Earth Stories for 2022

Britain's Renewable Power Hits New Peak, Fossil Fuel Also Rises 112
The Rise and Bigger Rise of Mediterranean Sea Levels 17
A Startup Is Releasing Particles Into the Atmosphere To Tweak the Climate 147
Amazon Packages Burn in India, Final Stop in Broken Recycling System 56
Google's Quest for Clean Energy Impeded by Small-but-Dominant Utilities in Some US States 53
Linux Foundation's 'AgStack Project' Plans First Dataset of the World's Agricultural Field Boundaries 19
EU Agrees To the World's Largest Carbon Border Tax 97
Scientists Freeze Great Barrier Reef Coral in World-First Trial 16
Nations Promise To Protect 30% of Planet To Stem Extinction 31
Op-Ed Argues 'Put Down the Burger' to Protect Earth's Biodiversity 234
Researchers Propose New Structures To Harvest Untapped Source of Freshwater 85
World's Largest Freestanding Cylindrical Aquarium Bursts In Berlin 64
Amazon's Plastic Waste Soared in 2021, Report Finds 25
A Stealth Effort To Bury Wood For Carbon Removal Has Just Raised Millions 144
Oregon Conifers Suffer Record Die-Off As Climate Crisis Hits Hard 116
NASA To Conduct First Global Water Survey From Space 6
How Skyglow Pollution Is Separating Us From the Stars 46
'The 10 Most Promising Breakthrough Innovations of 2022' 60
US Lawmakers Accuses Big Oil of a Long-Running Climate Disinformation Campaign 104
To Pursue Climate Goals, JetBlue Switches from Carbon Offsets to Sustainable Aviation Fuels 41
Saudi Arabia's Sci-Fi Megacity Is Well Underway 99
Colgate's 9 Billion Toothpaste Tubes Defy Effort To Recycle Them 76
Reverse Nature's Decline or There is No Future, UN Says 120
A New Global Plastics Treaty Is Coming For Your Bags and Bottles 166
Supercomputer Re-Creates One of the Most Famous Pictures of Earth 18
Microsoft-Backed Start-Up Heirloom Uses Limestone To Capture CO2 114
As the Arctic Warms, Beavers Are Moving In 65
California City Discovers It Doesn't Actually Know Where 60% of Its Recycling Goes 92
2022's 'Earthshot Prizes' Recognize Five Innovative Responses to Climate Change 32
EU Unveils Plans To Cut Europe's Plastic and Packaging Waste 29
Mauna Loa Volcano In Hawaii Erupts For the First Time In Nearly 40 Years 22
Storms Can Cause Landslides Days Later, Scientists Find 12
The Red Sea's Coral Reefs Defy the Climate-Change Odds 18
US Government Begins Researching 'Climate Intervention' Geoengineering 78
Debate at COP27: Nuclear Energy, Climate Friend or Foe? 273
Microsoft, Meta and Others Face Rising Drought Risk to Their Data Centers 69
Bill Gates Pledges 5% of His Wealth to Africa's Health and Agriculture 73
Earth Now Weighs Six Ronnagrams: New Metric Prefixes Voted In 81
Scientists Are Uncovering Ominous Waters Under Antarctic Ice 37
World Population Reaches 8 Billion 119
A New Website Backed By Al Gore Tracks Big Polluters By Name 150
India Wants 'Phase Down' on All Fossil Fuels at COP27 46
Scientists Manufacture Material in a Lab That Doesn't Exist on Earth 62
US Funds $3M Research Project Into Lithium-Free Rechargeable Battery Technology 87
The Climate Issue Government Leaders Aren't Addressing: Livestock Farming 445
US Will Regulate Methane Leaks from Oil and Gas to Fight Climate Change 127
UN Initiative Will Use Satellites To Detect Methane Emission Hotspots 24
Carbon Dioxide Emissions Increased in 2022 as Crises Roiled Energy Markets 64
Sea Turtle Sanctuary Has Survived 40 Years. Climate Change May Kill It. 14
In France, All Large Parking Lots Now Have To Be Covered By Solar Panels 288
