Glacial earthquakes are rocking the Doomsday Glacier in Antarctica.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 131, Issue 1, 16 January 2026.
Crammed full of epic scenery, steaming geysers, plants and animals, Yellowstone National Park is a spectacular place to visit, but how hot is your knowledge on it? Take our quiz to find out.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Volume 131, Issue 1, January 2026.
As permafrost melts, metals stored in rocks leach into the water, making it toxic for fish. The post A once-sparkling Alaskan river has turned a sickly orange color appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Rare earth minerals are indispensable to the manufacture of high-performance magnets, batteries, and other materials that are vital to clean energy, communications, aerospace, and defense technology (1). The global demand for rare earth minerals is expected to double by 2050 (2). China dominates the rare earth mineral market, but recent Chinese export restrictions have motivated the countries that rely on China to increase the development of domestic supplies (3). On 20 October 2025, Australia signed an agreement with the United States to strengthen the supply chains for rare earth mineral mining and processing (4). Although the US-Australia rare earths framework (5) may bolster Australia’s domestic processing capacity, the economic benefits could come at a cost to global biodiversity.
A picture of what West Antarctica looked like when its ice sheet melted in the past can offer insight into the continent’s future as the climate warms.
If you aspire to drive less, eat less meat, or save energy at home this year, try these ideas for staying on track. The post Tips for making climate-related resolutions that stick appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Abstract To effectively manage and protect ocean life and the people who depend on it, we need coordinated, comparable observations of ocean biodiversity. Seagrass cover and composition is an essential ocean variable (EOV) of the Global Ocean Observing System because seagrasses are the foundation of coastal ecosystems worldwide, and support diverse marine life and ecosystem services. We present guidelines for collecting and reporting seagrass data that fulfill specifications for the EOV, including three priority measurements to maximize compatibility among data sets: seagrass cover, species composition, and areal extent, with priority environmental variables for interpreting changes in status and condition. To promote interoperability, we present a standard format for seagrass EOV data and...
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE05398F, Review Article Liyu Zhu, Hongbin Yang, Kun Liu, Wei Li, Yinjiao Tang, Xiaomin Li, Ting Xu, Lin Dai, Chuanling Si Growing environmental imperatives are driving the need to substitute petroleum-derived materials with renewable and sustainable alternatives to enable the production of biodegradable and carbon-neutral products. As a naturally abundant and... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
The total climate-related financial risks top $6 trillion at 4,000 of the world’s large companies. The post Climate change could cost businesses big time appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Learn more about the Freya Hydrate Mounds, the deepest known methane seep in the Arctic, and the creatures that call it home.
This is a re-post from Carbon Brief by Josh Gabbatiss China’s coal demand is set to drop by 2027, more than cancelling out the effects of the Trump administration’s coal-friendly policies in the US, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). Global coal demand is due to grow by 0.5% year-on-year to reach record levels in 2025, according to the latest figures in the IEA’s annual market report . Yet this will be reversed over the next couple of years, as a faster-than-expected expansion of renewables in key Asian nations and “structural declines” in Europe push coal demand down, the agency says. While US coal demand is set to continue falling, the decline will be slower than expected last year...
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE06963G, Paper Maoxin Chen, Huan Li, Hui Xu, Zhitan Wu, Jinxing Chen, Huihui Lin, Ao Du, Sundus Umer, Zihui Chen, Ning Yue, Zhijie Yan, Tianyu Yin, Nianjun Yang, Jiong Lu, Weichao Wang, Chunpeng Yang, Quanhong Yang Zinc–iodine (Zn–I 2 ) batteries are promising for grid-scale energy storage, yet rapid capacity fade from polyiodide shuttling remains a fundamental challenge. This shuttling arises from the coupled, stepwise iodine reduction pathway... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Scientists using the James Webb telescope observed a distant exoplanet with an atmosphere of soot and diamonds, challenging all explanations.
DNA from soil could soon reveal who lived in ice age caves, research shows.
Some people in Ukraine weathered the harshest moments of the last ice age by creating shelters made partly of mammoth bones and tusks.
