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NewsHurricane Michael insured losses pegged at $8bn
KCC’s flash estimate for Hurricane Michael includes losses to residential, commercial, and industrial properties as well as automobiles. The early estimate chimes with industry figures who privately estimated a $5bn-$10bn loss bill in the hours leading up to the Cat 4 storm making landfall, as reported by re-Insurance on 10 ...
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FeaturesFoot of ‘world’s oldest child’ shows how our ancestors moved
More than three million years ago, a distant cousin called Australopithecus afarensis was walking around on two legs – marking a key chapter in the human story. But a new study of a rare A. afarensis toddler, published in Science Advances, suggests her feet retained some ape-like traits.
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FeaturesNegative emissions technology needed to head off climate change
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is calling on the US government to launch a concerted effort to develop new and improved negative emissions technologies to remove and sequester CO2 directly from the air. The panel concludes that these technologies, which involve chemical processes to capture carbon dioxide from the air, are economically viable and crucial to mitigate the threat of climate change.
‘We can now say that there is a high probability that we can produce a viable way to do direct air capture at something like $100 (£77) per tonne of CO2 or less,’ says Stephen Pacala, an ecology and evolutionary biology professor at Princeton University who chaired the committee that wrote the report. ‘We would then reach the capacities that the world would need to achieve the climate goals that are embedded in the Paris agreement and elsewhere,’ he tells Chemistry World. ‘It would also provide a way to continue to use fossil fuels, but without a climate impact – you could offset those carbon emissions.’