Mexico To Raise Climate Emissions Target For First Time Since 2016 23
Sony To Begin Plastic Packaging Phase-out Next Year 35
Rate of Sea Level Rise 'Has Doubled Since 1993,' Report Finds 116
Michael Bloomberg Announces a New Initiative To Phase Out Coal in 25 Countries 40
Fast Fashion Waste Is Choking Developing Countries With Mountains of Trash 79
Astronomers Find a Black Hole in Our Cosmic Back Yard 21
We're On a Highway To Climate Hell, UN Boss Says 275
The Equipment Designed to Cut Methane Emissions is Failing 46
Europe Warming Twice As Fast As Rest of the World, New Report Reveals 161
Delhi's Air a 'Crime Against Humanity' 67
Toxic Cleanup Technique Can Get More Rare Earth Metals Out of Ores 5
Microsoft President Wants More Training for Workers To Fight Climate Change 34
Can Technology Help Us Talk to Animals? 50
The World Is Running Out of Helium. Why Doctors are Worried 130
Space Station Astronauts Spot the World's Largest Methane Polluters 41
As Governments Miss Climate Goals, Drought is Already Devastating Parts of Africa 165
US Embassies May Have Accidentally Improved Air Quality 26
Mexico Scraps Daylight Savings Time Except Along Border 37
Europe Now Has So Much Natural Gas That Prices Just Dipped Below Zero 183
UN Warns Key Warming Threshold Slipping From Sight 142
Swarming Bees May Potentially Change the Weather 36
Atmospheric Levels of All Three Greenhouse Gases Hit Record High 143
Singapore Lowers 2030 Emissions Forecast, To Boost Hydrogen 50
Plastic Recycling a 'Failed Concept,' Study Says 207
Bill Gates' Climate-Oriented Venture Fund Will Now Also Invest in Climate Adaptation 40
France Becomes Latest Country To Leave Controversial Energy Charter Treaty 50
Crustacean Decimation Due To Climate-Change-Driven Cannibalization 161
20 Nations At High Risk From Global Warming Might Halt Debt Payments 155
Alaska Cancels Snow Crab Season As Estimated 1 Billion Crabs Disappear 62
Animal Populations Shrunk an Average of 69% Over the Last Half-Century, Report Says 29
White House is Pushing Ahead Research To Cool Earth By Reflecting Back Sunlight 104
Greenland Ice Sheet May Be More Vulnerable To Climate Change, Study Finds 22
New Zealand Angers Its Farmers By Proposing Taxing Cow Burps 179
Farmers in Bangladesh Pump So Much Water It May Help Reduce Floods 25
Nations Agree To Curb Emissions From Flying by 2050 58
California Passes Law Banning Single-Use Plastic Grocery Bags by 2025 201
United Airlines Hopes to Use Electric Planes for Flights Under 200 Miles By 2030 108
Are Single-Use Plastics Also Contributing to Climate Change? 143
Why Hurricane Ian Killed So Many People 174
Climate Change Made This Summer's Drought 20 Times More Likely, Study Finds 174
Toxic Air Pollution Particles Found in Lungs, Livers and Brains of Unborn Babies 70
Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs Also Triggered Global Tsunami 26
Nord Stream Rupture May Mark Biggest Single Methane Release Ever Recorded, UN Says 604
Climate Change Is Turning Trees Into Gluttons 107
Chernobyl Black Frogs Reveal Evolution In Action 63
Oceans' Worth of Water Hidden Deep in Earth, Ultra Rare Diamond Suggests 30
Hunga Tonga Eruption Put Over 50 Billion Kilograms of Water Into Stratosphere 47
Vultures Prevent Tens of Millions of Metric Tons of Carbon Emissions Each Year 50
The World's Largest Carbon Removal Project Yet Is Headed For Wyoming 76
Wildfire Smoke is Unraveling Decades of Air Quality Gains, Exposing Millions of Americans To Extreme Pollution Levels 58
