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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Greenhouse gas emissions significantly increase in countries in the Global South within a few years after initially borrowing from the International Monetary Fund using structural loans, but not when more flexible lending conditions are involved. However, with countries' second or subsequent IMF loans, their…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new report from an influential real estate organization calls on Chicago to take a bold step to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from buildings. The city should set limits on emissions from certain buildings, using an approach already in place in New York, according to the report from the Urban Land Institute…

Starship Home, a cozy mixed-reality game for the Meta Quest 3, is trying to get to the heart of “what makes a game meaningful in mixed reality.” That’s according to developer Doug North Cook, who wrote on Reddit that the game, which turns your environment into a custom spaceship and you into an intergalactic horticulturist, is indie studio Creature’s “first answer to that question.”A Meta Quest blog post says players will customize their starship by “strategically placing virtual windows, control panels, and other…

Inland waters in China, such as the Yangtze River, could be a major source of greenhouse gas emissions. Credit: Lishan Ran Inland waters such as rivers, lakes, reservoirs, and ponds may release copious amounts of greenhouse gases, but this possibility is not well understood. In a new review published in theJournal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, Qianqian Yang and colleagues summarize what's known about carbon dioxide…

First Arrest of a Greenhouse Gas Smuggler Made in U.S.A California resident faces charges under a 2020 law that seeks to curb powerful planet-warming and ozone-depleting hydrofluorocarbonsBy Lesley ClarkDepartment of Justice headquarters in Washington, D.C. Credit: Mark Reinstein/Corbis via Getty ImagesCLIMATEWIRE | A San Diego man who allegedly smuggled greenhouse gases into the United States from Mexico and sold them will be the first person prosecuted under a 2020 law aimed at slowing climate change.According to an…

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted new rules that compel large companies to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and tell investors how their business is affected by climate change.The new rules are weaker than what the SEC initially proposed in March 2022, which would have included a fuller picture of a company’s carbon footprint. Initially, it wanted each company to share pollution stemming from its operations, as well as emissions from its supply chain and the use of its products. Under the…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Despite efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change, companies are not set up for success due to conflicting national and sectorial targets and differing availability of abatement options, a new study reveals. Companies and organizations are making significant efforts to reduce their emissions and manage the…

The distribution of the main vegetation types across the Arctic tundra (Dinerstein et al, 2017; European Space Agency, 2017) and the location of our study area. (a), the distribution of plots. (b) and environmental conditions derived from statistical upscaling of in situ measurements. (c). Soil moisture and temperature represent mean daytime (08:00 to 20:00 EET) conditions from 1 July to 2 August, and annual soil temperature is an average within the…

Suki Waterhouse channels Edith Piaf in the video for “OMG,” her shimmery new single. The singer, model, and Daisy Jones & the Six actress had teased the new song on social media for days, finally releasing it. “It’s really, really the best way to start my year,” she tells Rolling Stone, on a call from Los Angeles. “I’ve been holding onto it for a while.” The track, co-written with Natalie Findlay, is a synthy, sleazy rocker with the kind of anthemic chorus that will be in your head for days. It’s a chorus…

Credit: Andre from Pexels Mexico's greenhouse gas emissions are the second highest among Latin American countries, trailing only Brazil according to the World Bank. But until now, no one had leveraged the full spectrum of available scientific data to make an estimate of sources (such as fossil fuel burning and agriculture) and sinks (such as healthy forests and soils) of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. Calculating…