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). 2025 has only just begun, but already climate scientists are working hard to unpick what could be in store for us. As greenhouse gas emissions continue to drive more and more climate change, the overall trend is for more global warming. But other factors - like the El Niño oscillation moving towards La Niña - will also have a major impact. So how hot will 2025 be? And how will climate change affect us in the form of extreme weather disasters? Whether that's heatwaves, floods, droughts and wildfires - like the ones ravaging Los Angeles right now? Support...
The world’s largest economy and second-largest emitter of greenhouse gases will withdraw from the global climate pact, disrupting efforts to tackle climate change
The Trump Administration withdraws the U.S. from the Paris Agreement, a major disservice to the American people, to the economy, and U.S. credibility.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04959D, Comment Hyun Soo Han, In Sun Cho, Xiaolin Zheng Additional experimental evidence was provided to demonstrate the growth of the [001]-textured BiVO 4 on polycrystalline substrates. 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, 18 ,620-630 DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04085F, Paper Zongliang Xie, Zhiyuan Huang, He Li, Tianlei Xu, Haoyu Zhao, Yunfei Wang, Xi Pang, Zhiqiang Cao, Virginia Altoé, Liana M. Klivansky, Zaiyu Wang, Steve W. Shelton, Shiqi Lai, Peng Liu, Chenhui Zhu, Michael D. Connolly, Corie Y. Ralston, Xiaodan Gu, Zongren Peng, Jian Zhang, Yi Liu Linker engineering of the UiO-66-based metal–organic framework series reveals its untapped potential as nanofillers for boosting the heat-resistant electrostatic energy storage performance of polyetherimide at 200 °C. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04372C, Paper Shenglong Li, Yunpeng Zhong, Jiangtao Huang, Guojun Lai, Le Li, Long Jiang, Xieyu Xu, Bingan Lu, Yangyang Liu, Jiang Zhou Aqueous zinc-ion batteries (AZIBs) with low cost and inherited safety have been viewed as crucial candidates for the energy storage system, whose commercialization is hindered by the interfacial instability including... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
This is a re-post from the Climate Brink I have a new paper out today in the journal Dialogues on Climate Change exploring both the range of end-of-century climate outcomes in the literature under current policies and the broader move away from high-end emissions scenarios. Current policies are defined broadly as policies in place today and a continuation of trends in technology costs, but no additional climate policy enacted for the remainder of the century. The figure below shows the literature summary I put together (as of fall 2024), which includes estimates of current policy outcomes (in red), outcomes where countries meet their 2030 Paris Agreement nationally determined contributions (in orange), constrained estimates using socioeconomic factors (or other...
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05500D, Paper zhiwen lu, Wei Sun, Pingwei Cai, Linfeng Fan, Kai Chen, Jiyuan Gao, Hao Zhang, Junxiang Chen, Zhenhai Wen H2-producing zinc batteries hold promise as an electrochemical energy technology due to their unique ability to simultaneously generate electricity and hydrogen. However, their widespread adoption and commercialization have been hindered... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 130, Issue 2, 28 January 2025.
Skeptical Science is partnering with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. This fact brief was written by Sue Bin Park from the Gigafact team in collaboration with members from our team. You can submit claims you think need checking via the tipline . Can CO2 be ignored because it’s just a trace gas? While carbon dioxide is a small part of the atmosphere, it has a large impact on climate as a greenhouse gas. Nitrogen and oxygen make up around 99% of the atmosphere, but neither traps heat. Less than 0.05% of the atmosphere is made up of greenhouse gases, which do. Without greenhouse gases, the Earth would be too cold to support most life, with average temperatures 2° F below zero (-18° C). On the other hand, increasing...
Global average precipitation in 2024 may have broken the previous record set in 1998, as rising temperatures boosted the amount of moisture in the atmosphere
The increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) is now incompatible with IPCC pathways which remain below 1.5°C, a Met Office study finds.
