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U.S. Navy sailors operate onboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) in the Adriatic Sea, off Split, Croatia February 14, 2022.Milan Sabic | ReutersThe U.S. Navy on Tuesday unveiled a climate action plan focused on installing cybersecure microgrids, boosting its supply of lithium batteries, and slashing the service's planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions.The Navy's strategy, a response to President Joe Biden's executive order calling on federal agencies to develop plans to adapt to climate…

What happens when you publish research about car emissions that manages to piss off not just ICE owners but those using electric vehicles? Well, people have a lot of feelings.  In 2020, UK independent emissions testing firm Emissions Analytics published a research paper claiming that tire particulate wear emissions were 1,000 times worse than exhaust emissions. It generated a huge amount of attention, with the story translated into over 40 languages worldwide.…

With each passing year, emissions from cars keep rising. Global carbon emissions from passenger road vehicles measured 2.5 gigatonnes in 2000. By 2018, the most recent year for which data is available, that had increased to 3.6 gigatonnes. The reason? People keep buying gas-guzzlers. Around 15 million new vehicles were sold in the United States in 2021, up 2.5 percent from an unusually low number in 2020. In the UK, 1.65 million new vehicles rolled off dealer lots. The good news? Some people are trading in their fossil…

Even tech companies that have promised to slash their greenhouse gas emissions have a big climate-related blind spot, according to a new report published by three environmental groups. With their cash and investments, Google, Apple, Meta, and other tech giants are indirectly financing fossil fuel companies. While these companies might have taken steps to cut down on pollution within their own operations and supply chains, the financial institutions they bank with still funnel Big Tech’s profits into heavily polluting…

Global savings in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from smart traffic management systems will be 205 million metric tonnes (MMT) by 2027, a growth of 41 per cent, up from just 145.7 MMT in 2022, according to a report. Reducing congestion through optimised traffic control will be the main influencing factor. Smart traffic management uses digital technologies to manage traffic based on real-time data to reduce congestion and minimise emissions. The new study from Juniper Research identified environmental benefits from smart…

Effect of global change and the induced biocrust cover loss estimated by 2070 on future dust cycling. a–d, Change in future total annual dust emission (a), total annual dust deposition (b), mean annual atmospheric dust burden (c) and mean annual aerosol net radiative effect at the top of the atmosphere (d). Data calculated according to RCP 2.6. Individual maps showing biocrust effects on dust cycling according to RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5 are shown in…

At Bathtub Gin, a reinvented speakeasy in lower Manhattan, patrons may be pining for the past but they are drinking a vodka specifically invented for a cleaner future. Air Vodka is made in part from greenhouse gas emissions – specifically, captured carbon dioxide.It is just one of a bevy of new products designed to make use of CO2 emissions that can be captured from various types of industry."We work with partners that capture that carbon dioxide before it's emitted into the atmosphere, and then we use that CO2 in our…

New research suggests that more than 50,000 premature deaths could be prevented each year by eliminating air pollution emissions from energy-related activities in the United States. This would also provide more than $600 billion in benefits each year from avoided illness and death.Eliminating air pollution emissions from energy-related activities in the United States would prevent more than 50,000 premature deaths each year and provide more than $600 billion in benefits each year from avoided illness and death, according…

Image used for representation. (Photo: Manav Sinha/News18.com)The carbon emissions estimate will vary when looking at an economy or first-class seats, as the seats that take up more space account for a larger share of total emissionsPTI Last Updated:May 14, 2022, 19:01 ISTFOLLOW US ON:Travel services provider Yatra Online Inc has introduced a feature on its flight booking platform that will estimate the carbon emissions of each flight it displays as a step toward promoting sustainable travel. The feature will highlight…

Hawaiian Holdings Inc. HA 0.51% is investing in a company developing electric seagliders that the airline hopes to fly on short hops between islands.The battery-powered seagliders being developed by Regent, a Boston-based startup, are a hybrid of a boat and a plane. They would cruise five to 30 feet above the waves on average, flying on a cushion of air that keeps the plane aloft, known as the “ground effect.” Flying between the Hawaiian islands is a major source of…