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Study: 2/3 of aviation climate impact due to emissions other than CO2

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

of the human-made climate impact; two-thirds of this impact are caused by emissions other than CO 2 , according to a new study by researchers in Europe and the US. The study was published in the journal Atmospheric Environment. This new study is based on a thorough review of a decade of research on aviation emissions.

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CICERO-led study finds global warming effect of leaked hydrogen almost 12x stronger than CO2

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JUNE 12, 2023

A study led by Norwegian climate center CICERO has found that the global warming effect of leaked hydrogen is almost 12 times stronger than that of CO 2. The open-access paper is published in Nature Communications Earth & Environment. The climate effects of hydrogen have been an under-researched topic. Sand et al.

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Study: annual climate impact of wild pigs could be greater than 1.1M cars

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JULY 20, 2021

million cars, according to a new study by an international team led by researchers from The University of Queensland and The University of Canterbury. Their study appears in Global Change Biology. By uprooting carbon trapped in soil, wild pigs (feral swine), are releasing around 4.9

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Green NCAP LCA study shows detrimental climate and energy impact of increasing vehicle weight, including EVs

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MARCH 24, 2023

The results of the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of greenhouse gas emissions and primary energy demand of the cars tested by Green NCAP in 2022 show that the current and continuous trend towards larger and heavier cars, significantly increases the negative impact on climate and energy demand.

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Study: 25% EV adoption would save US $17B annually from avoided climate change & pollution damages

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AUGUST 18, 2020

A new study led by researchers from Northwestern University projects that if electric vehicles replaced 25% of combustion engine cars currently on the road, the United States would save approximately $17 billion annually by avoiding damages from climate change and air pollution. Results show that in more aggressive scenarios—i.e.,

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U-M researchers challenge USPS EV environmental study

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AUGUST 29, 2022

A new University of Michigan study finds that making the switch to all-electric mail-delivery vehicles would lead to far greater reductions in greenhouse gas emissions than previously estimated by the US Postal Service (USPS). The Postal Service has not commented on the U-M study. Earlier post.). The USPS estimate was 10.3

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Study: solid state batteries can further boost climate benefits of EVs

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JULY 24, 2022

That’s according to research commissioned by Transport & Environment (T&E) from Minviro, a company specialised in raw material life-cycle analysis, which compared emerging solid state technology to current battery chemistries.

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Study: Crop relocation can help buffer US agriculture from climate change but southern states may face massive loss of productive land

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OCTOBER 5, 2020

Projected extreme temperatures under climate change are predicted to reduce average yields for several of the United States’ major crops. The extent of these regional changes in agricultural productivity and how they influence future cropping decisions is a central question for the risks of climate change for agriculture and food security.

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12 EU Countries Will Fail to Comply With 2030 National Climate Targets — New Study

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JUNE 23, 2024

Without immediate action, twelve EU countries will miss their national climate. continued] The post 12 EU Countries Will Fail to Comply With 2030 National Climate Targets — New Study appeared first on CleanTechnica. But there is still time for governments to change course before 2030.

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Study finds solid-state batteries could reduce the carbon footprint of an EV battery by up to 39%

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JULY 21, 2022

Solid-state batteries could reduce the carbon footprint of electric vehicle batteries by up to 39%, according to a study commissioned by European environmental NGO Transport & Environment (T&E) from Minviro , a company specializing in raw material life-cycle analysis, which compared emerging solid-state technology to current battery chemistries.

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Are Electric Cars Really Helping the Environment?

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FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Photo credit: mpohodzhay / Shutterstock.com A recent study by the Keck School of Medicine of USC provides new insights into the potential benefits of electric vehicle (EV) adoption. This study marks a significant step in understanding the impact of electric cars on public health and the environment.

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Earth’s rotation is being affected by climate change

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JULY 16, 2024

Two new studies published by ETH Zurich suggest that the Earth's rotation is being significantly impacted by climate change. The post Earth’s rotation is being affected by climate change appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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Ford, U Mich study finds greater greenhouse gas reductions for pickup truck electrification than for other light-duty vehicles

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MARCH 5, 2022

This is an important study to inform and encourage climate action. This study expands upon previous studies that have focused on comparing battery-electric vehicle sedans to their internal-combustion-engine or hybrid counterparts. —Woody et al. Maxwell Woody et al. 17 034031 doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac5142.

