The fourth day of ESA’s Living Planet Symposium was busier than ever. Today, ESA signed an agreement on integrating satellite data into global environmental reporting frameworks as part of ESA’s Fundamental Data Records Framework. A contract with the Finnish government and the Finnish Meteorological Institute was signed to establish a calibration and validation ‘supersite’. ESA and the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures paved the way to integrating satellite data into environmental reporting frameworks. And the New Space Scout missions were also in the spotlight as ESA signed a contract with ISISPACE to development of the Tango mission. Four new Scout mission concepts were also announced.
Less accurate forecasts and reduced federal support may make local officials more skittish about calling lifesaving evacuations. The post Two major ways the Trump administration is making hurricane evacuations more difficult appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
The recent erratic behaviour of the polar jet stream isn't out of the ordinary, researchers have found by compiling data from the past 125 years
At ESA’s Living Planet Symposium, scientists have unveiled how the combination of different long-term, high-resolution satellite datasets from ESA’s Climate Change Initiative is shedding new light on the South American Gran Chaco – one of the world’s most endangered dry forest ecosystems. These data reveal, in remarkable clarity, that fire is the primary driver of widespread, accelerating deforestation across the region.
Open access notables Increased sea-level contribution from northwestern Greenland for models that reproduce observations , Badgeley et al., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences The Greenland Ice Sheet has been thinning over the past several decades and is expected to contribute significantly to sea-level rise over the coming century. Ice flow models that make these projections, however, tend to underestimate the amount of mass lost from the ice sheet compared to observations, which complicates adaptation and mitigation planning in coastal regions. Here, we constrain a model of northwestern Greenland with a time series of satellite-derived surface velocity data and time-dependent physics to infer unknown ice properties. The model reproduces observed mass loss...
The public is tuning out the seemingly slow warming of the world, but it doesn't have to be that way, argue Grace Liu and Rachit Dubey
Scientists have developed a material with photosynthetic bacteria that convert carbon dioxide into a mineral skeleton. The material hardens over time, so it could be used for buildings, they say.
Tracking SDG 7: The Energy Progress Report 2025 finds that almost 92% of the world’s population now has basic access to electricity. Although this is an improvement since 2022, which saw the number of people without basic access decrease for the first time in a decade, over 666 million people remain without access, indicating that the current rate is insufficient to reach universal access by 2030. Clean cooking access is progressing but below the rates of progress seen in the 2010s, as efforts remain hobbled by setbacks during the Covid-19 pandemic, following energy price shocks, and debt crises. Released today, the latest edition of the annual report that tracks progress towards Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7 highlights the role of distributed renewable energy (a combination...
This video includes personal musings and conclusions of the creator climate scientist Dr. Adam Levy . It is presented to our readers as an informed perspective. Please see video description for references (if any). Since President Trump took office in January 2025, he's declared war on climate change research. In this video, I speak with three expert scientists, who explain the devastation caused by Trump's attacks on climate researchers, institutions and reports. These assaults aren't just a huge deal in the USA, where they limit our ability to forecast extreme weather disasters. But they'll also affect our ability to be safe from climate extremes the world over - now and in the future. Support ClimateAdam on patreon: https://patreon.com/climateadam
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 130, Issue 12, 28 June 2025.
Learn more about the discovery of a giant possum in Big Bend National Park and how it’s connected to early primate evolution.