Skeptical Science is partnering with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. You can submit claims you think need checking via the tipline . Do solar panels generate more waste than fossil fuels? Waste from discarded solar panels is dwarfed by the waste from coal, oil, and gas. In addition, solar panel recycling capacity continues to expand and improve. A 2023 study estimated that from 2016 – 2050, if power systems do not decarbonize, coal ash would be 300 – 800 times heavier than waste from discarded solar panels, and oily sludge from fossil fuels would be 2 – 5 times heavier. Currently only about 10 – 15% of panels are recycled in the U.S., but governments and companies are funding additional research...
the development and evolution of NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) has been a major achievement for weather forecasting. For 50 years, GOES have kept a constant vigil over the Western Hemisphere and monitored the Sun and the near-Earth environment.
This is a re-post from The Climate Brink Tis the season for global temperature forecasts. The UK Met Office recently released their 2026 prediction, estimating that it is most likely to end up as the second warmest year on record at 1.46C (with a range of 1.34C and 1.58C) relative to the 1850-1900 preindustrial baseline period. 1 This is likely warmer than both 2023 and 2025 2 and with a small chance of being warmer than 2024. Not to be outdone, James Hansen released his estimate that 2026 temperatures will also be around 1.47C in the GISTEMP dataset (albeit using a somewhat different 1880-1920 baseline) 3 , with the 12 month average dipping down to around 1.4C in the coming months before rising back up by year’s end...
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE06723E, Paper Yanzhi Li, Yuhan Chen, Zhiyuan Li, Yuxin Cui, Lu Cheng, Ke Cao, Ying Han, Wenfeng Liu, Yao Zhou High-temperature electrostatic capacitors are essential for advanced power electronics and energy systems, yet most polymer dielectrics suffer from severe conduction loss and premature failure under coupled thermal and electrical stress.... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, December 14, 2025 thru Sat, December 20, 2025. Story of the week As you can see below, five of the six articles in the Climate Policy and Politics category are about the plans to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. If you live in the US and would like to speak out against this ill-advised plan, you can do so via the action page provided by AGU, the American Geophysical Union: Speak Out to Save NCAR today! Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Policy and Politics (6 articles) Oil executives once booed Canada`s prime minister. Now they cheer him. Mark Carney, once a U.N. special...
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 130, Issue 24, 28 December 2025.
Learn how drone-based sampling is opening a new window into whale health in remote Arctic regions.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Volume 130, Issue 12, December 2025.
Open access notables Widespread Increase in Atmospheric River Frequency and Impacts Over the 20th Century , Scholz & Lora, AGU Advances Atmospheric rivers (ARs) play a dominant role in water resource availability in many regions, and can cause substantial hazards, including extreme precipitation, flooding, and moist heatwaves. Despite this, there is substantial uncertainty about recent and ongoing changes in AR frequency and impacts. Here, we place recent observed trends in their longer-term context using AR records extending back to 1940. Our results show that AR frequency has increased broadly across the midlatitudes, bridging the apparent discrepancy between the observed satellite-era poleward shift and the general increase simulated in climate change projections...
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D5EE06160A, Paper Zhiheng Shi, Guigui Liu, Haolong Huang, Ziyuan He, Chuanping Lei, Zhenfeng Feng, Minghui Ye, Yufei Zhang, Zhipeng Wen, Wencheng Du, Xiaoqing Liu, Yue Wei, Qi Yang, Yongchao Tang, Cheng Chao Li With choline cations (Ch + ) and 2-acetbromamide (BrAce) as coregulators, a coordination-escorted organo-interhalogen conversion strategy is developed, enabling durable dual-deposition Zn||I 2 batteries with high areal capacities. 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
Since the implementation of China’s Clean Air Action and the Minamata Convention, which aims to mitigate anthropogenic mercury (Hg) emissions to the environment by phasing out Hg usage, China has reduced atmospheric Hg concentrations by approximately 39% (1), primarily by controlling industrial emissions from coal-fired power plants and coal-fired industrial boilers (2) in urban areas. However, the release of Hg from surface reservoirs (3), particularly urban soils, could offset this progress.
Nature Energy, Published online: 18 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41560-025-01914-6Uniform interregional electricity transfer capability requirements improve reliability of the US grid, but with lower cost and emissions reductions than a cost-optimized, region-specific approach. When designing interregional electricity transmission policy, the need for a reliable grid must be balanced alongside aspirations for a lowest-cost, lowest-emissions one.
