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Concrete made from captured CO2 could cut need for costly underground storage

Carbon dioxide sequestered from the atmosphere via direct air capture (DAC) has been permanently stored in concrete for the first time.

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Bees have changed shape due to climate change stresses, study shows

The Natural History Museum in London has found evidence that climate change is causing bees to physically change shape in response to increased environmental stresses.
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Net-zero aviation still contributes to global warming, according to research

Efforts to make flying greener mostly count carbon dioxide emissions only, an approach that might ignore 90 per cent of future flights’ contribution to climate change accounting to new findings.

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Covid-19 lockdown failed to reduce air pollution in Scotland, study finds

The level of toxic fine particles in Scotland’s air failed to go down during the Covid-19 lockdown, despite a significant drop in the number of vehicles on the roads, according to researchers at the University of Stirling.
Expansion of irrigation to cater for future population ‘greatly underestimated’
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Expansion of irrigation to cater for future population ‘greatly underestimated’

New research suggests that the amount of farmland that will need to be irrigated in order to feed the global population by 2050 could be up to several billion acres, far higher than scientists currently project.
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