Ozone high in the stratosphere protects us from the Sun’s ultraviolet light. But ozone near the ground is a pollutant that harms people and plants. The San Joaquin Valley has some of the most polluted air in the country, and NASA scientists with the new Ozone Where We Live (OWWL) project are working to measure […]
Our climate seems to be more sensitive to greenhouse gas emissions than some researchers had hoped, meaning the world will have to up its decarbonisation efforts
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00467E, Paper Zhuang-Chun Jian, Wenjun Shi, Yifeng Liu, Xueyan Li, Jia-Yang Li, Yan-Fang Zhu, Xu Zhu, Yongchun Li, Peng Tan, Peng-Fei Wang, Shuangqiang Chen, Shilin Zhang, Jianfeng Mao, Guangmin Zhou, Xiao-Dong Guo, Jiazhao Wang, Shi Xue Dou, Yao Xiao Triggering anionic redox reactions (ARR) offers a powerful route to enhance the energy density of low-cost manganese-based layered oxides for rechargeable sodium-ion batteries (SIBs). However, the ARR process often results... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Abstract Plankton, a diverse group of aquatic organisms, make Earth livable, regulate aquatic life, and provide benefits to human societies such as access to clean water, food security, and well-being. They also support economies and inspire biotechnological innovations. This article aims to raise awareness of the value of plankton to humanity and serves as an informative guide for aquatic professionals, policymakers, and anyone interested in plankton. We present the value of plankton across six themes of human interest: biogeochemistry; ecology; climate; the evolution of science; economy; and culture, recreation, and well-being. Guided by the 2022 Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services values assessment, we introduce the six themes under the Life Framework...
Geoengineering comes in many forms and the risks and potential benefits vary widely. But many researchers now feel it’s time to investigate this controversial idea
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Volume 130, Issue 6, June 2025.
Sea spiders living near deep-sea methane seeps appear to cultivate and eat bacteria on their exoskeletons
Record carbon emissions mean that the planet's carbon budget could be exceeded in as little as three years, according to a new report.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE02217G, Paper Shengyu Tao, Ruohan Guo, Jaewoong Lee, Scott Moura, Lluc Canals Casals, Shida Jiang, Junzhe Shi, Stephen J Harris, Tongda Zhang, Chi-Yung Chung, Guangmin Zhou, Jinpeng Tian, Xuan Zhang The reuse of second-life lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) retired from electric vehicles is critical for energy storage in underdeveloped regions, where power infrastructures is weak or absent. However, estimating the relative... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE01457C, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Xiang Ao, Linfeng Li, Yong Ding, Gyutae Nam, Bote Zhao, Chundong Wang, Meilin Liu The development of robust and electrocatalytically active catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) remains a significant challenge in advancing electrochemical energy technologies. Here, we report a Fe-Cu dual-metal catalyst... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
It’s the first major hurricane on record to strike the Americas so early in the year. The post Hurricane Erick crashes into Mexico at category 3 strength appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Open access notables Human influence on climate detectable in the late 19th century , Santer et al., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences When could scientists have first known that fossil fuel burning was significantly altering global climate? We attempt to answer this question by performing a thought experiment with model simulations of historical climate change. We assume that the capability to monitor global-scale changes in atmospheric temperature existed as early as 1860 and that the instruments available in this hypothetical world had the same accuracy as today’s satellite-borne microwave radiometers. We then apply a pattern-based “fingerprint” method to disentangle human and natural effects on climate. A human-caused stratospheric...
Asking AI reasoning models questions in areas such as algebra or philosophy caused carbon dioxide emissions to spike significantly.
Robert Bullard calls for climate action that repairs past harms and uplifts neglected communities. The post Climate justice advocates fight for fairness in the face of climate change appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Science can help to target climate finance at better-quality adaptation
A new analysis of the ancient human footprints at White Sands National Park in New Mexico offers more evidence that they are around 23,000 years old.
Researchers detected mysterious radio waves in Antarctica that seem to defy the rules of particle physics. Now they're searching for a cause.
This is a re-post from The Climate Brink Over at Carbon Brief I have a new detailed explainer on aerosols. They have a major (but poorly constrained) cooling effect on the climate, masking about 0.5C warming from CO2 and other greenhouse gases that would otherwise have occurred. However, we are rapidly reducing both aerosol emissions and their resulting climate cooling effect. Global emissions of SO2, the most important aerosol, have fallen by 40% since the mid?2000s. China has cut its SO2 emissions more than 70% over the same period. This is a good thing; SO2 is a major precursor to PM2.5, which is responsible for millions of deaths from outdoor air pollution worldwide. But reductions to clean the air are quickly unmasking more warming from our...
