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😮‍💨 Carbon 'offsets' aren't working: Researchers offer a 'roadmap' to improve nature-based climate solutions
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-carbon-offsets-roadmap-nature-based.html

Carbon 'offsets' aren't working: Researchers offer a 'roadmap' to improve nature-based climate solutions
A lot of the climate-altering carbon pollution humans release into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels gets drawn into the Earth's oceans and landscapes through natural processes, mostly through photosynthesis, as plants turn atmospheric carbon dioxide into biomass.

"Carbon 'offsets' aren't working: Researchers offer a 'roadmap' to improve nature-based climate solutions"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Emissions

Carbon 'offsets' aren't working: Researchers offer a 'roadmap' to improve nature-based climate solutions
A lot of the climate-altering carbon pollution humans release into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels gets drawn into the Earth's oceans and landscapes through natural processes, mostly through photosynthesis, as plants turn atmospheric carbon dioxide into biomass.

"Pollution from wildfires can contaminate our water for up to 8 years, study finds"
#Pollution #Wildfires #Environment

Pollution from wildfires can contaminate our water for up to eight years, new study finds
An analysis of 500 watersheds found levels of organic carbon, phosphorus, and other pollutants up to 103 times higher after a wildfire.

Die US-Regierung unter #DonaldTrump plant laut Haushaltsentwurf die Schließung des Mauna Loa Observatoriums auf Hawaii – dem Ort, an dem seit 1958 die global führenden #CO2-Messungen durchgeführt werden.
Die berühmte

Trump admin tries to kill the most indisputable evidence of human-caused climate change by shuttering observatory
The Mauna Loa laboratory in Hawaii has measured atmospheric carbon dioxide, which — along with other planet-warming pollution — has led directly to climate change, driving sea level rise, supercharging weather and destroying food systems.

Cold Nordic countries are being seared by “truly unprecedented” heat,
as hot weather strengthened and lengthened by carbon pollution continues to roast northern Europe.
A weather station in the Norwegian part of the Arctic Circle recorded temperatures above 30C (86F) on 13 days in July,
while Finland has had three straight weeks with 30C heat.
Scientists say it is the longest streak in records going back to 1961, and 50% longer than the previous record.
“Truly u…

London-based company Seabound invents technology to clean up dirty cargo fleets by capturing carbon emissions and transforming them into limestone. A promising solution to reduce pollution in the shipping industry. #climatechange #climatesolutions

Variance-based variable selection in sensor calibration with strong interferents -- application to air pollution monitoring with a carbon nanotube sensor array
Marine Dumon, Berengere Lebental, Guillaume Perrin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05001

Variance-based variable selection in sensor calibration with strong interferents -- application to air pollution monitoring with a carbon nanotube sensor array
Air and water pollution are major threats to public health, highlighting the need for reliable environmental monitoring. Low-cost multisensor systems are promising but suffer from limited selectivity, because their responses are influenced by non-target variables (interferents) such as temperature and humidity. This complicates pollutant detection, especially in data-driven models with noisy, correlated inputs. We propose a method for selecting the most relevant interferents for sensor calibrat…

There’s more: the e-bike means I’m not planning to replace my venerable old car when it finally dies; we’ll become a one-car family.
AFAICT from my research, this is even more important for climate / pollution concerns than the mileage. Just the sunk carbon emissions cost of manufacturing any new car, EV or otherwise, is roughly equivalent to another ~10 years of driving the venerable old gas-powered Civic. 10 years!
If you’re going to be buying a car, buying an EV is better. But unless you’re putting massive mileage on it, there’s a pretty good chance that not buying •any• new car ever — just running the existing one into the ground and shifting primary transportation mode — is the even better choice.

Air pollutant linked to year-round respiratory health in Mississippi #Mississippi…

Air pollutant linked to year-round respiratory health in Mississippi
University of Mississippi researchers have linked exposure to high levels of black carbon in the air to an increase in respiratory-related hospital admissions in Mississippi's capital city, according to a study published in Environmental Pollution.

"Gas flaring created 389m tonnes of carbon pollution last year, report finds"
#FossilFuels #Climate #ClimateChange

New low-carbon method to extract nickel for clean energy tech discovered, reducing carbon pollution by 84% and energy use by 18%. A step towards cleaner energy future! #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Could you host a solar farm?
Greener nickel production, atmospheric CO2 levels reach a new high, and leasing land for renewable energy

"Air pollutant linked to year-round respiratory health in Mississippi"
#US #USA #America #Mississippi

Air pollutant linked to year-round respiratory health in Mississippi
University of Mississippi researchers have linked exposure to high levels of black carbon in the air to an increase in respiratory-related hospital admissions in Mississippi's capital city, according to a study published in Environmental Pollution.