On February 14, 2023 we announced our Rebuttal Update Project . This included an ask for feedback about the added "At a glance" section in the updated basic rebuttal versions. This weekly blog post series highlights this new section of one of the updated basic rebuttal versions and serves as a "bump" for our ask. This week features " The difference between weather and climate ". More will follow in the upcoming weeks. Please follow the Further Reading link at the bottom to read the full rebuttal and to join the discussion in the comment thread there. At a glance How do you go about weather forecasting by yourself? Study the computer models. With experience, you will become familiar with the art - for it takes human interpretation of model output to make the calls. That's what...
Antarctic sea ice has been disappearing over the last several summers. Now, climate scientists are wondering whether it will ever come back.
In 1898, the crew of the first scientific expedition to Antarctica became trapped inside sea ice around the southernmost continent. Much of that once thick ice is dwindling, says polar researcher Edward Doddridge.
The most surprising revelation from NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover — that methane is seeping from the surface of Gale Crater — has scientists scratching their heads. Living creatures produce most of the methane on Earth. But scientists haven’t found convincing signs of current or ancient life on Mars, and thus didn’t expect to find methane […]
JWST's surprise discovery of methane emissions and likely aurorae over a distant brown dwarf could indicate this "failed star" is orbited by an active moon.
On this Earth Day, we reflect on the importance of protecting our planet for future generations. Understanding the Earth system and the complex interactions that shape our planet is paramount for addressing environmental challenges, mitigating climate change, preparing for natural disasters, managing resources sustainably and conserving biodiversity.Each component of the Earth system – from the atmosphere and oceans to land surfaces and ice sheets – influences and interacts with one another in complex ways. ESA works all-year round to provide satellite data to monitor the health of our planet. Here are 10 examples of how Earth’s systems intertwine and how satellite measurements are key to understanding these complex processes.
This Alaska Insight, host Lori Townsend and her guests discuss how realistic a transition to renewable energy is, and how long it could take.
Carbon storage calculations don’t always take into account the effects of animals – when they eat, defecate and die, they help store lots of carbon
Visitors at Ranthambore National Park in India captured rare footage and images of a tigress and her three 1-year-old cubs feasting on the carcass of a crocodile after killing it.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00865K, Paper Muyang Chen, Tingting Niu, Lingfeng Chao, Xiaozheng Duan, Jingpei Wang, Tengfei Pan, Yajing Li, Junhan Zhang, Chenyue Wang, Biyun Ren, Lijuan Guo, Mohammad Hatamvand, Jing Zhang, Qingxun Guo, Yingdong Xia, Xingyu Gao, Yonghua Chen Preparation of low defect density FAPbI 3 perovskite thin films by adjusting the process temperature to −20 °C for high-performance perovskite solar cells. 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. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00796D, Review Article Shipeng Jia, Shinichi Kumakura, Eric McCalla With the increasing demand for energy and growing environmental concerns, sodium-ion batteries have garnered significant attention in recent years as a potential alternative to lithium-ion batteries. This is due to... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
As extreme weather events increase around the world due to climate change, the need for further research into our warming planet has increased as well. For NASA, climate research involves not only conducting studies of these events, but also empowering outside researchers to do the same. The artificial intelligence (AI) efforts spearheaded by the agency […]
Real satellite imagery from NASA’s Terra, Aqua, and Landsat missions takes the shape of whales and swirling clouds in the agency’s Earth Day 2024 poster, “Water Touches Everything.” The major ocean basins – Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, Indian, and Southern – shape our planet’s climate and weather by absorbing, storing, and moving heat, water, and carbon […]
Open access notables Glacial isostatic adjustment reduces past and future Arctic subsea permafrost , Creel et al., Nature Communications: Sea-level rise submerges terrestrial permafrost in the Arctic, turning it into subsea permafrost. Subsea permafrost underlies ~ 1.8 million km2 of Arctic continental shelf, with thicknesses in places exceeding 700 m. Sea-level variations over glacial-interglacial cycles control subsea permafrost distribution and thickness, yet no permafrost model has accounted for glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA), which deviates local sea level from the global mean due to changes in ice and ocean loading. Here we incorporate GIA into a pan-Arctic model of subsea permafrost over the last 400,000 years. Including GIA...