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HEI study links fossil fuel combustion with more than 1 million deaths globally

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DECEMBER 15, 2021

in outdoor air comes from anthropogenic fuel combustion, suggesting that integrating air quality, energy, and climate policies is likely to bring substantial health benefits. The study team, led by Dr. Erin McDuffie and Dr. Randall Martin of Washington University in St. Overall, the report indicates that a majority of PM 2.5

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Study links increased black carbon pollution to increase in cases of lung adenocarcinoma worldwide

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NOVEMBER 28, 2021

The same study also concluded an overall lower consumption of tobacco worldwide is statistically linked to less people contracting lung squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC)—another type of NSCLC. The results of the study were published in the journal Atmospheric Environment. LSCC is often linked to a history of smoking.

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Study unveils role of cloud condensation nuclei in Amazon rainfall dynamics

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NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Discover how Amazon rainfall drives nanoparticle bursts that form cloud condensation nuclei, reshaping our understanding of climate dynamics. The post Study unveils role of cloud condensation nuclei in Amazon rainfall dynamics appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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Nutrition insecurity caused by climate change to be reduced with new policies

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JANUARY 2, 2024

According to a new study, nutrition insecurity in Africa needs to be combated with crops that are resilient to climate change. The post Nutrition insecurity caused by climate change to be reduced with new policies appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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MIT team finds aviation emissions’ impacts on air quality larger than on climate

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NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Researchers at MIT have determined that growth in aviation causes twice as much damage to air quality as to the climate. Aviation emissions are an increasingly significant contributor to anthropogenic climate change. Aviation emissions are an increasingly significant contributor to anthropogenic climate change.

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Global study shows uneven urbanization among large cities in the last two decades

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JANUARY 7, 2021

Due to the rapid economic growth in the study period, China invested a large amount of resources into infrastructure construction for advancing the urban living environment. Of the 841 cities studied, 325 showed significant greening with more than 10% of greening BUAs. billion and the urban population was 4.2

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Bizarre Swedish study claims electric cars are worse for the environment

Green Car Reports

JUNE 28, 2017

The benefits of electric vehicles over those with internal-combustion engines are vast, but a strange new study is making rounds that claims electric cars are worse for climate-change emissions. The study.

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Study: Energy sorghum may combine best of annual, perennial bioenergy crops

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JANUARY 8, 2021

Maize and other annual crops are easier to manage with traditional farming, but they are tougher on the environment. The question, before this study, was whether energy sorghum behaved more like miscanthus or maize, and what that meant for the ecosystem. Moore, C.E., von Haden, A.C., Burnham, M.B., Kantola, I.B., Gibson, C.D.,

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Studying Climate Change with an Ice Radar Drone

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AUGUST 5, 2023

And the data that Peregrine will gather will help scientists to understand how these critical areas will respond to climate change. And as we try to understand how ice sheets are responding to new climate extremes, these processes are key. Thomas Teisberg, an electrical engineering Ph.D.

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EVs like Tesla are cutting pollution levels and reducing health problems: study

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FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Yet despite this, there are still a lot of skeptics who argue that electric vehicles do not really do anything useful for the environment. A study from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California has provided some real-world observations about electric vehicles and how they positively impact the environment.

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Study: curbing diesel emissions could reduce mortality rates in big cities

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Freight transportation is a pillar of the US national economy, but while long-haul trucks account for less than 6% of the vehicle miles traveled over US highways, they account for about 40% of the emissions of air polluting particulate matter and about 55% of nitrogen oxides, the precursor to ozone in the atmosphere, the study said.

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UMD-led study: road salts and other human sources are threatening world’s freshwater supplies

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APRIL 14, 2021

But a new study led by Sujay Kaushal of the University of Maryland warns that introducing salt into the environment—whether it's for de-icing roads, fertilizing farmland or other purposes—releases toxic chemical cocktails that create a serious and growing global threat to our freshwater supply and human health.

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Study finds GHG emissions from corn ethanol now 46% lower than gasoline

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JANUARY 27, 2021

A new study by a team from Environmental Health & Engineering (EH&E) has found that greenhouse gas emissions from corn ethanol are 46% lower than those from gasoline—a decrease in emissions from the estimated 39% done by previous modeling. 2021) “Carbon intensity of corn ethanol in the United States: state of the science” Environ.