UN Chief Calls For Windfall Tax On Fossil Fuel Companies 212
Earth Has 20 Quadrillion Ants, Study Says 82
Refreezing Earth's Poles: Feasible and Cheap, New Study Finds 177
Oil Industry Executives Privately Contradicted Their Public Statements on Climate, Files Show 146
To Search for a Near-Extinct Snail, Tread Lightly 5
US Launches Program To Boost Floating Wind Turbines 66
Increase in LED Lighting 'Risks Harming Human and Animal Health' 201
SpaceX's Starlink Arrives In Antarctica, Now Available On All 7 Continents 63
World Heading Into 'Uncharted Territory of Destruction,' Says Climate Report 294
Atlantic Hurricane Season Is Running 50 Percent Below Normal Levels 166
Gates-Funded 'Green Revolution' in Africa Has Failed, Critics Say 132
How A Tiny Toad Could Upend a US Geothermal Project 101
More Bad News for Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier': It's Disintegrating Faster Than We Predicted 145
Europe's Energy Crisis Brings Calls for 5-Minute Showers. Not All Are Keen on That. 307
A Newly Discovered Planet 40% Larger Than Earth May Be Suitable For Life 87
Stunning Shelf Cloud Captured In Dorset 38
Scientists Hope 'World's Loneliest Tree' Will Help Answer Climate Questions 23
The Hunt for Big Hail 82
US Environmental Lead Says Advanced Nuclear Technology Critical to Decarbonize US and Japan 265
Scientists Make Major Breakthrough in the Race to Save Coral in the Caribbean 18
Fishing at Sea Created at Least 75% of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch 71
A Solar Firm's Plan to Build Off-Grid Neighborhoods in California 158
Death Valley Sets Record For Hottest September Day On the Planet 111
Tree-Planting Schemes Are Just Creating Tree Cemeteries 141
Scientists Call on Colleagues To Protest Climate Crisis With Civil Disobedience 146
Pakistan Floods Have Killed At Least 1,100 and Submerged About a Third of the Country 94
Climate Crisis Forces China To Ration Electricity 152
'World's Loneliest Man' Dies 86
'Zombie Ice' From Greenland Will Raise Sea Level 10 Inches 113
Elon Musk Says World Needs More Oil and Gas As Bridge To Renewables 245
Google Changed Emission Calculations in Google Flights, Making Air Travel Look Cleaner 31
China Deploys Rain-Seeding Drones To End Drought in Sichuan 24
Ethanol Helps Plants Survive Drought 26
Korea Shatters Its Own Record for World's Lowest Fertility Rate 248
After Signing US Climate Bill, Biden Plans More Executive Actions to Cut Emissions 90
Hidden 'Hunger Stones' Reveal Drought Warnings From the Past 120
Impact Crater May Be Dinosaur Killer's Baby Cousin 21
Earth Had Its 6th-Hottest July and Year To Date On Record 180
The US Could See a New 'Extreme Heat Belt' By 2053 122
Canada Plans Massive Wind-Powered Plant Producing Hydrogen for Germany 123
Drought Is Declared in Parts of a Hot, Dry Britain 110
The Search For an AC That Doesn't Destroy the Planet 161
Arctic Warming Is Happening Faster Than Described, Analysis Shows 58
Rainwater Everywhere on Earth Unsafe To Drink Due To 'Forever Chemicals,' Study Finds 159
Climate Change Can Make Most Human Diseases Worse 85
US Senate Finally Passes Its Massive Climate Bill 401
Why Bill Gates Supports America's Climate Legislation 128
US Funds Consortium to Explore Cheaper, More Efficienct CdTe Solar Cells 39
Great Barrier Reef Has Most Coral In Decades 124
Hidden Menace: Massive Methane Leaks Speed Up Climate Change 68
Spain Puts Limits on Air Conditioning and Heating To Save Energy 165
India To Order Use of Cleaner Fuels Under Push for Net-Zero 26