Planets around other stars need to be prepared for extreme weather conditions, according to a new study from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s (European Space Agency’s) XMM-Newton that examined the effects of X-rays on potential planets around the most common type of stars. Astronomers found that only a planet with greenhouse gases in its […]
Valley fever has exploded since 2000. Scientists are trying to figure out why (edited)
Low-pollution solar-powered generators can help communities in crisis. The post When the grid goes down, solar power can step up appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
The shipping industry is planning to swap some fossil fuels for green ammonia – but that could create a major new source of nitrogen pollution
(New Orleans, LA – January 15, 2024) Today, Louisiana’s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) released its Draft FY26 Annual Plan for public review and comment. The Annual Plan reflects which projects in the Coastal Master Plan will move forward in a given fiscal year and, upon its adoption by the CPRA Board and the approval of the Legislature, provides the authority to expend funds originating from the state, federal government and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Restore the Mississippi ... Read The Full Story The post Louisiana Commits $1.8 billion to Critical Coastal Restoration and Protection Projects appeared first on Restore the Mississippi River Delta .
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections Asheville, North Carolina, was once widely considered a climate haven thanks to its elevated, inland location and cooler temperatures than much of the Southeast. Then came the catastrophic floods of Hurricane Helene in September 2024. It was a stark reminder that nowhere is safe from climate-worsened extreme weather risks: Hurricanes arriving from the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic seaboard. Hail in the Midwest. Floods in the East. Sea level rise along the coasts. Wildfires in the West, most recently exemplified by the devastating and costly fires around Los Angeles . And worsening extreme weather translates into more expensive property damages, growing insurance claims, and rising insurance rates. Somebody has to...
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05356G, Paper Qun He, Yuzhu Zhou, Li-Hui Mou, Chuanqiang Wu, Daobin Liu, Binghui Ge, Jun Jiang, Li Song Electrocatalytic water splitting, a promising alternative to fossil fuels, has substantial potential for hydrogen generation. However, developing efficient electrocatalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) faces challenges, especially in alkaline... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Leave it to the poet Robert Frost, writing more than a century ago, to capture in 9 short lines and 51 words the challenge facing the world, and perhaps its ultimate fate: Fire and Ice Some say the world will … Continue reading → The post Fire and Ice: a forecast for the end of the world – and sometimes, for the same-day’s national weather. first appeared on Living on the Real World.
Even if you haven’t suffered direct damage, you’re paying for increasingly extreme weather. The post Nobody’s insurance rates are safe from climate change appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Companies and their investors should use every tool – especially their political influence – to defend America’s thoughtful, strategic methane rules.
The microbiome of Antarctic worms helps them cope with extremely cold conditions, providing insights into the role of the microbiome in host health and adaptation.
Analyzing gas trapped within different layers of the ice can tell us about Earth’s climate in the past — and give us clues to what might lie ahead.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04689G, Paper Wei Bi, Canhuang Li, Dawei Yang, Yu-Zhen Zhang, Lei Hu, Qianhong Gong, Jie Zhang, Yong Cai Zhang, Mengyao Li, Jishi Wei, Yingtang Zhou, Dan Zhou, Wu Tianli, Li-Feng Chen, Andreu Cabot Two-dimensional (2D) nanocarbon-based materials with controllable pore structures and hydrophilic surfaces exhibit significant potential in various applications. However, traditional methods often encounter challenges in achieving these 2D carbon nanomaterials effectively.... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Jeff Masters and Bob Henson Flames from the Palisades Fire burn a building at Sunset Boulevard amid a powerful windstorm on January 8, 2025 in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. The fast-moving wildfire had destroyed thousands of structures and burned more than 15,000 acres by Thursday, January 9. (Photo by Apu Gomes/Getty Images) [ Haz clic aquí para leer en español ] The New Year has rung in with one of the most horrific wildfire events in world history: an urban firestorm in the Los Angeles metro area that has killed at least five people and reduced thousands of homes to smoking rubble. Two major fires in excess of 10,000 acres – the Palisades fire in the...
A listing of 23 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, January 5, 2025 thru Sat, January 11, 2025. This week's roundup is again published soleley by category. 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 Change Impacts The Risks of Climate Change to the United States in the 21st Century CBO assesses how climate change will pose risks to the United States through its effects on economic activity, real estate and financial markets, human health, biodiversity, immigration, and national security. by Congressional...
Marco QuadrelliNASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory There is a strong coupling mechanism between the lithosphere, ionosphere, magnetosphere, atmosphere, and the plasmasphere of many planetary bodies. For example, the ionosphere has been shown to respond to space weather events induced by Solar activity, as well as to atmospheric events, and events in the surface and interior of […]
Scientists have warned that the Paris Agreement to limit global warming will likely be breached as data reveals 2024 was the hottest year in human history.
