Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 131, Issue 8, 28 April 2026.
Learn how the IUCN added emperor penguins to the Red List as climate change drives sea ice loss and could cut their population in half by 2080.
Arctic sea ice had its lowest seasonal maximum and lowest March extent on record. The post The world just had its second-warmest March on record appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Colorado State University’s hurricane forecasting team is expecting El Niño to bring a slightly below-average season with 13 named storms, six hurricanes, and two major hurricanes. The post Forecasters predict a slightly below-average 2026 Atlantic hurricane season appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Open access notables Why we need to explore conflict and competition around solar geoengineering , Möller & Young, PLOS Climate In an increasingly aggressive international political environment, solar geoengineering needs to be reconceptualized – not only as a response to climate change, but as an instrument of power. This conceptualization means going beyond focusing on cooperative scenarios in which the technoluogy is used to effectively reduce temperature rise while minimizing potential side effects. As scholars of international relations, we see a need for more interdisciplinary engagement with solar geoengineering scenarios that explicitly feature political conflict and competition. By anticipating and exploring these, we can better contribute...
Marine biodiversity underpins the functioning of ocean ecosystems and the services they provide to humanity. Paradoxically, despite our profound dependency on biodiversity, we are driving its rapid decline and we find ourselves asking the question of whether we, as a society, have the tools to address it. The fate of marine biodiversity thus lies largely at the intersection of science, policy, society, and industry. All these sectors rely on knowledge to support our economic, cultural, social, and environmental well-being. Knowledge comes from transforming data into usable and actionable information, and data are derived from sustained observations which are driven by requirements of policy, society, industry and science. This interconnectedness across sectors represents both an opportunity...
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D6EE00755D, Paper Wenyu Xu, Zelin Chang, Hongwei Wang, Binfen Wang, Hongbo Ding, Jijian Xu, Xinliang Li Aqueous zinc-iodine batteries hold immense promise for sustainable energy storage, yet suffer from polyiodide shuttling and high-valent iodine instability. Challenges undergo catastrophic amplification at low-temperatures due to incomplete conversion and... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Eric Fowler of Fresh Energy in Minnesota says stronger standards can lower bills and improve safety during outages. The post How energy codes shape comfort and costs at home appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Volume 131, Issue 4, April 2026.
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 08 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02609-wWetland methane emissions are a major source of uncertainty in global emissions estimates. Here the authors use high-resolution remote sensing data to identify small non-forested wetlands and find that they contribute 24% of wetland methane emissions and that these emissions are increasing.
The World Health Organization (WHO) and France hosted the One Health Summit on World Health Day 2026, announcing new initiatives to protect human, animal, and environmental health through the One Health approach. The Summit highlighted urgent global challenges such as climate change, zoonotic diseases, and health inequities, aiming to prevent future health crises by fostering cross-sector collaboration and scientific guidance.
New study shows that the combination of heat and drought events will further increase and affect especially those countries that contribute less to climate change.
A professor of environmental law explores the 1970 Clean Air Act and it how it has effected car emissions and smog in the decades since.
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 wind turbines utilize land for electricity generation more efficiently than fossil fuels? Wind turbines require less land use for the same amount of energy generated by oil or natural gas, and land between turbines is available for agriculture and wildlife habitats. Some sources report larger footprints by ignoring space between turbines, or expanding the area of a wind farm based on whether turbines are visible in the distance. In reality, according to Princeton University, land occupied by wind in a U.S. net-zero emissions plan would have a footprint between 10-30% of the 8 million acres...
It transports far more than 100 times as much water as all of the Earth's rivers combined: The Antarctic Circumpolar Current rushes around the southern continent unhindered by land masses and is therefore a fundamental component of the climate system. In a recent study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a research team led by the Alfred Wegener Institute describes how and when this mighty ring current developed in Earth's history. Surprising finding: it took more than the opening of the ocean passages between Antarctica, and South America and Australia.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 131, Issue 7, 16 April 2026.
