Category: 9. Environment
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Floating solar project on Philippines natural lake brings hope — and questions
Laguna Lake in the Philippines is home to a pilot project for a floating solar photovoltaic (FPV) installation that could provide energy to surrounding communities as the country faces pressure to transition away from fossil fuels. “Floatovoltaic” installations already exist in other parts of Asia, but none are currently on natural lakes like Laguna; researchers…
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Brazilian Amazon indigenous territories under deforestation pressure
Instituto Socioambiental (ISA). O que são Terras Indígenas? https://pib.socioambiental.org/pt/O_que_são_Terras_Indígenas%3F (2018). Instituto Socioambiental (ISA). Localização e extensão das TIs. https://pib.socioambiental.org/pt/Localização_e_extensão_das_TIs (2021). Ana Carolina Moreira Pessôa. Assessment of fire occurrence within protected areas in the Amazon basin from 2003 to 2020. (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), 2022). Lawrence, D., Coe, M., Walker, W., Verchot, L. &…
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Spatial variability of lightning intensity over the Mediterranean sea correlates with seawater properties
In 2016, the World Meteorological Organization declared that lightning is an essential climate variable26. To date, with the exception of Asfur et al.7, global change studies have only considered the effect of warming on lightning flash frequency and the global distribution of lightning activity27,28,29,30. Price and Rind26 and Williams29 based their predictions of increased lightning…
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Global Warming Is Having an Unexpected (And Thrilling) Impact on Baseball : ScienceAlert
Home runs are exhilarating – those lofting moments when everyone looks skyward, baseball players and fans alike, anxiously awaiting the outcome: run or out, win or loss, elation or despair. Over the past several Major League Baseball seasons, home run numbers have climbed dramatically, including Aaron Judge’s record-breaking 62 homers for the New York Yankees…
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Amazon Indigenous lands prevent disease, save billions: study
Yanomami Indigenous territory of the Amazon rainforest is seen in the Brazilian state of Roraima in February 2023. Protected Indigenous reservations in the Amazon rainforest absorb thousands of tons of airborne pollution each year, saving around $2 billion annually in healthcare costs for treating respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, according to a study published Thursday. The…
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Satellite imagery reveals ‘hidden’ tornado tracks
When a strong tornado roars through a city, it often leaves behind demolished buildings, broken tree limbs and trails of debris. But a similarly powerful storm touching down over barren, unvegetated land is much harder to spot in the rearview mirror. Now, satellite imagery has revealed a 60-kilometer-long track of moist earth in Arkansas that…
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Plastic pollution is scourge of English coastal region
Some 11.5 trillion ‘nurdles’ — or tiny plastic balls — end up in the ocean each year, according to UK charity Fauna & Flora International. On an early spring afternoon, Tregantle Beach is bathed in a dazzling light reminiscent of a painting by British landscape artist JMW Turner as sea, sky and sun merge. “It’s…
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An integrated analysis of air pollution and meteorological conditions in Jakarta
Kan, H. et al. Part 1 a time-series study of ambient air pollution and daily mortality in Shanghai, China. Res. Rep. Health Eff. Inst. 154(1), 17–78 (2010). Google Scholar Qian, Z. et al. Part 2 association of daily mortality with ambient air pollution, and effect modification by extremely high temperature in Wuhan, China. Res. Rep.…
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As Colombian volcano rumbles to life, villagers resist evacuation
Luis Canon says he is afraid of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupting but is resigned to his fate as he is unwilling to leave his land and pack animals. Smoke billows from the crater of a snow-capped Andean volcano, reminding local inhabitants of the threat of another potential deadly eruption. Yet at the foot…
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Deluges of Antarctic Meltwater Threaten to Collapse The Oceans’ Circulation Currents : ScienceAlert
Off the coast of Antarctica, trillions of tons of cold salty water sink to great depths. As the water sinks, it drives the deepest flows of the “overturning” circulation – a network of strong currents spanning the world’s oceans. The overturning circulation carries heat, carbon, oxygen, and nutrients around the globe, and fundamentally influences climate,…