The Dirty Carbon Secret Behind Solid State Memory Drives 146
Midnight Comes a Fraction Sooner as Earth Spins Faster 43
Amazon Says Its Planet-Warming Carbon Emissions Grew 18% in 2021 19
Blast From Tonga Volcano In January Could Eat Away At Ozone Layer, Warm Earth 85
Climate Change Worsened Britain's Heat Wave, Scientists Find 155
Scientists Find 30 Potential New Species at Bottom of Ocean 9
Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier' Melting At Fastest Rate In 5,500 Years 162
'Ocean Cleanup' Removes First 100,000 kg of Plastic From the Great Pacific Garbage Patch 106
Ancient Lava Caves in Hawai'i Are Teeming With Mysterious Life Forms 35
Solar-Powered Tower Produces Carbon-Neutral Jet Fuel from Just CO2, Water, and Sunlight 53
Reaching Closer To Earth's Core, One Lava Scoop at a Time 6
Corporate Carbon Offset Company Accidentally Starts Devastating Wildfire 57
Hot Weather Hobbles Britain, a Nation Unaccustomed To Extreme Heat 281
The Most Bizarre Effects of a Megadrought 276
As US Crypto Mining Surges, Lawmakers Demand Disclosure of Emissions and Energy Data 123
California's Trees Are Dying, and Might Not Be Coming Back 77
A Coming Copper Shortage Could Derail the Energy Transition, Report Finds 290
India To Become World's Most Populous Country In 2023, UN Says 62
MIT Scientists Propose 'Space Bubbles' to Deflect Solar Radiation, Ease Climate Change 86
UK's National Grid Plans £54B Wind-Power Network Upgrade 79
Plant-Based Meat: By Far the Best Climate Investment, Report Finds 304
Dead Solar Panels Are About To Become a Lot More Valuable 48
Energy Charter Treaty Makes Climate Action Nearly Illegal In 52 Countries 97
Waste From Thousands of Old Industrial Sites May Be Released by Floods 28
Airbus' Solar-Powered Zephyr S Has Been Flying Non-Stop For More Than 17 Days 18
Methane Much More Sensitive To Global Heating Than Previously Thought, Study Says 81
Snow At One of World's Highest Observatories Melting Earlier Than Ever Before 47
The West's Drought Could Bring About a Data Center Reckoning 141
Government Policies Will Not Get UK To Net Zero, Warns Damning Report 96
Construction Begins On 'Mammoth' Direct Air Capture Plant 115
MIT Proposes Brazil-Sized Fleet of 'Space Bubbles' To Cool the Earth 139
Extreme Temperatures In Major Latin American Cities Could Be Linked To Nearly 1 Million Deaths 55
A Pro-China Online Influence Campaign is Targeting the Rare-Earths Industry 52
New Study Solves Long-Standing Mystery of What May Have Triggered Ice Age 101
Scientists Unveil Bionic Robo-fish To Remove Microplastics From Seas 21
Extreme Weather Hits China With Massive Floods and Scorching Heat 73
Colombia's New President Gustavo Petro Pledges To Keep Fossil Fuels in the Ground 88
Saltier Oceans Could Have Prevented Earth From Freezing 42
Nepal To Move Everest Base Camp From Melting Glacier 17
Over 100 Million Americans Urged To Stay Indoors Over Extreme Heat and Humidity 86
As the Great Salt Lake Dries Up, Utah Faces 'An Environmental Nuclear Bomb' 304
Giant Deep Ocean Turbine Trial Offers Hope of Endless Green Power 124
Thousands of Previously Undescribed Viruses Found By Huge Ocean Survey 35
Microplastics Found In Freshly Fallen Antarctic Snow For First Time 30
Heat Waves Could Soon Have Names 97
The War in Ukraine Has Refocused Attention on Geopolitical Energy Risks 121
Fusion Energy: the 35-Country Clean-Energy Effort to "Bottle the Sun' 218
Will Russia Be Devastated by Climate Change? 141
China To Double Wind, Solar Energy Capacity by 2025 40