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A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, March 29, 2026 thru Sat, April 4, 2026. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Change Impacts (8 articles) `Very alarming` winter sees Arctic sea ice hit record-low for second year running The biggest distinctly continues to get smaller in the Arctic, as maximum ice extent for this past winter follows a downward trend caused by a warming planet. Carbon Brief, Carbon Brief Staff, Mar 27, 2026. Fire season fears grow amid western heat wave CNN, Andrew Freedman, Mar 27, 2026. As a mind-boggling heat wave begins to wrap up, we look at some initial numbers "Over 1,500 new monthly records for March and over 500 tied monthly records...
Storm Dave will bring a period of strong and potentially disruptive winds across northern parts of the UK this evening and tomorrow morning.
Discover the best U.S. national parks to see the Northern Lights and how often they can occur there.
Patches of open water in the region contributed to low sea ice extent across the Arctic in March 2026, which tied with the lowest maximum observed in the satellite record.
Chemists say they’ve found a way to turn breadcrumbs into hydrogen, potentially offering a sustainable alternative to one of the most common chemical manufacturing processes.
The Climate Works Pre-Apprenticeship Program offers paid training and support services to help residents enter the building trades. The post Illinois program expands access to clean energy careers appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D6EE00346J, Review Article Yangzhe Xu, Quanling Yang, Shenyu Ma, Qi Zhang, Modi Jiang, Benwei Fu, Chengyi Song, Wen Shang, Peng Tao, Tao Deng Solar steam technology offers an attractive way to harness abundant renewable solar energy for a broad range of applications. Compared with low-temperature vapor, high-temperature steam exceeding 100 °C has much... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
U.S. gas prices could hit $7 a gallon if the Strait of Hormuz remains restricted through June. Here’s how that could affect EVs, wind, and solar. The post What the Iran conflict means for gas prices, clean energy, and the climate appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
NASA's Artemis II flight around the moon will expose astronauts to space weather. Space scientist Patricia Reiff tells Live Science how solar flares and radiation will impact the lunar mission.
Image: The image from Copernicus Sentinel-3 shows a Saharan dust storm over the Atlantic Ocean, with the Canary Islands visible off the coast of Morocco.
The EcoBlock project helped 15 homeowners on a single Oakland block get new rooftop solar, heat pumps, and insulation. The post California neighbors cut carbon together appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D5EE07845H, Paper Po-Wei Huang, Hyeonuk Choi, Anush Venkataraman, Olivia Vulpin, Claudio A. Ruiz Torres, Danae A. Chipoco Haro, Yaguang Zhu, Erika R. Yamazaki, Kelsey B. Hatzell, Shannon W. Boettcher, Sankar Nair, Jihun Oh, Hakhyeon Song, Marta C. Hatzell A bipolar membrane electrolyzer coupling bicarbonate electrolysis with formaldehyde oxidation directly produces syngas (H 2 : CO = 1) at 1.7 V and 200 mA cm −2 with 200% combined Faradaic efficiency. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 01 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02597-xFood loss and waste (FLW) is often attributed to technoeconomic inefficiencies of food systems. However, using a mechanistic analysis framework, we show that food surplus and misconsumption accounted for 11% of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions in 2021, exceeding FLW-associated emissions that are driven by technoeconomic constraints.
Vermont is defending its first-in-the-nation law that aims to make fossil fuel companies help pay for damage caused by climate change. The post Vermont defends its landmark climate superfund law against Trump administration lawsuit appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Jessica Green, author of ‘Existential Politics,’ argues that the international community’s focus on measuring emissions helped delay real action on climate change. The post The big flaw in climate policy: We’re trying to solve the wrong problem appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Learn how some of the beaches in Los Angles could soon become the next national park and what species this protected area could help keep safe.
Trump's war in Iran is the embodiment of everything that's wrong with our dependence on fossil fuels — and it's highlighting just how vital the transition to renewables is.
