Nitrogen comprises around 78% of Earth's atmosphere, so why do most lifeforms breathe oxygen?
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 130, Issue 7, 16 April 2025.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00237K, Paper Kefeng Ouyang, Sheng Chen, Lidong Yu, Hongyu Qin, Ao Liu, Youfa Liu, Quan Wu, Bingjie Ran, Shubing Wei, Fei Gao, Kun Zhang, Jin Hu, Yan Huang A diverse array of Zn metal batteries (ZMBs) is swiftly emerging as a prominent force in the energy storage sector. The electrolyte modification is integral to improving ZMB performance by... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Some researchers propose that countries should start to rack up a carbon debt once they exceed their carbon budget, obliging them to do more to draw down carbon dioxide, but the idea is unlikely to form part of international climate agreements
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D5EE90031J, Correction Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Benjamin K. Sovacool, Dylan Furszyfer Del Rio, Kyle Herman, Marfuga Iskandarova, Joao M. Uratani, Steve Griffiths 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/D4EE05905K, Paper Ziwei Xu, Junpeng Li, Yifan Fu, Junjie Ba, Fengxue Duan, Yingjin Wei, Chunzhong Wang, Kangning Zhao, Yizhan Wang An ultrathin, water-repellent Zn 2+ -selective membrane suppresses interfacial water penetration and hydrogen evolution, enabling >10 000 cycles at 99.91% CE for scalable, Ah-level zinc 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
Winter sea ice cover in the Arctic was the lowest it’s ever been at its annual peak on March 22, 2025, according to NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado, Boulder. At 5.53 million square miles (14.33 million square kilometers), the maximum extent fell below the prior […]
Open access notables New coasts emerging from the retreat of Northern Hemisphere marine-terminating glaciers in the twenty-first century , Kavan et al., Nature Climate Change: Accelerated climate warming has caused the majority of marine-terminating glaciers in the Northern Hemisphere to retreat substantially during the twenty-first century. While glacier retreat and changes in mass balance are widely studied on a global scale, the impacts of deglaciation on adjacent coastal geomorphology are often overlooked and therefore poorly understood. Here we examine changes in proglacial zones of marine-terminating glaciers across the Northern Hemisphere to quantify the length of new coastline that has been exposed by glacial retreat between 2000 and 2020. We identified a...
Clusters of powerful winter storms which bring major impacts to the UK were made more likely by an intense swirling vortex of winds miles above the Arctic, say scientists.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Volume 130, Issue 4, April 2025.
Wind, solar, and battery storage projects are generating billions in tax revenue for communities, a University of Texas study finds. The post Clean energy is powering local economies in Texas appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 130, Issue 6, 28 March 2025.
Nature, Published online: 26 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00954-yStudies on climate change and South Africa are also on the latest list of grants to be terminated, according to updated documents obtained by Nature.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05922K, Paper Shuang Han, Minghai Li, Qiyu Fan, Zhuoyi Han, Xuewen Ming, Wen Wang, Wanan Cai, Haijun Niu The BHED additive optimizing the Zn 2+ solvation structure and in situ building the β-ME SAM with highly active zincophilic sites on the Zn anode surface, Zn-ion batteries exhibit excellent interfacial stability, cyclic reversibility, and longevity. 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
There's a small chance of very high warming even with moderate future emissions, according to a computer model exploring what could happen in the next thousand years
We’ve pumped huge amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere that needs to be paid back. Large animals like wolves, bison and whales may already be tackling the problem
For young adults, air pollution may increase risks of some kinds of heart attacks more than others. The post Higher ozone levels tied to heart attack risk appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Fossil fuels powered the industrial revolution. Would aliens need a similar power source to jump-start a technical revolution?
Learn more about this new hydrothermal feature that could be connected to one from Yellowstone’s past.
The Trump EPA is delaying deadlines under the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program
The Drake Passage off the West Antarctic Peninsula is a notoriously dangerous channel that connects the Atlantic, Pacific and Southern oceans.
Image: The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains.
Open access notables The severe 2020 coral bleaching event in the tropical Atlantic linked to marine heatwaves , Rodrigues et al., Communications Earth & Environment: Marine heatwaves can amplify the vulnerabilities of regional marine ecosystems and jeopardise local economies and food resources. Here, we show that marine heatwaves in the tropical Atlantic have increased in frequency, intensity, duration, and spatial extent. Marine heatwaves are 5.1 times more frequent and 4.7 times more intense since the records started in 1982, with the 10 most extreme summers/falls in terms of marine heatwave cumulative intensity and spatial extension occurring in the last two decades. The extreme warming during the summer/fall of 2020 led to the largest bleaching event recorded...
