The Gulf could be a “sweet spot” for climate-friendly products made with technology that captures carbon dioxide emissions from the air, the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company believes. Hernan Silva, an Adnoc vice president responsible for carbon capture and storage, said the region had the potential to use its wells and reservoirs as a “storage hub” for carbon […]
A “vicious cycle” of climate change, pollution and wildfires is putting the world’s health and food supplies at risk, weather forecasters have warned. Intense heat and droughts in the first eight months of 2024 have increased the risk of fires and air pollution, the World Meteorological Organisation says. Air pollution can slash crop yields as much […]
Corals across the southern Arabian Gulf have been affected by a major bleaching event, raising concern among environmental experts. It is believed there is near “total bleaching” of corals from Abu Dhabi to Umm Al Quwain, with about 40 per cent of reefs bleached in Ras Al Khaimah and off Khor Fakkan. It took place when winds that have cooling capacity […]
I can barely hear Esther Ngumbi over the roar of greenhouse fans as she shows me around her rooftop laboratory in Morrill Hall. The benches are full of tomato plants, and the tomatoes don’t look good. Half of the plants are submerged in bins of water. Their leaves are yellow and withering. Some of the […]
The race to go green in “backbone” areas of the economy has made progress despite a mixture of “headwinds and tailwinds” since Cop28 in the UAE, says a chief executive leading the effort. Green alternatives are increasingly seen as an economic gain and not just a way of tackling climate change, said Faustine Delasalle, who leads an Industrial Transition […]
Imperial research has found limits to how quickly we can scale up technology to store gigatonnes of carbon dioxide under the Earth’s surface. Current international scenarios for limiting global warming to less than 1.5 degrees by the end of the century rely on technologies that remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the Earth’s atmosphere faster than […]
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres issued a world climate SOS at a Pacific islands summit on Tuesday, unveiling research that shows the region’s seas are rising much more swiftly than global averages. “I am in Tonga to issue a global SOS – Save Our Seas – on rising sea levels. A worldwide catastrophe is putting this Pacific […]
Antarctica’s unique ecosystems could be threatened by the arrival of non-native marine species and marine pollution from Southern Hemisphere landmasses, new oceanographic modelling shows. In a study published today in Global Change Biology, scientists from UNSW Sydney, ANU, University of Otago and the University of South Florida suggest that floating objects can reach Antarctic waters from […]
If Cristiano Ronaldo, Portugal and Saudi Arabia’s Al Nasser star player, posts something on Instagram, the energy needed to send the post to fans around the world could power 10 homes for a year. That is according to calculations by researchers at Loughborough University in the UK, who have analysed the carbon impact of personal and commercial internet use. […]
Excess carbon dioxide emitted by human activities — such as fossil fuel burning, land-use changes and deforestation — is absorbed by the world’s oceans. While this absorption helps mitigate global warming, it also has adverse effects on marine life, including fish and plants. While the impact of what is known as anthropogenic carbon dioxide on […]
