High, rocky peaks are no longer an insurmountable hurdle for ever fiercer flames fueled by heat and drought -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
DNA suggests the Antarctic fur seal population has grown and shrunk as the climate has warmed and cooled, and this might help predict where the mammal will move in future
Against a backdrop of climate change protests across German cities, the centre-left Social Democratic party narrowly won the election and now plans to create a coalition to tackle climate change
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2021, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D1EE01814K, Analysis Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Yuchao Zhang, moonyong Kim, Li Wang, Pierre Verlinden, Brett Hallam To significantly impact climate change, the annual photovoltaic (PV) module production rate must dramatically increase from ~135 gigawatts (GW) in 2020 to ~3 terawatts (TW) around 2030. A key knowledge... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
People born in 2020 will have to face between two and seven times more extreme... The post Today’s youth will face ‘unmatched’ climate extremes compared to older generations appeared first on Carbon Brief.
The two-day UN Food Systems Summit concluded this week with around 150 countries announcing voluntary... The post Q&A: How did climate change feature at the UN Food Systems Summit? appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Nature, Published online: 24 September 2021; doi:10.1038/d41586-021-02409-6Australia–Fiji collaboration matches community needs with reef protection.
Alok Sharma, president of the Glasgow COP26 climate summit due to start in November, says “ordinary people” now understand the need to tackle global warming, not just environmentalists
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 23 September 2021; doi:10.1038/s41558-021-01129-zIncreased flood risk from climate change requires adaptation, but future protection may leave communities with residual risk that is overlooked. Research now quantifies residual flood damage globally, highlighting the need to lower costs and time to deploy flood management infrastructure, particularly in vulnerable regions.
Arctic sea ice has reached its annual minimum for 2021, clocking in at the 12th... The post Arctic sea ice summer minimum in 2021 is ‘12th lowest’ on record appeared first on Carbon Brief.
On September 16, Arctic sea ice likely reached its annual minimum extent of 4.72 million square kilometers (1.82 million square miles). The 2021 minimum is the twelfth lowest in the nearly 43-year satellite record. The last 15 years are the lowest 15 … Continue reading →
Bonnet Glacier in Sentinel 2 images indicating the emergence of bedrock due to thinning in the former accumulation zone, Point A. Note the lack of retained snowcover in both years with at least a month left in the melt season. Bonnet Glacier, Alberta drains north from Bonnet Peak in the Sawback Range 30 km east of the Rocky Mountain Crest. It is at the headwaters of Douglas Creek that feeds …
Rising gas prices mean the UK is facing a difficult winter and some people are keen to point the blame at the shift to renewables – but relying on fossil fuels will always lead to cyclical crises
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2021, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D1EE01992A, Perspective Adewale Odukomaiya, Jason Woods, Nelson James, Sumanjeet Kaur, Kyle R. Gluesenkamp, Navin Kumar, Sven Mumme, Roderick Jackson, Ravi Prasher Energy storage needs to support commercial and residential buildings in the U.S. in 2050 for various 100% renewable energy scenarios. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 17 September 2021; doi:10.1038/s41558-021-01184-6Publisher Correction: Observation-based early-warning signals for a collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
The Arctic sea ice minimum extent is imminent. After a cool and stormy summer, this year’s minimum extent will be one of the highest of the past decade, despite the amount of multiyear ice standing at a near-record low. A … Continue reading →
Each year between August and October, the ozone over the South Pole is depleted – this year the hole is larger than 75 per cent of the holes that had formed by this point in the season since 1979
About 80 per cent of the carbon dioxide released by Australia’s huge wildfires of 2019-2020 was captured by ocean algal blooms that grew due to the iron-rich ash
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2021, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D1EE02567H, Minireview Jinkwang Hwang, Kazuhiko Matsumoto, Chih-Yao Chen, Rika Hagiwara The advent of solid-state electrolytes has unearthed a new paradigm of next-generation batteries endowed with improved electrochemical properties and exceptional safety. Amongst them, Li-stuffed garnet type oxides, sulfides, and NASICON... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Nature, Published online: 15 September 2021; doi:10.1038/d41586-021-02479-6The departing German chancellor’s support for science and rigour in policymaking has proved transformative — except on climate change.
