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Experts call for greenhouse gas reductions as heat records fall

January 18, 2025January 18, 2025 - by cmedia

Last week, several prominent scientific organizations confirmed what had been predicted for months: 2024 was the hottest year on record, UNEP says. This sparked renewed calls for countries to rein in emissions of greenhouse gases, …

Environment

Pipeline blast more than two years ago, planet’s largest human-caused methane release

January 15, 2025January 15, 2025 - by cmedia

Methane release. Credit: Unsplash/Katie Rodriguez The rupture of Europe’s Nord Stream gas pipelines more than two years ago resulted in the planet’s largest human-caused release of methane, a powerful greenhouse …

Environment

Tackling methane emissions now limits global warming, new report finds

March 23, 2024March 23, 2024 - by cmedia

#Methane, #GlobalWarming, #ParisAgreement, #MethaneEmissions IBNS-CMEDIA: Tackling emissions of methane now, is essential to meet the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels by 2050, according to a new …

Astronomy

Lower Methane Emissions in Los Angeles Region have been found by two NASA studies

May 15, 2023May 15, 2023 - by cmedia

California/CMEDIA : Two recent studies by researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California used contrasting approaches to measure drops in human-caused emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane …

Climate change / Environment

Progress on methane emissions by energy companies, but numbers still don’t add up: UNEP

November 2, 2022November 2, 2022 - by cmedia

Over 80 oil and gas companies across the world have committed to measuring and reducing their methane emissions, the second biggest driver of global warming, according to a new report …