Brianna Pagán, a satellite expert, lost her home in a wildfire. The post Wildfire survivor says it should be easier for the public to access satellite information appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05669H, Communication Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Craig Burdis, Romain Tort, Anna Winiwarter, Johannes Rietbrock, Jesús Barrio, Maria Magdalena Titirici, Ifan E.L. Stephens To introduce the potential for tuneability of the cathode in lithium mediated ammonia synthesis, we report a carbon cathode which produces ammonia at a Faradaic efficiency of 37 %. This... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Learn more about how climate change brings dire consequences for the mental health of young adults.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05845C, Paper Yun Cao, Chuannan Geng, Chen Bai, Linkai Peng, Jiaqi Lan, Jiarong Liu, Junwei Han, Bilu Liu, Yanbing He, Feiyu Kang, Quan-Hong Yang, Wei Lv A micropore confinement and fusion strategy is proposed to eliminate the interfacial mismatch and achieve molecular-level integrated catalysis interfaces for long-life all-solid-state Li–S 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
Up until a few weeks ago, I had never heard of "Climate Fresk" and at a guess, this will also be the case for many of you. I stumbled upon it in the self-service training catalog for employees at the company I work at in Germany where it was announced as a 3-hours workshop called "Klima Puzzle" (Climate Puzzle). Intrigued, I signed up and was one of 7 colleagues to be led through what turned out to be quite an interesting experience. After the workshop, I spend some time browsing the Climate Fresk website and then signed up for a training to become a "Climate Fresker" myself. This allows me to lead people through a Climate Fresk, which I now "only" need to find some time for! The background story Climate Fresk encourages the rapid and widespread spread of an understanding...
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00542F, Paper Pengfei Ding, Xugang Rong, Daobin Yang, Xueliang Yu, Zhenxin Shao, Hongqian Wang, Xiaochun Liao, Xinyue Cao, Jie Wu, Lin Xie, Jintao Zhu, Fei Chen, Guo Chen, Yan Huang, Ziyi Ge The majority of host/guest materials used in organic solar cells (OSCs) are currently synthesized via Stille reaction, which suffers from poor atom/step economics, low cost-effectiveness, and environmental risks. Therefore, organic... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
A World Meteorological Organization report details a long list of grim records for everything from CO2 levels and temperature to sea ice loss and sea level rise
It’s not limited to Colorado though– other states can and should take note that early collaboration with stakeholders can deliver big wins for the economy and climate. By Nini Gu As the first state to address oil and gas methane in 2014, Colorado racked up another first in February, when it began implementation of the […] The post The Colorado Way Delivers with a Unanimous Vote for a Groundbreaking Oil and Gas Methane Rule appeared first on Energy Exchange .
President Trump Signals Mandating More Coal Power, Action Would Impose High Health and Electricity Costs
EDF statement from Sarah Vogel, Senior Vice President, Healthy Communities
Skylab 3 astronauts witnessed many spectacular sights during their 858 orbital trips around the Earth in the summer of 1973. One involved watching powerful Hurricane Ellen take shape off the West African coast. “There’s a nice storm down there. She looks pretty big. She’s got a lot of clouds,” said astronaut Alan L. Bean upon […]
Satellite images taken more than three decades apart show the disappearance of Iceland's Okjökull, the first glacier to be officially declared dead as a result of human-caused climate change.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00342C, Paper Zhiyang Xu, Runnan Yu, Tangyue Xue, Qiang Guo, Qianglong Lv, Chen Zhang, Erjun Zhou, Zhan'ao Tan Flexible perovskite solar cells (f-PSCs) have garnered increasing research interest owing to their high power-to-weight ratio and ability to integrate into buildings. However, the mismatch of the thermal expansion coefficient... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Not just a future problem: The world is changing before our eyes. The post Before and after photos show the destruction of climate change appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Fall back to school with this edition of the NASA eClips newsletter! Educators are provided with a host of resources to help engineer a great school year! Videos and activities focus on comparing science and engineering practices. Two new Spotlite Design Challenges are launched on climate change and Earth-observing satellites! And a fun activity for […]
A listing of 26 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, March 9, 2025 thru Sat, March 15, 2025. This week's roundup is again published by category and sorted by number of articles included in each. 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 and number of articles shared: Climate Policy and Politics (10 articles) `We`re losing our environmental history`: The future of government information under Trump The administration’s wrecking-ball approach has raised profound questions about the integrity and future...
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 waste heat from industrial activity the reason the planet is warming? Waste heat’s contribution to global warming is a small fraction of that brought about by carbon dioxide. Waste heat comes from the thermal energy released by human energy use, such as when power plants burn coal or combustion engines burn gasoline. Dividing the total amount of waste heat by Earth’s surface area, Flanner found about 0.03 Watts per square meter of total warming was from waste heat, about 1%. Carbon dioxide’s greenhouse gas effect added 2.9 Watts per square meter. Zhang and Caldeira...
