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5 Carbon Dioxide Removal Developments That Defined 2024

REYKJAVIK, ICELAND – MAY 24: In this aerial view, the Mammoth carbon removal plant, considered the … [+] largest direct-air capture plant in the world is seen on May 24, 2024 in Reykjavik, Iceland. The Swiss start-up Climeworks and Icelandic partner Carbfix collaborated on the Mammoth project, utilizing Climeworks’ Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology to […]

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4,000-year-old bones reveal ‘unprecedented’ violence — tongue removal, cannibalism and evisceration in Bronze Age Britain

More than 4,000 years ago, nearly 40 people died extremely violent deaths in what is now England, with a modern analysis of their bones revealing scalping, tongue removal, decapitation, defleshing, evisceration and cannibalism. “It paints a considerably darker picture of the period than many would have expected,” Rick Schultingan archaeologist at the University of Oxford, […]

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Plans to stabilize Earth’s climate rely on emerging carbon removal technology—we need to get moving, say researchers

For Australia to achieve net zero by 2050, 133 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions (CO₂ or equivalent) will need to be removed from the atmosphere. Credit: Climate Change Authority, 2024, CC BY Global carbon emissions from fossil fuels continue to rise and 2024 is likely to be the world’s hottest year on record. It’s […]