Image: Dubai floods seen from space
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 129, Issue 8, 28 April 2024.
Sen. Bert Stedman said the state has been "blessed" the last couple of years by high oil prices — but warned high prices won't last forever.
Negative thinking is unpopular but it could drive more realistic efforts to limit harm from global warming
Anglerfish first colonized the ocean's midnight zone 55 million years ago, during a period of extreme global warming, a new study finds. The bizarre fish adapted to thrive in the deep sea by becoming sexual parasites, the researchers said.
This is a re-post from Andrew Dessler at the Climate Brink blog In 2023, the Earth reached temperature levels unprecedented in modern times. Given that, it’s reasonable to ask: What’s going on? There’s been lots of discussions by scientists about whether this is just the normal progression of global warming or if something we don’t understand is happening — in other words, we’ve broken the climate. from the Washington Post In this post, I compare the observational temperature record to an ensemble of state-of-the-art CMIP6 models to see exactly how unusual 2023 was. It turns out that 2023 is just not that unusual when compared to the model ensemble. Let’s start with observations. I’m going to...
Natural disasters like volcanic eruptions, floods, and tornados can dramatically change the surface of Earth to the point where alterations are visible in space. Changes driven by human actions and interventions, such as mining and deforestation, are also visible in satellite imagery. For over 50 years, NASA’s Landsat satellites have recorded our planet’s changing surface. […]
Ground-up concrete can remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in a similar way to ground-up rocks, according to a field study in Ireland
And that’s an extremely conservative estimate. The post Climate change likely killed tens of thousands of people in 2023 appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01258E, Paper Jiaqi Sang, Tianfu Liu, Pengfei Wei, Hefei Li, Conghui Liu, Yi Wang, Youwen Rong, Qi Wang, Guoxiong Wang, Xinhe Bao Cu-based catalysts selectively convert CO2/CO into valuable C2+ oxygenates and hydrocarbons electrochemically, which is regarded as a promising strategy for carbon cycle utilization. Herein, we synthesized CuxP2Ox+5 (x=2, 4, 5)... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
We need nature-based climate solutons to work. Yet as a recent study shows, questions remain on how we can achieve the best ground-level outcomes and maximize the enormous potential of these solutions to lower greenhouse gas concentrations.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00445K, Review Article Farid Attar, Hang Yin, Simon Lennard Schumann, Julien Langley, Nicholas Cox, Zhiyuan Zeng, Kylie Catchpole, Siva Krishna Karuturi, Zongyou Yin New sustainable energy technologies are an important current research field, which aim to address the global environmental challenge caused by our excessive reliance on fossil fuels. Underpinning this field is... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00048J, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Hakhyeon Song, Carlos A. Fernandez, Hyeonuk Choi, Po-Wei Huang, Jihun Oh, Marta C. Hatzell Electrochemical CO2 reduction (CO2RR) offers an environmentally friendly method to transform and harness sequestered CO2. While gas-phase electrolysis systems provide high efficiency, gas-phase electrolysis systems face challenges related to carbonate... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00086B, Paper Bo Yan, Hao Sun, Xueping Liu, Xinyuan Fu, Changqing Xu, Tiantian Zhang, Lu-Lu Zhang, Huachao Tao, Xifei Li, Xue-Lin Yang, Renheng Wang Self-supporting electrode materials play a pivotal role in advancing the progress of flexible potassium-ion batteries (PIBs). However, crafting self-supporting electrodes with unique compositions and structures to surmount the volume effect... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Climate change is making extreme cold upwellings more common in certain regions of the world, and these events can be catastrophic for animals such as bull sharks
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00580E, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Luyin Tang, Tianyu Li, Wenjing Lu, Xianfeng Li The robust and reversible solid bromine complexation effect was incorporated into electrodes, endowing bromine-based flow batteries with ultralow self-discharge. 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
The landscape features in the dreamtime stories of Australia's Indigenous people.