Everyone knows what a hurricane is, but a lesser-known storm type – a medicane – recently made landfall in Libya. While the arrival of Medicane Jolina, a rare Mediterranean cyclone, brought extreme weather, it also provided scientists with a crucial test case.Using different types of data from Earth-observing satellites, researchers are gaining new insights into how these storms form and evolve, and therefore, how their impacts can be predicted more accurately.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D6EE00296J, Paper Yamei Liu, Xiaofan Tian, Lu Wang, Lijin Xie, Zhenchao Li, Yuxin Ge, Zhao Li, Zhongchao Bai, Huakun Liu, Nana Wang, Guoxiu Wang, Xiaochuan Ren Separator-free battery design can maximize volumetric energy density by eliminating the separator-induced ion-transport barrier. However, its application in aqueous zinc-iodide (Zn-I2) batteries has been hampered by severe polyiodide shuttling and... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
For the second consecutive year, winter sea ice in the Arctic reached a level that matches the lowest peak observed since satellite monitoring began in 1979. On March 15, Arctic sea ice extent reached 5.52 million square miles (14.29 million square kilometers), very close to the 2025 peak of 5.53 million square miles (14.31 million […]
The Department of Interior says a French energy company has agreed to give up two U.S. offshore wind leases and invest in fossil fuel projects instead. The post Trump administration to pay French company $1B to walk away from US offshore wind leases appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
The project shows how clean, efficient technology can revitalize buildings. The post A burned-out Detroit house becomes a clean energy model appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE06846K, Paper Nan Li, Yixiang He, Jiacheng Zhu, Xiaofang Wang, Yifan Chen, Yusi Yang, Linlin Wang, Xiaogang Niu, Xiao Ji, Xuefeng Wang, Qianfan Zhang, Yujie Zhu Potassium-ion batteries (PIBs) hold great promise as low-cost and sustainable alternatives to lithium-ion batteries, yet their practical deployment is hindered by rapid capacity decay driven by irreversible potassium loss and... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D6EE00760K, Review Article Saisai Qiu, Haolin Zhu, Jia Xie, Shijie Cheng Anode-free sodium metal batteries (AFSBs) offer a compelling route toward high-energy and sustainable electrochemical storage by eliminating excess sodium and inactive anode hosts. Yet their practical viability is fundamentally limited... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
This is a re-post from The Climate Brink El Niño and its sister La Niña are the warm and cool phases of a natural climate pattern across the tropical Pacific (collectively called the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, or ENSO). The planet shifts back and forth irregularly between El Niño and La Niña every two to seven years, changing ocean temperatures and disrupting wind and rainfall patterns across the tropics. This in turn has a number of second-order effects around the planet. El Niño also has a major effect on global temperatures, reducing the rate of ocean heat uptake and increasing atmospheric temperatures. Global mean temperature can temporarily increase as much as 0.2C during a very strong El Niño event, with...
Wildfires that swept across the Amazon in 2024 were the most devastating in more than two decades. New research funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) suggests emissions may have been up to three times higher than earlier estimates.
A warming world may see more antibiotic-resistant bacteria, according to new research that shows a link between aridity and antibiotic resistance today.
In a new analysis, researchers estimated direct, indirect and future greenhouse gas emissions that were created in the first two weeks of the Iran war, between Feb. 28 and March 14.
NASA is joining international partners to hunt for ice on the Moon in support of future human exploration. The agency is providing a water-detecting instrument, the Neutron Spectrometer System (NSS), to the Lunar Polar Exploration (LUPEX) mission led by JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) and ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation).
Since 2016, Antarctic sea ice extent has been declining sharply – now scientists are piecing together how strong winds and warm deep water have played a part in this abrupt transition
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections Despite their polar-opposite politics, California and Texas have achieved the same distinction: They’re both national leaders in producing renewable energy. Wind and solar today account for 40% of power generation in California and 30% in Texas, well above the national average of 17%. California and Texas alone account for more than one-third of the U.S.’s solar and wind power generation and over half of its battery storage capacity — shares that continue to grow . The policy approaches used by California and Texas differ dramatically. “California has used centralized state control to achieve lots of wind, solar, and storage, while Texas has accomplished the...
Monday, March 23, 2026: Your daily roundup of the biggest science stories making headlines.
Plains around the San Andreas Fault and across Carrizo Plain National Monument are awash with yellow as wildflowers bloom.
A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, March 15, 2026 thru Sat, March 21, 2026. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Change Impacts (11 articles) Summer in March? Unusual Heat Wave Descends on Already Parched Western U.S. "The heat wave could further lower water availability in the region, which has seen staggeringly low levels of snowpack this year." Inside Climate News, Kiley Price, Mar 13, 2026. Q&A: How climate change and war threaten Iran’s water supplies "Climate change, war and mismanagement are putting Iran’s water supply under major strain, experts have warned." Carbon Brief, Multiple Authors, Mar 13, 2026. World on course to breach 1.5°C...
