permit of a colossal coal mine ( Mina Cerrejon ).

Fossil Fuels

Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Air emissions : Any gas emitted into the atmosphere from industrial or commercial activity. Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) : A group of inert chemical used in many industrial and everyday processes such as our refrigerators that are not broken down at lower atmospheric levels and rise to the upper levels, destroying ozone.

Government

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

World leaders on Monday last week hailed a major breakthrough when, on the first official day of COP26 , a deal was agreed to stop deforestation by 2030. trillion of global assets – including Aviva, Schroders and Axa – will also commit to eliminating investment in activities linked to deforestation. Enabling deforestation.

Deforestation

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2023

Deforestation and forest fragmentation are making it harder for species to move in response to climate chnage. Other research shows that deforestation and fragmentation has left 62% of tropical forests without enough connectivity to facilitate species shifts. Photo: T.R. American crocodile, Florida Everglades.

Climate Change