A listing of 31 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, April 7, 2024 thru Sat, April 13, 2024. Story of the week Our story of the week is about adults in the room setting terms and conditions of good behavior. Here it's not parents telling children what to do but instead the widely adopted, mutually agreed system of coercive behavior modification we call "rule of law." Legislators providing courts of justice with laws to apply are how we formalize overcoming widely harmful selfish actions— or negligent inactions. These are our proxy adults telling us what we can't do or must do— our aspirations for better nature given teeth. We could wish that we were all so perfect as to never need grownup guidance of...
Skeptical Science is partnering with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. This fact brief was written by Sue Bin Park in collaboration with members from our Skeptical Science team. You can submit claims you think need checking via the tipline . Did global warming stop in 1998? While 1998 was an abnormally warm year, annual average temperatures have trended steadily upward in the decades since. As a strong El Nino year, 1998 featured a significant spike in global temperatures. El Nino is the warm phase of a cyclic climatic pattern where sea temperatures in parts of the Pacific swing higher or lower than average. The 1998 El Nino stood out above the rising temperature trendline that is due to manmade global warming. However, the...
EDF to Vigorously Oppose New Effort to Block Oil and Gas Methane Protections in Court
Bats, dolphins, National Parks and a 12-hour Zooniverse Palooza are coming up for Citizen Science Month.
March 2024 was the planet’s 10th consecutive warmest month on record. Australia’s Great Barrier Reef suffered its worst coral bleaching in history. The post Earth just had its warmest March on record appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
WHO and Netherlands Strategic Dialogue in The Hague, Netherlands 10 April 2024. Credit: WHO The WHO and the Netherlands convened in The Hague on 10 April 2024, to discuss joint priorities and alignment between the Dutch Global Health Strategy and WHO’s key strategic goals, marking a new milestone in their longstanding partnership. Rooted in the Netherlands' unwavering commitment to global health, human rights, and universal access to comprehensive health services, the collaboration between the WHO and the Netherlands is instrumental in addressing global health challenges and fostering health and well-being, worldwide and in the country. Against the backdrop of ongoing conflicts, disasters, and the escalating impact of climate change, and the interconnectedness of the Dutch public...
The role of clouds and warm air masses from the open ocean for the rapid warming of the Arctic is at the heart of a recent Alfred Wegener Institute project on Svalbard. The researchers are applying a new perspective and tracking how individual air masses cool above the sea ice, form clouds, and lose moisture through precipitation. To do so, they’re using specially designed weather balloons capable of continually measuring the temperature and humidity within a given air mass.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Volume 129, Issue 4, April 2024.
NASA is now publicly distributing science-quality data from its newest Earth-observing satellite, providing first-of-their-kind measurements of ocean health, air quality, and the effects of a changing climate. The Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) satellite was launched on Feb. 8, and has been put through several weeks of in-orbit testing of the spacecraft and instruments to ensure […]
By Anna Lóránt The EU is striving to become the first climate-neutral continent by 2050. As one of the fastest warming continents in the world, with climate risks threatening its energy and food security, ecosystems, infrastructure, water resources, financial stability and people’s health (EEA, 2024), ambitious climate action is a necessity. It’s clear that the […]
Ground-level ozone, a product of pollution from cars, degrades insect pheromones, and this can result in mismatched mating and sterile offspring
In 2019, the European Commission launched the European Green Deal (EGD) (1), an ambitious plan to achieve a sustainable economy in Europe. The plan’s goals included protecting and recovering nature, guaranteeing a sustainable food system, and boosting renewable energy capacity. Unlike previous EU strategies, this plan established targeted and time-bound objectives. However, misinformation and lobbying driven by the agriculture sector have led to policy changes that undermine the EU’s ability to achieve these goals.
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 11 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-01976-6The degree to which changes in marine organisms due to warming can influence tropical cyclones is not well known. Here the authors show that changing chlorophyll patterns can lead to more landfalling tropical cyclones in East Asia.