The new Republican-backed bill slashes Medicaid and greenlights air pollution – threatening the very lives the party claims to protect. The post Opinion: Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ is a big environmental disaster for children appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE01490E, Paper Jihoon Oh, Joseph Frank, Randolph Leising, Heejin Kim, Jisub Kim, Minkwan Kim, Jang Wook Choi Metallic lithium (Li) anodes represent a tantalizing frontier in high-capacity battery design, yet their potential has long been undermined by catastrophic dendrite formation. Here, we exploit the extremely high interfacial... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
NASA uses satellite lidar technology to study Earth’s forests, key carbon sinks.
Microsoft's Aurora AI beat existing systems in predicting weather conditions over a 14-day period in 91% of cases, including hurricanes, sandstorms and ocean swells.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D5EE90060C, Editorial We would like to take this opportunity to highlight the Outstanding Reviewers for Energy & Environmental Science in 2024, as selected by the editorial team for their significant contribution to the journal. 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. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE01752A, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Antonio Gasós, Ronny Pini, Viola Becattini, Marco Mazzotti Some argue that using CO2 from direct air capture (DAC) in enhanced oil recovery (CO2-EOR) can produce carbon-neutral oil by permanently storing more CO2 than it is emitted when using... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Learn more about the process some dairy farmers are using to capture methane and turn it into renewable natural gas.
Learn more about these mysterious signals in Antarctica that could be evidence of dark matter.
Much of the UK will be in heatwave conditions by the coming weekend says the Met Office.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D5EE01464F, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Péter Gyenes, Angelika A. Samu, Dorottya Hursán, Viktor Józó, Andrea Serfőző, Balázs Endrődi, Csaba Janáky Electrochemical reduction of CO 2 is envisioned to play a role in closing the artificial carbon cycle. Continuously ensuring optimal amount of cations and water at the catalyst surface allows high performance durable operation. 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, June 8, 2025 thru Sat, June 14, 2025. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Science and Research (8 articles) Stefan Rahmstorf - Atlantic ocean circulation: a dangerous tipping point for European climate? IFIMAC on Youtube, Stefan Rahmstorf, May 27, 2025. Ocean mud locks up much of the planet’s carbon – we’re digging deep to map these ancient stores Deep down at the bottom of the sea, mud is one of the most important natural archives of Earth’s past – holding clues of shifting climates, coastlines, ocean conditions and carbon storage. The Conversation, Sophie Ward & Zoe Roseby, June 6, 2025. When...
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 . Was 1934 the hottest year in the global record? 1934 was a particularly hot year in the contiguous United States, but not globally exceptional. Worldwide, 1934 was a relatively cooler year and does not stand out in the global record. The myth began when NASA corrected 6 years of erroneous U.S. temperature data in 2007, shifting 1934 ahead in the U.S. dataset due to earlier calculation errors. Adjustments accounted for factors like time-of-observation bias and weather station changes. Regionally, 1934’s U.S. heat was part of the Dust Bowl, a crisis caused by drought and poor land management...
Meet methanogens — gut microbes that turn fiber into methane and extra energy. But not everyone has them.
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 13 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02350-wGlancing forward to view alternative futures for limiting global warming requires understanding complex societal–environmental systems that drive future emissions. Now a study explores the potential, and limits, of deep learning to generate core characteristics of these futures.
Open access notables A Rapid Deterioration of the Transmissive Atmospheric Radiative Regime in the Western Arctic , Bertossa & L’Ecuyer, Geophysical Research Letters: The tendency for the atmosphere to reside in one of two radiative states (“transmissive” or “opaque”) is unique to the high latitudes. This phenomenon makes the Arctic climate particularly sensitive to change if the conditions that support one of these states vanish. This study examines 25 years of in-situ data from the North Slope of Alaska to investigate how these two states have changed over time. While November once had nearly equal occurrences of both states, the transmissive state has almost completely disappeared, resulting in an increase of over 30 W/m2 in...
Predicting plant responses to rising temperatures, including acute heat waves and hot droughts of varying intensity and duration, is central to addressing the climate and biodiversity crises. However, plant responses to heat are scale-dependent, ...
Learn more about the “Tumat Puppies,” a pair of preserved pups, found frozen in Siberia, from around 14,000 years ago.
