A byproduct of oil and gas production is a large quantity of toxic wastewater called brine. Well-drillers dispose of brine by wastewater injected into deep rock formations, where its injection can cause earthquakes. Most quakes are relatively small, but some of them have been large and damaging. Yet predicting the amount of seismic activity from ...
Dealing with carbon pollution in the atmosphere has been a difficult task due to how expensive it is. However, a method that involves converting carbon dioxide to electricity promises to solve the problem of cleaning the air. CO2 for electricity “The process would involve pumping airborne CO2 down into methane hydrates — large deposits of ...
A massive, deadly heatwave has entered the U.S., affecting almost 200 million people from the central part of the country to the east coast. Six Americans have reportedly died from the extreme heat — four from Maryland, one from Arkansas, and one from Arizona. U.S. heatwave The National Weather Service (NWS) has warned people to take ...
Bitcoin has been heralded as the future of currency. However, using cryptocurrencies comes with a heavy price — pollution. According to a team of researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Bitcoin usage releases huge amounts of CO2 emissions every year. Bitcoin pollution Mining Bitcoin takes up a great deal of computing power. As ...
Powering a massive biosphere on Earth, photosynthesis is the light-mediated reaction that converts carbon dioxide and water to carbohydrates and oxygen. About 2.3 billion years ago, this reaction led to the dramatic oxygenation of Earth’s atmosphere. Evidence exists for oxygen-releasing photosynthesis evolving much earlier — perhaps as early as 3 billion years ago. However, the ...
In recent years, wreckage parts of a 1946 crashed aircraft of the U.S. Air Force were recovered at the Gauli Glacier. Model calculations by ETH Zurich researchers now show that the fuselage of the aircraft will probably only emerge from the ice in 8 to 16 years. In November 1946, a U.S. Air Force aircraft ...
As Europeans continue to suffer from the extreme heat plaguing the region, data shows that June 2019 has been the hottest June ever in the history of the continent. According to the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), a satellite agency that keeps tabs on the region’s weather. Average temperatures for the month were almost 6° ...
China is increasing activities in Antarctica and everyone is watching closely to see whether the Asian nation will seek to lay a claim in the region. Doing so would not only violate the Antarctic Treaty, but it could also trigger a global conflict where major world powers rush in to secure a part of Antarctica ...
At the recently concluded G20 summit in Osaka, major world leaders agreed on a climate deal similar to the one that had been presented in the previous meeting in December 2018. President Trump has kept the U.S. out of the Paris Accord. The climate deal The document signed in Osaka declares that the signatories are ...
For the first time, researchers at the University of Michigan have detected bromine atoms in the atmosphere, and in doing so, have confirmed the reaction pathway through which mercury is removed from the atmosphere and enters the ecosystem in the springtime Arctic. Mercury is a particularly toxic pollutant largely emitted through human activities such as ...
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