Statement from Mark Brownstein, Senior Vice President Energy Transition, EDF
Florida’s coastal wetlands face new threats as sea levels and temperatures climb. NASA’s BlueFlux Campaign is developing a new, satellite-based data product that could shape efforts to protect their future.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00158G, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Jichao Zhai, Wang Zhao, Lei Wang, Jianbo Shuai, Ruwei Chen, Wenjiao Ge, Yu Zong, Guanjie He, Xiaohui Wang The increasing demand for personalized health monitoring has driven the development of wearable electronics. Flexible zinc-ion batteries (FZIBs) are ideal power sources for wearable devices, but their low volumetric energy... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says it is discontinuing its regular update calls due to staffing problems, but its researchers may also fear political retaliation for discussing climate change
In the Florida Everglades, NASA’s BlueFlux Campaign investigates the relationship between tropical wetlands and greenhouse gases.
Shorter ice seasons make transportation and hunting more difficult. The post Warming climate disrupts food prices in northern Ontario appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
A deep-learning model infers large-scale dynamics of Antarctic ice shelves
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Volume 130, Issue 3, March 2025.
Statement of Kate Boicourt, Director for Climate Resilient Coasts and Watersheds program in New York-New Jersey, Environmental Defense Fund
With EPA's environmental justice offices eliminated, EPA will no longer be able to fulfill its mission of protecting the health of every American.
This is a re-post from The Climate Brink Good data visualizations can help make climate change more visceral and understandable. Back in 2016 Ed Hawkins published a “ climate spiral ” graph that ended up being pretty iconic – it was shown at the opening ceremony of the Olympics that year – and is probably the second most widely seen climate graph after Hawkins’ later climate stripes . However, I haven’t previously come across any versions of the spiral graph showing daily global temperatures, so I thought it would be fun to create my own (with, I should note, a bit of help from OpenAI’s o3 model to code it). Here are daily global temperatures by year between 1940 (when the ERA5 daily dataset begins) and the...
Our solar system's journey around the center of the Milky Way takes it through varying galactic environments, and one may have had a lasting impact on Earth's climate, according to a new study.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05703A, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Mayank Kedia, Chittaranjan Das, Malgorzata Kot, Yenal Yalcinkaya, Weiwei Zuo, Kenedy Tabah Tanko, Peter Matvija, Mikel Ezquer, Iñaki Cornago, Wolfram Hempel, Florian Kauffmann, Paul Plate, Monica Lira-Cantu, Stefan A.L. Weber, Michael Saliba Atomic layer deposition of aluminum oxide (ALD-Al 2 O 3 ) layers has been extensively studied for stabilizing perovskite solar cells (PSCs) against environmental stressors, such as humidity and oxygen. In addition, the ALD-Al 2 O 3 ... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00269A, Paper Bo Jiang, Boyang Yu, Yong Zhang, Weiwei Deng, Baomin Xu, Xinyan Zhao Printing of electrodes to replace thermal evaporation of metals for back contacts in perovskite solar cells (PSCs) is essential for scalable manufacturing. However, PSCs incorporating printed electrodes typically exhibit lower... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
A listing of 31 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, March 23, 2025 thru Sat, March 29, 2025. This week's roundup is again published by category and sorted by number of articles included in each. The formatting is a bit different compared to previous weeks, though. We are still interested in feedback to hone the categorization, so if you spot any clear misses and/or have suggestions for additional categories, please let us know in the comments. Thanks! Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Change Impacts (11 articles) March 23: Imperiled in the Wild, Many Plants May Survive Only in Gardens , Yale Environment 360, Janet Marinelli. As the impacts of climate change and other threats mount, conservationists...
A newly discovered plant found by a national park volunteer in the Texas desert is a small, fuzzy flower that pokes up between rocks. With its limited range, this species could be threatened by climate change.
But a Trump-era funding freeze could disrupt investments in clean energy projects. The post Clean energy generates major economic benefits, especially in red states appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00197H, Review Article Jiguo Tu, Yan Li, Bokun Zhang, Xiaoyun Wang, Ramachandran Vasant Kumar, Libo Chen, Shuqiang Jiao High-voltage spinel lithium nickel manganese oxide (LNMO) stand out as a promising cobalt-free cathode material for lithium-ion batteries, due to its low cost, high voltage and energy density capabilities. However,... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Learn about the climate changes that followed the end-Permian extinction, allowing select species to take over the planet’s oceans.
