Climate change

Climate change

The phenomenon of climate's temperature and rainfall slowly changing year by year.

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carbon

Natural environment; Climate change

Carbon is the fourth most common chemical element in the universe, and carbon compounds - in other words, carbon chemically combined with other elements - are the basis of all known life forms on ...

standby

Natural environment; Climate change

Standby, or 'sleep mode', is a mode in which electronic appliances are turned off but still drawing current and ready to activate on command. Although legislation has limited the energy new ...

carbon capture

Natural environment; Climate change

Carbon capture, carbon sequestration, or CCS (carbon capture and storage) are all terms to describe relatively new technologies designed to let major producers of CO2 emissions, such as fossil ...

The second lowest level of the atmosphere, extending from about 10km to about 50km altitude. The ozone layer, the part of the earth's atmosphere with the greatest concentration of ozone, forms part ...

carbon credit

Natural environment; Climate change

One carbon credit allows a business operating within an emissions trading scheme to emit one tonne of CO2. A firm that manages to reduce its carbon emissions to the extent that it does not require ...

sustainability

Natural environment; Climate change

Sustainability - whether applied to energy, technology, industry, agriculture or just consumption of resources in general - refers to the concept of using things at a rate that, while meeting our own ...

carbon dioxide (CO2)

Natural environment; Climate change

CO2 is made up of the elements carbon and oxygen. It exists quite naturally in our atmosphere, as part of the carbon cycle. Everyday processes in the plant and animal world both add CO2 to the ...