[ad_1] By all accounts, pollution is down. According to NASA, nitrogen dioxide levels between New York and Washington, DC were down about 30% in March, compared to the average for the last five years. Earlier this year, figures published by CarbonBrief showed that the shutdowns associated with COVID-19 in China led to a 25 percent […]
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AI can help find more places to store captured CO2 underground
[ad_1] The team trained a convolutional neural network to find the “hidden correlations” in components of high-frequency data from simulated earthquakes. The AI learned how to find patterns that could be used to infer the ‘missing’ low frequencies, to put it another way. The result is an algorithmic system that, in the right circumstances, can […]
Researchers develop E. coli strain that ‘eats’ carbon-dioxide
[ad_1] E. coli, for all its bad press, has already been used to do many useful things. Several years ago, researchers managed to store encrypted data in the microorganisms, and there are even E. Coli-based “computers.” This isn’t the first time we’ve seen carbon-guzzling strains, either, but previous efforts have only consumed CO2 as a […]
Fast delivery may negate the environmental benefits of online shopping
[ad_1] The demand for local warehouses to speed up those orders also has an effect, Carnegie Mellon’s Costa Samaras said. Those buildings need power, heat and cooling, and that means more emissions. This doesn’t mean you’ll have to permanently settle on slow deliveries if you want to be kind to the planet, but it may […]
CO2 levels are the highest since humanity began
[ad_1] This is the first time in human history our planet’s atmosphere has had more than 415ppm CO2. Not just in recorded history, not just since the invention of agriculture 10,000 years ago. Since before modern humans existed millions of years ago. We don’t know a planet like this. https://t.co/azVukskDWr — Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus) May […]