Antarctica is home to a peak shaped like a perfect pyramid — but contrary to what conspiracy theorists say, the mountain's four symmetrical faces were forged through natural processes.
Software can help drivers charge when renewable energy is available and electricity demand is low. The post Smarter EV charging could ease the strain on the electric grid appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Earthquakes that occurred near an oil extraction site in Surrey, UK, in 2018 and 2019 had been put down to coincidence, but a new analysis with an updated look at the geology of the area suggests the seismic events may indeed have been linked to drilling
Summer dry seasons are extending into winter, intensifying the impacts of Santa Ana winds. The post The role of climate change in the catastrophic 2025 Los Angeles fires appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Open access notables Large emissions of CO2 and CH4 due to active-layer warming in Arctic tundra , Torn et al., Nature Communications: Climate warming may accelerate decomposition of Arctic soil carbon, but few controlled experiments have manipulated the entire active layer. To determine surface-atmosphere fluxes of carbon dioxide and methane under anticipated end-of-century warming, here we used heating rods to warm (by 3.8 °C) to the depth of permafrost in polygonal tundra in Utqia?vik (formerly Barrow), Alaska and measured fluxes over two growing seasons. We show that ecosystem respiration is ~30% higher in warmed plots than in control plots (0.99 μmol m−2 s−1 versus 0.67 μmol m−2 s−1, p <...
It is a historic milestone for climate research: an international research team involving the Alfred Wegener Institute has successfully drilled a 2,800 metre-long ice core , reaching the bedrock beneath the Antarctic ice sheet. In the fourth Antarctic season of the European Commission-funded project "Beyond EPICA - Oldest Ice", the team was able to drill ice that contains a continuous record of the history of our climate as far back as 1.2 million years ago - and probably beyond. The previous age record comes from the EPICA core drilled in 2004, which depicts the atmosphere of the last 800,000 years.
Onboard computers are critical to space exploration, aiding nearly every spacecraft function from propulsion and navigation systems to life support technology, science data retrieval and analysis, communications, and reentry. But computers in space are susceptible to ionizing solar and cosmic radiation. Just one high-energy particle can trigger a so-called “single event effect,” causing minor data […]
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03104K, Paper Xian Wu, Wei Zhang, Haotian Qu, Chaohong Guan, Chuang Li, Gongxun Lu, Chengshuai Chang, Zhoujie Lao, Yanfei Zhu, Lu Nie, Guangmin Zhou Solid polymer electrolytes (SPEs) are garnering significant interest for use in solid-state lithium metal batteries. However, a critical challenge in the rational design of electrolytes lies in ensuring interfacial compatibility,... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
This is a re-post from the Climate Brink Global surface temperatures have risen around 1.3C since the preindustrial (1850-1900) period as a result of human activity. 1 However, this aggregate number masks a lot of underlying factors that contribute to global surface temperature changes over time. These include CO2, which is the primary driver of long-term warming, as well as non-CO2 greenhouse gases like CH4, N2O, and halocarbons. But it also includes planet-cooling aerosols that have masked a sizable portion of the warming of our greenhouse gas emissions to-date. Rounding out the list are other anthropogenic factors (tropospheric ozone, albedo changes due to land use change), and natural forcings (primarily volcanic eruptions and variations in solar...
Paasha Mahdavi and Andrew Howell explore why reducing methane emissions from oil and gas in the global south is often seen as “low hanging fruit.”
It’s one of the biggest fire and wind threats in years for the northern end of the Los Angeles region. The post This week’s unholy mix of drought, wind, and fire in Southern California appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04657A, Paper Shuaishuai Yan, Nan Yao, Hao Liu, Zheng Zhang, Yang Lu, Zhi Liu, Wen-hui Hou, Pan Zhou, Hang-Yu Zhou, Xiang Chen, Kai Liu, Qiang Zhang Ideal high-temperature lithium metal battery (LMB) electrolytes should have good thermal stability and compatibility with highly reactive cathodes/anodes. Yet, conventional liquid electrolytes usually show severe degradation and substantial safety risks... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03385J, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Yiqiao Wang, Hu Hong, Zhiquan Wei, Dedi Li, Xinru Yang, Jiaxiong Zhu, Pei Li, Shengnan Wang, Chunyi Zhi Aqueous Zn-Mn flow batteries (Zn-Mn FBs) are a potential candidate for large-scale energy storage due to their high voltage, low cost, and environmental friendliness. However, the unsatisfactory performance due to... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Learn how researchers examined lead levels in ice cores dating back to the Roman Empire, and found concentrations high enough to affect IQs.
