Melting ice, rebounding land, and rising seas will change what resources are available in Antarctica, a new analysis finds.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 131, Issue 7, 16 April 2026.
April 4, 2026: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.
From the Pacific Northwest to Antarctica, it's extraordinary warmth that's punching through climate norms with the most force. The post The 2026 Southwest U.S. heat wave was one of the six most astonishing weather events of the century appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Learn how bone dice from Ice Age sites in the American West are pushing the origins of gambling back by more than 6,000 years.
For reasons that are still unclear, climate models underestimate the growing gap between the amount of energy Earth receives from the sun and the amount the planet radiates into space.
Open access notables Quantifying climate loss and damage consistent with a social cost of carbon , Burke et al., Nature Climate change is causing measurable harm globally 1 , 2 . Political and legal efforts seek to link these damages with specific emissions, including in discussions of loss and damage (L&D) 3 , 4 ; however, no quantitative definition of L&D exists 5 , 6 , nor is there a framework to link past and future emissions from specific sources to monetized, location-specific damages. Here we develop such a framework, which is integrated with recent efforts to estimate the social cost of carbon 7 . Using empirical estimates of the non-linear relationship between temperature and aggregate economic output, we show that future damages from past emissions—one...
The Red Sea is a semi-enclosed marine basin of exceptional ecological value, supporting coral reefs, mangroves, and seagrass meadows that underpin biodiversity, fisheries, and coastal protection (1). However, the very physical characteristics that contribute to its ecological distinctiveness—restricted circulation and limited water exchange—also increase the persistence of local stressors. Rapid coastal development across the basin further intensifies these pressures, and basin-wide environmental assessments remain uneven and fragmented (2).
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NASA's Artemis II flight around the moon will expose astronauts to space weather. Space scientist Patricia Reiff tells Live Science how solar flares and radiation will impact the lunar mission.
Image: The image from Copernicus Sentinel-3 shows a Saharan dust storm over the Atlantic Ocean, with the Canary Islands visible off the coast of Morocco.
The EcoBlock project helped 15 homeowners on a single Oakland block get new rooftop solar, heat pumps, and insulation. The post California neighbors cut carbon together appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D5EE07845H, Paper Po-Wei Huang, Hyeonuk Choi, Anush Venkataraman, Olivia Vulpin, Claudio A. Ruiz Torres, Danae A. Chipoco Haro, Yaguang Zhu, Erika R. Yamazaki, Kelsey B. Hatzell, Shannon W. Boettcher, Sankar Nair, Jihun Oh, Hakhyeon Song, Marta C. Hatzell A bipolar membrane electrolyzer coupling bicarbonate electrolysis with formaldehyde oxidation directly produces syngas (H 2 : CO = 1) at 1.7 V and 200 mA cm −2 with 200% combined Faradaic efficiency. 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: 01 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02597-xFood loss and waste (FLW) is often attributed to technoeconomic inefficiencies of food systems. However, using a mechanistic analysis framework, we show that food surplus and misconsumption accounted for 11% of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions in 2021, exceeding FLW-associated emissions that are driven by technoeconomic constraints.
Vermont is defending its first-in-the-nation law that aims to make fossil fuel companies help pay for damage caused by climate change. The post Vermont defends its landmark climate superfund law against Trump administration lawsuit appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Jessica Green, author of ‘Existential Politics,’ argues that the international community’s focus on measuring emissions helped delay real action on climate change. The post The big flaw in climate policy: We’re trying to solve the wrong problem appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Volume 131, Issue 4, April 2026.
Learn how some of the beaches in Los Angles could soon become the next national park and what species this protected area could help keep safe.
Trump's war in Iran is the embodiment of everything that's wrong with our dependence on fossil fuels — and it's highlighting just how vital the transition to renewables is.