For starters, it contains a hidden gas tax. The post 10 ways that Trump’s tax bill would undermine his energy promises appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
This video includes personal musings and conclusions of the creator climate scientist Dr. Adam Levy . It is presented to our readers as an informed perspective. Please see video description for references (if any). To stop global warming, carbon emissions need to be cut to net zero as quickly as possible. And while some countries have been cutting back on fossil fuels, some major polluters - like China - have seen their emissions continue to increase. But thanks to the epic rise in clean energy solutions, it's just possible that that's starting to shift, and China's path to a low carbon future might be about to change for ever... Support ClimateAdam on patreon: https://patreon.com/climateadam
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00809C, Paper Yong Li, Aoyang Zhu, Guodong Peng, Jun He, Hongqiang Li, Dedong Jia, Guanjie He, Jieshan Qiu, Xiaojun He Single-atom catalysts (SACs) have great potential to boost the sluggish iodine redox kinetics and alleviate polyiodides shuttle in aqueous zinc-iodine (Zn-I2) batteries. Nevertheless, it is a big challenge to improve... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Key Points: Scientists analyzing data from NASA’s CODEX (Coronal Diagnostic Experiment) investigation have successfully evaluated the instrument’s first images, revealing the speed and temperature of material flowing out from the Sun. These images, shared at a press event Tuesday at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Anchorage, Alaska, illustrate the Sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona, […]
Researchers have filmed a living Antarctic gonate squid in a world-first sighting deep in the ocean surrounding Antarctica.
Climate change is greasing the skids for glacier detachments that can lead to rock-ice avalanches. The post That Swiss glacier collapse? It wasn’t a one-off appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections The Trump administration has taken an ostrich-like approach to climate change. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is required to publish a report about the country’s sources of climate-changing pollution each year by April 15. This year, that didn’t happen. But the completed report was recently made public as the result of a Freedom of Information Act request submitted by the Environmental Defense Fund. This latest U.S. Greenhouse Gas Inventory Report provides granular detail on U.S. emissions in 2023. It’s unclear why the administration withheld this report, which had been completed, and thus its suppression offered no budgetary benefit. But suppressing the report lines up with the Trump...
A listing of 26 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, June 1, 2025 thru Sat, June 7, 2025. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Policy and Politics (5 articles) Inside EPA`s backdoor bid to stop regulating climate pollution Fossil-fueled power plants don't significantly contribute to climate change? Welcome to the new US EPA. E&E News, Jean Chemnick, May 30, 2025. Scientists long ago envisioned the end of climate cooperation They warned it could happen: a world of surging nationalism, stalling economic development and the unravelling of decades of international cooperation on climate change and other global challenges. France24, Kelly Macnamara, Jun 04, 2025. The Trump EPA tried...
With their country threatened by sea level rise, the people of Tuvalu have been offered an escape route through an agreement with Australia, and many are contemplating leaving their home
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D5EE01472G, Paper Yinze Zuo, Zheng Wang, Mingquan Liu, Linlong Lu, Yidong Jiang, Jie Lei, Hao Yan, Hongwei Li, Wei Yan, Jiujun Zhang An innovative catalytic desolvation mechanism is proposed to manipulate the interfacial Zn 2+ solvation chemistry by engineering a π-electron-rich COP layer as an interfacial catalyst, thus achieving high-performance Zn 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
The "heat dome" hovering over the eastern half of the U.S. now has a thunderstorm "ring of fire" erupting along its edge. Meanwhile, in the Atlantic, the first tropical storm of the season has been named.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE01702E, Paper Xunan Wang, Chongwei Gao, Shuhua Zhang, Jiantao Li, Jiali Wang, Shengdong Lin, Sungsik Lee, Feiyu Kang, Dengyun Zhai Prussian blue analogues (PBAs) are recognized as promising cathode materials for potassium-ion batteries (PIBs), particularly the low-cost and high-energy K 2 Mn[Fe(CN) 6 ](KMnF). However, conventional solution-based synthesis inevitably introduces [Fe(CN) 6 ] 4- defects and lattice... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Learn why a lichen found in the Mojave Desert has become key evidence in the search for extraterrestrial life.