More than 100 volcanoes lurk beneath the surface in Antarctica. Ice sheet melt could set them off.
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections Much like 2023 , many climate and energy records were broken in 2024. It was Earth’s hottest year on record by a wide margin, breaking the previous record that was set just last year by an even larger margin. Human-caused climate-warming pollution and atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations reached new heights. But the record deployment of clean technology solutions in 2024 prevented emissions from rising even higher yet. Scientists found many other planetary vital signs also at record levels , including ocean acidity, sea level rise, ice cover, heat-related mortality rates, meat production, and loss of forest cover. But they also noted that the level of global deforestation due directly to human activities...
Deep sediments under Arctic lakes could release large amounts of carbon dioxide and methane, adding to the threat of runaway climate change
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Volume 130, Issue 1, January 2025.
A listing of 26 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, December 29, 2024 thru Sat, January 4, 2025. This week's roundup is again published soleley by category. 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 Change Impacts A year of extreme weather that challenged billions Climate change has brought record-breaking heat this year, and with it extreme weather, from hurricanes to month-long droughts. by Esme Stellard, BBC News, Dec 29, 2024 Climate change is the worst. Here's just how bad it got this...
A NASA X-ray imager is heading to the Moon as part of NASA’s Artemis campaign, where it will capture the first global images of the magnetic field that shields Earth from solar radiation. The Lunar Environment Heliospheric X-ray Imager, or LEXI, instrument is one of 10 payloads aboard the next lunar delivery through NASA’s CLPS (Commercial […]
Countries have pledged to phase out HFC-23, a powerful greenhouse gas, but atmospheric data shows that emissions are five times higher than governments are reporting
EDF Statement from Beth Trask, Vice President, Global Energy Transition
Amber severe weather warnings for snow and ice have been issued for parts of England and Wales this weekend with up to 30-40cm of snow possible in parts of Northern England.
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 03 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02200-1Climate change research and policy rely on emissions scenarios to project future warming and its impacts. Now, a study highlights both progress and challenges to keeping key socioeconomic scenario assumptions up to date for the IPCC.
An expanding polar vortex is expected to lower temperatures across the eastern half of the U.S., with the potential for record-breaking cold in January.
The permissive “science first” approach has failed, but a nondeployment deal might yet enable responsible research
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, 18 ,13-18 DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03483J, Opinion Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Xuan Gao, Haobo Dong, Chang Su, Yuhang Dai, Yiyang Liu, Ivan P. Parkin, Claire J. Carmalt, Guanjie He The payback period is a critical indicator when adopting energy storage systems. When developing optimization strategies for emerging energy storage technologies such as aqueous zinc-ion batteries, their economic feasibility should be considered. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, 18 ,194-213 DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03956D, Perspective Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Xueyu Tian, Samuel D. Stranks, Jinsong Huang, Vasilis M. Fthenakis, Yang Yang, Fengqi You We propose a multi-scale analytics and modeling framework to fill the gap in integrating circular solar economy principles with ecosystem and climate commitments, enabling a holistic sustainability analysis of perovskite PVs. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05044D, Paper Chaojiang Niu, Ruiting Guo, Xiong Liu, Kun Ni, Fan-Jie Xia, Huazhang Zhang, Yu Liu, Xinzhe Dai, Litong Shi, Xuanpeng Wang, Chunhua Han, Liqiang Mai Current research focuses on regulating Zn plating behavior to address dendrite issue. Although significant improvements in the lifespans of symmetric batteries have been achieved, full batteries do not demonstrate a... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Recent U.S. Climate and Clean Energy Actions Will Save Tens of Thousands of Lives, Deliver Trillions of Dollars in Health and Climate Benefits
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02619E, Comment Chaojing Lu, Xinyu Wang The presence of scarce (101)-oriented F:SnO 2 grains in the fluorine-doped SnO 2 layer with a slight (100) texture seems insufficient to drive predominantly (001)-oriented growth of a BiVO 4 photoanode through the alleged microscale epitaxy. 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, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05293E, Review Article Chenyu Xiong, Yuefeng Meng, Yao Wang, Bingyue Ling, Mengyu Ma, Hao Yan, Feiyu Kang, Dong Zhou, Baohua Li This review thoroughly examines the impact of lean-solvent solid electrolyte (LSEs) on for safer and more durable lithium batteries. It also provides a comprehensive overview of existing LSEs. 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
Countries like the UK, Spain and Italy rely on gas to step in when renewables can’t produce power, leading to higher energy prices – but a more flexible system could avoid this
For many homeowners, extreme weather is leading to rising rates and denied coverage. The post Reads to help you make sense of the climate-changed insurance market appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
A listing of 25 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, January 12, 2025 thru Sat, January 18, 2025. This week's roundup is again published soleley by category. 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 Change Impacts Los Angeles burns: What you need to know This is terrible. This is climate change. by Andrew Dessler, The Climate Brink, Jan 13, 2025 How Two Words from a 24-Year-Old Pasadena Climate Specialist Saved Hundreds of Lives Edgar McGregor’s timely Eaton Fire alert:...
