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Microsoft Is On Pace to Buy More Clean Jet Fuel Than Most Airlines
27Oct By adminNo Comments
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Microsoft Is On Pace to Buy More Clean Jet Fuel Than Most Airlines

[ad_1]  Some of the world's biggest corporate consumers of air travel are investing in cleaner jet fuel, using a new credit system aimed at allowing the companies to claim the environmental benefits.Microsoft Corp. has made one of the largest commitments. The tech giant has long pledged to become carbon negative by the end of this decade, meaning it plans to remove more climate pollution from the atmosphere than it emits. To tackle the heat-trapping emissions from its journeys, Microsoft has reached two recent deals: In August, it agreed to work with British Airways owner IAG SA and Phillips 66 to co-fund the purchase of nearly 5 million gallons of sustainable aviation fuel, made from sources like used cooking oil and food waste. It hatched a subsequent deal with clean-fuels producer Wo...
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How to see your Google Workspace carbon footprint data
30Aug By adminNo Comments
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How to see your Google Workspace carbon footprint data

[ad_1] If you are eco-conscious, finding out your carbon footprint is very important in today's world. As an individual living in urban settings following a set daily routine can often distance you from the harsh reality of the world, such as global warming and its impact on vulnerable populations. With rising temperatures, ice caps melting, and increasingly erratic climate patterns, many are struggling to find livable habitats. And we are all contributing to the problem with our carbon footprints, even if we are simply working from home and are just on laptops all week long. To know the truth, you should check your Google Workspace carbon footprint data.For the unaware, carbon footprint is a measure of the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere as a result of the activit...
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How satellites are helping farmers adapt to global warming
23Aug By adminNo Comments
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How satellites are helping farmers adapt to global warming

[ad_1] When to harvest is one of the most crucial decisions a winemaker can make. Too early, and the result is bitter. Too late, and it's overly sweet. It's a delicate balance—one that's increasingly being upended by the climate crisis.In France, global warming has been wreaking havoc on this ancient equation for some time. Wine-growing regions across the country have seen seasons truncated—the harvest date in the Châteauneuf-de-Pape appellation, one of the most prized, has moved up almost three weeks since 1960. Simultaneously, plant diseases are appearing in regions that have never seen them before, rain patterns are changing and the heat that helped speed the harvest in some places is now drying out vines in others. To acclimate, the old ways are increasingly being replaced by the ne...
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Japan tackles scorching heat; check out the awesome tech
19Aug By adminNo Comments
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Japan tackles scorching heat; check out the awesome tech

[ad_1] When it comes to technology, Japan has looked for ways to be a step ahead of the rest of the world. Now, you can find Japanese technology even in their apparel. As temperatures continue to rise globally, Japanese firms are adopting new innovations to help people cope with the intense summer heat. This July, Japan faced the warmest summer in a century. It has raised concerns about heat-related illnesses and fatalities.According to a report by AFP, at least 53 people died because of heatstroke, and almost 50,000 needed emergency medical attention. To tackle this dire situation, companies are introducing inventive products designed to provide relief from the heat. One such innovation has been introduced by Workman. This is a company that makes apparel for construction workers. The c...
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A sweaty robot may help humans understand impact of soaring heat
23Jul By adminNo Comments
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A sweaty robot may help humans understand impact of soaring heat

[ad_1] What happens to the body when a human gets heatstroke? How can we protect ourselves in a warming planet? To answer these burning questions, Arizona researchers have deployed a robot that can breathe, shiver and sweat.The southwestern state's capital Phoenix is currently enduring its longest heat wave in history: on Friday, the mercury exceeded 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43 degrees Celsius) for the 22nd day in a row, an ominous demonstration of what's to come in a world impacted by climate change. For humans, such heat represents a potentially lethal threat, one that is still not fully understood. But for ANDI -- a one-of-a-kind humanoid robot at Arizona State University -- it's a lovely day out. "He's the world's first outdoor thermal mannequin that we can routinely take outside and...
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Want to Use Less Air Conditioning? Just Turn on a Fan
23Jul By adminNo Comments
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Want to Use Less Air Conditioning? Just Turn on a Fan