This year's General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) will take place as a fully hybrid conference in both Vienna and online from April 15 to 19. I decided to join the event virtually this year for the full week and I've already picked several sessions I plan to attend. Among them are two sessions, I'll be presenting in. This blog post provides an overview of my itinerary. Monday The week kicks off right away at 8:30 in the morning with a Union Symposia (US2) about the Climate emergency, human agency: making sense of the current state of scientific knowledge on climate change to strengthen climate literacy . This Union Symposium will build on key findings from the Sixth Assessment Cycle of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It will...
The region’s electric grid needs to find a replacement for Cook Inlet natural gas. One study suggests over the long term, the cheapest option is to ramp up renewable energy.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00949E, Paper Zhongyou Peng, Yuting Huang, Alexander G. Bannov, Shulong Li, Ling Tang, Licheng Tan, Yiwang Chen Although manganese oxides (MnO2) have been extensively studied for energy storage, further applications are limited due to its sluggish electron/ion transfer kinetics and insufficient active sites, especially under high-mass loading... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00357H, Review Article Haoyang Ge, Xian Xie, Xuesong Xie, Bingyao Zhang, Shenglong Li, Shuquan Liang, Bingan Lu, Jiang Zhou Zinc-based batteries are regarded as promising power sources for flexible and wearable electronics due to their merits of low cost, durability, intrinsic safety, satisfactory theoretical energy density, and simple structure.... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
On February 14, 2023 we announced our Rebuttal Update Project . This included an ask for feedback about the added "At a glance" section in the updated basic rebuttal versions. This weekly blog post series highlights this new section of one of the updated basic rebuttal versions and serves as a "bump" for our ask. This week features " The Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) is not causing global warming ". More will follow in the upcoming weeks. Please follow the Further Reading link at the bottom to read the full rebuttal and to join the discussion in the comment thread there. At a glance Oscillate. To move repeatedly from side to side or up and down between two points, or to vary between two states or amounts. To vary above and below a mean value. To move or travel back and...
Pathways for six key commodities aligned with SBTi FLAG guidance for food companies to more strategically work toward climate targets.
This video includes conclusions of the creator climate scientist Dr. Adam Levy . It is presented to our readers as an informed perspective. Please see video description for references (if any). Thanks to climate change, 2023 has shattered heat records, and 2024 is continuing where last year left off. With this devastating heat driving extreme weather - from heatwaves to downpours to wildfires - across the globe, scientists are increasingly asking if global warming could be accelerating. So what does the evidence show? Is the heating up of our planet speeding up? If so, what does this climate change mean for our future? And can we still hit the brakes and halt global warming? Support ClimateAdam on patreon: https://patreon.com/climateadam
A listing of 34 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, March 31, 2024 thru Sat, April 6, 2024. Story of the week Proxy measurement via Facebook "engagement" suggests a widely welcoming audience for Prof. Andrew Dessler's The Climate Brink article How extreme was the Earth's temperature in 2023 . With our recent Earth surface temperature record gaining prominent media coverage— including many direct remarks by scientists employing adjectives not normally found in scientific parlance— it's not surprising that readers may appreciate an oasis of context and perspective of the kind Dessler provides. A couple of well supported key points come through in this treatment. Only a few years ago we saw a...
Some say the solution to Cook Inlet's gas shortage is renewable energy. Plus, education advocates continue to push for a funding increase.
Study suggests declining pollution is one cause behind decadeslong drop in Earth’s reflectivity
Diving at One Tree Island in one of the most highly protected parts of the Great Barrier Reef reveals the shocking extent of the latest mass bleaching event
Colorado State University’s hurricane forecasting team is calling for a near-record active season with 23 named storms, 11 hurricanes, and five major hurricanes. The post Forecasters predict an extremely active 2024 Atlantic hurricane season appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
The Agriculture Finance Sustainability Coalition, a new partnership between agriculture, environmental groups and financial institutions, supported a significant awardee of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's $14-billion National Clean Investment Fund. Climate United secured $6.97 billion, which it will use to mobilize financing and private capital and accelerate market activity to combat the climate crisis.