Cities from Philly to Boston break the 100-degree mark, in some cases way ahead of schedule. The post Unprecedented June heat along the Northeast urban corridor, brought to you by climate change appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
As atmospheric carbon dioxide levels continue to rise, the ocean plays a crucial role in helping to reduce the full impact of human-driven climate change by absorbing roughly a quarter of the carbon dioxide emitted by human activity. However, this uptake is far from uniform across the global ocean. A new satellite-based product can now map the ocean carbon sink at unprecedented resolution, offering unique insights into this highly variable and complex component of Earth’s climate system.
While satellites have revolutionised our ability to measure sea level with remarkable precision, their data becomes less reliable near coasts – where accurate information is most urgently needed. To address this critical gap, ESA’s Climate Change Initiative Sea Level Project research team has reprocessed almost two decades of satellite data to establish a pioneering network of ‘virtual’ coastal stations. These stations now provide, for the first time, reliable and consistent sea-level measurements along coastlines.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D5EE02454D, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Zhenjing Jiang, Zijuan Du, Kailin Luo, Yanfei Zhang, Hang Yang, Wei Zhang, Ruwei Chen, Jie Chen, Zhe Cui, Fuhan Cui, Rui Pan, Guoju Zhang, Shuangying Lei, Litao Sun, Kuibo Yin, Guanjie He Amorphous anion skeletons of zeolite-like Na 2 Zn 2 (TeO 3 ) 3 induce rapid and cation-selective ion flux towards stable aqueous zinc–iodine 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
Learn more about a sequence of increases in the carbon dioxide in our ancient atmosphere, which can tell us about our oceans’ future.
The Atlantic’s first named storm of 2025 formed farther to the northeast than any June named storm on record, and is not a threat to any land areas. The post Tropical Storm Andrea forms in the remote central Atlantic appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE01473E, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Seo-Yul Kim, Akriti Sarswat, Sunghyun Cho, MinGyu Song, Jinsu Kim, Matthew J Realff, David S. Sholl, Ryan Lively Direct air capture (DAC) of CO₂ is a key component in the portfolio of negative-emissions technologies for mitigating global warming. However, even with the most potent amine sorbents, large-scale DAC... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
A week ago today, we published a blog post highlighting Sabin Rebuttal #33 , which answers the question " What is the effect of hot or cold weather on EVs?" . With that blog post, this phase of our effort to turn the report " Rebutting 33 False Claims About Solar, Wind, and Electric Vehicles " into individual rebuttals was done and dusted. In this recap we summarize the happenings and provide some behind-the-scenes glimpses into the tasks needed to pull this off. The report was written by Matthew Eisenson, Jacob Elkin, Andy Fitch, Matthew Ard, Kaya Sittinger & Samuel Lavine and published by the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School in 2024. Creating the rebuttals When we first spotted Sabin's report it looked...
For any space mission to launch, thousands of hours must have been spent iterating new technologies to make the spacecraft fly. The Biomass satellite, which today shared its first science data, is no exception. The probe, which carries just a single instrument on board, will perform a five-year census of all the trees on Earth to teach us more about how climate change and pests are affecting the world’s forests than we’ve ever learnt before.
Today, at the Living Planet Symposium, ESA revealed the first stunning images from its groundbreaking Biomass satellite mission – marking a major leap forward in our ability to understand how Earth’s forests are changing and exactly how they contribute to the global carbon cycle. But these inaugural glimpses go beyond forests. Remarkably, the satellite is already showing potential to unlock new insights into some of Earth’s most extreme environments.
A listing of 29 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, June 15, 2025 thru Sat, June 21, 2025. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Science and Research (6 articles) Climate Crisis 'Evil Twin' Is Coming for Marine Life Scientists have warned that the planet crossed the global boundary for ocean acidification around the year 2020, according to a new study. Newsweek, Thomas Westerholm, Jun 16, 2025. Human influence on climate detectable in the late 19th century A new paper describes how humans were influencing Earth's climate by cooling the stratosphere in the late 19th century. Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, Ben Santer et al. , June 16, 2025. Study finds planetary...