White House budget director calls the National Center for Atmospheric Research a source of “climate alarmism”
A key discovery from NASA’s Cassini mission in 2008 was that Saturn’s largest moon Titan may have a vast water ocean below its hydrocarbon-rich surface. But reanalysis of mission data suggests a more complicated picture: Titan’s interior is more likely composed of ice, with layers of slush and small pockets of warm water that form […]
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D5EE05198C, Review Article Ke-Feng Ren, Zhong-Yu Li, Xin Shen, Cong Guo, Weizhai Bao, Feng Yu, Ebrahim Nemati-Kande, Long Kong, He Liu, Xin-Bing Cheng, Jingfa Li This review highlights the recent progress of novel solvations based on ion/dipole interactions and analyzes the working principles and the future directions, aiming to construct a specific design paradigm of electrolytes in rechargeable 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
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE06482A, Paper Weimin Ma, Shidi Gui, Jingyang Zhu, Huaisuo Yao, Jingxue Sun, Jian Pei, Yingxuan Li Although direct air capture technology shows promise for atmospheric CO2 reduction, it is hindered by the energy-intensive CO2 concentration processes and unresolved long-term storage risks. As an alternative approach, direct... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Warming temperatures appear to be driving genetic mutations in some polar bears to help them survive the shifting climatic conditions.
Copernicus Sentinel-6B, launched last month, has reached its orbit and delivered its first set of data, which show variations in sea level in the North Atlantic Ocean. This data underlines how the mission will continue to strengthen the long-term reference record of sea levels, a key parameter of climate change.
Skeptical Science is partnering with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. You can submit claims you think need checking via the tipline . Are toxic heavy metals from solar panels posing a threat to human health? Toxic heavy metals in solar panels are locked in stable compounds and sealed behind tough glass, preventing escape into air, water, or soil at harmful levels. Most concern focuses on cadmium and lead. 40% of new U.S. panels use cadmium telluride, which does not dissolve in water, easily turn to gas, or approach the toxicity of pure cadmium. During manufacturing and disposal, heavy metals are handled under safety and waste rules. Per unit of electricity, solar releases far less heavy metals than fossil fuels. ...
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D5EE05571G, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Woojae Shin, Haoxiang Lai, Gasim Ibrahim, Guiyan Zang A harmonized global ammonia supply chain database across 63 countries was developed, quantifying the levelized cost of ammonia and life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions for diverse production (gray, blue, yellow, pink, and green) and logistics. 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
Under current climate policies, 79 per cent of the world’s glaciers will disappear by 2100, endangering the water supply for 2 billion people and raising sea levels dramatically
The program helps them talk about the problem – and how it affects health – with patients. The post Free online courses teach health professionals about climate change and health appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Satellites are emerging as a powerful new tool in the fight to curb emissions of methane. While methane is much shorter-lived in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, it is vastly more potent at trapping heat, which makes rapid cuts essential for slowing warming in the short term. The same satellite technology that has transformed methane monitoring in the oil and gas sector is now being turned towards another major source – landfill sites.
Learn what the first maps of the sun's atmospheric boundary reveal about solar wind and its escape into space.
Efforts to lower the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere may come too late to prevent long-term changes to the Arctic
Rethinking American suburbs could help people drive less, lowering emissions. The post In an Ohio suburb, sprawl is being transformed into walkable neighborhoods appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D5EE04802H, Paper Wenyan Du, Qi Huang, Yaokang Lv, Ziyang Song, Lihua Gan, Mingxian Liu Multi-S-heterocyclic covalent organic frameworks as a new p-type cathode are designed, which triggers stable 30 e − OTF − coordination at high redox voltage (1.3 V), giving Zn–organic batteries high energy density and ultralong life. 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
Open access notables Detectability of Post-Net Zero Climate Change s and the Effects of Delay in Emissions Cessation , King et al., Earth's Future There is growing interest in how the climate would change under net zero carbon dioxide emissions pathways as many nations aim to reach net zero in coming decades. In today's rapidly warming world, many changes in the climate are detectable, even in the presence of internal variability, but whether climate changes under net zero are expected to be detectable is less well understood. Here, we use a set of 1000-year-long net zero carbon dioxide emissions simulations branching from different points in the 21st century to examine detectability of large-scale, regional and local climate changes as time passes under net...
Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have detected the strongest evidence yet for an atmosphere on a rocky planet outside our solar system, as NASA leads the world in exploring the universe from the Moon to Mars and beyond. Observations of the ultra-hot super-Earth TOI-561 b suggest that the exoplanet is surrounded by a […]
On 23 September, China launched the China-Europe Arctic Express, a new Arctic shipping route that shortens the Asia-Europe maritime journey to 18 days (12 to 15 days shorter than conventional routes) (1). This route will accelerate cargo transit, reduce carbon emissions, and provide an alternative to the congested Suez Canal (2). However, it also introduces environmental challenges that could make marine coating materials less effective, such as extreme polar conditions, substantial temperature fluctuations, and highly corrosive seawater (3). Furthermore, the Arctic’s fragile ecosystem, which has a slow recovery rate, is extremely vulnerable to pollutants (4, 5), including microplastics and toxic residues such as copper ions leached from conventional marine coatings (6). Addressing these challenges...
The world’s biggest emitter of carbon dioxide is on the cusp of a turning point that could herald the beginning of a global decline in fossil fuel use
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections The electric car market is booming – just not in the United States. One-quarter of new cars sold around the world so far in 2025 have been electric. That share is forecast to continue rising rapidly in coming years, reaching one-half in the early 2030s. But the electric share of new car sales in the U.S. has plateaued at a mere 10% since 2023, and the Trump administration has implemented policies and regulatory changes that have slammed the brakes on a shift to EVs. As a result, many developing nations in regions like Southeast Asia are passing the U.S. in EV adoption, while China and a number of European countries like Norway ( as Will Ferrell comedically informed us in a GM advertisement ) are leaving...
Learn how a major shift toward drought reshaped the Flores ecosystem and may have driven the hobbits to extinction.
Skeptical Science is partnering with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. You can submit claims you think need checking via the tipline . Are electromagnetic fields from solar farms harmful to human health? Electromagnetic fields from solar farms are far too weak to harm human health and fall well within accepted safety limits for exposure. Solar equipment emits non-ionizing radiation, meaning it has enough energy to move atoms in a molecule but not enough to remove electrons or damage DNA. Solar farm EMFs are even less energetic than other forms of common non-ionizing radiation such as radio waves, infrared, or visible light. Even when standing directly beside the largest-scale equipment, EMF levels measure around 1,050...
This is a re-post from The Climate Brink The extreme global temperatures of the past few years have led a lot of people to ask me if the world is warming faster than expected. To answer that, we need to look at how well climate models reproduce observed global mean surface temperatures. Here I will look at the last three generations of climate models (CMIP3, CMIP5, and CMIP6) as well as a version of the latest generation of models (CMIP6) that excludes the so-called “ hot models ” whose climate sensitivity is higher than the range deemed likely in the most recent IPCC report. It turns out that that the resulting picture is complex. Earlier generations of models better reproduce the rate of warming observed since 1970, while the latest generation better captures...
Growing more common as climate warms, these once-rare events could ultimately accelerate ice loss
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D5EE05181A, Review Article Min Xu, Hongmin Liu, Xinran Gao, Yitao Lou, Huakun Liu, Shixue Dou, Nana Wang, Zhongchao Bai All-solid-state lithium batteries (ASSLBs) offer exceptional energy density and safety, yet interfacial instability at both cathode and anode remains a major challenge. 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/D5EE04804D, Paper Chunlin Xie, Shengfang Liu, Jin Wang, Xianghui Meng, Shuyi Yu, Jiaming Zhang, Haijun Peng, Dan Sun, Yougen Tang, Haiyan Wang† A schematic of NaHMDS as a sacrificial sodium source for highly reversible anode-free sodium batteries with stable SEI/CEI interphases and dendrite-free deposition. 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/D5EE02120K, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Abdelaziz Gouda, Juan Manuel Restrepo-Flórez, Abhinav Mohan, Otavio Augusto Titton Dias, Andrew Wang, Camilo J. Viasus Perez, Jessica Ye, Tamlyn Slocombe, Vijay K. Tomer, Jiabao Shen, Nhat Truong Nguyen, Nazir Kherani, Mohamad Hmadeh, Alán Aspuru-Guzik, Mohini Sain, Geoffrey Ozin Light-driven methane photolysis produces clean H 2 and MWCNTs from natural gas, enabling low-energy hydrogen fuel and advanced materials for Li-ion storage, with 70% less energy than conventional methods. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed...
A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, December 28, 2025 thru Sat, January 3, 2026. Year 2025 Statistics As this is the first news roundup of 2026 and we therefore have the complete year 2025 "in the can", we thought that you might enjoy some stats about what we shared during the previous 12 months. All told, we shared 1470 links from about 270 different outlets, the vast majority of which provided fewer than 10 links and the bulk of shares originated from just 25 different outlets. The Top10 are: The Guardian (190), Skeptical Science (164), Inside Climate News (108), Yale Climate Connections (67), Phys.org (63), Carbon Brief (58), New York Times (54), The Conversation (52), Grist (47), CNN (38), followed...