A broader approach to assessing the burden of disease from air pollution is required
Did Neanderthals wear clothing, jewelry or other accessories? There's not much in the archaeological record to suggest so, but researchers are turning to indirect evidence for clues about ancient fashion styles.
The fledglings are typically reared on floating platforms of sea ice, but an unprecedented decline in the ice extent has driven young onto cliffs.
The Newtok-to-Mertarvik transformation is the most advanced of several village relocation efforts prompted by climate change.
Happy Earth Day 2024. Ask people worldwide “is climate change a problem?” and the answer is usually a clear “yes.” But ask a follow-up, “what is the real nature of that problem?” and the picture is murkier. Answers might range … Continue reading →
Shading the planet by spraying aerosols into the stratosphere might stave off ice sheet collapse, modelling studies suggest, but we are running out of time
A listing of 29 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, April 14, 2024 thru Sat, April 20, 2024. Story of the week Our story of the week hinges on these words from the abstract of a fresh academic publication : Here we use recent empirical findings from more than 1,600 regions worldwide over the past 40 years to project sub-national damages from temperature and precipitation, including daily variability and extremes 7 , 8 . Using an empirical approach that provides a robust lower bound on the persistence of impacts on economic growth, we find that the world economy is committed to an income reduction of 19% within the next 26 years independent of future emission choices (relative to a baseline...
Humans aren’t the only mammals working to mitigate the effects of climate change in the Western United States. People there are also enlisting the aid of nature’s most prolific engineers – beavers. Using NASA-provided grants, two open-source programs from Boise State University in Idaho and Utah State University in Logan are making it possible for […]
Governments and regulators should recognize oil and gas mergers as an important inflexion point to ensure environmental harm is minimized and emissions are reduced.
NASA has selected six new airborne missions that include domestic and international studies of fire-induced clouds, Arctic coastal change, air quality, landslide hazards, shrinking glaciers, and emissions from agricultural lands. NASA’s suite of airborne missions complement what scientists can see from orbit, measure from the ground, and simulate in computer models. Funded through the […]
Small-scale farmers and local NGOs work together to create resilience in the face of climate change in this Western African country. The post Water is at the heart of farmers’ struggle to survive in Benin appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00341A, Paper Xiaoru Zhao, Feng Zhang, Houzhen Li, Huitong Dong, Chuncheng Yan, Chao Meng, Yuanhua Sang, Hong Liu, Yu-Guo Guo, Shuhua Wang Manganese oxide (MnO2) has attracted significant attention for aqueous zinc-ion batteries (ZIBs) due to its excellent theoretical capacity and high output voltage. However, irreversible phase transitions, the manganese dissolution and... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
This blog was authored by Francisco Pinto and Rodrigo Bórquez, economists of the Climate Action Teams (CAT) initiative, and by Environmental Defense Fund economist Luis Fernández Intriago. Source: Climate Action Teams Reducing emissions is imperative to address climate change. The mechanisms established in Article 6 of the Paris Agreement can serve as vital tools in […]
Two new studies show the unseen toll smoke is taking on people across the country. Climate change is likely to make the problem even bigger.
Science in Space: April 2024 Everyone on Earth is touched by the effects of climate change, such as hotter temperatures, shifts in rain patterns, and sea level rise. Collecting climate data helps communities better plan for these changes and build more resilience to them. The International Space Station, one of dozens of NASA missions contributing […]
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00020J, Paper Michael W. Martinez-Szewczyk, Steven J. DiGregorio, Owen Hildreth, Mariana I. Bertoni ITRPV silver consumption of standard low-temperature and high-temperature paste as compared to reactive silver ink. As little as 16.4 mg of silver is consumed when a busbarless cell is metallized with reactive silver ink. 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
To understand vulnerable glaciers, climate scientists extract ice from continent’s remote and stormy coast
Cloud seeding almost certainly did not play a significant role in the flooding on the Arabian peninsula this week – but the heavy rains may have been exacerbated by climate change
Observations of Venus taken with the BepiColombo space probe show that our cosmic neighbor is leaking significant amounts of carbon and oxygen from its atmosphere, and researchers can't totally explain why.