Everyone knows what a hurricane is, but a lesser-known storm type – a medicane – recently made landfall in Libya. While the arrival of Medicane Jolina, a rare Mediterranean cyclone, brought extreme weather, it also provided scientists with a crucial test case.Using different types of data from Earth-observing satellites, researchers are gaining new insights into how these storms form and evolve, and therefore, how their impacts can be predicted more accurately.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D6EE00296J, Paper Yamei Liu, Xiaofan Tian, Lu Wang, Lijin Xie, Zhenchao Li, Yuxin Ge, Zhao Li, Zhongchao Bai, Huakun Liu, Nana Wang, Guoxiu Wang, Xiaochuan Ren Separator-free battery design can maximize volumetric energy density by eliminating the separator-induced ion-transport barrier. However, its application in aqueous zinc-iodide (Zn-I2) batteries has been hampered by severe polyiodide shuttling and... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
For the second consecutive year, winter sea ice in the Arctic reached a level that matches the lowest peak observed since satellite monitoring began in 1979. On March 15, Arctic sea ice extent reached 5.52 million square miles (14.29 million square kilometers), very close to the 2025 peak of 5.53 million square miles (14.31 million […]
The Department of Interior says a French energy company has agreed to give up two U.S. offshore wind leases and invest in fossil fuel projects instead. The post Trump administration to pay French company $1B to walk away from US offshore wind leases appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
The project shows how clean, efficient technology can revitalize buildings. The post A burned-out Detroit house becomes a clean energy model appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE06846K, Paper Nan Li, Yixiang He, Jiacheng Zhu, Xiaofang Wang, Yifan Chen, Yusi Yang, Linlin Wang, Xiaogang Niu, Xiao Ji, Xuefeng Wang, Qianfan Zhang, Yujie Zhu Potassium-ion batteries (PIBs) hold great promise as low-cost and sustainable alternatives to lithium-ion batteries, yet their practical deployment is hindered by rapid capacity decay driven by irreversible potassium loss and... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D6EE00760K, Review Article Saisai Qiu, Haolin Zhu, Jia Xie, Shijie Cheng Anode-free sodium metal batteries (AFSBs) offer a compelling route toward high-energy and sustainable electrochemical storage by eliminating excess sodium and inactive anode hosts. Yet their practical viability is fundamentally limited... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
This is a re-post from The Climate Brink El Niño and its sister La Niña are the warm and cool phases of a natural climate pattern across the tropical Pacific (collectively called the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, or ENSO). The planet shifts back and forth irregularly between El Niño and La Niña every two to seven years, changing ocean temperatures and disrupting wind and rainfall patterns across the tropics. This in turn has a number of second-order effects around the planet. El Niño also has a major effect on global temperatures, reducing the rate of ocean heat uptake and increasing atmospheric temperatures. Global mean temperature can temporarily increase as much as 0.2C during a very strong El Niño event, with...
Wildfires that swept across the Amazon in 2024 were the most devastating in more than two decades. New research funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) suggests emissions may have been up to three times higher than earlier estimates.
A warming world may see more antibiotic-resistant bacteria, according to new research that shows a link between aridity and antibiotic resistance today.
In a new analysis, researchers estimated direct, indirect and future greenhouse gas emissions that were created in the first two weeks of the Iran war, between Feb. 28 and March 14.
NASA is joining international partners to hunt for ice on the Moon in support of future human exploration. The agency is providing a water-detecting instrument, the Neutron Spectrometer System (NSS), to the Lunar Polar Exploration (LUPEX) mission led by JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) and ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation).
Since 2016, Antarctic sea ice extent has been declining sharply – now scientists are piecing together how strong winds and warm deep water have played a part in this abrupt transition
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections Despite their polar-opposite politics, California and Texas have achieved the same distinction: They’re both national leaders in producing renewable energy. Wind and solar today account for 40% of power generation in California and 30% in Texas, well above the national average of 17%. California and Texas alone account for more than one-third of the U.S.’s solar and wind power generation and over half of its battery storage capacity — shares that continue to grow . The policy approaches used by California and Texas differ dramatically. “California has used centralized state control to achieve lots of wind, solar, and storage, while Texas has accomplished the...
Monday, March 23, 2026: Your daily roundup of the biggest science stories making headlines.
Plains around the San Andreas Fault and across Carrizo Plain National Monument are awash with yellow as wildflowers bloom.
A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, March 15, 2026 thru Sat, March 21, 2026. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Change Impacts (11 articles) Summer in March? Unusual Heat Wave Descends on Already Parched Western U.S. "The heat wave could further lower water availability in the region, which has seen staggeringly low levels of snowpack this year." Inside Climate News, Kiley Price, Mar 13, 2026. Q&A: How climate change and war threaten Iran’s water supplies "Climate change, war and mismanagement are putting Iran’s water supply under major strain, experts have warned." Carbon Brief, Multiple Authors, Mar 13, 2026. World on course to breach 1.5°C...
