GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

A June medical study links air pollution and extreme heat from climate change to pregnancy risk that disproportionately affects Black women. This reality is why poll after poll shows that BIPOC communities care more about climate change and strongly support action. . Second, ask who is affected and what could go wrong?

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2022

Cooling towers at Drax, North Yorkshire (image credit: Shutterstock.com / Phil Silverman). It makes climate change worse, not better. Like fossil fuels, burning biomass also requires huge amounts of water to be abstracted for cooling, increasing water stress at times of drought. That’s the same as 4.5

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Why do zero-emission vehicles need sophisticated cooling systems? With our climate changing, manufacturers’ demand for zero-emission vehicles is growing. Sponsored by Horton. Because they generate less emissions but more heat. This Q&A explores the current and future landscape for electric vehicles.

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Grist

JANUARY 7, 2021

If this shift is a result of climate change and continues, it could have profound implications: Over the next century, Seattle might become as dry as Los Angeles, and California could settle into an era of unending drought. Well, if you want to know how the climate-changed future will unfold, look at the past: In the Pliocene, 2.6

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ThinkGeoEnergy

MAY 27, 2024

A team of researchers from the Robert Gordon University (RGU) in Aberdeen, Scotland are working on the installation of geothermal cooling systems in low-income communities in Kenya. By summer of this year, installation of the cooling systems will begin. Work on the project already began in January and the team did field visit in March.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Notice that these widely used labels tell you nothing about the climate change impact of your choices. The change I referred to earlier is happening at Panera Bread, where many menu items now have a "Cool Food" badge attached to them. . In June, Unilever announced ambitious plans to attach carbon labels to its products.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The new research adds to the urgency of conversations about climate change, just weeks before leaders all over the world are expected to travel to Dubai to meet for the United Nation’s annual climate change conference, COP28. Hansen was the first to sound the alarm on climate change in 1988 in testimony to Congress.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

As the body tries to cool down, blood vessels widen, redirecting hot blood from the core of your body toward the surface. I think it’s funny that humans have this enormous taboo about a biological function that’s ultimately going to help us survive climate change,” said Sarah Everts, the author of The Joy of Sweat.

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U.S. Green Technology

JUNE 21, 2021

People used to imagine a challenging distant future when they thought about climate change. Rising heating and cooling costs are often the first way people recognize the pace of global warming, but a few renewable. The post Renewable Energy for Combating Rising Heating and Cooling Costs appeared first on U.S.

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Grist

MAY 4, 2021

She collects anecdotes and advice from science communicators who are wrestling with all of the feelings and opinions that climate change, genetically modified foods, and vaccines tend to stir up. MYTH: If people just know the facts, they’ll change how they act. MYTH: Scientists can be and should be totally objective. It’s wrong.

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Grist

APRIL 6, 2021

If you’re under the impression that climate change drove ancient civilizations to their demise, you probably haven’t heard the full story. Of course, the idea that a changing climate can drive collapse isn’t wrong. Even modest changes in the climate have caused problems. It’s just not the whole story.

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Grist

JULY 8, 2021

And a study that came out in April suggests that climate change has already slashed agricultural yields by 21 percent. . The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts that as many as 183 million additional people will be at risk of going hungry by 2050 if carbon dioxide levels keep rising. on Jul 8, 2021.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 13, 2022

New research appears to reveal how climate change is likely to increase the potential for wine production in the UK – with conditions projected to resemble those in famous growing regions of France and Germany. We found that significant areas within England and Wales are projected to become warmer by 2040 by up to a further 1.4°C

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Ceres talked with Waxman about Green Century’s focus on deforestation and its growing importance as a driver of climate change. It comes as deforestation — and associated greenhouse gas emissions and climate impacts — are mounting in many regions of the world. What follows is a lightly edited interview.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

This year’s Climate Week commitments notwithstanding, we haven’t shown the same guts and drive on climate as on COVID. Take climate change — in the grand scheme, a far greater and decidedly more existential emergency than the current pandemic. Climate Change. But what if we did? Further, faster. Leadership.

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Grist

JULY 11, 2022

That’s the kind of dysfunction that is expected to become vastly more common for all sorts of plants as the climate changes and heat waves become more intense and frequent. There is no one way that climate change will affect plants. In others, they may shrivel and die from the stress of overheating.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Now, with climate change, come scorching hot temperatures during the summer months which bring additional challenges to healthcare systems that already operate under great pressure due to the pandemic. Climate Change. Let’s not make the same mistake with global warming. Contributors. Mattias Goldmann. Smart Cities.

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Grist

JULY 8, 2021

And a study that came out in April suggests that climate change has already slashed agricultural yields by 21 percent. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts that as many as 183 million additional people will be at risk of going hungry by 2050 if carbon dioxide levels keep rising. on Jul 8, 2021.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

But climate control represents a particularly bedeviling problem, since more energy use contributes to climate change, which in turn causes greater temperature extremes that necessitate even more energy use to maintain a controlled indoor environment (sometimes known as the “doom loop” of AC ). Southwick agrees.

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Business Green

JANUARY 9, 2023

However, with much of Europe and the US also experiencing record heatwaves in recent years, the report warns that labour productivity is being undermined by worsening climate impacts at a global level.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The proposal was viewed by many as a cynical attempt to draw an electoral battle line on the issue of climate change. Most controversial was the decision to support the future licensing of new oil and gas fields, “helping the country to transition to net zero by 2050 without adding undue burdens on households.”

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The Verge: Energy

JULY 11, 2024

It can pull carbon dioxide out of the air, run partially on servers’ waste heat, and even generate water to help cool a data center more efficiently. Instead, it continuously moves the sorbent between two chambers to avoid the energy loss that comes with reheating, cooling, and changing the pressure in a single chamber.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 9, 2024

This could make industries more self-sufficient while meeting ambitious climate change goals. Cogeneration techniques could also be used in commercial buildings for heating, cooling, and hot water needs while saving energy.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Although other particulate matter such as alumina is thought to cool the atmosphere, research into rocket launch emissions is inconclusive. Planned spaceports in Newquay, Sutherland and Glasgow could significantly contribute to climate change as a result of satellite launches starting this year, new research appears to show.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The main building will be provided with crossflow natural ventilation for fresh air and passive cooling for ventilation, so that the school can remain open and with a pleasant internal temperature during heatwaves.

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Grist

JANUARY 21, 2022

And it also released a cloud of sulfur dioxide, a chemical that, in large enough quantities, reflects the sun’s rays and cools the planet. In an open letter published Monday in the journal WIREs Climate Change, more than 60 researchers from around the globe offered a resounding “no” to both questions. 60 experts say yes.

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Energy Central

AUGUST 19, 2024

Oxford Open Climate Change in an article "Addressing the Urgent Need for Direct Climate Cooling: Rationale and Options", argues "Only direct climate cooling has the potential to avert continued temperature rise in the near term and moderate at least some projected climate change disruption including extreme weather, sea level rise, loss (..)

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2022

Last month’s heatwave saw temperatures soar across Scotland, and such periods are predicted to become more frequent due to climate change. This is important because distilleries require cool water and groundwater is typically colder than surface water during summer. “As

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GreenBiz

MARCH 11, 2021

And why are we not presenting really time-sensitive problems, like climate change, which is the most time-sensitive issue we have ever faced as a species? Paul: That's a great question, and before I dive into it, I just want to say that one amazing part of all this is that nothing is ever really lost at these hackathons.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2021

She’s a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon and co-chair of the Climate Change AI organization. This week, she came back with her Climate Change AI colleague Lynn Kaack, a postdoc researcher at ETH-Zurich.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

With the sector burdened by the effects of climate change, geothermal can offer a reliable, sustainable, and affordable energy source. Discussions frequently returned to the need to cooling solutions and to ascertain technology costs to support geothermal in the development of greenhouses.

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Grist

JUNE 2, 2023

And suddenly we’ve realized that they could be sort of the architects of catastrophic consequences of climate change.” When their dominant strategy is photosynthesis, they can have a net cooling effect by taking more greenhouse gas out of the atmosphere,” Wieczynski said. “If The world has already warmed 1.2

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Grist

JUNE 6, 2024

On Wednesday, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service confirmed that last month was the hottest May in history, making for one year straight of record-shattering global temperatures, averaging 1.63 A man cools off during a heat wave in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on November 18, 2023. Some of that heat — around 0.1

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Planet Pulse

JULY 13, 2021

Meaningful progress on climate change in this decade will require significant changes to almost every sector of the global economy, including energy, transport, industry, agriculture, cities, finance, and land use. The impacts are already here. So if that’s the case, why aren’t we acting?”.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The work may carry implications for coral in warmer waters struggling with climate change and other environmental issues. As water temperatures cool, the coral retracts its tentacles, stops eating or responding to touch, and goes dormant. poculata from a dock in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 29, 2025

Cloud computing relies on sprawling data centers that consume enormous amounts of electricity and water for cooling systems. They must reduce electricity use by implementing advanced cooling systems, such as liquid cooling or leveraging AI to optimize energy consumption. Yearly, it surpasses emissions of more than 22.2

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 2, 2021

She’s also the host of Watt It Takes , the entrepreneurship series about founders tackling climate change. Suddenly, it’s cool to be putting your money into the sector again. The first wave was all about the “coolness” of cleantech — thin-film solar, electric sports cars, printable batteries.

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