Prospects for South America's biggest wild cat are likely to get worse in the short term unless the Brazilian government strengthens protections against deforestation for timber and cattle farming
There is now a broad consensus that unabated coal power generation must be rapidly phased... The post Guest post: How world’s coal-power pipeline has shrunk by three-quarters appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Sixteen young cows learned quickly how to urinate in a latrine, allowing their urine to be processed without producing greenhouse gases emissions
Animal-based foods produce about twice the emissions of plant-based ones, a new comprehensive study finds -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Southeast #3 Glacier, Devon Ice Cap in July 9, 2016 and August 29, 2021 Sentinel 2 images of the lower 10 km showing three supraglacial streams S1, S2 and S3 and the outlet plumes of each stream at Point 1-3. The yellow line is the 2016 margin. The southeast sector of the Devon Ice Cap, Devon Island, Nunavut has three tidewater outlet glaciers Southeast Glacier #1, #2 and #3. Van …
Weather forecasts and climate outlooks support humanitarian action Geneva, 9 September 2021 (WMO) - A weak La Niña event may re-emerge later in 2021 for the second consecutive year, with the risk that forecast precipitation patterns may exacerbate existing drought in some parts of the world and increase the risk of heavy rainfall and flooding in others. But despite La Niña’s cooling influence, temperatures over land areas are expected to be above average between September and November, especially in the northern hemisphere, according to the World Meteorological Organization. La Niña...
Energy companies and nations must leave nine tenths of Earth’s coal and almost two thirds of its known oil and gas in the ground if the world is to hold temperatures to a target beyond which climate change’s impacts are dangerously amplified, researchers have calculated.
As global warming causes Arctic ice to melt away, archipelago-based polar bears are having more difficulty reaching each other, resulting in inbreeding
Some endotherms, commonly called warm-blooded animals, have grown larger wings, beaks or tails to increase their surface area, which helps them stay cool as the world warms
Adams Glacier in Sentinel 2 False Color image from 8-30-2021. Green dots indicate margin of the Adams Glacier and the now separated Adams Outlier section. The pink arrows indicate the top and bottom of the icefall. F=regions of exposed firn, A=areas of perennial retained accumulation. Adams Glacier descends the north side of Mount Adams a 3743 m stratovolcano in the Cascade Range of Washington. The glacier begins from the summit …
Nature Energy, Published online: 07 September 2021; doi:10.1038/s41560-021-00906-6The recent ruling in a Dutch court that Shell must curb its CO2 emissions is the latest in a series of legal moves bringing human rights concerns to bear on energy activities. This trend will have profound consequences for energy developments and for meeting climate goals.
Recent weeks and the tragic events in Western Europe have shown how fundamental climate and weather are. The ability to obtain reliable information, correctly interpret forecasts and read signs in nature are becoming indispensable features of modern society. That is why we are glad that, as IMGW-PIB, we have conducted the first such extensive research in Poland on the knowledge of Polish women and Poles about weather phenomena, climate change, forecasts and natural hazards. Are Poles interested in weather forecasts? It is difficult to answer this question directly. However, we certainly...
Squids aren’t known for good parenting, mostly because they usually die after mating, but male bigfin reef squid check nests for potential predators and warn other males to stay away
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s China weekly digest. We handpick and explain the most important climate and... The post China Briefing, 2 September 2021: Kerry meeting Xie in Tianjin; Sharma ‘heading to China’; Lockdown’s impact on climate appeared first on Carbon Brief.
3 September 2021 (WMO) - The COVID-19 lockdown and travel restrictions led to a dramatic short-lived fall in emissions of key air pollutants in 2020, especially in urban areas. Many city dwellers saw blue skies instead of the pollution cloud. But the reduction was not uniformly spread across all regions or all types of pollutants. And many parts of the world still fell short of air quality guidelines, according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The Air Quality and Climate Bulletin – the first of its kind issued by WMO – highlights the main factors that...
