Overfishing: The most serious threat to our oceans
Sep 18, 2023 · Of all the threats facing the oceans today, overfishing takes the greatest toll on sea life — and people. What is overfishing? Overfishing is catching too many fish at once, so the breeding population becomes too depleted to recover.
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9 ways we know humans caused climate change
May 9, 2024 · Tens of thousands of scientists in more than 100 nations have amassed an overwhelming amount of evidence pointing to a clear conclusion: Humans are the main cause of climate change — burning fossil fuels, producing livestock, clearing trees and otherwise increasing the amount of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere.. It’s like the smoking-cancer link
How cap and trade works | Environmental Defense Fund
Jan 22, 2020 · Environmental enforcement officials, trained by EDF, conduct an on-site inspection at a factory in China. China, the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter, launched the initial phase of a national carbon market in 2017 with help from EDF.. The new emissions trading system is expected to be the world’s largest, dwarfing all existing programs, and is a central component of China’s strategy ...
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fInvestment.Over the last 9 years, manufacturers have announced $188 billion in concrete investment in U.S. EV and EV battery manufacturing facilities. Federal policies have dramatically expanded and accelerated these
MethaneSAT is now in orbit! See how we got there
Watch this behind-the-scenes video on our MethaneSAT project. A unique satellite with a critical mission: to slow global warming fast. Learn all about this one-of-a-kind project with a special introduction. Then watch the SpaceX rocket launch that will propel MethaneSAT into low-earth orbit, where it will orbit the earth every 95 minutes, creating the …
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December 2023 Announced Battery Manufacturing Capacity in the U.S. As shown by the blue line in Figure 1, based solely on announced EV battery manufacturing plants, the U.S. will have an estimated capacity of 1,037 GWh per year by 2028, consistent with projections made by other sources.iii This includes 45 battery manufacturing facilities with an average production capacity of 23 GWh per year.
Global Warming Potentials (GWPs)/CO 2-equivalent (CO 2 e) and the importance of time horizons There are many different pollutants that contribute to global climate change, and they have varying