[ad_1] Earlier this year, the UK attempted to go coal-free. But an increased need for air conditioning forced the usually temperate country to reverse itself and restart an old coal-fired power plant — after only 46 days.This is a cycle that's likely to get more vicious as hotter weather leads to more air conditioning, which exacerbates both global warming and urban heat islands. But maybe we don't need nearly as much AC as we think. The answer isn't to suffer in pools of sweat but to use scientific knowledge about human physiology to stay just as cool with a lot less AC. Scientists say we can use about 70% less air conditioning and achieve the same comfort level by increasing air flow with ordinary electric fans. This makes intuitive sense, as most of us feel uncomfortable in a stuffy ...
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July likely to be warmest month on record: NASA scientist
22Jul By adminNo Comments
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July likely to be warmest month on record: NASA scientist

[ad_1] July 2023 will probably be the world's hottest month in "hundreds, if not thousands, of years," top NASA climatologist Gavin Schmidt said Thursday.This month has already seen daily records shattered according to tools run by the European Union and the University of Maine, which combine ground and satellite data into models to generate preliminary estimates. Though they differ slightly from one another, the trend of extreme heat is unmistakable and will likely be reflected in the more robust monthly reports issued later by US agencies, said Schmidt in a NASA briefing with reporters. "We are seeing unprecedented changes all over the world -- the heat waves that we're seeing in the US in Europe and in China are demolishing records, left, right and center," he added.What's more, the ...
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NASA reveals the invisible, shows shocking rise in carbon emissions
21Jun By adminNo Comments
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NASA reveals the invisible, shows shocking rise in carbon emissions

[ad_1] Over the years scientists have been making us aware of the greenhouse gases effect and how they are inflating the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere polluting the environment we breathe in while also contributing to global warming. However, till now we were not be able to see that, but now, NASA has released three shocking footages of the ebb and flow of carbon emissions. The footage clearly shows the precise locations of these critical greenhouse gas emissions.NASA has unveiled three videos depicting the destinations of carbon emissions across various global regions. These videos, showcasing the release of CO2 in 2021, feature color-coded emissions: orange for fossil fuels, red for burning biomass, green for land ecosystems, and blue for the ocean. I In these visual repr...
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Droughts, wet events made more frequent, intense by global warming: NASA-led study
15Mar By adminNo Comments
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Droughts, wet events made more frequent, intense by global warming: NASA-led study

[ad_1] Major droughts and pluvials - periods of excessive precipitation and water storage on land - have indeed been occurring more often, confirmed a new National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA)-led study.Droughts and floods will become more frequent and severe as our planet warms and climate changes, scientists have predicted, but detecting this on regional and continental scales has proven difficult, the study said. Two NASA, us, scientists examined 20 years of data from the NASA/German GRACE and GRACE-FO satellites to identify extreme wet and dry events, the study published in the journal Nature Water said. Floods and droughts account for more than 20 per cent of the economic losses caused by extreme weather events in the US each year. The economic impacts are similar ar...
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UN to seek out methane emitters with data from space
12Nov By adminNo Comments
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UN to seek out methane emitters with data from space

[ad_1] Big emitters of the heat-trapping gas methane can expect a call from the United Nations starting next year. Big emitters of the heat-trapping gas methane can expect a call from the United Nations starting next year, when the global body launches a new platform to combine existing systems for tracking the potent greenhouse gas from space.The U.N. Environment Programme said Friday that the new Methane Alert and Response System — MARS for short — is intended to help companies act on major emissions sources but also provide data in a transparent and independent way. It draws on satellite measurements performed by NASA and the European, German and Italian space agencies. Data from private satellite operators will also be incorporated in future. “Each of these instruments give us a c...
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