Germany Slashes Summer Train Fares More Than 90 Percent To Curb Driving, Save Fuel 85
After Millennia of Agricultural Expansion, the World Has Passed 'Peak Agricultural Land' 88
Plastic Recycling Doesn't Work 242
Hit Hard by High Energy Costs, Hawaii Looks To the Sun 115
Greece Passes First Climate Law, Vows To Cut Dependence on Fossil Fuels 60
Why Are There No Bridges Over the Amazon River? 31
G-7 Pledges Put Coal on Notice, Could Boost Climate Aid 118
Finland Legally Commits To Carbon Negativity By 2040 64
Pakistan Hits 120F as Climate Trends Drive Spring Heatwave 150
Can We Generate Renewable Energy by Burning Trash? 86
Is the World's Oldest Tree Growing In a Ravine In Chile? 18
Ancient Forest Found at Bottom of Huge Sinkhole in China 30
EU Drive For New Clean Energy Could See Solar Panels on All New Buildings 39
Two Military Satellites Just Communicated With Each Other Using Space Lasers 51
Today's Giant Farm Vehicles Threaten 20% of the World's Cropland 140
Rocket Engine Exhaust Pollution Extends High Into Earth's Atmosphere 62
New Study Lays Out Hidden Backstory Behind Deadly Pacific Northwest Heatwave 55
New US Lab To Create Versions of Atoms Never Recorded on Earth 58
Why This California Commission Unanimously Rejected a New Water Desalination Plant 146
Facing High Demand, Texas Asks 26 Million to Use Less Electricity This Weekend 240
Report: 'Carbon Bombs' Are Poised To Screw Us Over Big Time 269
Cleaner Air Leads To More Atlantic Hurricanes, Study Finds 85
Gravity Signals Could Detect Earthquakes At the Speed of Light 21
Scientists Discover Unexplained Abundance of Rare Nuclear Fusion Fuel on Earth 87
Scientists Give Earth a 50-50 Chance of Hitting Key Warming Mark By 2026 202
The Ocean Is Starting To Lose Its Memory, Scientists Warn 70
Is Plastic Recycling a Myth? 290
World's True COVID-19 Death Toll Nearly 15 Million, Says WHO 213
Scientists Discover Giant Groundwater System Below Antarctic Ice 26
Climate Sceptic Thinktank Received Funding From Fossil Fuel Interests 90
Climate Scientists Say South Asia's Heat Wave (120F) is a Sign of What's To Come 162
Stanford Gets $1.1 Billion for New Climate School From John Doerr 33
Flood and Cyclone-Prone Areas in Eastern Australia May Be 'Uninsurable' by 2030, Report Suggests 50
Documentary Explores How Big Oil Stalled Climate Action for Decades 174
Plastic-Eating Enzyme Could Eliminate Billions of Tons of Landfill Waste 89
Without Action On Climate, Another Mass Extinction Event Will Likely Happen In the World's Oceans 218
Record-Breaking Heat Wave In India Threatens Residents, Crucial Wheat Harvest 90
EU Unveils Plan For 'Largest Ever Ban' on Dangerous Chemicals 57
Major US Oil Company Now Plans World's Largest Carbon Capture Project 76
Microfossils May Be Evidence Life Began 'Very Quickly' After Earth Formed 57
Apple is Cleaning Up Its Most Challenging Carbon Emissions 12
Melting Ice Caps May Not Shut Down Ocean Current 43
Global Climate Plans Can Now Keep Heating Below 2C, Study Shows 60
'Black Carbon' Threat To Arctic as Sea Routes Open Up With Global Heating 44
Pinterest Announces Ban on All Climate Misinformation 172
In California, an Army of Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes Awaits Release 55
Tiny Lab-Made Motors Could Suck Pollutants From Air and Harvest Precious Metals 16
US Wind Energy Just Hit a Major Milestone 74
Canada Creates Carbon-Capture Incentives, Critical Mineral Plan To Cut Emissions 31

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