Scores of world leaders reaffirmed their commitment to limiting human-caused global warming at Wednesday’s Climate Week summit during the United Nations General Assembly. But emissions under new climate action plans submitted so far this year under the Paris Agreement would still add up to so much warming that more climate experts are now publicly discussing

Vibrio vulnificus, a bacterium that is potentially very dangerous to humans, is a natural component of marine plankton. The Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW) has now presented the first comprehensive analysis of its global distribution.

On Wednesday in New York, countries lined up to say they would accelerate their efforts to cut greenhouse-gas emissions. In staying away, the U.S. was all but alone.

Recent summers have become especially deadly in Europe, where health researchers calculated about 60,000 heat-related deaths in 2022, and anywhere between 40,000 to 70,000 in 2023. The first extreme heat wake-up call for Europe was in 2003, when a long heatwave also killed an estimated 70,000 people, mainly in France, Spain and Italy.

Climate TRACE uses AI and satellites to track 660 million sources of air pollution worldwide. Air pollution is linked to nearly 9 to 10 million deaths every year.

"In recent decades, climate warming has led to accelerated land ice loss, which has played an increasingly dominant role in driving global sea-level rise," Chen told Phys.org.

“When we started looking at the numbers, it turns out it is definitely macroscopic – it’s not a small effect,” Samset told New Scientist. China’s air pollution crackdown is responsible for 80% of the increased rate in global warming since 2010, the team concluded.

An ambitious project to combat global warming is planned in Chiba Prefecture, which would collect carbon dioxide emitted from factories in the prefecture along Tokyo Bay for storage deep under the seabed.

A vital waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, the Panama Canal relies on fresh water supplied by a reservoir to raise and lower the locks that allow the transit of thousands of ships a year.

A new study suggests electricity can convert food waste into industrial chemicals. Researchers at Ohio State University tested this on dairy waste. They used electrofermentation, applying mild electrical current.

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