New images from the North Sea show never-before-seen landforms that were carved by a single, colossal ice sheet 1 million years ago and subsequently buried beneath a thick layer of mud.
A fire at Vistra Energy's Moss Landing battery storage facility in California destroyed thousands of lithium batteries – and a significant amount of the state's clean energy storage capacity
Climate change presents one of the most urgent crises of our time, with increasing threats to life, infrastructure, economies, and ecosystems worldwide. Climate change is no longer a distant concern; its effects are being felt now and are projected to intensify if emissions continue unabated. The consequences are severe and irreversible for people today, with […]
Wildfires and fossil fuel burning in 2024 contributed to the biggest annual rise in atmospheric CO2 levels ever recorded at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii
Open access notables Long-term trends in heat wave gaps for the New York City metropolitan area , Lin & Colle, Urban Climate: Heat waves occurring in close succession to one another are hazardous because of the prolonged stress on the human body and energy demand. A heat wave gap metric, the time between two adjacent heat wave events, was utilized to examine the gap length and frequency trend for several stations around New York City (NYC) during the last several decades. From 1961 to 1990 to 1991–2020, the average heat wave gap for the various stations decreased by 15–41 %, the number of short gaps (≤5 days) increased by 33–300 %, while the number of long gaps (>5 days) remained relatively constant. Pervasive ...
Conflict, climate change, epidemics, and displacement are converging to create an unparalleled global health crisis, with 305 million people in urgent need of humanitarian assistance in 2025. In response, the World Health Organization (WHO) is calling for US$ 1.5 billion for its 2025 Health Emergency Appeal (HEA) , to support life-saving health interventions worldwide. The appeal, launched today by WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, outlines the critical priorities and resources needed to address 42 ongoing health emergencies, including 17 Grade 3 crises – the most severe emergencies requiring the highest level of response. With health systems stretched to their limits and global financial resources dwindling, the US$ 1.5 billion are needed to help people facing the...
Soil water sustains terrestrial life, yet its fate is uncertain under a changing climate. We conducted a deuterium labeling experiment to determine whether elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), warming, and drought impact soil water storage and ...
Rare fossils challenge assumptions about how the big cats thrived in a challenging environment.
Antarctica's Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf may be under threat due to relatively warm water from the deep sea flowing towards the shelf. Is climate change to blame?
Most people think it’s no laughing matter. The post Why a comedian is using jokes to talk about climate change appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
China has announced plans to build a giant solar power space station, which will be lifted into orbit piece by piece using the nation's brand-new heavy lift rockets.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03839H, Paper Shengyu Tao, Mengtian Zhang, Zixi Zhao, Haoyang Li, Ruifei Ma, Yunhong Che, Xin Sun, Lin Su, Chongbo Sun, Xiangyu Chen, Heng Chang, Shiji Zhou, Zepeng Li, Hanyang Lin, Yaojun Liu, Wenjun Yu, Zhongling Xu, Han Hao, Scott Moura, Xuan Zhang, Yang Li, Xiaosong Hu, Guangmin Zhou The paper proposes a physics-informed model to predict battery lifetime trajectories by computing thermodynamic and kinetic parameters, saving costly data that has not been established for sustainable manufacturing, reuse, and recycling. 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
On November 1, 2024 we announced the publication of 33 rebuttals based on the report " Rebutting 33 False Claims About Solar, Wind, and Electric Vehicles " 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. Below is the blog post version of rebuttal #11 based on Sabin's report. Unsubsidized solar energy is now generally cheaper than fossil fuels. According to the International Energy Agency’s 2020 World Energy Outlook, photovoltaic solar power is “the cheapest source of new electricity generation in most parts of the world,” and “[f]or projects with low cost financing that tap high quality resources...
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05591H, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. James Han Zhang, Rohith Mittapally, Guangxin Lv, Gang Chen To explain reported solar interfacial-evaporation rates from porous materials beyond an apparent 100% efficiency using the thermal evaporation mechanism, many publications hypothesize that intermediate water inside porous materials have a... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05288A, Paper Yanjun Wang, Yue Wang, Wenjing Duan, Xuang Bai, Pengyuan Liu, Chiwei Xu, Hongqin Wang, Jinjue Zeng, Qi Wang, Fanyu Zhou, Yuhang Meng, Lijun Yang, Cheng-Hui Li, Zheng Hu, Xiangfen Jiang, Liang Jiang, Jingxin Lei, Xue-Bin Wang The matter cycle and the renewable energy are fundamental to sustainable development. Despite the recognized urgency of plastic recycling, its implementation is still limited technologically. A dynamic crosslinker can enable... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Astronomers have long tried to track down how elements like carbon, which is essential for life, become widely distributed across the universe. Now, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has examined one ongoing source of carbon-rich dust in our own Milky Way galaxy in greater detail: Wolf-Rayet 140, a system of two massive stars that follow […]
Even once researchers can reliably get more power out of a fusion reaction than they put in, they'll still need to overcome engineering challenges to scale up fusion energy.
Turkey vultures feed on dead carcasses, helping to lower greenhouse gas emissions.
Recent drought has left the state vulnerable to wildfires. The post Climate change, not endangered species protection, is a big culprit in Los Angeles fires appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Ben HockmanNASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory A basketball-sized towbody containing a camera, atmospheric sampling instruments, and support hardware is suspended on a multi-kilometer tether from a high-altitude balloon in the Venusian atmosphere, allowing it to peer beneath the dense cloud layer and image the surface at high resolution. The towbody harvests energy from the differential wind […]
The total number of people killed in extreme weather events intensified by climate change in 2024 is likely in the tens or hundreds of thousands, said the World Weather Attribution group. The post Earth roasts through its second consecutive hottest year on record appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04566A, Review Article Junwei Ding, Miao Du, Shiwen Wang, Linsen Zhang, Yuanzheng Yue, Morten M Smedskjaer Advanced rechargeable batteries are critical for enabling effective energy storage. A promising strategy to improve the electrochemical performance involves tailoring heterostructures (HSs) with heterointerfaces (HIs) in the active battery components.... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Scientists warn efforts to limit the long-term temperature rise to 1.5°C will fail as data confirms 2024 was the hottest year in human history
After months of delay, the cool La Niña climate pattern has emerged in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, which increases the risk of drought in parts of the Americas
NASA's LEXI instrument is set to land on the moon's surface sometime this month. Using X-ray sensors, the device will watch Earth's atmosphere "breathing out and breathing in" to uncover key space weather mysteries.
Why land protection and climate action are both vital to the future of plants and animals. The post Where have all the species gone? Understanding climate change’s toll on nature appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Over half of Earth’s land surface is covered with fire-prone vegetation, with grassy ecosystems—such as grasslands, savannas, woodlands, and shrublands—being the most extensive. In the context of the climate crisis, scientists worldwide are exploring ...