Friday's spring equinox may seem like a quaint notion to those already enduring furnace-like 90-110°F summer heat. The post Record-torching March heat ‘virtually impossible’ without climate change appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Today's sea level rise is significant enough to slow the rotation of the planet by just over a millisecond per century.
Learn how climate change is shifting the way seals hunt and how a lose of ice could create bigger risks even still.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 131, Issue 6, 28 March 2026.
Senior Services Plus in Illinois is helping older residents lower energy costs with free insulation, heating upgrades, and other improvements. The post Home energy upgrades help older residents stay in their homes appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Volume 131, Issue 3, March 2026.
Learn how researchers recreated birch tar and tested its antibacterial properties, revealing how Neanderthals may have used natural materials to manage wounds and infection.
For the first time, scientists have measured atmospheric gases from the late Pliocene, yielding data that could help to predict the future climate
A weather-forecasting AI was used to recommend routes for American Airlines flights between the US and Europe to reduce the formation of contrails, which contribute to global warming
This video includes personal musings and conclusions of the creator and climate scientist Dr. Adam Levy . It is presented to our readers as an informed perspective. Please see video description for references (if any). Video description Jeffrey Epstein was a climate change denier. The Epstein Files have uncovered a number of revelations about how power operates across the globe. And this includes the discussion of climate change - and climate denial - within these exchanges between Jeffrey Epstein and the people he associated with – from scientists to Donald Trump. So what did Jeffrey Epstein have to say when it came to climate change? And what do these files reveal about the links between climate denial and power? Support ClimateAdam on patreon: https://patreon.com/climateadam
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D6EE00098C, Paper Zihui Yuan, Yingxia Zhao, Yue Sun, Yingying Xu, Yuanhong Zhong, Shaomin Peng, Ming Sun, Ning Yan, Youwen Liu, Lin Yu We introduce a protective interfacial water film strategy, where a highly ordered hydrogen-bonded network in the outer Helmholtz plane (OHP) leverages strong covalent O–H bonds and dense ice-like ordering to physically block Cl − ingress. 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
A landmass that once connected Britain to mainland Europe had temperate forests that could have sustained Stone Age people for millennia before the landmass was flooded, a new study suggests.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D6EE00449K, Communication Fan Bu, Qiwen Wu, Jingzhu Chen, Wenbo Zhao, Yong Gao, Jipeng Chen, Ting Zhang, Yu Zhang, Salah A. Makhlouf, Cao Guan Broader contextPractical high temperature (> 80 °C) zinc-ion batteries with high energy density and stable cycling performance are greatly desirable for sustainable energy storage, but they remain constrained by the... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
When you get a wildly contorted jet stream on a human-warmed planet, expect wild results. The post Pick your weather poison this week: Tornadoes, blizzard, record rain, wildfire, or summerlike heat appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Scientists disagree whether human-made climate change or natural fluctuations are mostly to blame for worse-than-expected heat in recent years
Eco-chaplains are blending religion, contemplation, and environmental awareness to support people overwhelmed by planet-sized loss. The post Feeling climate grief? These spiritual caregivers are stepping in. appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
During the 2022 summer melt season, sediment plumes and fractured sea ice traced swirling eddies in a branch of the Nansen Sound fjord system in the Canadian Arctic.
A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, March 29, 2026 thru Sat, April 4, 2026. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Change Impacts (8 articles) `Very alarming` winter sees Arctic sea ice hit record-low for second year running The biggest distinctly continues to get smaller in the Arctic, as maximum ice extent for this past winter follows a downward trend caused by a warming planet. Carbon Brief, Carbon Brief Staff, Mar 27, 2026. Fire season fears grow amid western heat wave CNN, Andrew Freedman, Mar 27, 2026. As a mind-boggling heat wave begins to wrap up, we look at some initial numbers "Over 1,500 new monthly records for March and over 500 tied monthly records...
Storm Dave will bring a period of strong and potentially disruptive winds across northern parts of the UK this evening and tomorrow morning.