Friday's spring equinox may seem like a quaint notion to those already enduring furnace-like 90-110°F summer heat. The post Record-torching March heat ‘virtually impossible’ without climate change appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Today's sea level rise is significant enough to slow the rotation of the planet by just over a millisecond per century.
Learn how climate change is shifting the way seals hunt and how a lose of ice could create bigger risks even still.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 131, Issue 6, 28 March 2026.
From shiitake mushrooms to hickory nut oil, new markets for forest-grown foods can help landowners earn income while protecting trees. The post In Pennsylvania, some forests are also farms appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Learn how the world’s largest known chimpanzee group split in Kibale National Park, Uganda, and why the divide led to deadly violence between former allies in a rare chimpanzee “civil war.”
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE07428B, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Hidde Kolmeijer, Juan D. Medrano-García, Abhinandan Nabera, Gonzalo Guillén-Gosálbez Current global dependence on crude oil poses a threat to the environment, making in turn some economies vulnerable to supply disruptions and price peaks. Meanwhile, the high cost and large... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
The International Union for Conservation of Nature has updated the Red List status for three of Antarctica’s most famous species after a dire assessment of their prospects under climate change
Amid drought and heat waves, April's national wildfire forecast shows that nearly the entire Western U.S. will face an above-normal risk of wildfires at some point in the next four months.
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections The U.S. and Israel’s attacks on Iran have sent oil and gas prices soaring. That could be a boon to cheap, clean technologies like electric vehicles, solar power, and wind – at least in the long run. But in the short run, the outlook is more complicated. Why is the conflict causing oil and gas prices to spike? Iran began restricting ship traffic through the Strait of Hormuz after the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28, 2026. The strait is the narrow passage, about 20 to 40 miles wide, through which ships must navigate from the Persian Gulf to reach the Arabian Sea and global shipping routes. Data source: U.S. Energy Information Administration Behind the strait lie five...
A 93-strong international expedition team has been exploring the northwestern Weddell Sea in the Antarctic on board the Alfred Wegener Institute's icebreaker Polarstern since 8 February 2026. In this key region for global ocean currents, the focus has been on the outflow of ice and water from the Larsen Ice Shelf and the astonishing sea ice retreat of recent years. When the research work had to be interrupted due to rough weather conditions in order to seek shelter in the lee of Joinville Island, the scientists and ship's crew were surprised by the sudden appearance of an island that had previously only been marked as a danger zone on the available nautical charts.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE07518A, Paper Hongjiang Song, Shengkui Zhong, Jie Liu, Shanqing Zhang Achieving high areal capacity is essential for high-energy-density Li–S batteries and requires using high-loading sulfur cathodes accompanied with increased coating thickness. However, poor Li+ transfer kinetics in thick electrodes and... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Anaerobic digesters converting manure to biogas reduce methane emissions from livestock, but incentives for them have encouraged factory farms to get bigger
These minerals are key to the clean energy transition. And they’re a source of global tension. The post The fight over ‘critical minerals,’ explained appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Learn how the Antarctic Circumpolar Current formed during the Oligocene, as winds, shifting continents, and ocean gateways reshaped Earth’s climate.
Engineers are testing a new "sand battery" that could power industries and communities using stored renewable energy.
Melting ice, rebounding land, and rising seas will change what resources are available in Antarctica, a new analysis finds.
April 4, 2026: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.
From the Pacific Northwest to Antarctica, it's extraordinary warmth that's punching through climate norms with the most force. The post The 2026 Southwest U.S. heat wave was one of the six most astonishing weather events of the century appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Learn how bone dice from Ice Age sites in the American West are pushing the origins of gambling back by more than 6,000 years.
For reasons that are still unclear, climate models underestimate the growing gap between the amount of energy Earth receives from the sun and the amount the planet radiates into space.