Arctic sea ice extent declined more slowly during August 2021 than most years in the past decade, and as a result, this year’s September minimum extent will likely be among the highest since 2007. Part of the reason for this … Continue reading →
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2021, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D1EE02048J, Paper Ji Hao, Sanjini U. Nanayakkara, Eric J. Tervo, Jeffrey L. Blackburn, Andrew J. Ferguson High performance electronic ratchet devices capable of harvesting energy from periodic, stochastic, and even noisy electronic voltage signals are enabled by semiconducting carbon nanotube networks with asymmetric dopant/counterion distributions. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2021, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D1EE01526E, Paper Zhaodong Li, Chao Wu, Xiang Gao, Bennett Addison, Shrameeta Shinde, Xin Wang, Xihan Chen, Jianping Yu, Drazenka Svedruzic, Jeffrey Blackburn, Wei Xiong Nature’s biocatalytic processes are driven by photosynthesis, whereby photosystems I and II are connected in series for light-stimulated generation of fuel products or electricity. Externally supplying electricity directly to the... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2021, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D1EE01688A, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Wenbin Wang, Yusuf Shi, Chenlin Zhang, Renyuan Li, Mengchun Wu, Sifei Zhuo, Sara Aleid, Peng Wang A passive no electricity and sustainable cooling on-demand (NESCOD) system can convert and store solar energy for cooling. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2021, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D1EE01812D, Perspective Mengting Zheng, Tiefeng Liu, Hengky Salim, Rodney A. Stewart, Jun Lu, Shanqing Zhang The unprecedented consumption of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) is underway to meet the needs of modern transportation electrification. Recycling-friendly designs intrinsically facilitate the long-term sustainable utilization of natural resources, reduces the... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Scientists say Hurricane Ida, which reached wind speeds of 241km/h, killed at least one person and left more than a million people without power, was almost certainly made worse because of climate change
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2021, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D1EE01397A, Communication Huanhuan Liu, Fu Zhang, Haifei Wang, Jierui Xue, Yiming Guo, Qizhu Qian, Genqiang Zhang The cobalt carbonate hydroxide nanowires (Co(CO3)0.5(OH)·0.11H2O, CCO NWs) have gained sufficient attention as promising catalyst, while its potential capability towards photocatalytic CO2 reduction (PCR) has not been excavated yet. Herein,... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
The storm, which made landfall over the weekend as a Category 4 hurricane and has since weakened, forced the evacuation of multiple Louisiana campuses.
Sentinel 2 False and True Color images from 8-25-2021. Yellow arrows indicate where glacier is separating and blue arrows the small remanent of 2021 snowpack remaining. This remanent will not last to the end of the melt season. The summer of 2021 is proving to be catastrophic for Whitney Glacier on Mount Shasta, California in terms of volume loss, ~15-20% this year leading to long term impacts, adding to the … The post Whitney Glacier , Mount Shasta Losing all of its Snowcover and Separating in 2021 appeared first on From a Glacier's Perspective.
Climate change may increase the risk of viruses infecting new hosts in the Arctic, suggests a study of genetic material from an Arctic lake
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s China weekly digest. We handpick and explain the most important climate and... The post China Briefing, 26 August 2021: Closed coal mines reopened; Rapid warming for Tibet; ‘Record low’ carbon prices appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Directly linking wildfires to climate change is still a difficult task – but make no mistake, they are a sign of things to come, writes Graham Lawton
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2021, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D1EE01835C, Analysis Omar J Guerra, Joshua Eichman, Paul Denholm Achieving 100% carbon-free or renewable power systems can be facilitated by the deployment of energy storage technologies at all timescales, including short-duration, long-duration, and seasonal scales; however, most current literature... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 23 August 2021; doi:10.1038/s41558-021-01137-zChanges in river discharge due to climate change are highly uncertain, and a recent study used a global streamflow dataset to assess whether such trends are detectable. Streamflow changes occurred more often in basins impacted by human disturbances than in pristine ones, and there was no clear signal from climate change alone.
