Space solar farms might beam electricity to earth & more environmental news.

[View this email in your browser]( Thursday, November 3, 2022 "Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." – Lao Tzu Nations Aren’t Doing Enough to Prepare for Climate Impacts, UN Report Finds As [extreme weather]( events this year from [flooding]( in Pakistan to historic global [heat waves]( make clear, the [climate crisis]( is already with us. Yet nations are not doing enough to adapt to this new normal, especially when it comes to funding adaptation projects in the most vulnerable countries. That’s the conclusion of the UN Environment Programme’s Adaptation Gap Report 2022, released Thursday ahead of the [COP27]( climate conference in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, from November 6 to 18. [Read More]( Related: [Lula Defeats Bolsonaro in Brazil, a Crucial Win for the Amazon Rainforest]( ‘You Cannot Have Climate Justice Without Human Rights’: Advocates Condemn Arrests Ahead of COP27 Nearly 70 people have been arrested in Egypt ahead of the [COP27]( UN climate conference, and Indian climate activist Ajit Rajagopal was briefly detained on his planned foot journey to the summit. COP27 is being held in the Red Sea resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh from November 6 to 18. However, several human rights and environmental groups have expressed concerns about Egypt’s record on human rights and how that conflicts with civil society’s ability to participate in the summit at a crucial moment for the global fight against the [climate crisis](. [Read More]( Related: [Greta Thunberg Calls COP Process ‘Greenwashing’ and ‘a Scam’]( How Solar Farms in Space Might Beam Electricity to Earth With the [energy]( crisis in Europe and the worst impacts of global warming looming if the world doesn’t move away from fossil fuels quickly, an almost limitless source of renewable energy couldn’t come soon enough. There is an almost unbelievable potential solution in the form of solar energy harvested from space. A plan by the European Space Agency (ESA) to harvest energy from the sun and beam the solar energy back down to Earth is still in the testing phase, but the hope is to have a [solar space farm]( that generates energy equal to that of a nuclear power plant, reported Euronews Green. [Read More]( Related: [Toxic Landfills Across the U.S. Could Get Second Lives as Solar Farms]( Where Are the Methane ‘Super-Emitters’? NASA Identifies More Than 50 Major Methane Leaks From Space There is 262 percent more [methane]( in the atmosphere now than there was before the start of the industrial revolution, but where is all that methane coming from? NASA’s Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) has enabled the agency to map more than 50 methane “super-emitters” from space. [Read More]( Related: [Perhaps World’s Largest Methane Leak Traced to Russian Coal Mine]( Do you get this newsletter daily? If not, [sign up here]( or forward to a friend. [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Website]( [Instagram]( Copyright © 2022 EcoWatch, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you signed up for EcoWatch Top News of The Day Our mailing address is: EcoWatch 1122 Oberlin RoadRaleigh, NC 27605 [Add us to your address book]( Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](. [Mailchimp Email Marketing](