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03820G, Paper Xi Jin, Jun Li, Siyuan Zhu, Wenyan Tan, Jiahong Tang, Xueyuan Gong, Xingyu Liu, Yu Zhang, Chao Zhou, Zhaoheng Tang, Vincent O Nyamori, Bice Susan Martincigh, Matthew L Davies, Ming-Hua Li, Tongsheng Chen, Qi Chen, Jin-Song Hu, Qijie Liang, Weiqiang Chen, Yan Jiang The illumination side of perovskite solar cells is more vulnerable to external impact (such as hail, flying rocks, snow, hurricanes, etc.) than the rear side, leading to more likelihood of... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Fast-moving wildfires are burning long after the regular fire season is over due to an unlikely sequence of extreme weather events that may have been exacerbated by climate change
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05442C, Paper Yongzhen Xu, Kui Chen, Mingwei Xu, Yue Li, Qing Wu, Shizhao Li, Chunhui Xie, Yunqi Li, Haibo Xie, Jun Huang Aqueous Zn-ion batteries (AZIBs) provide an enticing option for energy storage with cost-effectiveness, integral safety, and environmental benignity. However, the reversibility and lifespan of AZIBs are constrained by the uncontrolled... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Industrial waste can make rudimentary batteries. That's likely no good in electric cars etc, but could be ideal for stashing away vast surpluses of renewable power.
On November 1, 2024 we announced the publication of 33 rebuttals based on the report " Rebutting 33 False Claims About Solar, Wind, and Electric Vehicles " 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. Below is the blog post version of rebuttal #10 based on Sabin's report. Data across multiple studies show that utility-scale solar projects do not have major impacts on the values of surrounding properties 1 . Rather, the installation of a solar farm typically has only a minor impact on the value of homes closest to it. The most comprehensive study to date, which examined over 1.8 million home transactions near 1,500 large-scale...
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05305B, Paper Yu Sun, Daxian Zuo, Chengrong Xu, Bo Peng, Jing-Chang Li, Jie Yang, Sheng Xu, Xinyi Sun, Haoshen Zhou, Shaohua Guo Hard carbon (HC), a commercially available anode for sodium-ion batteries(SIBs), suffers from the unstable solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) and massive irreversible sodium loss caused by oxygen-containing functional groups, resulting in... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Lead records from Arctic glaciers indicate that people all over Europe would have been affected by pollution from metal smelting during the Roman era
A velvet ant sting is like “hot oil spilling over your hand” – now, scientists have identified molecules in its venom that let it deliver excruciating pain to a variety of other animals
From carbon emissions to the share prize of videoconferencing firm Zoom, these graphs tell the story of how the covid-19 pandemic changed everything
In the Arctic, the old, multiyear ice is increasingly melting, dramatically reducing the frequency and size of pressure ridges. These ridges are created when ice floes press against each other and become stacked, and are a characteristic feature of Arctic sea ice, an obstacle for shipping, but also an essential component of the ecosystem. In a recently released study in the journal Nature Climate Change, experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute report on this trend and analyse observational data from three decades of aerial surveys.
Honda's new facility could drive breakthroughs in solid-state batteries for electric cars, ultimately leading to batteries with more than double the range of existing EVs.
Climate researchers from NASA and NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) will release their annual assessments of global temperatures and discuss the major climate trends of 2024 during a media briefing at 12 p.m. EST Friday, Jan. 10. NASA will share the briefing on the agency’s website at: https://www.nasa.gov/live. Participants will include: Media interested in […]
Homo floresiensis, a metre-tall ancient hominin, lived on the South Pacific island of Flores and hunted dwarf elephants until about 50,000 years ago – and now it seems climate change played a role in the downfall of both species
Most of that money went to Republicans. The post The fossil fuel industry spent $219 million to elect the new U.S. government appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 130, Issue 1, 16 January 2025.
Learn more about the innovative technology that tracked a bat’s movements and the climate around them as they migrated across continents.
2024 was a mixed bag for climate change. Here’s what’s on the horizon for 2025. The post Climate news to watch in 2025 appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE04100C, Paper Kuo Wang, Hongtu Zhan, Wenlong Su, Xiao-Xia Liu, Xiaoqi Sun A macromolecule additive strategy is presented as a dual deceleration interfacial network to regulate Zn deposition behavior and inhibit side reactions. It enables the stable cycling of Zn electrodes in aqueous batteries. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, 18 ,322-333 DOI : 10.1039/D4EE03978E, Paper Xueyu Lian, Liang Xu, Zhijin Ju, Ziang Chen, Xiaopeng Chen, Yuyang Yi, Zhengnan Tian, Tao Cheng, Shixue Dou, Xinyong Tao, Jingyu Sun A versatile separator modification strategy is proposed to rearrange anode interface species, realizing a robust inorganic-rich solid–electrolyte interphase thus ensuring a durable potassium metal batteries. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry