The Ocean Cleanup works on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch 24/11/2022

The Ocean Cleanup, an environmental care organization has embarked on cleaning the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It is the biggest single waste collection in the oceans, making it look like a garbage island. The sheer size of this garbage collection makes efforts to clean it up quite draining. ...more

Esa mulls Solaris plan to beam solar energy from space 24/11/2022

Space chiefs are to investigate whether electricity could be beamed wirelessly from orbit into millions of homes. ...more

What can we do about how much power the world uses? 24/11/2022

Throughout the day we turn lights on and off, use appliances around the house and nudge up the heat on a cold day, all without much thought. Maybe there’s a voice reminding you to turn the light off when you leave the room or chastising you when you hit the AC button, but for the most part, energy production, use and its impact on the environment is a little discussed topic. So let’s talk about it. ...more

AI reveals how climate change will impact our cities 24/11/2022

Green energy experts at USwitch have used artificial intelligence (AI) to visualize what the world could look like in 2100. The team used Midjourney, an AI software that creates images from text descriptions, to visually depict the best- and worst-case scenarios for how 20 famous places across the globe could look in the next 80 years. These places included Amsterdam, London, New York, Tokyo, Toronto and more. ...more

Big Oil joins farmers, biofuel groups to tout more ethanol in U.S. fuel 23/11/2022

A group of oil, renewable fuel and farm trade organizations have joined together for the first time to voice support for U.S. legislation that would expand nationwide of E15, a higher ethanol-gasoline blend, according to a letter from the group. ...more

Analysis: First U.S. coral insurance marks the rise of the reef brigades 23/11/2022

Conservation group The Nature Conservancy's vision for the future of coral protection involves speed boats, and a global army of snorkellers and divers deployed when tropical storms and hurricanes damage reefs. ...more

France's summer heatwaves likely to have caused 2,816 additional deaths 23/11/2022

Three successive heatwaves and COVID-19 are likely to have caused more than 10,000 additional deaths in France during this summer, the health ministry said. ...more

Morgan Stanley IM launches $1 bln climate-focused private equity strategy 23/11/2022

Morgan Stanley Investment Management said on Monday it had launched a new $1 billion private equity strategy to invest in companies which will remove 1 gigaton of carbon dioxide emissions from the atmosphere by 2050 or prevent that amount entering the atmosphere. ...more

US approves largest dam removal in history to save endangered salmon 23/11/2022

A US agency seeking to restore habitat for endangered fish gave final approval on Thursday to decommission four dams straddling the California-Oregon border, the largest dam removal undertaking in US history. ...more

Key takeaways from the COP27 climate summit in Egypt 22/11/2022

This year's U.N. climate summit featured visits by world leaders, proposals by business leaders, and negotiations by nearly 200 nations about the future of global action on climate change. ...more