The Alaska House of Representatives is set to vote for House Bill 50 on Wednesday, sending it to the Senate.
In anticipation of Earth Day, NASA invites media to a briefing at the agency’s headquarters on Friday, April 19, at 11 a.m. EDT. The event will share updates on NASA’s climate science and early data from the agency’s ocean-watching PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) mission, as well as reveal upcoming Earth airborne missions. The […]
Addressing our planet’s climate crisis requires commitment, cooperation, and urgency – all underpinned by finance. But our international financial systems were not designed for a challenge of this scale, and we are falling behind in meeting the needs of developing countries in combatting climate change.
EDF's 2024 Climate Corps fellowship program empowers a new cohort of 185+ global fellows to advance climate solutions at over 130 organizations.
Modelling that shows how the world can remain below 1.5°C of warming assumes we can store vast amounts of carbon dioxide underground, but a new analysis reveals that achieving this is extremely unlikely
A wet spring in the United States will dampen early fires, but some regions will see elevated risk this summer. The post Forecasters expect slow start to U.S. wildfire season appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00318G, Paper Zimin Yang, Yi-Lun Sun, Siting Deng, Hao Tong, Mingqiang Wu, Xinbin Nie, Yifan Su, Guanjie He, Yinghe Zhang, Jianwei Li, Guoliang Chai Irreversible Zn plating/stripping along with interfacial degradation seriously affect the practical applications of aqueous zinc-ion batteries. Herein, 3-(hydroxy (phenyl) phosphoryl) propanoic acid (HPA) is introduced as an electrolyte additive that... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
During a recent visit to Ketchikan, Rep. Mary Peltola discussed her approach to housing, mental health resources and addressing climate change.
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections The June general election in Mexico could mark a turning point in ensuring that the country’s climate policies better reflect the desire of its citizens to address the climate crisis, with both leading presidential candidates expressing support for renewable energy. Mexico is the 10th-most populated country with the 15th-largest economy and is also the 11th-most climate-polluting country in the world. In international surveys conducted in 2022 and 2023 , Mexico had one of the highest percentages of citizens worried about human-caused climate change at 92%, compared to just 63% of Americans.* And 88% of Mexican respondents reported that they consider climate change an important issue that their country should...
More than 900 filmmakers from 110 countries have submitted short films for the 5th edition of the WHO Health for All Film Festival on themes ranging from climate change, refugees, tobacco, and gender-based violence. Some 60 films have been selected for the shortlist, for review by a jury of international artists and health experts, before the announcement of the winners on 26 May 2024.
In this excerpt from the beautiful book "Rewild the World at Bedtime" by Emily Hawkins and illustrator by Ella Beech, we discover how one of Mozambique's most diverse national parks recovered from the devastating effects of war.
A new DNA study of living and historical members of the Blackfoot Confederacy in the U.S. and Canada suggests that they share a lineage with people from the last ice age.
On Earth Day, Learn How NASA Investigates the Blue in Our Blue Planet This Earth Day, join us in person and online to learn how NASA studies the ocean from space. Explore the complex connections between sea, air, land, and climate through a mix of in-person and virtual activities, talks, and trivia. For nearly five […]
(This post was co-authored by EDF attorney Richard Yates) The Environmental Protection Agency is soon expected to update our national protections against mercury and other toxic pollution from coal-fired power plants – pollution that is extremely dangerous to human health and has been linked to brain damage in children. EPA proposed strengthening the Mercury and […]
An Arctic-wide survey has found that the permafrost region is emitting more carbon into the atmosphere than it absorbs, causing the planet to heat even further
Some families are expected to save up to $700 a year on their electricity bills. The post Solar canopy over Denver school parking lot will provide energy to low-income families appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Sport junkie or couch potato? Always on time or often late? The animal kingdom, too, is home to a range of personalities, each with its own lifestyle. In a study just released in the journal PLOS Biology, a team led by Sören Häfker and Kristin Tessmar-Raible from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and the University of Vienna report on a surprising discovery: even simple marine polychaete worms shape their day-to-day lives on the basis of highly individual rhythms. This diversity is of interest not just for the future of species and populations in a changing environment, but also for medicine.