Learn how coral reefs drive daily changes in ocean microbes — a process that shapes how nutrients and energy move through reef ecosystems.
A long-term experiment reveals tropical forests in Panama are able to adapt to droughts, but scientists warn this short-term "rescue strategy" is unlikely to save them from the impacts of climate change.
Amber and yellow National Severe Weather Warnings have been issued for snow and ice as Arctic air brings a prolonged spell of very cold weather for the start of the New Year.
Why Fossil Fuels Are So Important Just like fossil fuel divestment, climate court cases to punish fossil fuel (oil, coal, natural gas) producers do not work, and they should be rejected by climate...
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE06208J, Paper Yunyi Chen, Xitang Qian, Yuxiang Lyu, Yican Qiu, Yee Tung Kwan, Siyu Zhou, Xinyi Lan, Siqi Lu, Minhua Shao Anode-free lithium metal batteries hold great promise for high-capacity energy storage by eliminating both the conventional graphite anode and any excess lithium metal. However, irreversible charge-discharge cycles lead to the... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
An explorer and a glaciologist are kite-skiing across Antarctica with a ground-penetrating radar to gather data that will help understand the past and future of the ice sheet
Learn more about the snowfall that shut down ALMA in the Atacama desert, and how researchers worry this could be a sign of climate change.
In 2026, the European Union will start charging a carbon-emissions-based tax on imported goods such as steel, cement and fertilisers – and countries including the UK are likely to follow
A 2021 astronaut photo shows a triple valley system in Argentina's Los Glaciares National Park where a massive climate-resilient glacier, a pristine turquoise lake and a murky green "river" come together at a single point.
Introduction Launched into the night sky nearly 26 years ago, on December 19, 1999, from Vandenberg Air Force Base (now Space Force Base), Terra was NASA’s first Earth Observing System (EOS) Flagship mission to study Earth’s land surface from space via a coordinated series of polar-orbiting and low-inclination satellites that produce long-term global observations useful […]
A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, December 21, 2025 thru Sat, December 27, 2025. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Policy and Politics (8 articles) Lost Science - She Tracked the Health of Fish That Coastal Communities Depend On Ana Vaz monitored crucial fish stocks in the Southeast and the Gulf of Mexico until she lost her job at NOAA. New York Times, Interview by Austyn Gaffney, Dec 18, 2025. Save NCAR Field notes from New Orleans, where I and 20,000 colleagues learned that Trump intends to destroy the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Deep Convection, Adam Sobel, Dec 21, 2025. “Destroying Knowledge”: Michael Mann on Trump’s Dismantling...
This is a re-post from The Climate Brink by Andrew Dessler Flooding in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) has recently turned deadly serious, as days of intense rain from a powerful atmospheric river have swollen rivers and caused widespread flooding across the PNW. If you guessed climate change was playing a role in this, you’d be right. Climate change isn’t just making storms “wetter” in a simple sense; it is fundamentally breaking the region’s natural plumbing system. Here is why: 1. The atmosphere is wetter The first mechanism is the one you hear about most often: basic thermodynamics. The rule of thumb (the Clausius-Clapeyron relation for the science geeks) is that for every degree Celsius the atmosphere warms...
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D5EE06107E, Paper Long Pan, Kaining Cao, Mufan Cao, Min Gao, Yuan Zhang, Yang Zhou, ZhengMing Sun A dilute electrolyte–heterostructure interlocking strategy that couples a Te/ZnSe heterostructure with a dilute NH 4 Ac electrolyte is proposed to trigger and sustain the reversible Te ↔ amorphous TeO 2 conversion for durable aqueous 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
Careful slope monitoring prevented mass casualties in the landslide at Blatten, Switzerland, this year, but mountain communities may face a growing risk of disasters
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE05654C, Paper Linkai Peng, Tongxin Shang, Junwei Han, Jiwei Shi, Chuannan Geng, Yaqi He, Mengyao Li, Yun Cao, Wongsathorn Kaewraung, Min Gao, Yan-Bing He, Quanhong Yang, Wei Lv Metal-sulfur batteries promise sustainable high-energy storage but are plagued by sulfur-induced catalyst deactivation, which hinders long-term sulfur conversion. Here we present a concave carbon surface confinement strategy as a universal... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Introduction Launched in Feb. 2024, NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission is a cornerstone of Earth system science designed to deepen our understanding of how these environmental and biological components come together to influence our climate, carbon cycle, and ecosystems. PACE has funded three supporting components: the PACE Postlaunch Airborne eXperiment (PACE–PAX), the […]
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE05948H, Paper Ziheng Zhu, Hanjie Mao, Shuo Zhang, Xiaogang He, Da Zhang China's commitment to carbon neutrality by 2060 requires 5000--8000 GW integration of variable renewable energy, which may pose unprecedented grid stability challenges. Using spatial-temporally resolved modeling to co-optimize capacity expansion... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
A bilingual team in Minneapolis is making climate action simple. The post When the energy expert is your neighbor appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Lava rubble at the bottom of the sea is acting like a giant "sponge" for carbon dioxide, ancient cores reveal.
Clean energy infrastructure is being deployed with unmatched scale and speed—and China is leading the way
Even mature trees can suffer or die when heat and dryness persist. The post Why your trees need attention during a drought appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
The Met Office outlook for the global average temperature in 2026 suggests an extension of the run of years with a value above 1.4°C, compared to pre-industrial levels.
Pumas in Patagonia, Argentina are eating penguins in a national park — and it's changing how the big cats are interacting with each other.
A distant world with carbon in its atmosphere and extraordinarily high temperatures is unlike any other planet we’ve seen, and it’s unclear how it could have formed
This is a re-post from Carbon Brief The past three years have been exceptionally warm globally. In 2023, global temperatures reached a new high, after they significantly exceeded expectations. This record was surpassed in 2024 – the first year where average global temperatures were 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. Now, 2025 is on track to be the second- or third-warmest year on record. What has caused this apparent acceleration in warming has been subject to a lot of attention in both the media and the scientific community. Dozens of papers have been published investigating the different factors that could have contributed to these record temperatures. ...
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D5EE04331J, Communication Guixiang Ding, Zhaoqiang Wang, Zihe Chen, Yin Xiao, Xin Liu, Li Shuai, Lihui Chen, Hongwei Huang, Guangfu Liao Edge-rich nickel–aluminum layered double hydroxide nanoflakes with abundant lattice O defects and unsaturated coordination-regulated high-spin Ni sites were constructed for effective and selective solar-driven CO 2 conversion in a pure water system. 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
These books span the cosmos, the ocean, climate solutions, rivers, forests, and more. The post 12 non-fiction titles that climate readers will be delighted to unwrap appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Many land areas are drying out as glaciers melt, soils lose moisture, and groundwater levels fall. The post A slow-motion water crisis is unfolding around the world appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE05041C, Perspective Xiaoqiang Cui, Shicheng Dong, Ningning Cao, Xuchen Zhang, Junxia Wang, Haiguang Fu, Beibei Yan, Zhen Yu, Guanyi Chen, Miao Yu The global crises of resource scarcity, energy shortage, and environmental degradation demand innovative solutions for sustainable development. Solar-driven interfacial evaporation (SIE) has emerged as a transformative technology for recovering resource/energy... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 16 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02523-7Climate denial in political discourse is fuelled by psychological factors such as psychological distance, cognitive dissonance, confirmation bias, loss aversion, existential anxiety and social identity. Effective communication strategies addressing deniers’ motivations are crucial as denial undermines urgent climate action.
Friday, Dec. 19, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.
Many industries are eyeing up hydrogen as a source of clean energy, but with supplies of green hydrogen limited, we should prioritise the areas where it could have the most positive impact on carbon emissions, say researchers
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D5EE05170C, Paper Tengxiu Tu, Xinyuan Zhang, Yijin Wu, Zhixian Mao, Jifang Zhang, Jiapeng Ji, Lei Xing, Jian Kang, Shan Chen, Porun Liu, Haimin Zhang, Huajie Yin, Huijun Zhao A multifunctional, impurity-tolerant, and renewable energy-compatible method for carbon dioxide capture and a mineralization method that offers a practical and scalable pathway for industrial decarbonization. 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 listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, December 7, 2025 thru Sat, December 13, 2025. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Change Impacts (8 articles) When climate risk hits home, people listen: Local details can enhance disaster preparedness messaging Phys.org, Stockholm School of Economics, Dec 08, 2025. A 30-year-old sea level rise projection has basically come true Even without today’s advanced modeling tools, scientists made a ‘remarkably’ accurate estimate. Yale Climate Connections, YCC Team, Dec 08, 2025. Nearly 8,000 animal species are at risk as extreme heat and land-use change collide Phys.org, University of Oxford, Dec 09, 2025. ...
James Webb finds a hot planet that is tidally locked with its parent star, is coated with a thick atmosphere of volatile chemicals.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D5EE04892C, Paper Wang Xu, Yongbiao Mu, Yaoyu Yin, Anjun Hu, Yuanjian Li, Jian Wang, Qi Liu, Jianping Long, Lin Zeng, Shimou Chen This work proposes a conjugated topologically confined composite electrolyte, promoting the formation of an anion-dominated solvation structure and LiF/Li 3 N-rich interphases that suppress lithium dendrites and cathode degradation. 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/D5EE04445F, Paper Cheng-Lin Miao, Lu Feng, Xiao-Xue Wang, De-Hui Guan, Xin-Yuan Yuan, Ji-Jing Xu Asparaginate additive synergistically regulates bulk electrolyte and electrode/electrolyte interface in Zn metal batteries enabling long-term ultra-stable Zn plating/stripping at high depth of discharge and durable Zn batteries and Zn capacitors. 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
This year is likely to end up as the 2nd- or 3rd-warmest year on record, despite the lack of a planet-warming El Niño event. The post 3rd warmest on record (again): November 2025 keeps a hot global streak going appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Images captured by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe as the spacecraft made its record-breaking closest approach to the Sun in December 2024 have now revealed new details about how solar magnetic fields responsible for space weather escape from the Sun — and how sometimes they don’t. Like a toddler, our Sun occasionally has disruptive outbursts. But […]
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D5EE05379J, Paper Libin Zeng, Xinyue Wang, Dashuai Wang, Xianyun Peng, Zhibin Liu, Na Wu, Kexin Wang, Zhongjian Li, Bin Yang, Qinghua Zhang, Lecheng Lei, Paolo Samorì, Yang Hou A machine-learning-guided Mo–Cu dual-site cascade enables efficient electrochemical CH 4 -to-EtOH conversion via a three-electron *O 2 − -mediated pathway, achieving near-100% liquid selectivity. 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
Though there were setbacks on climate change and funding for science this year, there was still plenty of amazing discoveries to marvel at
Bowhead whales likely reproduce beneath the sea ice northwest of Spitsbergen, while using the open water in the eastern Fram Strait as a migration corridor. This conclusion comes from researchers in the Ocean Acoustics Group at the Alfred Wegener Institute, who recorded the calls of bowhead whales using underwater recorders and analysed the records with artificial intelligence. Their study on bowhead whale habitat use in relation to sea-ice cover has now been published in the journal Scientific Reports.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 130, Issue 23, 16 December 2025.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D5EE05932A, Paper Deng Hu, Hang Luo, Guanghu He, Xi Chen, Yuting Wan, Fan Wang, Xiaona Li, Huan Wang, Haoran Xie, Dou Zhang Film capacitors are indispensable in electrical engineering; however, balancing the insulation and thermal stability of polymer dielectrics remains a key challenge for high-temperature energy storage. 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 hybrid grolar bear saga is unfolding in the Arctic, and the tale of this strange family has much to tell us about nature on our changing planet
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D5EE05317J, Paper Xiaosa Xu, Junjie Chen, Jin Li, Zhenyu Wang, Zixiao Guo, Pengzhu Lin, Yu Wang, Jing Sun, Baoling Huang, Tianshou Zhao A single-Ni-atom-anchored COF as a catalyst is proposed to enhance the decomposition kinetics of lithium salt and construct the inorganic-rich SEI and CEI layers for anode-free solid-state 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
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D5EE03477A, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Shijie Wei, Arnold Tukker, Bernhard Steubing We systematically assess the climate change mitigation potential of hydrogen-based fuels in global container shipping at the fleet level from 2020 to 2050. 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/D5EE05519A, Perspective Anchun Tang, Minsi Li, Xueliang Sun, Weihan Li Multidimensional time-, spatial-, and energy-resolved characterisation reveals buried interfacial mechanisms in solid-state 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
Yale Climate Connections editors discuss the YCC en español project, led by Pearl Marvell. The post The world needs more climate change news in Spanish appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.