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 modern warming just a rebound from the Little Ice Age? Global temperatures are warmer today than immediately before the Little Ice Age. The Little Ice Age was a regional cooling phenomenon caused by internal forcings that mostly moved heat around within Earth’s climate system. This event affected North America and Europe from 1350 to 1850. While external forcings like volcanic eruptions and decreased solar activity occurred, it was a massive export of Arctic sea ice into the North Atlantic by warm currents that disrupted ocean circulation and triggered prolonged regional cooling...
Learn how air bubbles trapped in ice have inspired a special code that can improve communication in the Arctic and Antarctica.
Cuts, chaos, and climate change are converging to leave Americans more vulnerable to disaster than they were in 2005. The post FEMA is unprepared for the next Hurricane Katrina, disaster experts warn appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
The feat has significant applications for military purposes and space-based solar power.
Every year on 21st June we encourage everyone to participate in " Show your Stripes Day " to start conversations about climate risks and solutions. Springboarding from a crocheted blanket created by fellow University of Reading professor Ellie Highwood, the "warming stripes" graphic was created in 2018 by Prof. Ed Hawkins , who explains the visualization's purpose in this video: The "warming stripes" have been embraced around the world as a clear and vivid representation of how the climate is changing-- a powerful appeal to urgency in addressing our climate crisis. From the website of the University of Reading : What is Show Your Stripes Day? Show Your Stripes Day is a global moment to share our concern about how the climate is changing and the need...
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 20 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02369-zVideo games are a popular method for climate change communication, but current efforts undervalue the potential role of gaming communities. To empower gaming communities to take climate action, we suggest social strategies including fostering climate change conversations through games and in gaming social spaces, and organizing real-world gaming community events.
Trees would have to be planted on a vast proportion of global land mass to offset the carbon dioxide emissions from burning the world’s fossil fuel reserves
Groundwater records from the last ice age indicate that aquifers in the U.S. Southwest are more sensitive to global warming than aquifers in the Pacific Northwest.
In the last few decades, the Arctic sea ice has receded ever further, including increasingly in winter when the extent of sea ice is at its most prominent. One of the main drivers of this development is thought to be the warming of Atlantic water that flows from Europe’s Norwegian Sea into the Arctic Ocean, passing through the Barents Sea and the Fram Strait in the process. However, not all the Atlantic water flowing into the Barents Sea reaches the sea ice. Part of the Atlantic water recirculates, i.e. by changing direction and flowing back into Europe’s Norwegian Sea as an independent current without coming into direct contact with the sea ice. To date, however, it has not been possible to sufficiently investigate the indirect effect of this current carrying inflowing Atlantic water back...
Europe will soon be taking another leap forward in its weather forecasting capacity as the first MetOp Second Generation, MetOp-SG-A1, satellite arrives safely at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, marking a pivotal moment on the road to launch.This new polar-orbiting weather satellite also carries the Copernicus Sentinel-5 instrument to deliver daily global data on air pollutants and other atmospheric trace gases.