Open access notables Quantifying climate loss and damage consistent with a social cost of carbon , Burke et al., Nature Climate change is causing measurable harm globally 1 , 2 . Political and legal efforts seek to link these damages with specific emissions, including in discussions of loss and damage (L&D) 3 , 4 ; however, no quantitative definition of L&D exists 5 , 6 , nor is there a framework to link past and future emissions from specific sources to monetized, location-specific damages. Here we develop such a framework, which is integrated with recent efforts to estimate the social cost of carbon 7 . Using empirical estimates of the non-linear relationship between temperature and aggregate economic output, we show that future damages from past emissions—one...
The Red Sea is a semi-enclosed marine basin of exceptional ecological value, supporting coral reefs, mangroves, and seagrass meadows that underpin biodiversity, fisheries, and coastal protection (1). However, the very physical characteristics that contribute to its ecological distinctiveness—restricted circulation and limited water exchange—also increase the persistence of local stressors. Rapid coastal development across the basin further intensifies these pressures, and basin-wide environmental assessments remain uneven and fragmented (2).
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No matter where you get your food from, a good chunk of your diet is ultimately reliant on fossil fuels. We already need to change this to tackle climate change, but the Iran war and resulting oil shortage is showing the urgent need to rethink food
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Karin Kirk s of this writing, every river basin across the entire Western U.S. has below-average snow. Colorado, Utah, Washington, Oregon, California, and Nevada – the workplaces of thousands of ski area employees like me – are sitting at 15 to 65% of average snowpack for this time of year. Some ski areas closed in the middle of the season, and others decided to close early this year. Many cut employee hours. “This year was a catastrophic year,” said Auden Schendler, who shepherded the Aspen Ski Company’s sustainability program for 26 years. Winter enthusiasts know that bad years happen. But “in a climate-changed world, you’re more likely to see...
New research suggests devastating climate outcomes that are typically associated with extreme global warming could hit even we limit heating to 3.6 F above preindustrial levels.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D6EE00888G, Paper Qiao Gu, Mingtao Huang, Bingyu Huang, Wenhui Jiang, Ting Hu, Dirk Lützenkirchen-Hecht, Kai Yuan, Yiwang Chen CNT–X–Fe catalysts were prepared by tethering Fe(Phen) 2 to electron bridge (phenol, thiophenol, and pyridine)-functionalized carbon nanotubes to reveal the relationship between the spatial electron bridge and the ORR performance. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D6EE00038J, Paper Shuang Liu, Chong Xu, Sai Che, Guang Ma, Gong Cheng, Yuci Tian, Puyu Wang, Rui Wu, Jia-Qi Huang, Yongfeng Li, Jiangyan Wang A strategy using an electric field-sensitive solubilizing additive is developed to improve ionic conductivity and interfacial stability for stable lithium metal batteries. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
China's cuts to aerosol emissions reduced sea ice loss, but it may have revealed a bigger story about climate change.
This is a re-post from The Climate Brink Imagine if I told you that the damages from climate change next year are worth 12% less to me than climate damages today. And 12% less the year after that. That the harms from climate change on people alive in the year 2100 are only worth one fiftieth as much as impacts on people this year. You’d probably call me selfish, heartless, or a similar slew of invectives, and rightly insist that the welfare of future generations should not be sacrificed for my short term benefit. But a somewhat obscure climate policy choice of how to value methane emissions compared to CO2 is doing just that – and unfortunately a number of climate scientists who should know better are defending it. The broader context is a big...
A network of meltwater lakes and drainage channels made an Antarctic ice shelf known for its blue ice areas even bluer.
A listing of 27 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, March 22, 2026 thru Sat, March 28, 2026. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Change Impacts (10 articles) ‘Pushing extremes to new levels’: Record US heat dome made possible by climate change "‘Insurers walking away’ is the clearest sign unpredictable weather extremes are spiralling out of control, one expert says." AP/Euronewsdotcom, Angela Symons, Mar 20, 2026. Record-torching March heat ‘virtually impossible’ without climate change "Friday’s spring equinox may seem like a quaint notion to those already enduring furnace-like 90-110°F summer heat." Yale Climate Connections, Jeff Masters...
Category I: NASA Environmental Quality Award Recognizes excellence in environmental management and planning, including stewardship of natural and cultural resources. This category highlights achievements in compliance, conservation, remediation, communication, and environmental information management, and the development of strong stakeholder partnerships. Category II: NASA Award for Excellence in Project or Program Execution Honors efforts that reduce […]
Lençóis Maranhenses National Park hosts sand-dune fields that fill up with lagoons every wet season, but the reserve also has mangrove swamps where species such as the scarlet ibis thrive.