Discover the best U.S. national parks to see the Northern Lights and how often they can occur there.
Patches of open water in the region contributed to low sea ice extent across the Arctic in March 2026, which tied with the lowest maximum observed in the satellite record.
Chemists say they’ve found a way to turn breadcrumbs into hydrogen, potentially offering a sustainable alternative to one of the most common chemical manufacturing processes.
The Climate Works Pre-Apprenticeship Program offers paid training and support services to help residents enter the building trades. The post Illinois program expands access to clean energy careers appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D6EE00346J, Review Article Yangzhe Xu, Quanling Yang, Shenyu Ma, Qi Zhang, Modi Jiang, Benwei Fu, Chengyi Song, Wen Shang, Peng Tao, Tao Deng Solar steam technology offers an attractive way to harness abundant renewable solar energy for a broad range of applications. Compared with low-temperature vapor, high-temperature steam exceeding 100 °C has much... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
U.S. gas prices could hit $7 a gallon if the Strait of Hormuz remains restricted through June. Here’s how that could affect EVs, wind, and solar. The post What the Iran conflict means for gas prices, clean energy, and the climate appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Karin Kirk s of this writing, every river basin across the entire Western U.S. has below-average snow. Colorado, Utah, Washington, Oregon, California, and Nevada – the workplaces of thousands of ski area employees like me – are sitting at 15 to 65% of average snowpack for this time of year. Some ski areas closed in the middle of the season, and others decided to close early this year. Many cut employee hours. “This year was a catastrophic year,” said Auden Schendler, who shepherded the Aspen Ski Company’s sustainability program for 26 years. Winter enthusiasts know that bad years happen. But “in a climate-changed world, you’re more likely to see...
New research suggests devastating climate outcomes that are typically associated with extreme global warming could hit even we limit heating to 3.6 F above preindustrial levels.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D6EE00888G, Paper Qiao Gu, Mingtao Huang, Bingyu Huang, Wenhui Jiang, Ting Hu, Dirk Lützenkirchen-Hecht, Kai Yuan, Yiwang Chen CNT–X–Fe catalysts were prepared by tethering Fe(Phen) 2 to electron bridge (phenol, thiophenol, and pyridine)-functionalized carbon nanotubes to reveal the relationship between the spatial electron bridge and the ORR performance. 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. , 2026, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D6EE00038J, Paper Shuang Liu, Chong Xu, Sai Che, Guang Ma, Gong Cheng, Yuci Tian, Puyu Wang, Rui Wu, Jia-Qi Huang, Yongfeng Li, Jiangyan Wang A strategy using an electric field-sensitive solubilizing additive is developed to improve ionic conductivity and interfacial stability for stable lithium metal batteries. 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
China's cuts to aerosol emissions reduced sea ice loss, but it may have revealed a bigger story about climate change.
This is a re-post from The Climate Brink Imagine if I told you that the damages from climate change next year are worth 12% less to me than climate damages today. And 12% less the year after that. That the harms from climate change on people alive in the year 2100 are only worth one fiftieth as much as impacts on people this year. You’d probably call me selfish, heartless, or a similar slew of invectives, and rightly insist that the welfare of future generations should not be sacrificed for my short term benefit. But a somewhat obscure climate policy choice of how to value methane emissions compared to CO2 is doing just that – and unfortunately a number of climate scientists who should know better are defending it. The broader context is a big...
A network of meltwater lakes and drainage channels made an Antarctic ice shelf known for its blue ice areas even bluer.
A listing of 27 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, March 22, 2026 thru Sat, March 28, 2026. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Change Impacts (10 articles) ‘Pushing extremes to new levels’: Record US heat dome made possible by climate change "‘Insurers walking away’ is the clearest sign unpredictable weather extremes are spiralling out of control, one expert says." AP/Euronewsdotcom, Angela Symons, Mar 20, 2026. Record-torching March heat ‘virtually impossible’ without climate change "Friday’s spring equinox may seem like a quaint notion to those already enduring furnace-like 90-110°F summer heat." Yale Climate Connections, Jeff Masters...