Even if agricultural practices adapt in response to higher temperatures, five of the world's six main staple crops will suffer severe losses due to climate change
After reaching hurricane strength early Wednesday, Erick could become the earliest landfalling storm so strong along Mexico’s Pacific coast. The post Hurricane Erick could make history with a powerful early season landfall in Mexico appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
"Digesters" that convert methane from manure ponds into fuel can dramatically reduce emissions of this potent greenhouse gas on dairy farms, scientists have found.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04058A, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Maxwell Pisciotta, Hélène Pilorgé, Likhwa Ndlovu, Madeleine Siegel, Joe Huyett, Todd Bandhauer, Peter Psarras, Jennifer Wilcox Geothermal energy has been utilized for centuries. This study presents a framework to assess how geothermal resources can power direct air capture (DAC) systems, optimizing for overall CO 2 abatement. 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
Injecting aerosols into the atmosphere – but at higher altitudes than planes can reach – could cool the climate while avoiding some of the downsides of lower-altitude solar geoengineering
Ancient supernovas may have blasted Earth with powerful radiation, causing dramatic changes in our climate, and could do so again, posing a threat to life.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE02190A, Paper Wenjie Huang, Baoquan Wan, Wenye Zhang, Xing Yang, Z. H. Xiang, Haobo Tian, Can Ding, Yiyi Zhang, Yong Chae Jung, Jun-Wei Zha Polymer dielectrics for electrostatic energy storage exhibit low energy density, low efficiency, and poor reliability at high temperatures, limiting the application of film capacitors in harsh environments. Designing wide bandgap... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE02593A, Paper Hai Xu, Ruanye Zhang, Derong Luo, Kangsheng Huang, Jiuqing Wang, Gengzhi Sun, Hui Dou, Xiaogang Zhang The shuttle effect of polyiodides and aggregation of solid iodine on the cathode surface in aqueous Zn-iodine batteries are considered as the main issues for unsatisfactory cycling stability and slow... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Antarctic krill is a key species in the Antarctic marine ecosystem: it is an important food source for many species, such as whales, seals and penguins. However, the small crustaceans are increasingly becoming the focus of fishing, which can incur significant consequences for the entire Southern Ocean ecosystem. Therefore, concepts that minimize the negative effects of fishing on the krill themselves and on the animals that feed on krill are required urgently. A research team from the Alfred Wegener Institute and the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research in Bergen has now been able to use acoustic recordings, that fishing vessels routinely record, to identify areas and periods in which there is an increased overlap between fishing and krill predators. The results can contribute to developing...
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections President Donald Trump has promised to reduce gas prices , improve energy security , create domestic manufacturing jobs , boost the economy, and ensure that Americans breathe the cleanest air . But by gutting the Inflation Reduction Act , or IRA, Congress’ big new budget bill would undermine all of these objectives – and more. House Republicans’ top two priorities are to extend the soon-to-expire tax cuts that they passed in 2017, and to minimize the amount that doing so will add to the nation’s over $36 trillion in debt . The massive budget bill they narrowly passed in May is their effort to achieve both. The Congressional Budget Office estimated that the House...
The seven-story apartment building is now powered by geothermal and solar energy. The post Low-income housing for seniors gets a climate-friendly renovation in central New York appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
New James Webb Space Telescope data reveal Pluto's high-altitude haze is a key driver of the climate on the dwarf planet, offering clues to Earth's ancient atmosphere.
A pair of canines found in Siberian permafrost were wolf sisters that died shortly after eating.
Space weather experts warn that a "moderate" geomagnetic storm could rock Earth over the weekend, potentially lighting the skies with vibrant auroras across large parts of the U.S. and Europe.
With hurricane season underway, NASA is gearing up to produce cutting-edge research to bolster the nation’s readiness and response to severe weather.
Researchers have found that ocean acidification entered a "danger zone" in 2020, suggesting increased carbon dioxide levels have caused Earth to breach another planetary boundary.
From geoengineering to anti-methane cow vaccines and green aviation fuel, meet the former nuclear physicist deciding which climate change technologies hold the most promise
Warming world could further heighten tensions over access to Indus River waters
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00141B, Paper Xuan Luo, Jiabao Nie, Huang Liang, Yuyang Li, Youheng Wang, Qikang Que, Jean-Pol Dodelet, Yucheng Wang Fe-N-C catalysts are the most promising alternative to Pt for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs). However, the mixture of two distinct active sites—highly... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
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Republicans in the Senate may soon pass a bill that guts clean energy incentives, defying public sentiment in nearly every state – including deep-red ones. The post Clean energy is popular, even in red states. Senators might block it anyway. appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Introduction Tropical cyclones represent a danger to life, property, and the economies of communities. Researchers who study tropical cyclones have focused on remote observations using space-based platforms to image these storms, inform forecasts, better predict landfall, and improve understanding of storm dynamics and precipitation evolution – see Figure 1. The tropical cyclone community has leveraged […]
Extreme weather, pest outbreaks and overharvesting are turning forest carbon sinks into carbon sources across Europe, undermining a crucial part of countries’ net-zero plans
Even the best batteries fall far short of animal metabolism for energy storage. Fueling robots with 'food' could narrow the gap.