2026 Global Carbon Budget: fossil CO₂ down 0.4% to 38.2 Gt; oil -1.9%; total CO₂ 43.3 Gt; 150 Gt left—under four years at today’s rate; El Niño may sway sinks.
Tag: Climate Change
Study shows viscosity controls marine snow decay: stickier particles deliver over 6× more carbon to depth; >10 Gt leave the surface, ~2 Gt get sequestered.
Hurricane Melissa left 4.8M tons of debris and 120,000 roofs gone; Jamaica faces a $12.2B hit (56.7% of GDP) with insurance covering about 2%.
UMass-led work finds weaker shale erodes 3x faster than hard rock, shifting sediment sources and implying higher mountain CO2. Tested with 10Be in quartz in a 4
During 2020–22, the Upper Colorado Basin lost 4.2 cubic miles of groundwater—almost twice the Lower’s 2.3. Since 2004, the basin is down 14 cubic miles.
A KIER team reports catalysts for ammonia-fueled ship exhaust that hit ~99% removal, run at 350°C, and cost at least 80% less than noble-metal options.
El Niño has Manaus choking—PM2.5 above 135 closed schools—while satellites track a long Amazon fire season and a 40% undercount near Santarém.
A new model of Thwaites Glacier that treats a wide grounding zone doubles projected sea-level rise to 30 mm by 2100 and raises coastal flood risk.
SFU-led study projects Canadian wildfire costs at $43B per year by 2100 and over $2.1T this century, while excluding major health, evacuation and infrastructure
Study finds fire-driven ozone has cut Amazon carbon uptake by about 24% of fire emissions, with damage focused in the Arc of Deforestation and largely preventab