Climate change

Climate change

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

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Carbon trading

Natural environment; Climate change

Carbon trading is a mechanism that involves trading in carbon permits as a part of a initiative to reduce carbon emissions. Trading involves buying or selling of carbon permits in the open market. ...

Asteroid dust cloud

Natural environment; Climate change

Large amounts of interplanetary dust particles floating freely in space. Also called cosmic dust, the particles are created by collisions among asteroids or released by comets as they pass by the ...

Mineral carbonation

Natural environment; Climate change

Also known as mineral sequestration, mineral carbonation aims at trapping carbon in the form of carbonate salts. The basic idea of mineral carbonation is to transform minerals (mostly calcium or ...

Mineral sequestration

Natural environment; Climate change

Also known as mineral carbonation, mineral sequestration aims at trapping carbon in the form of carbonate salts. The basic idea of mineral carbonation is to transform minerals (mostly calcium or ...

Afforestation

Natural environment; Climate change

Afforestation is the process of growing trees in non-forest areas for a number of benefits such as arresting soil erosion, reducing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere by absorbing it in the process ...

Weather

Natural environment; Climate change

Atmospheric condition at any given time or place. It is measured in terms of such things as wind, temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, cloudiness, and precipitation. In most places, weather ...

Greenhouse effect

Natural environment; Climate change

Trapping and build-up of heat in the atmosphere (troposphere) near the Earths surface. Some of the heat flowing back toward space from the Earth's surface is absorbed by water vapor, carbon dioxide, ...