Anthropocene Magazine reports A new material to capture carbon dioxide comes from a surprising green source: spruce cones. And, as scientists report in the journal ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, it performs just as well as other solid carbon-scrubbing materials. Read more Spruce cones could scrub carbon emissions as effectively as costly chemicals
Spruce cones could scrub carbon emissions as effectively as costly chemicals — Natural History Wanderings
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Humans waging ‘suicidal war’ on nature – UN chief Antonio Guterres — Natural History Wanderings
BBC News reports “Our planet is broken,” the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, has warned. Humanity is waging what he describes as a “suicidal” war on the natural world. “Nature always strikes back, and is doing so with gathering force and fury,” he told a BBC special event on the environment. Mr […]
Humans waging ‘suicidal war’ on nature – UN chief Antonio Guterres — Natural History Wanderings
Humankind has eight years to get atmosphere emergency leveled out – and Trump’s arrangement won’t fix it — KRISHNA KUMAR SINGH

In Donald Trump’s reality – revealed during Thursday night’s last official discussion with his Democratic adversary Joe Biden in Nashville – petroleum derivatives are “extremely spotless”, the US has the best air and water regardless of his organization’s broad administrative rollbacks, and the nation can fix environmental change by planting trees. However, as indicated by […]
Humankind has eight years to get atmosphere emergency leveled out – and Trump’s arrangement won’t fix it — KRISHNA KUMAR SINGH
Trump Administration Guts National Environmental Policy Act — Natural History Wanderings
EarthJustice News Release Final Council on Environmental Quality regulations to trigger legal challenges The Trump administration finalized its proposal to gut more than 40 years of settled environmental law. The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) released the final text of a sweeping rule which will eviscerate core components of the National Environmental Policy […]
Trump Administration Guts National Environmental Policy Act — Natural History Wanderings
BBC News reports on the continuing presence of the huge cloud of Saharan dust that has darkened the skies over parts of the Caribbean. The article mentions Puerto Rico, Cuba, Barbados, Guadeloupe, Martinique and parts of Venezuela, Mexico and Florida. See article and related photos at BBC News. The dust has been moving from Africa over […]
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Massive Saharan Dust Plume Heads Toward U.S. After Darkening Skies Over Caribbean JUN 25, 2020 In the Caribbean, a massive dust plume from the Sahara Desert has darkened skies and forced residents with respiratory illness to shelter indoors. Models show haze will soon settle over much of the United States, bringing hazardous air quality to […]
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In many areas, Australia’s temperate zones and coastal ecosystems have been extensively altered, many wetlands have been degraded. Climate change, and introduced plants and animals (invasives), are the agents of the radical changes that are tearing through Australia’s environment. The result? Dramatic declines in the distribution and abundance of many species, with natural resources such […]
NPR reports The COVID-19 pandemic is delivering the biggest shock to the global energy system in seven decades, according to a new report by the International Energy Agency. Global energy demand is expected to fall by 6% this year, seven times the decline brought by the financial crisis 10 years ago. IEA projections show oil and […]
Today is Earth Day The Associated Press reports An unplanned grand experiment is changing Earth. As people across the globe stay home to stop the spread of the new coronavirus, the air has cleaned up, albeit temporarily. Smog stopped choking New Delhi, one of the most polluted cities in the world, and India’s getting views of […]
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