Category I: NASA Environmental Quality Award Recognizes excellence in environmental management and planning, including stewardship of natural and cultural resources. This category highlights achievements in compliance, conservation, remediation, communication, and environmental information management, and the development of strong stakeholder partnerships. Category II: NASA Award for Excellence in Project or Program Execution Honors efforts that reduce […]
Lençóis Maranhenses National Park hosts sand-dune fields that fill up with lagoons every wet season, but the reserve also has mangrove swamps where species such as the scarlet ibis thrive.
The last Neanderthals to survive in Europe came from a single lineage that survived the worst period of the ice age, ancient DNA reveals.
Learn about the assemblage of fossils discovered at a water cave in central Texas, shedding light on Ice Age megafauna that lived in the state.
Open access notables Indicators of Global Climate Change 2022: annual update of large-scale indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence , Forster et al., Earth System Science Data We follow methods as close as possible to those used in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) Working Group One (WGI) report. We compile monitoring datasets to produce estimates for key climate indicators related to forcing of the climate system: emissions of greenhouse gases and short-lived climate forcers, greenhouse gas concentrations, radiative forcing, surface temperature changes, the Earth's energy imbalance, warming attributed to human activities, the remaining carbon budget, and estimates of global temperature extremes. The purpose of this effort, grounded in...
Climate change forces species to adapt rapidly to avoid extinction. To directly observe rapid adaptation and extinction, we conducted synchronized evolution experiments with Arabidopsis thaliana in 30 locations across Western Europe, the Mediterranean, ...
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE06850A, Paper Haofeng Liu, Feng Zhou, Zekai Zhang, Haodong Wang, Hanqing Liu, Zhihao Ren, Endian Yang, Zhengdong Ma, Tongle Chen, Pratteek Das, Changde Ma, Ao Leng, shihao Liao, Xiong Zhang, Yabin An, Cheng Lian, Yanwei Ma, Hui-Ming Cheng, Zhong-Shuai Wu Electric double-layer capacitors (EDLCs) with a high energy density for ultralow-temperature use are crucial for polar and space explorations, but hindered by the lack of suitable electrolytes and electrodes. We... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
In her new book, journalist and author Beth Gardiner explains how the industry has made plastic part of our daily lives – and what we can do about it. The post The fossil fuel industry’s backup plan? Plastic. appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Learn how Neanderthals in Europe suffered a loss of genetic diversity during the Ice Age, causing a single lineage to take over.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE07501G, Review Article Xin Li, Jingyun Tian, Panpan Li, Huazhang Zhao, Bingjun Xu, Zishuai Bill Zhang Electrochemical CO2 conversion is approaching industrially relevant performance, yet its practical deployment is constrained by insufficient stability under realistic operating conditions. We reframe stability as a dynamic, system-wide property rather... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Antarctica could warm much faster than its surroundings over the next few decades due to a phenomenon known as polar amplification that is well established in the Arctic.
Arctic rivers and runoff from the land pour vast volumes of freshwater into the Arctic Ocean, influencing seawater salinity, sea-ice formation and ocean circulation, thereby playing an important role in regulating Earth’s heat balance.As northern monitoring networks decline, scientists have turned to satellite data to reconstruct two decades of river discharge and runoff, revealing a striking mosaic of regional change as warming temperatures and shifting precipitation patterns reshape the Arctic’s hydrological system in uneven and unexpected ways.
The problem is a major threat to the U.S. snowsports industry. But their actions fall short. The post The ski industry is oddly quiet on climate change appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
A new study in Switzerland finds that beaver-built wetlands can trap and store large amounts of carbon, offering a low-cost boost for restoration and climate resilience.
These books and reports explore climate change through historical, scientific, social, and political lenses. The post 12 climate reads for Women’s History Month appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
The first Americans came over during the last ice age, but how much do you know about them?
Open access notables The emerging human fingerprint on global extreme fire weather , Turco et al., Science Advances Extreme fire weather (hot, dry, and windy conditions) has intensified globally, yet formally attributing this trend to anthropogenic climate change remains challenging. Here, we analyze global trends in extreme fire weather days (FWI95d, annual count of days with Fire Weather Index above the 95th percentile) over 1980–2023, using climate model ensembles, observational data, and fingerprint detection techniques. We find that the observed increase in extreme fire weather bears a clear externally forced signal, detectable at 99% confidence above natural variability and attributable to human-induced climate change. This emerging human-induced fingerprint...
The Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from more than 60 international institutions, including critical science bodies, such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) (1). This decision marks a notable retreat from the leadership role that the US has played in both bodies since their inception (2, 3). The federal abdication of commitment to these bodies will harm their work, prevent scientific advances, and degrade multilateral cooperation to address global crises. Scientists, universities, civil society, and philanthropies must fill the gaps to ensure continued US engagement with IPCC and IPBES.
Learn how fireflies synchronize their flashes — and how that natural coordination could inspire future small‑scale robotics.
Disruption to shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has led to a spike in oil and natural gas prices, which could spur countries to boost the rollout of renewable energy and electric vehicles
Learn more about the nearly invisible layer of carbon that may control how dust grains become electrically charged and how that discovery could help future missions to the moon and Mars.
Despite wildly different approaches, both states are seeing massive growth in solar and wind energy. The post How blue California and red Texas became green powerhouses appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Thanks to the success of the Arctic Weather Satellite prototype and Eumetsat’s recent greenlight to develop a full constellation of similar satellites called Sterna, the European Space Agency has awarded OHB Sweden with the contract to build 20 satellites.This marks a major step toward better monitoring rapidly evolving weather, improving forecasts of severe events in vulnerable regions such as the Mediterranean, and closing critical data gaps over the Arctic – the fastest-warming region on Earth and a key driver of Europe’s weather systems.
The Cerrado, largely overlooked in climate science and policy, is a critical carbon sink, according to new research.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article . Authors: John Cook , Senior Research Fellow, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne ; Alex Farnsworth , Senior Research Associate in Meteorology, University of Bristol ; Dan Lunt , Professor of Climate Science, University of Bristol , and Dann Mitchell , Professor of Climate Science, University of Bristol When English author J.R.R. Tolkien crafted his fantasy world Middle-earth, he argued storytellers are essentially “sub-creators” – they build fictional realms with internally consistent laws. For a world to be truly immersive and believable, readers apply what is known as the “ principle of...
Learn how geologists at Yellowstone National Park clean up hot springs filled with litter, saving them from irrevocable damage.
Discover how rising sea levels are slowing the Earth’s rotation and what that means for the future.
This is a re-post from The Climate Brink by Andrew Dessler When people debate the cost of fossil fuels versus renewables, the conversation almost always centers on the price at the pump or the cost per kilowatt-hour on your electricity bill. That’s understandable — those are the costs you can see. But they’re not the whole story. The rest of the story are subsidies. In most discussions, it’s laser-focused on subsidies for renewable energy, not fossil fuels. But fossil fuels get enormous subsidies. Those are deeply hidden, though, spread across government budgets, healthcare systems, and military spending in ways most people can’t connect back to their energy choices. To the extent that they do get attention, most of it goes to the implicit...
It seems improbable that a satellite designed to monitor polar ice sheets and floating sea ice could accurately measure a disturbance in Earth’s magnetic field. But that is just what ESA’s CryoSat mission did earlier this year.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE07230A, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Juri Becker, Luca Schuster, Sascha Kremer, Till Fuchs, Juergen Janek "Reservoir-free" construction of solid state batteries could circumvent the handling of reactive lithium metal foils and further increase the energy density. Metallic interlayers could play an important role in the... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 16 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02581-5We combined electric vehicle simulation and battery degradation models with high-resolution downscaled climate data for 300 global cities. Climate change was predicted to reduce battery lifetime by 8% on average for batteries manufactured between 2010 and 2018 versus 3% for batteries produced after 2019. Thus, technological advances in electric vehicle battery manufacturing demonstrate important climate adaptation co-benefits.
A listing of 27 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, March 8, 2026 thru Sat, March 14, 2026. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Change Impacts (8 articles) Dangerous droughts triggered by heatwaves are accelerating at an alarming rate, study shows Heatwaves, drought, wildfire risk and El Niño are compounding to create a dangerous cocktail of climate change. AP/Euronewsdotcom, Seth Borenstein, Mar 9, 2023. For frigid East it may be hard to fathom, but the US had its second-warmest winter on record AP News, Seth Borenstein, Mar 9, 2026. A Warmer Climate Means Bigger Hail "New attribution research shows how extra heat in the atmosphere can turn thunderstorms into factories...