Calling on Marine Engine Manufacturers for Transparency of Emissions Data
Open access notables Global carbon emissions in 2023 , Liu et al., Nature Reviews Earth & Environment Annual global CO2 emissions dropped markedly in 2020 owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, decreasing by 5.8% relative to 2019 (ref. 1 ). There were hopes that green economic stimulus packages during the COVD crisis might mark the beginning of a longer-term decrease in global emissions toward net-zero emissions, but instead emissions rebounded and quickly exceeded pre-pandemic levels by 2021. However, year-on-year growth has slowed, with 5.4% increases in 2021 (ref. 2 ) (reaching 35.1 Gt CO2) and 1.9% increases in 2022 (ref. 3 ) (reaching 35.7 Gt CO2), rapidly using up the remaining carbon budget. Here, we outline global CO2 emissions...
A new industrial-strength heat pump boiler uses electricity to generate the high-temperature steam needed to manufacture many products. The post Industry has a huge carbon footprint. This technology could help. appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
A study suggests the ice giants Uranus and Neptune aren't quite as watery as previously thought. They may also contain huge amounts of frozen methane, potentially solving the puzzle of how they formed.
The Arctic Domain Awareness Center will receive $46 million to study Arctic geopolitics, commerce, food security and climate change.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00219A, Paper Hua Zhang, Kang Xu, Yangsen Xu, Fan He, Feng Zhu, Kotaro Sasaki, Yongman Choi, Yu Chen Ammonia protonic ceramic fuel cells (NH3-PCFCs) are promising and attractive energy conversion devices owing to their high energy density, zero-carbon emission, and safety. Development of NH3-PCFCs, however, hinges largely on... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D3EE03913G, Paper Zhengxin Zhu, Zehui Xie, Wei Ping Wang, Zaichun Liu, Mingming Wang, Yahan Meng, Qia Peng, Shuang Liu, Taoli Jiang, Kai Zhang, Hongxu Liu, Yirui Ma, Wei Chen Self-charging aqueous metal-based batteries are attracting extensive attention in energy conversion and storage technologies. However, they are constrained to chemically self-charging mode by oxygen gas (O2) reactants and suffer from... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced stronger rules to limit toxic pollution from petrochemical plants. The new rules include vital measures to protect the health and safety of communities on the fenceline of this pollution.
They’re helping students take action in their communities. The post Retired teachers return to Colorado classrooms to teach students about climate change appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Releasing 1 gigatonne of ground-up olivine on coastal shelves each year could help lower atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, find researchers, but questions remain over the ecological impact
Cocoa farming and illegal gold mining are driving rapid destruction of the country’s forests. The post Group leads tree plantings in deforestation-wracked Ghana appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
A new study warns that 5,000 meteorites could be sinking beneath Antarctica's icy surface every year as a result of climate change, depriving scientists of vital information about our solar system.
Antarctica's western ice sheet alone contains 138 volcanos.
New guide provides invaluable insights for food companies seeking a more strategic approach to drive climate impact.
And what can you do to reduce it? The post How big is your carbon footprint? appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00938J, Paper Xiangqun Xu, Shiyong Chu, Sheng Xu, Shaohua Guo, Haoshen Zhou Employing lithium-rich oxides as cathode materials offers an ideal option for achieving high-energy all-solid-state lithium batteries (ASSLBs), while lithium-rich cathode materials are usually hard to directly match with solid-state electrolytes... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
A network of sensors stretching from San Francisco to Sonoma county’s vineyards shows that electric vehicles have helped lower carbon emissions by almost 2 per cent per year within the Bay Area
ESA’s new Arctic Weather Satellite has taken centre stage at OHB’s facilities in Stockholm, Sweden, before the spacecraft is packed up and shipped to California, US, for a launch currently scheduled for June.Embracing the New Space approach to demonstrate new concepts in a cost-effective and timely manner, the Arctic Weather Satellite has been designed to show how it can improve weather forecasts in the Arctic.