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What are ‘planetary boundaries’ and why should we care?

Envirotec Magazine

Earth’s energy balance (commonly known as the climate) and its interactions with trillions of species is the main determinant of environmental conditions. Ocean-acidification is still, just, in the green, and so is aerosol pollution and dust. For the first 800 million years, Earth was dead. Then life began making itself at home.

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No, The Oceans Are Not Acidic

R-Squared Energy

This is what is known as a weak acid, and its formation from rising CO 2 emissions is what is commonly called “ocean acidification.”. I still recall the first time I heard the term ocean acidification. I wonder how acidic the oceans have become.” I thought “Oh my gosh! in the direction of 7.0, Source: NOAA.

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Greentown Labs Member Milestones — November 2022

Greentown Labs

Dandelion Energy raised a $70M Series B-1 round to install geothermal heating and cooling solutions. Ebb Carbon closed a $10.75M round to remove atmospheric CO2 and reduce ocean acidification using electrochemistry. Department of Energy to extract nickel and magnesium from mining waste. seed round. from the U.S.

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Vast Majority of Global CO2 Emissions Tied to Just 57 Entities

DeSmogBlog

“It goes against clear, science-based statements from, for example, the International Energy Agency, saying there should be no new expansion of fossil fuels if we’re on a net-zero trajectory,” said Daan Van Acker, an InfluenceMap program manager who worked on the update and led the work on InfluenceMap’s report. million barrels of oil.

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Ocean-based sequestration heats ups

GreenBiz

Shopify also made a bet on Planetary Hydrogen , a startup that aims to produce "green hydrogen" while simultaneously capturing carbon and healing the ocean. The Planetary Hydrogen team adds a mineral salt to the process, leading to the creation of a waste product — a mineral hydroxide — that binds with atmospheric carbon dioxide.

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The new vocabulary of climate change was written in Icelandic

Grist

Countries signed the Paris climate agreement, renewable energy capacity quadrupled , and the Swedish activist Greta Thunberg rose to international fame. We see headlines and think we understand the words in them: ‘glacial melt,’ ‘record heat,’ ‘ocean acidification,’ ‘increasing emissions,’” he writes. “If

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Ocean-based sequestration heats up

GreenBiz

Shopify also made a bet on Planetary Hydrogen , a startup that aims to produce "green hydrogen" while simultaneously capturing carbon and healing the ocean. The Planetary Hydrogen team adds a mineral salt to the process, leading to the creation of a waste product — a mineral hydroxide — that binds with atmospheric carbon dioxide.