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Climate Now: Mar 26, 2024
How climate changes where people live
In the U.S. alone, 162 million people will experience a worse quality of life due to the changing climate within the next 30 years. Rising sea levels stand to displace 13 million Americans in the long run while wildfires and other risks are likely to disp
Roads to Removal Ep 5
Biomass Carbon Removal and Storage (BiCRS)
Biomass Carbon Removal and Storage, or BiCRS, is a technique used to capture and store carbon dioxide by utilizing plants to absorb carbon from the atmosphere. Carbon is stored by transforming biomass into durable products or by capturing and storing the CO2 t
Roads to Removal Ep 3
Cropland Soils
Increasing organic carbon stocks in cropland soils is a key strategy for soil-based carbon dioxide removal in the U.S. Croplands are already managed and cover a large area of land. Further, practices to enhance organic carbon are low-tech, immediately deployab
Roads to Removal Ep 1
Overview
There is an urgent need to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere to ensure climate security and resilience. In 2022, the United States set a goal of developing carbon dioxide removal (CDR) pathways that will remove CO2 from the atmosphere and store i
Fresno, CA
What is the Future of Agriculture in California?
California State University, Fresno
March, 2023
Climate Now: Aug 7, 2023
Revolutionizing ammonia production
The Nobel-prize winning discovery of how to create synthetic ammonia has been called the “most momentous technical advance in history,” and for good reason. Today about half of the food consumed worldwide comes from the increased harvest yields resulting f
Climate Now: Apr 12, 2023
What is the future of agriculture in California?
On March 30, 2023, in partnership with the Livermore Lab Foundation and The Maddy Institute, Climate Now hosted a one day summit in Fresno, CA, examining the intersection of climate change and agriculture. Agriculture is both a leading driver of greenhouse gas
Climate Now: Jan 16, 2023
Farm to stable CO2 storage
The agricultural sector produces about a tenth of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, and while most of that comes from livestock (about 2/3), emissions from crop production still total about 2.2 billion metric tons of CO2-equivalent. Interestingly, we onl