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Cooling a hidden threat for climate change and sustainable goals, says Oxford study

Envirotec Magazine

Past research suggests that growing international demand for cooling has the potential to drive one of the most substantial increases in greenhouse gas emissions in recent history. A new study, led by the University of Oxford and published on 19 October in Nature Sustainability , sets out a framework for delivering sustainable cooling.

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Can Asia’s infectious disease-producing wildlife trade be stopped?

Grist

Conservationists have also leapt at the opportunity to advance their battle against the global wildlife trade, which is driven largely by China , where rare and endangered species are trafficked as both medicine and luxury food. Eating exotic species is about people showing on social media that they are cool.”.

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200 million acres of forest cover have been lost since 1960

Grist

Notably, these nations are home to some of the world’s largest rainforests, which not only suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere but also create planet-cooling clouds and control global hydrological cycles. According to a study published earlier this year , tropical forests can cool the planet by an entire degree Celsius (1.8

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Report: It’s time for the U.S. to research solar geoengineering

Grist

It’s possible that the dangers will reach a critical juncture where the world may want to consider another tool with the potential to save millions of lives: solar geoengineering, also described by scientists with the more careful and lengthy phrase “ climate intervention strategies that reflect sunlight to cool the earth.”.

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AstraZeneca to power UK sites with biomethane in decarbonization drive

Renewable Energy World

Future Biogas will build a renewable energy plant that will enable AstraZeneca to replace natural gas with biomethane, for heating and cooling at its sites. We’re proud to be working in partnership with innovative organizations like Future Biogas to enable the sustainable discovery, development and manufacture of medicines and vaccines.

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September forage of the month: elderberry elixir

Low Impact

In this recipe, the added spices, port and brandy give it warming properties, and make it a truly delicious medicine. Lid, label and store out of direct sunlight, somewhere cool and dry, for a month to six weeks before straining and re-bottling. It contains many vitamins and minerals, being especially high in vitamin C.

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Why massive Saharan dust plumes are blowing into the US

Grist

But if you have the opposite situation set up, where you have the warm water above cool water, then it’s what we call a stable situation — there’s no mixing that happens,” says Miller. You have this cool air underneath warm air, and then the atmosphere in that case is very stable.”.

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