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Thursday, December 18, 2025
TopicCarbon dioxide

Topic: carbon dioxide

CO2 removal will transform the carbon market. It’s a renewable revolution

Carbon dioxide removal uses pyrolysis technology, which transforms organic material into biochar, sequestering carbon that would otherwise be released into the atmosphere.

Atmospheric CO2 levels touched 420 ppm in 2023, highest in 8 lakh yrs, says WMO report

The World Meteorological Organization's report said long-term global warming is currently estimated to be between 1.34 and 1.41 degrees Celsius compared to the 1850-1900 baseline.

How do jellyfish regrow their limbs in 3 days? Tokyo scientists have an answer

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

Coastal habitats absorb more greenhouse gases than they emit, finds Nature study

Researchers analysed data from 10 global regions & found ecosystems such as coastal wetlands take up atmospheric CO2, convert it into new leaves, roots and other organic matter.

Cricketers ‘fight’ sleepless nights over wrestlers’ stir & NCP workers on Sharad Pawar’s exit

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

‘Time running out’: UN weather agency warns world is heading in ‘wrong direction’

World Meteorological Organisation's annual report showed that hikes in the atmospheric concentration all 3 greenhouse gases -CO2 , methane and nitrous oxide - are at new record levels.

Astronomers have spotted CO2 on a planet outside solar system for first time

James Webb Space Telescope detected carbon dioxide in WASP-39b’s atmosphere four years after Hubble and Spitzer confirmed large quantities of water vapour in the same planet’s air.

Why the red alert on climate change? 6 charts show

If civilisation stopped its carbon dioxide-emitting activities today, it would still take many hundreds of years for the concentration of carbon dioxide to normalise.

The quickest way to mitigate global warming? Scientists say to reduce methane before CO2

Although less abundant, Methane contains more than 80 times the global warming potential of CO2 over a 20-year period.

Lions engage in contagious yawning, mimic behaviour to harmonise group movements

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

On Camera

What the key political events of 2025 tell us about Narendra Modi and India’s future

From Operation Sindoor to India-US tensions to the EC controversies, a clear understanding has emerged about where the politics is headed now.

Antitrust watchdog Competition Commission to probe IndiGo flight disruptions

While the commission didn’t mention provisions under which IndiGo's market domination would be examined, Competition Act 2002 prohibits abuse of dominant position by any enterprise.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.