Huge blazes from the north-east of Russia to North America have made global carbon dioxide emissions from wildfires this year the highest in nearly two decades of modern satellite records
A 10-metre-wide coral found by citizen scientists in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is the widest ever found on the reef, and it is more than four centuries old
A dietary shift from rice to potatoes could “notably reduce” the climate and environmental impacts... The post Dietary shift to potatoes could cut staple crop emissions in China by 25% appeared first on Carbon Brief.
The international treaty to protect the ozone layer has had the inadvertent benefit of protecting plants and avoiding up to 1°C of future climate change this century, almost as much as the world has warmed to date.
Regenerating natural systems will draw carbon out of the atmosphere and help tackle climate change. We must recarbonise Earth now, says Jonathon Porritt
The most state-of-the-art tool available to climate scientists is, perhaps, the Earth System Model (ESM).... The post Guest post: The role ‘emulator’ models play in climate change projections appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Title: Smoke From Nuclear War Would Trigger Massive Climate Change, Endangering Health Category: Health News Created: 9/27/2021 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 9/27/2021 12:00:00 AM
Between 2015 and 2100, if the world follows a 1.5°C global warming trajectory instead of a 3.1°C one it would mean 1.8 billion fewer people will experience a tropical storm in their lifetime
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 27 September 2021; doi:10.1038/s41558-021-01163-xNature Climate Change spoke to Kostas Stasinopoulos, Assistant Curator at Serpentine Galleries, London, about the Back to Earth project and recent book 140 Artists’ Ideas for Planet Earth, and how its mission of connection, representation and action reflects the needs of the climate crisis response.
Title: EPA to Sharply Limit Refrigerant Production in New Climate Rule Category: Health News Created: 9/23/2021 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 9/24/2021 12:00:00 AM
Climate-change deniers often exploit confusion about these terms to muddy the waters about the science of global warming. Here’s what you need to know.
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s China weekly digest. We handpick and explain the most important climate and... The post China Briefing, 23 September 2021: Xi’s ‘no overseas coal’ pledge; More orders on domestic coal; ‘Ball in China’s court’ appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Researchers excavated human footprints out of a small bluff next to a dried-up playa lake and radiocarbon-dated embedded seeds to around 23,000 years ago. Their results suggest that people entered...
The climate emergency is taking a huge toll on our mental health, particularly for young people and those on the front line. But it could motivate us to find solutions to the crisis, writes Graham Lawton
The World Health Organization has released guidelines for strict limits on air pollution from cars, power stations and other sources. If countries adopt them, millions of deaths could be avoided
Europe’s Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) has been closely monitoring a summer of extreme wildfires across the Northern Hemisphere, including intense hotspots around the Mediterranean basin and in North America and Siberia. The intense fires led to new records in the CAMS dataset with the months of July and August seeing their highest global carbon emissions respectively. CAMS reports that not only large parts of the Northern Hemisphere were affected during this year’s boreal fire season, but the number of fires, their persistence and intensity were remarkable. For...
From heatwaves and wildfires, to floods and rainfall-induced landslides, the northern-hemisphere summer of 2021 has... The post Guest post: How to assess regional climate information for adaptation planning appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Offenbach, 30 August 2021 – In 2021 Germany experienced its rainiest summer for ten years. The extreme rainfall from the low-pressure system 'Bernd' in mid-July severely affected North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland Palatinate. It caused devastating floods, resulting in one of the most serious natural disasters for the Federal Republic of Germany since the North Sea storm surge of 1962. Overall, the months of June, July and August were too warm and with average sunshine. This is the summary announced by the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) after an initial analysis of the observations from its...
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2021, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D1EE01574E, Paper Byoung-Hoon Lee, Eunhee Gong, Minho Kim, Sunghak Park, HyeRim Kim, Junho Lee, Euiyeon Jung, Chan Woo Lee, Jinsol Bok, Yoon Jung, Young Seong Kim, Kug-Seung Lee, Sung-Pyo Cho, Jin-woo Jung, Chang-Hee Cho, Sebastien Lébegue, Ki Tae Nam, Hyungjun Kim, Su-il In, Taeghwan Hyeon Single-atom catalysts are playing a pivotal-role in understanding the atomic-level photocatalytic processes. However, single-atoms are typically non-uniformly distributed on photocatalyst surface, hindering the systematic investigation of structure-property correlation at atomic... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
A UN analysis of countries' latest plans to cut carbon emissions shows they will actually rise 16 per cent on 2010 levels by 2030, leaving only a small window to limit global warming to 1.5°C
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2021, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D1EE02497C, Analysis Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Jan Christoph Goldschmidt, Lukas Wagner, Robert Pietzcker, Lorenz Friedrich Cost efficient climate change mitigation requires installing a total of 20-80 TWp photovoltaics until 2050 and 80 – 170 TWp until 2100. The question is, whether the projected growth is... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Corals are full of symbiotic organisms but biologists have found a new form of microbe that doesn't seem to benefit its hosts
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s China weekly digest. We handpick and explain the most important climate and... The post China Briefing, 16 September 2021: Xi and Biden discuss climate; Johnson’s ‘last-ditch’ talks with Xi; Advice for China’s carbon goals appeared first on Carbon Brief.
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Stalled recycling rates in England could be lifted through a bin tax, giving people a financial incentive to send less waste to landfill and reducing collections of waste, says an expert group appointed by the UK government
While the impacts of global warming are already being felt across the world, the decisions... The post Guest post: The climate-change gaps in the UK school curriculum appeared first on Carbon Brief.
The gap between the emissions reductions needed for 1.5°C and countries' pledges has closed by up to 15 per cent - but Climate Action Tracker finds cuts are still far short of what is needed
Tropical forests on the slopes of Africa’s mountains are more concentrated stores of carbon than... The post Endangered African montane forests could be a key ‘carbon store’, scientists say appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Changes in the position of the polar jet stream around the Arctic may have caused past famines in Europe, and global warming could lead to even bigger changes from around the 2060s
Global greenhouse gas emissions from food production are 37 per cent of the total, and animal-based food production emits twice as much as plant-based food production
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2021, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D1EE01677F, Paper Hammed Balogun, Daniel Bahamon, Saeed Almenhali, Lourdes F. Vega, Ahmed AlHajaj Adsorption with porous solid materials is gaining attention as a promising CO2 capture technology due to potential improvement in energy efficiency and cost reductions. This study investigates for the first... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
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Energy Environ. Sci. , 2021, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D1EE02197D, Paper Joseph Gallaher, Katherine Wright, Laszlo Frazer, Rowan MacQueen, Maxwell J Crossley, Felix N Castellano, Timothy W Schmidt The performance of a perylene monoimide annihilator is evaluated in a photochemical upconversion composition. It is found to perform up to five times better than the commonly employed rubrene annihilator... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
From heatwaves and hurricanes in the US to flooding in Europe and China, the weather... The post Guest post: Reviewing the summer of extreme weather in 2021 appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Nature, Published online: 08 September 2021; doi:10.1038/d41586-021-02422-9The latest science news, in brief.
High-resolution maps of carbon emissions have revealed how our how day-to-day patterns of behaviour, such as commuting, affect the release of greenhouse gases, and could help governments quickly see the impact of green policies
The recent publication of the sixth assessment report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change... The post Guest post: How artificial intelligence is fast becoming a key tool for climate science appeared first on Carbon Brief.
The fate of plans for the UK’s first deep coal mine in 30 years will be fiercely debated at a public inquiry starting tomorrow, in what is expected to be a landmark test case of what new fossil fuel projects should be allowed as countries act to hit net-zero emissions
Title: Global Warming Could Worsen COPD Symptoms Category: Health News Created: 9/3/2021 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 9/3/2021 12:00:00 AM
'Deforestation has increased significantly in the last five years following the signing of the peace agreement.'
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2021, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D1EE00332A, Paper Tatiana Grebennikova, Abbie N Jones, Clint Alan Sharrad Irradiated graphite waste management is one of the major challenges of nuclear power-plant decommissioning throughout the world and significantly in the UK, France and Russia where over 85 reactors employed... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
The extreme cold snap that left millions without power in Texas early this year may have been made more likely due to melting Arctic sea ice, according to a scientific model
From the houses we live in to the food we eat and the education we... The post Guest post: Energy needed to eradicate poverty ‘compatible with climate goals’ appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2021, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D1EE02021H, Review Article Libei Yuan, Junnan Hao, Chun-Chuan Kao, Chao Wu, Huakun Liu, Shi Xue Dou, Shizhang Qiao Aqueous Zn-ion batteries (ZIBs) have inspired an overwhelming literature surge due to their safety, cost effectiveness, and environmental benignity. Directly employing metallic Zn foil as anode significantly simplifies battery manufacturing... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
The UK is considering opening a new coal mine – here's why it doesn't need one, says Mark Peplow
Title: Safeguarding Your Heart During, After Hurricane Ida Category: Health News Created: 8/31/2021 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 8/31/2021 12:00:00 AM
Maersk, the world’s biggest shipping company, has ordered eight ships capable of running on methanol, which could prove a crucial route to help the shipping industry decarbonise
Nature, Published online: 30 August 2021; doi:10.1038/d41586-021-02344-6Was the government a primary cause of the US addiction to fossil fuel? An expert who testified gives evidence.
The proportion of major tropical cyclones has risen, and warmer air temperatures along with rising ocean heat have made them nastier.
Economists are expecting a tiny reduction in GDP despite climate science suggesting far more dramatic consequences, according to a new study.
The Asia-Pacific region needs to step up efforts to prepare for and tackle complex, overlapping crises in order to increase the resilience of its people as well as its economies, with climate change threatening to dwarf the challenges of COVID-19 pandemic, a key meeting of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific has heard. “Notwithstanding the progress made by many countries in devising more robust systems of early warning and responsive protection - with far fewer people dying as a result of natural disasters - the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that ...
Nature, Published online: 25 August 2021; doi:10.1038/d41586-021-02287-yCarbon dioxide reductions are key, but the IPCC’s latest report highlights the benefits of making cuts to other greenhouse gases, too.
Climate change has made extreme rainfall events similar to those that led to last month’s floods in Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg between 1.2 and 9 times more likely to happen, according to a rapid attribution study by an international team of climate scientists, which also found that such downpours in the region are now 3-19% heavier because of human-caused warming. The results reinforce the conclusions of the new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which said there is now unequivocal evidence that humans are warming the planet’s climate and...
Terminus of Columbia Glacier on left with 1984 terminus location noted. Observe the avalanche fans (A) and the relatively high snowcover on 8-2-2021. At right is Easton Glacier on 8-11-2021 with the location of the 1990 terminus indicated, 440 m of retreat to the 2021 terminus position. The glacier has only 38% snowcover at this time, which is better illustrated below. Columbia and Easton Glacier in the North Cascade Range … The post A Tale of Two Glaciers Columbia and Easton Glacier 2021 appeared first on From a Glacier's Perspective.
Nature, Published online: 20 August 2021; doi:10.1038/d41586-021-02274-3Nature highlights three key infographics from the week in science and research.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2021, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D1EE01288F, Analysis Graham Palmer, Ashley Roberts, Andrew Hoadley, Roger Dargaville, Damon Honnery Water electrolysis powered by solar photovoltaics (PV) is one of several promising green hydrogen production technologies. It is critical that the life cycle environmental impacts and net energy balance are... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s China weekly digest. We handpick and explain the most important climate and... The post China Briefing, 19 August 2021: Kerry ‘to visit China’ again; Explanation of ‘campaign-style carbon reduction’; Emissions ‘administrators’ appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 19 August 2021; doi:10.1038/s41558-021-01136-0Climate services have long sought to bridge the gap between climate science and improved societal decision-making. Now, a study finds that fulfilling that promise will require rethinking the norms, institutions and governance of science itself.
Sea ice loss during the first half of August stalled, though ice in the Beaufort Sea is finally starting to weaken. The Northern Sea Route appears closed off in 2021, despite being open each summer since 2008. Overview of conditions As … Continue reading →
Solar power beamed from satellites could provide the UK with a continuous supply of green energy as soon as 2039, according to a report commissioned by the government