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Study finds that steady reduction in fossil fuel emissions will not result in short-term warming spike

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

One view advanced in some studies attempting to model future climate is that cleaning up fossil-fuel air pollution rapidly will unintentionally lead to a near-term rise in atmospheric warming of about a half-degree Celsius, which might take up to a century to reverse. Shindell and Smith published their study in Nature.

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Chalmers study: ban on sales of fossil-fuel cars greatly reduces lifecycle GHG mainly due to tailpipe emissions; risk of carbon leakage in manufacturing

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MAY 28, 2021

If a ban were introduced on the sale of new gasoline and diesel cars, and they were replaced by electric cars, the result would be a significant reduction in lifecycle carbon dioxide emissions primarily due to reduced tailpipe CO 2 emissions, according to a new lifecycle study by researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.

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Study finds wind concentrates pollutants with unexpected order in an urban environment

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AUGUST 26, 2012

A new study has found that pollutant particles carried by these flows prefer to accumulate in specific regions of the urban environment and even form coherent structures, rather than scattering randomly. In previous studies, the existence of these patterns in fluid flows was only verified with idealized “theoretical” flows.

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IIASA study proposes solid air hydrogen liquefaction as efficient addition to hydrogen liquefaction supply chain

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APRIL 30, 2023

The world is undergoing an energy transition to reduce CO 2 emissions and mitigate climate change. An open-access paper on the work is published in the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy.

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Youth Climate Strikes Have The $uperpower To Shut This Country Down & Force America To Take Emergency Climate Action

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MARCH 13, 2019

My friend and mentor, Bill McKibben has an Op Ed about this Friday’s Student Climate Strikes in today’s on-line edition of the LA Times that will be news to LAT readers but not to Creative Greenius devotees. And when they don’t show up for school on Climate Strike Day neither does that $47 for the school budget.

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Solar geoengineering research boosted despite climate change worries

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MARCH 6, 2023

Researchers in Africa are set to receive grants worth tens of thousands of dollars to study the impact of solar geoengineering. The post Solar geoengineering research boosted despite climate change worries appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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Study findings suggest that switching from coal to natural gas would do little for global climate

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

The study will appear next month in the peer-reviewed journal Climatic Change Letters. The study will appear next month in the peer-reviewed journal Climatic Change Letters. Relying more on natural gas would reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, but it would do little to help solve the climate problem. degrees F (0.1-0.2

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Study from Thuringia shows 50% of harmful soot comes from local sources, 50% from long-distance transport

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JUNE 12, 2021

From the researchers’ point of view, this underlines the need to further reduce emissions of soot that is harmful to health and the climate, as the carbon-containing particles still contribute to health hazards and climate warming even over distances of several hundred kilometers.

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Monash study on solar-driven electrolysis for green hydrogen production cautions on life-cycle emissions and EROI

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AUGUST 23, 2021

The open-access paper on the study is published in the RSC journal Energy & Environmental Science. Key results from the study were: For both baseline scenarios, the GHG emission intensity is around a quarter that of H 2 produced from SMR. Process flow diagram and construction phase boundary. Palmer et al. doi: 10.1039/D1EE01288F.

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Study finds megacity traffic soot can reach high altitudes and be transported over long distances, contributing to global warming

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DECEMBER 16, 2018

An open-access paper on the work is published in the journal Atmospheric Environment. From there, BC can be transported over long distances and exert impact on climate and composition of remote southern hemisphere. Therefore, air pollution in this region has a particularly strong impact on the atmosphere and the global climate.

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Satellite study suggests California clean air regulations working to reduce PM2.5 emissions in state

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JUNE 8, 2018

The open-access study, which focused on the four major components of PM 2.5 species, was recently published in the journal Atmospheric Environment. This study is the first attempt to use the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) aerosol sensors aboard NASA’s Terra satellite to predict PM 2.5 to predict PM 2.5

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Most countries struggling to meet climate pledges from 2009, research reveals

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APRIL 16, 2024

19 out of 34 countries surveyed failed to fully meet their 2020 climate pledges set 15 years ago, according to a new study. The post Most countries struggling to meet climate pledges from 2009, research reveals appeared first on Innovation News Network. Find out more.

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Two-year study in Canada finds large trucks disproportionately contribute to higher levels of black carbon pollution

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

A two-year study led by researchers at the University of Toronto has found large trucks to be the greatest contributors to black carbon emissions close to major roadways. The study is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology.

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Marine animals differ in response to climate change

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OCTOBER 19, 2022

New study is the first to explore the relationship between oxygen, temperature, and metabolic requirements of certain marine animals. The post Marine animals differ in response to climate change appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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Food security in developed countries resilient to climate change

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APRIL 12, 2024

A University of Southampton study has found that despite extreme weather conditions, food security has remained robust in the US. The post Food security in developed countries resilient to climate change appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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Climate change could have devastating effects on forests’ carbon uptake

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Studies by Oregon State University have found that climate change will damage trees' ability to cool leaves and pull carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The post Climate change could have devastating effects on forests’ carbon uptake appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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EU green investments needed to hit ambitious climate targets

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DECEMBER 12, 2022

In a new study, experts have proposed a European pact to increase EU green investments, allowing Paris Agreement targets to be met. . The post EU green investments needed to hit ambitious climate targets appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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Stanford study finds current carbon capture technology inefficient & increases air pollution

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OCTOBER 27, 2019

A study by Mark Z. Jacobson, who is also a senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, examined public data from a coal with carbon capture and use (CCU) plant and a synthetic direct air carbon capture and use (SDACCU) plant for the equipment’s ability, alone, to reduce CO 2. —Mark Jacobson.

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Study: 2/3 of aviation climate impact due to emissions other than CO2

CICERO-led study finds global warming effect of leaked hydrogen almost 12x stronger than CO2

Study: annual climate impact of wild pigs could be greater than 1.1M cars

Green NCAP LCA study shows detrimental climate and energy impact of increasing vehicle weight, including EVs

Study: 25% EV adoption would save US $17B annually from avoided climate change & pollution damages

U-M researchers challenge USPS EV environmental study

Study: solid state batteries can further boost climate benefits of EVs

Study: Crop relocation can help buffer US agriculture from climate change but southern states may face massive loss of productive land

12 EU Countries Will Fail to Comply With 2030 National Climate Targets — New Study

Study finds solid-state batteries could reduce the carbon footprint of an EV battery by up to 39%

Are Electric Cars Really Helping the Environment?

Earth’s rotation is being affected by climate change

Ford, U Mich study finds greater greenhouse gas reductions for pickup truck electrification than for other light-duty vehicles

HEI study links fossil fuel combustion with more than 1 million deaths globally

Study links increased black carbon pollution to increase in cases of lung adenocarcinoma worldwide

Study unveils role of cloud condensation nuclei in Amazon rainfall dynamics

Nutrition insecurity caused by climate change to be reduced with new policies

MIT team finds aviation emissions’ impacts on air quality larger than on climate

Global study shows uneven urbanization among large cities in the last two decades

Bizarre Swedish study claims electric cars are worse for the environment

Study: Energy sorghum may combine best of annual, perennial bioenergy crops

Studying Climate Change with an Ice Radar Drone

EVs like Tesla are cutting pollution levels and reducing health problems: study

Study: curbing diesel emissions could reduce mortality rates in big cities

UMD-led study: road salts and other human sources are threatening world’s freshwater supplies

Study finds GHG emissions from corn ethanol now 46% lower than gasoline

Study finds that steady reduction in fossil fuel emissions will not result in short-term warming spike

Chalmers study: ban on sales of fossil-fuel cars greatly reduces lifecycle GHG mainly due to tailpipe emissions; risk of carbon leakage in manufacturing

Study finds wind concentrates pollutants with unexpected order in an urban environment

IIASA study proposes solid air hydrogen liquefaction as efficient addition to hydrogen liquefaction supply chain

Youth Climate Strikes Have The $uperpower To Shut This Country Down & Force America To Take Emergency Climate Action

Solar geoengineering research boosted despite climate change worries

Study findings suggest that switching from coal to natural gas would do little for global climate

Study from Thuringia shows 50% of harmful soot comes from local sources, 50% from long-distance transport

Monash study on solar-driven electrolysis for green hydrogen production cautions on life-cycle emissions and EROI

Study finds megacity traffic soot can reach high altitudes and be transported over long distances, contributing to global warming

Satellite study suggests California clean air regulations working to reduce PM2.5 emissions in state

Most countries struggling to meet climate pledges from 2009, research reveals

Two-year study in Canada finds large trucks disproportionately contribute to higher levels of black carbon pollution

Marine animals differ in response to climate change

Food security in developed countries resilient to climate change

Climate change could have devastating effects on forests’ carbon uptake

EU green investments needed to hit ambitious climate targets

Stanford study finds current carbon capture technology inefficient & increases air pollution

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