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Drying Lakebeds Are Releasing Massive Amounts of #Carbon, Study Finds The #AralSea Has Been Drying Up For 60 Years. New Research Shows It's Also Releasing Massive Amounts of Carbon The study estimates that between 1960 and 2022, the evaporating sea has released 204 megatons of #carbondioxide into the atmosphere, based on site surveys and core samples collected from across the dry lakebed. https://www.sciencealert.com/the-worlds-largest-dried-lakebed-is-leaking-vast-amounts-of-carbon-but-scientists-say-theres-a-solution #climate #climatechange

Fixes 31 gigatonnes of #CarbonDioxide a year. Reduces #cost of #farming. Improves #yield. (Not in the article: needs less #water). But as usual, you have to ask: WHO is it that stands to gain from doing this, WHO stands to lose? Big Ag, Big Seed, Big Fertiliser, and the industries around that have a lot to lose. And they are still very powerful. How to get them to the table as partners not adversaries? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/04/improving-farming-soil-carbon-store-global-heating-target

The Guardian | Google to tap into gas plant for AI datacenter in sharp turn from climate goals by Dara Kerr Texas power plant would emit 4.5m tons of carbon dioxide per year, more than that of the entire city of San Francisco Google has struck a partnership for a natural gas power plant that could provide energy for one of its datacenters in Texas, unearthed by new research and confirmed by the company. The move is part of an ongoing about-face for the tech giant, which once pledged to be carbon neutral by 2030 and has long been seen as a pioneer in clean energy. The gas power plant is slated to be built in Armstrong county, a sparsely populated area in the Texas panhandle. According to a report by the research organization Cleanview, the project is being led by Crusoe Energy, which partnered with Google to develop the datacenter campus known as “Goodnight”, named after a nearby town. Continue reading... Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/02/google-ai-datacenter #ai(artificialintelligence) #climatecrisis #google #datacenter #carbondioxide