The last Neanderthals to survive in Europe came from a single lineage that survived the worst period of the ice age, ancient DNA reveals.
Learn about the assemblage of fossils discovered at a water cave in central Texas, shedding light on Ice Age megafauna that lived in the state.
Open access notables Indicators of Global Climate Change 2022: annual update of large-scale indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence , Forster et al., Earth System Science Data We follow methods as close as possible to those used in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) Working Group One (WGI) report. We compile monitoring datasets to produce estimates for key climate indicators related to forcing of the climate system: emissions of greenhouse gases and short-lived climate forcers, greenhouse gas concentrations, radiative forcing, surface temperature changes, the Earth's energy imbalance, warming attributed to human activities, the remaining carbon budget, and estimates of global temperature extremes. The purpose of this effort, grounded in...
Climate change forces species to adapt rapidly to avoid extinction. To directly observe rapid adaptation and extinction, we conducted synchronized evolution experiments with Arabidopsis thaliana in 30 locations across Western Europe, the Mediterranean, ...
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE06850A, Paper Haofeng Liu, Feng Zhou, Zekai Zhang, Haodong Wang, Hanqing Liu, Zhihao Ren, Endian Yang, Zhengdong Ma, Tongle Chen, Pratteek Das, Changde Ma, Ao Leng, shihao Liao, Xiong Zhang, Yabin An, Cheng Lian, Yanwei Ma, Hui-Ming Cheng, Zhong-Shuai Wu Electric double-layer capacitors (EDLCs) with a high energy density for ultralow-temperature use are crucial for polar and space explorations, but hindered by the lack of suitable electrolytes and electrodes. We... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
In her new book, journalist and author Beth Gardiner explains how the industry has made plastic part of our daily lives – and what we can do about it. The post The fossil fuel industry’s backup plan? Plastic. appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Learn how Neanderthals in Europe suffered a loss of genetic diversity during the Ice Age, causing a single lineage to take over.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE07501G, Review Article Xin Li, Jingyun Tian, Panpan Li, Huazhang Zhao, Bingjun Xu, Zishuai Bill Zhang Electrochemical CO2 conversion is approaching industrially relevant performance, yet its practical deployment is constrained by insufficient stability under realistic operating conditions. We reframe stability as a dynamic, system-wide property rather... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Volume 131, Issue 3, March 2026.
Antarctica could warm much faster than its surroundings over the next few decades due to a phenomenon known as polar amplification that is well established in the Arctic.
Arctic rivers and runoff from the land pour vast volumes of freshwater into the Arctic Ocean, influencing seawater salinity, sea-ice formation and ocean circulation, thereby playing an important role in regulating Earth’s heat balance.As northern monitoring networks decline, scientists have turned to satellite data to reconstruct two decades of river discharge and runoff, revealing a striking mosaic of regional change as warming temperatures and shifting precipitation patterns reshape the Arctic’s hydrological system in uneven and unexpected ways.
The problem is a major threat to the U.S. snowsports industry. But their actions fall short. The post The ski industry is oddly quiet on climate change appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
A new study in Switzerland finds that beaver-built wetlands can trap and store large amounts of carbon, offering a low-cost boost for restoration and climate resilience.
These books and reports explore climate change through historical, scientific, social, and political lenses. The post 12 climate reads for Women’s History Month appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
The first Americans came over during the last ice age, but how much do you know about them?
Open access notables The emerging human fingerprint on global extreme fire weather , Turco et al., Science Advances Extreme fire weather (hot, dry, and windy conditions) has intensified globally, yet formally attributing this trend to anthropogenic climate change remains challenging. Here, we analyze global trends in extreme fire weather days (FWI95d, annual count of days with Fire Weather Index above the 95th percentile) over 1980–2023, using climate model ensembles, observational data, and fingerprint detection techniques. We find that the observed increase in extreme fire weather bears a clear externally forced signal, detectable at 99% confidence above natural variability and attributable to human-induced climate change. This emerging human-induced fingerprint...