chemistry
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The Oilfield That Made the Ocean Burn Last Year Is Now Spewing Methane
A huge oilfield in the Gulf of Mexico, which caused a hellish fire in the ocean last year, has been releasing massive amounts of planet-warming methane. Reuters reported last week on satellite data that shows that the Ku-Maloob-Zaap oilfield leaked 44,064 tons of methane into the atmosphere over the course of 24 days in August.…
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Germany Now Has the World’s First Fleet of Hydrogen Trains
You wait decades for a hydrogen-powered train to come, and then 14 arrive all at once.
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Students Build a Car That Removes Carbon From the Air as It Drives
Every few years, students at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands develop some kind of amazing technology for cars. This year, the students didn’t want to just go green; in the words of Ruby Rhod, they wanted to go super green. They came up with the Zem, an EV that actually captures carbon as…
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Marjorie Taylor Greene Says Climate Change Is ‘Healthy for All of Us’
Stop worrying, everyone! Carbon dioxide is actually good for us, and climate change is making our planet safer. That’s according to noted nutjob and QAnon Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia).