The weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is boosting the sea level along the New England coast on top of sea level rise from melting ice, adding to flooding
Learn more about SNAP-X — an bio-inspired gel mimicking the scent of healthy reefs to support coral reef restoration.
Low-income neighborhoods of color are disproportionately affected by truck and car emissions. The post Air quality project in Buffalo, New York, could one day help residents breathe easier appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Volume 130, Issue 5, May 2025.
Learn about the strongest solar storm to ever strike Earth, occurring around 14,300 years ago during the last Ice Age.
Learn more about the first-of-its-kind study that shows how climate change could be making a staple food more toxic to consume.
‘They can be tens or even a hundred meters wide – that’s big enough to fly a helicopter through.’ The post Ice melt opens up enormous cracks in Greenland’s ice sheet appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Mixing electroactive materials, solid-state electrolytes, and conductive carbon to fabricate composite electrodes is the most practiced but least understood process in all-solid-state batteries, which strongly dictates interfacial stability and charge ...
Particles of both minerals and organic matter track the retreat of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet, which melted about 20,000 years ago.
This is a re-post from the Climate Brink by Andrew Dessler In August 2023, during an especially brutal Texas heat wave , I opened my electricity bill and was stunned by the total. As someone who studies climate change, I couldn’t help but connect the dots: global warming had made the heat wave worse, and that extra heat was driving up how much I had to spend on electricity. That realization led me to a simple question: how much of this bill was due to climate change? I set out to answer it and, 1.5 years later, I published a peer-reviewed paper . This post explains the method behind that analysis and why I estimate that climate change added about $80 to electricity costs for every Texan in 2023. Understanding the link between climate and electricity...
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00962F, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Yi Cheng, Jinhang Chen, Weiyin Chen, Qiming Liu, Obinna E. Onah, Zicheng Wang, Gang Wu, Tianyou Xie, Lucas Eddy, Boris I Yakobson, Ju Li, Yufeng Zhao, James M Tour Increasing use of lithium-ion batteries has triggered intensive attention to the management of end-of-life batteries. Sustainable recycling of high-value cathode materials is needed to address resource depletion and environmental challenges.... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Mexico’s Xiye Bastida helped coordinate climate marches for hundreds of millions of youth. Now she’s equipping young people around the world for more strategic climate action. The post What can individuals do about climate change? Find community. appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00422E, Paper Wenda Li, Zhaoyue Li, Lizhi Li, Alice Jane Merryweather, Yilin Chen, Shaoyu Yang, Hao Shi, Yang Lu, Yixiao Qiu, Guangsu Tan, Zhipeng Chen, Weiwei Wang, Yuzhu Wang, Yi-Fan Huang, Zhengyan Lun, Christoph Schnedermann, Xiangwen Gao, jingyang wang, Clare P. Grey, Chao Xu Sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) are attracting significant attention as a cost-effective and sustainable alternative to lithium-ion batteries. However, challenges related to achieving long-term cycling stability and high energy density persist. This... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
The formation of the Gondwana supercontinent also gave rise to an Antarctic range that has been covered by ice for 500 million years.
What they learn could help communities that depend on mountain snowmelt. The post Scientists track climate change on a remote Andes mountain peak appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Jeff Masters The new Department of Energy secretary, Chris Wright, until recently was the CEO of Liberty Energy, the nation’s second-largest fracking firm . In 2024, the firm published a manifesto called “ Bettering Human Lives ,” in which Wright makes a provocative statement that would be reassuring – if only it were true: “Another thing that we often hear about climate change is that it leads to a significant increase in extreme weather events with deadly consequences. This claim is false. Extensive reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) actually show no increase in the frequency or intensity of hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, or weather-related droughts,” Wright...
Chinese researchers have a new method to extract uranium from seawater twice as cheaply as previous technologies. Their success comes as China needs uranium to fuel its unprecedented nuclear expansion
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03084B, Review Article Liangshuang Fei, Hainan Sun, Yu Li, Yuxing Gu, Wei Zhou, Zongping Shao Abstract Electrocatalytic water splitting driven by renewable energy has garnered significant attention for producing high-purity hydrogen (H2) to support the H2 economy. The focus has been on developing highly active... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
A listing of 27 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, May 4, 2025 thru Sat, May 10, 2025. This week's roundup is again published by category and sorted by number of articles included in each. The formatting is a bit different compared to previous weeks, though. We are still interested in feedback to hone the categorization, so if you spot any clear misses and/or have suggestions for additional categories, please let us know in the comments. Thanks! Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Policy and Politics (7 articles) How the political consensus on climate change has shattered Despite unswering public attitudes on climate change, for a number of reasons both benign and malign the UK finds itself...
Extreme weather events are the most dramatic consequence of climate change, but there are many smaller ways it disturbs our daily life
Meet the moms who are defending their children and the planet. The post Two Latina moms who are standing up for climate justice appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Learn how and why a glacier is committing “ice piracy” in Antarctica, and what it could mean for rising sea levels.
Simulations suggest that an extraordinary jump in temperatures seen in 2023 and 2024 could simply be natural variability, rather than a new phase of climate change as some researchers have suggested
We present results from a randomized controlled trial in Bangladesh that introduced operational practices to improve energy efficiency and reduce emissions in 276 “zigzag” brick kilns. Of all intervention kilns, 65% adopted the improved practices. ...
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE01134E, Paper Jiaxi Gu, Zixiong Shi, Yongbiao Mu, Yuzhu Wu, Meng Tian, Ziang Chen, Kaihui Chen, Huicun Gu, Miaoyu Lu, Lin Zeng, Yuqing Song, Qiang Zhang, Jingyu Sun Sluggish reaction kinetics and uncontrollable dendrite growth are deemed as the main bottlenecks for practical Li–S batteries. Notwithstanding fruitful advances in designing dual-functional mediators for both electrodes, cooperative efforts on... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE06003B, Paper Guoqiang Liu, Linyu Hu, Ying Liu, Mao-Wen Xu, Jiajun Guo, Haichuan Zhou, Guoliang Ma, He Lin, Zhenhuang Su, Chang Liu, Jiangqi Zhao, Chunlong Dai, Zifeng Lin Current strategies to improve the low-temperature performance of aqueous batteries typically comes at the cost of safety, reaction kinetics, or overall energy density. Besides, the existing cathodes of low-temperature aqueous... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Combining sustainability, climate resilience and environmental preservation, the ancient “milpa” system of the Maya revealed in these images has been practiced for millennia
He says it’s important for the world to act quickly. The post Ocean warming is accelerating, scientist warns appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE01525A, Paper Yue Chen, Xiaopeng Duan, Junjie Zhang, Zhongwei Ge, Haisheng Ma, Xiaobo Sun, Huotian Zhang, Jiaxin Gao, Xuelin Wang, Xunchang Wang, Zheng Tang, Renqiang Yang, Feng Gao, Yanming Sun The persistent challenge of high non-radiative recombination energy loss (ΔEnr) remains a critical bottleneck in advancing the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of organic solar cells (OSCs). Herein, a fused non-fullerene... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04857A, Paper Mingzhe Yang, Tongle Chen, gongrui Wang, Xiaofeng Li, Yangyang Liu, Xuanxuan Ren, Ying Zhang, Lu Wu, Li Song, Juncai Sun, Zhong-Shuai Wu Lithium-rich manganese-based oxides (LRMOs) are promising high-specific-energy cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) but face issues of voltage decay and poor cyclability rooted in ireversible O/Mn redox. Herein we present... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Researchers modelled the spread of three prevalent fungi based on various climate change scenarios.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 130, Issue 9, 16 May 2025.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D5EE01202C, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Lina Chen, Yi Qin, Claire T. Coulthard, Zoë R. Turner, Chunping Chen, James Kwan, Dermot O’Hare Conventional catalytic CO 2 reduction into value-added products often encounters challenges such as high energy barriers and complex operational setups. 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
Abstract Climate adaptation requires actionable scientific information about potential climate impacts. Spatial climate analogs answer the question, ‘where does the future climate of a focal location occur today?’ Analogs provide a means to develop measures of climate change exposure and can be applied to project climate change impacts. Although analogs are the basis for empirical models, recent applications of analogs have been structured as spatial models, which can contribute distinct information compared to more commonly used nonspatial approaches. Analogs may improve our ability to communicate climate change impacts for science and nonscience audiences. We review approaches for identifying analogs, summarize their applications, highlight understudied features, and examine evidence of their...
This is a re-post from the Climate Brink There are is a lot of dire news in the world these days – the dismantling of US climate policy, the apparent canceling of the 6th National Climate Assessment, etc. So sometimes its worth taking a break from doomscrolling and indulging in one’s hobbies. Some folks collect trading cards, make miniatures, or do crafts. My hobby is making climate data visualizations (which, I suppose, is not the most uplifting occupation!). A week ago I was playing around with a climate “tree ring” graph that I shared on social media that had daily global surface temperature anomalies between 1940 and 2025 as colored rings. But with reanalysis data (ERA5 here) we have both temperature anomalies (e.g. changes relative...
A listing of 23 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, April 27, 2025 thru Sat, May 3, 2025. This week's roundup is again published by category and sorted by number of articles included in each. The formatting is a bit different compared to previous weeks, though. We are still interested in feedback to hone the categorization, so if you spot any clear misses and/or have suggestions for additional categories, please let us know in the comments. Thanks! Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Policy and Politics (8 articles) Scientist Who Helped Prove Humans Changed the Climate Watches Evidence Being Erased Livermore Lab’s Ben Santer spent decades tracing humanity’s imprint on the atmosphere...
The sudden heat altered oceans’ chemical composition, which affected some top aquatic reptilian predators more than some other species.
Scientists thought La Niña was coming. It didn't — at least for now. What could that mean for this year's hurricane season, and how might long-term climate change affect El Niño and La Niña patterns?
As the new Biomass satellite settles into life in orbit following its launch on 29 April, ESA has released its most extensive satellite-based maps of above-ground forest carbon to date. Spanning nearly two decades, the dataset offers the clearest global picture yet of how forest carbon stocks have changed over time.Developed through ESA’s Climate Change Initiative, this new long-term record integrates data from multiple satellite missions – and will soon be further enhanced by data from the Biomass mission itself.
Image: The Ocean and Land Colour Instrument on Copernicus Sentinel-3 captured this image of Earth’s biggest iceberg, A23a, on 5 April 2025.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00569H, Review Article Shanshan Pan, Wenhao Fang, Jie Yan, Suojiang Zhang, Haitao Zhang Semi-solid lithium flow batteries (LFBs), inheriting the advantages of high scalability of flow batteries (FBs) and high energy density of rechargeable lithium ion batteries (LIBs), are considered as an emerging... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Nature, Published online: 02 May 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01335-1Satellite observations of solar radiation have narrowed down the possible properties of dark photons — a proposed dark-matter particle.
A team of scientists tracked more than 400 corals that experienced intense ocean heat last year. More than half the corals died. The post A 2024 heat wave decimated corals in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
The geology of the Cascadia subduction zone has largely staved off climate-related sea-level rise in the Pacific Northwest, but that could reverse in an instant.
A Peruvian farmer's case against energy giant RWE will be decided shortly. But it has already made history, says Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change lead author Friederike Otto
Climate change's profound reshaping of conflict dynamics is already underway. The question facing humanity now is not whether we will confront these pressures, but how we will choose to do so.
Discovery could help crop breeders preserve grain quality and harvest size as climate changes
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05559D, Review Article Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Muhammad Adil Riaz, Panagiotis Trogadas, David Aymé-Perrot, Christoph Sachs, Nicolas Dubouis, Hubert Girault, Marc-Olivier Coppens Large-scale, sustainable, low-cost production of hydrogen can reduce the negative effects of climate change by decarbonising energy infrastructure. Low-carbon hydrogen can be synthesised via water electrolysis. Today, however, this only... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00266D, Review Article Zaiping Guo, Divyani Gupta, Jinshuo Zou, Jianfeng Mao Rechargeable metal-CO2 batteries (RMCBs) are highly promising for renewable energy storage and simultaneous reduction of carbon footprint from the environment, making it very attractive for next-generation battery development. An electrolyte... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
The Trump administration has dismissed all of the researchers working on the next installment of the National Climate Assessment, a crucial report on how climate change is affecting the country
NASA’s PRIME-1 (Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment 1) mission was designed to demonstrate technologies to help scientists better understand lunar resources ahead of crewed Artemis missions to the Moon. During the short-lived mission on the Moon, the performance of PRIME-1’s technology gave NASA teams reason to celebrate. “The PRIME-1 mission proved that our hardware works […]
ESA’s groundbreaking Biomass satellite, designed to provide unprecedented insights into the world’s forests and their crucial role in Earth’s carbon cycle, has been launched. The satellite lifted off aboard a Vega-C rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on 29 April at 11:15 CEST (06:15 local time).
Recent studies have found that prolonged exposure to elevated temperatures can be harmful to health – and might even influence aging. The post Heat waves may accelerate the aging process appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Since last fall, NASA scientists have flown an advanced 3D Doppler wind lidar instrument across the United States to collect nearly 100 hours of data — including a flight through a hurricane. The goal? To demonstrate the unique capability of the Aerosol Wind Profiler (AWP) instrument to gather extremely precise measurements of wind direction, wind […]
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00052A, Paper Sainan Ou, Jiaxian Zheng, Xingshu Chen, Ran Li, Zhanhui Yuan, Shude Liu, Yao Niu, Meng An, Ge Zhou, Yusuke Yamauchi, Xinxiang Zhang Rechargeable aqueous zinc-ion batteries (AZIBs) are promising candidates for stationary energy storage due to their intrinsic safety, environmental sustainability, and cost-effectiveness. However, their cycling stability is hammered by uncontrollable dendrite... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE01548K, Paper Ping Fu, Dong Yang, Yihua Chen, Ruixue Lu, Md Azimul Haque, Yucheng Liu, Yaoyao Han, Hui Li, Ruotian Chen, Jie qiong Liu, Wei Qin, Luis Huerta Hernandez, Fengtao Fan, Kaifeng Wu, Derya Baran, Huanping Zhou, Can Li Efficient utilization of thermal energy generated from infrared light has long been a focal point in the development of high-efficiency photovoltaic (PV) devices. Theoretically, the thermal energy can be converted... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
After years of careful design and preparation, ESA’s Earth Explorer Biomass satellite is set for launch tomorrow, 29 April at 11:15 CEST, aboard a Vega-C rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.This groundbreaking mission will offer unprecedented insights into the state and evolution of the world’s forests. By mapping the woody material in Earth’s forests, this revolutionary satellite will play a crucial role in deepening our understanding of how forests influence the global carbon cycle.
The World Health Organization estimates 600 million people a year already suffer from foodborne illnesses.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE01368B, Paper Changjiang Li, Min Deng, Haonan Chen, Yuwei Duan, Chentong Liao, Zeqin Chen, Qiang Peng Halogenated volatile additives play an important role in well regulating blend morphology in polymer solar cells (PSCs). However, the mismatched crystallization rate between the donor and acceptor often leads to... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
New research has linked sea level rise and an increase in flooding in the U.S. Northeast over the past 20 years to the breakdown of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC).
The Tropical Forests Forever Facility, an initiative spearheaded by Brazil, would raise money from investments and pay countries to preserve forests – can it succeed where carbon markets have failed?
Image: The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission brings us this cloud-free view of Svalbard, a remote Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean.
Deep dive into the amber deposits on Hokkaido Island in Japan, which may serve as a record of ancient tsunamis.
Scientists know that changing tree leaves can indicate when a nearby volcano is becoming more active and might erupt. In a new collaboration between NASA and the Smithsonian Institution, scientists now believe they can detect these changes from space. As volcanic magma ascends through the Earth’s crust, it releases carbon dioxide and other gases which […]
NASA has selected two more university student teams to help address real-world aviation challenges, through projects aimed at using drones for hurricane relief and improved protection of air traffic systems from cyber threats. The research awards were made through NASA’s University Student Research Challenge (USRC), which provides student-led teams with opportunities to contribute their novel […]
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 130, Issue 10, 28 May 2025.
For the first time ever, China’s carbon dioxide emissions have declined even as its power demand has increased, a possible sign of a longer-term fall in emissions
After record temperatures in 2024, climate scientists had expected this year to be cooler, but instead the planet seems to be heading for a second year above the 1.5°C climate goal
Researchers have compiled a list of "ingredients" that could help resource exploration companies locate huge reservoirs of clean hydrogen, a critical element in the transition away from fossil fuels.
Saturn’s moon Titan is an intriguing world cloaked in a yellowish, smoggy haze. Similar to Earth, the atmosphere is mostly nitrogen and has weather, including clouds and rain. Unlike Earth, whose weather is driven by evaporating and condensing water, frigid Titan has a methane cycle. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, supplemented with images from the […]
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00851D, Paper Mengjiong Chen, Zhenzhen Qin, Ziyang Zhang, Yanbo Wang, Liyuan Han Gas-medium annealing simultaneously accomplished crystallization and surface passivation, contributing to high-quality perovskite films with much fewer defects from bulk to surface. A minimized energy loss of 0.29 eV was obtained for efficient PSCs. 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: 14 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02332-yUsing seven generations of selected zebrafish (Danio rerio), the authors consider the trade-offs and mechanisms behind evolution of warming tolerance. They show unexpected improvements in cooling tolerance in warming-adapted fish, and highlight mechanistic insights behind warming tolerance.
An abrupt change in Antarctica has caused the continent to gain ice. But this increase, documented in NASA satellite data, is a temporary anomaly rather than an indication that global warming has reversed, scientists say.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00455A, Paper Xiaoning Wang, Xiangyu Shen, Jianxiao Wang, Fuzhen Bi, Huanxiang Jiang, Hao Lu, Cheng Sun, Chunming Yang, Yonghai Li, Xichang Bao Isomerization of peripheral functional groups of acceptors refines aggregation and non-radiative energy loss for efficient organic 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
Fossil sites in Australia hold pollen and spores from the dinosaur age, when the island straddled the Antarctic Circle. Now, scientists have re-created the habitat of "polar dinosaurs," using these plant remains.
Antarctica is the fifth-largest continent by size, so what's hiding under its massive sheaths of ice?
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 12 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02334-wThe gap between adaptation policy planning and actual implementation could delay effective actions. Researchers demonstrate why internal consistency checks should be the starting point to reduce the gap by applying them for city-level adaptation plans across Europe.
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 . Is the climate as unpredictable as the weather? Climate predictions are more reliable than weather forecasts because they model long-term trends driven by large-scale, predictable factors, like greenhouse gas emissions, rather than short-term local conditions. Weather forecasts aim to predict daily changes in temperature or precipitation with great detail. These are primarily influenced by rapidly shifting conditions, making forecasts less accurate beyond a few days. Small changes in today’s weather can lead to very different outcomes tomorrow. In contrast, climate models project broad...
As the 8th UN Global Road Safety Week kicks off around the world under the theme “Make walking and cycling safe,” the World Health Organization (WHO) has launched a new toolkit to help governments promote active mobility – by making it safer. Each year, nearly 1.2 million people lose their lives on the roads, more than a quarter of them while walking or cycling. Yet, only 0.2% of the roads worldwide are equipped with cycle lanes, and far too many communities lack basics like sidewalks or safe pedestrian crossings. “Walking and cycling improve health and make cities more sustainable. Every step and every ride help to cut congestion, air pollution and disease,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General. “But we must make walking...
A report into April's deadly flooding has found that climate change made the central Mississippi River valley's extreme weather event more likely and more intense.
Students in Vinnytsia participate each year in a six-week program that teaches young people around the world how to work on climate solutions. The post Despite war, Ukrainian students take action on climate change appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE06038E, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Jing Li, Xiang Qiao, Bingchen He, Yuan Zhang, Subhajit Pal, Linchao Sun, Muhammad Bilal, Zhenhuang Su, Xingyu Gao, Joe Briscoe, I. Abrahams, Meng Li, Zhe Li, Yao Lu Despite notable progress in the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of lead halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs), their commercial viability remains limited by stability issues and the risk of lead contamination.... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00563A, Paper Biao Shi, Pengfei Liu, Zetong Sunli, Wei Han, Cong Sun, Ying Liu, Yuan Luo, Jin Si, pengcheng Du, Fu Zhang, Miao Yang, Yongcai He, Bo He, Dekun Zhang, Xiaona Du, Xixiang Xu, Rui Xia, Xueling Zhang, Yifeng Chen, Jifan Gao, Ying Zhao, Xiaodan Zhang The evaporation-solution sequential deposited wide bandgap perovskite has been widely applied to fabricate efficient, commercial textured perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells. However, current works generally widened the bandgap by incorporating more... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Bob Henson Alandmark policy crafted in April by members of the U.N.’s International Maritime Organization, or IMO, will tax international shippers based on the carbon content of their fuels. The draft policy is due to be finalized in late 2025. The agreement that emerged from the 83rd meeting of the IMO’s Marine Environment Protection Committee was undeniably a compromise – critiqued by activists and oil-rich nations alike. Yet it’s also undeniably historic. As the organization put it , “The IMO Net-zero Framework is the?first in the world to combine mandatory emissions limits and [greenhouse gas] pricing across an entire industry sector.” Key measures of the approved draft include:...
Just a week after its launch, ESA’s Biomass mission has reached another critical milestone on its path to delivering unprecedented insights into the world’s forests and their vital role in Earth’s carbon cycle – the satellite’s 12-metre-diameter antenna is now fully deployed.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE06204C, Analysis Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Muhammad Tayyab, Maximiliane Dreis, Dennis Blaudszun, Kevinjeorjios Pellumbi, Urbain Nzotcha, Muhammad Qaiser Masood, Sebastian Stiessel, Henning Weinrich, Hermann Tempel, Kai junge Puring, Ruediger-A. Eichel, Ulf-Peter Apfel The defossilisation of the chemical industry is a critical milestone in achieving climate-friendly and sustainable production routes. In this regard, CO2-electrolysis technologies have emerged as a foundational element of Carbon... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Nature, Published online: 07 May 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01389-1The Advanced Research and Invention Agency is investing £57 million to study climate-manipulating technologies, but says it is taking a cautious approach.
Renewable energy needs backup storage. From rust to sand to gravity, new techniques are making it happen. The post The coolest new energy storage technologies appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE01081K, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Manman Qi, Michael J. Zachman, Yingxin Li, Yachao Zeng, Sooyeon Hwang, Jiashun Liang, Mason Lyons, Qian Zhao, Yu Mao, Yuyan Shao, Zhenxing Feng, Ziyun Wang, Yong Zhao, Gang Wu Carbon-supported, atomically dispersed, nitrogen-coordinated metal sites (e.g., Fe and Ni) are arguably the most promising catalysts for the electrochemical reduction of CO2 to CO due to their unique catalytic properties... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Regions from Ukraine to Mongolia are seeing a spike in paired heatwave-drought events as climate change alters weather patterns across the planet
As climate change pushes summer temperatures to new highs, energy infrastructure such as cabling and transformers will struggle to cope
‘How to Explain Climate Science to a Grown-Up’ breaks down global warming in a kid-friendly way. The post New children’s book helps kids explain climate science to adults appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Discover interesting facts about how electric vehicles (EVs) work, how far they can go on a single charge, and when we can expect them to outnumber gas-powered cars.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE01338K, Paper Jiajun Gong, Qimin Peng, Shunshun Zhao, Taolue Wen, Haojie Xu, Weiting Ma, Zhicheng Yao, Yong Chen, Guoxiu Wang, Shimou Chen Composite polymer electrolyte (CPE)-based Li metal batteries have emerged as the most promising candidates for next-generation batteries. However, intrinsic incompatibility between composite phases severely compromises electrolyte performance. Herein, we propose... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Open access notables Public opposition to coal-fired power in emerging economies , Alkon et al., Energy Policy: Constructing new coal fired power plants presents significant climate, ecological, health, and economic risks. This presents sometimes acute tradeoffs for leaders in emerging economies, where rapid economic and population growth are driving large increases in electricity generation demand. Against this backdrop, combining a novel conjoint experiment with qualitative interviews, we find widespread public opposition to coal-fired power. We also find that this opposition is politically consequential, diminishing support for politicians who support coal-fired power and increasing expressed propensity to engage in social protest. These findings inform our understanding...
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE01158B, Paper Hui-jing Qiu, Wei-Zhi Song, Zichao Deng, Zhong Lin Wang, Liang Xu Enhancing the output is the most crucial challenge for developing triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) as an alternative technology to exploit wave energy, which is more difficult than other application scenarios due... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE01599E, Review Article Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Zhonghui Sun, Zhongping Li, Jinsong Peng, Xiaomeng Yan, Hang Shang, Yucheng Jin, Qiannan Zhao, Changqing Li, Siliu Lyu, Chunxia Chen, Jong-Beom Baek As commercial batteries reach capacity and energy density limits, especially with graphite anodes and transition metal cathodes, the need for advanced alternatives grows. Organic electrodes offer the promise of high... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
A global survey of microplastics in oceans reveals that tiny particles of plastic are prevalent throughout the water column, which could harm marine ecosystems and affect carbon storage in the deep sea
As trees choked by saltwater die along low-lying coasts, marshes may move in — for better or worse, scientists are learning. The post Ghost forests are growing as sea levels rise appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D5EE01064K, Paper Tongtong Li, Zhiyang Zheng, Zherui Chen, Mengtian Zhang, Zhexuan Liu, Huang Chen, Xiao Xiao, Shaogang Wang, Haotian Qu, Qingjin Fu, Le Liu, Ming Zhou, Boran Wang, Guangmin Zhou The urea oxidation reaction (UOR) efficiently treats urea-containing wastewater while replacing the high theoretical potential of the oxygen evolution reaction (OER), thereby enabling wastewater valorization. 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, Published online: 30 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01356-wIf scaled up, a method for extracting nickel without using carbon-rich coke could reduce emissions considerably.
Video: 00:02:59 ESA’s state-of-the-art Biomass satellite launched aboard a Vega-C rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The rocket lifted off on 29 April 2025 at 11:15 CEST (06:15 local time).In orbit, this latest Earth Explorer mission will provide vital insights into the health and dynamics of the world’s forests, revealing how they are changing over time and, critically, enhancing our understanding of their role in the global carbon cycle. It is the first satellite to carry a fully polarimetric P-band synthetic aperture radar for interferometric imaging. Thanks to the long wavelength of P-band, around 70 cm, the radar signal can slice through the whole forest layer to measure the ‘biomass’, meaning the woody trunks, branches and stems, which is where trees store...
Scientists in China have refuelled a thorium reactor on the fly for the first time. The breakthrough is paving the way for working reactors that are significantly safer than conventional alternatives.
Video: 00:02:01 ESA’s state-of-the-art Biomass satellite has launched aboard a Vega-C rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. The rocket lifted off on 29 April 2025 at 11:15 CEST (06:15 local time).In orbit, this latest Earth Explorer mission will provide vital insights into the health and dynamics of the world’s forests, revealing how they are changing over time and, critically, enhancing our understanding of their role in the global carbon cycle. It is the first satellite to carry a fully polarimetric P-band synthetic aperture radar for interferometric imaging. Thanks to the long wavelength of P-band, around 70 cm, the radar signal can slice through the whole forest layer to measure the ‘biomass’, meaning the woody trunks, branches and stems, which is where trees store most...
Conventional helium production comes with enormous carbon emissions, so scientists are looking for alternatives in places like Yellowstone, Tanzania's Rukwa Rift and India's Bakreswar-Tantloi province.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00215J, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Tingting Li, Di Zhang, Yun Zhang, Danli Yang, Runxin Li, Fuyun Yu, Kengqiang Zhong, Xiaozhi Su, Tianwei Song, Long Jiao, Hai-Long Jiang, Guo-Ping Sheng, Jie Xu, Hao Li, Zhen-Yu Wu Guided by the pH-field microkinetic model, we developed an porous Fe 1 Co 1 –N–C ORR catalyst, which exhibited excellent performance in zinc–air batteries and provided insights for advanced catalysts. 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
Despite opposition from the U.S. and other major fossil-fuel producers, a binding agreement will impose fees on carbon-intensive vessels. The post World’s cargo ships to pay more for dirty fuel under new rules appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
A listing of 30 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, April 20, 2025 thru Sat, April 26, 2025. This week's roundup is again published by category and sorted by number of articles included in each. The formatting is a bit different compared to previous weeks, though. We are still interested in feedback to hone the categorization, so if you spot any clear misses and/or have suggestions for additional categories, please let us know in the comments. Thanks! Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Education and Communication (6 articles) Climate change is transforming how scientists think about their roles CU Boulder researcher Pedro DiNezio emphasizes solving the problems of climate change in the here...
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 the 31,000 signatures of the OISM Petition Project invalidate the scientific consensus on climate change? Climatologists made up only 0.1% of signatories to a 1998 petition denying human-caused climate change — the consensus among qualified scientists stands. Anyone claiming they had a science degree could sign the petition without expertise in climate science. There is a strong consensus among actively publishing climate scientists on the existence of human-made climate change that has only grown since 1998. The 31,487 signatures, many found to be fictional or unverifiable, would...
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Volume 130, Issue 4, April 2025.