Photosynthesising microbes in soil may increase their activity as temperatures rise, offsetting some of the carbon emissions expected to be released from peatland and permafrost
A New Orleans native set up a buddy system that pairs people across state lines. The post Hurricane Katrina survivors offer emotional support to Helene survivors appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05689B, Paper Zhongbin Pan, Yu Cheng, Zhicheng Li, Pang Xi, Peng Wang, Xu Fan, Hanxi Chen, Jinjun Liu, Junfei Luo, Jinhong Yu, Minhao Yang, Jiwei Zhai, Weiping Li Electrostatic capacitors are typically necessary to operate in harsh-temperature environments to fulfill the demanding requirements of renewable energy, electrified transportations, and advanced propulsion systems. However, achieving exceptional capacitive performance in... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
What are ice quakes? Learn how the discovery of ice quakes deep within the Northeast Greenland Ice Sheet is helping scientists better understand the dynamics of glacial ice.
This is a re-post from the Climate Brink Last September the Washington Post published an article about a new paper in Science by Emily Judd and colleagues. The WaPo article was detailed and nuanced, but led with the figure below, adapted from the paper: The internet, being less prone to detail and nuance, ran with the figure, with climate skeptics calling it their “new favorite graph” and reposting it everywhere, claiming that it shows the insignificance of recent human warming relative to the Earth’s long temperature history. The furor over the graph reached its apogee in January when Joe Rogan showed it in a podcast interview with Mel Gibson, saying that “If you believe these silly...
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE06192F, Paper Jiacheng Liu, Yan Wen, Wei Yan, Zhongliang Huang, Xiaozhi Liu, Xuan Huang, Changhong Zhan, Yuqi Zhang, Wei-Hsiang Huang, Chih-Wen Pao, Zhiwei Hu, Dong Su, Shunji Xie, Ye Wang, Jiajia Han, Haifeng Xiong, Xiaoqing Huang, Nanjun Chen The production of value-added liquid fuels via the electroreduction of CO has received widespread attention. Although copper (Cu) has demonstrated promising activity in producing multi-carbon products, the yield of a... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00273G, Review Article Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Hao Zhang, Suwen Wang, Enmin Lv, menghui qi, Chengchao He, Xing-Long Dong, Jieshan Qiu, Yong Wang, Zhenhai Wen The transition to renewable energy sources and the need for efficient energy conversion technologies have led to the development of various types of catalysts, among which atomically dispersed metal catalysts... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
A giant whirlpool of light, known as a "SpaceX spiral," was recently spotted swirling across the night sky over Europe as a Falcon 9 rocket prepared to reenter Earth's atmosphere after deploying top-secret cargo.
Months before a wildfire, they’d taken steps to prevent fires from reaching their house. The post A Colorado couple invested in wildfire protection for their home. It paid off. appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Floating platforms of wood could draw up seawater and help it to freeze, seeding the formation of new sea ice
This is a re-post from Carbon Brief by Wang Zhongying, chief national expert, China Energy Transformation Programme of the Energy Research Institute, and Kaare Sandholt, chief international expert, China Energy Transformation Programme of the Energy Research Institute China will need to install around 10,000 gigawatts (GW) of wind and solar capacity to reach carbon neutrality by 2060, according to new Chinese government-endorsed research . This huge energy transition – with the technologies currently standing at 1,408GW – can make a “decisive contribution” to the country’s climate efforts and bring big economic rewards, the China Energy Transformation Outlook 2024 (CETO24) shows. The report was produced by our research...
Melting ice is revealing new coastal zones in the Arctic, but while this new landscape might fuel speculation about natural resources, it is vulnerable to rockfalls and landslides that can cause dangerous tsunamis
A listing of 31 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, March 16, 2025 thru Sat, March 22, 2025. This week's roundup is again published by category and sorted by number of articles included in each. 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 and number of articles shared: Climate Change Impacts (14 articles) Global sea level rose faster than expected in 2024, according to NASA analysis Ocean water expands as it warms, researchers said. by Julia Jacobo, International, ABC News, Mar 14, 2025 How Can We...
After the last ice age, sea levels rose rapidly over a period of about 8,000 years, new research reveals.
Multiple energy reports all underscore the same finding: The U.S. is going to need more affordable electric power to supply data centers, manufacturing and homes around the country. A lot more of it. Our country’s vast supplies of wind and solar resources are ready to be tapped to support that demand – from vast windy […] The post Faster, affordable clean energy? This bipartisan bill delivers appeared first on Climate 411 .
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05866F, Paper Shaojie Zhang, Zhongpeng Li, Yixin Zhang, Xuanpeng Wang, Peiyang Dong, Saihai Lei, Weihao Zeng, Juan Wang, Xiaobin Liao, Xingye Chen, Dongqi Li, Shichun Mu Gel polymer electrolytes with moderate Li + -solvent binding (MB-GPE) achieve an optimal balance between weak solvation modulation and lithium-ion transport performance, leading to long-term stable cycling of lithium–metal batteries (LMBs). 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/D4EE06091A, Paper Songyang Chang, Wentao Hou, Angelica Del Valle-Perez, Irfan Ullah, Xiaoyu Du, Lisandro Cunci, Gerardo Morell, Xianyong Wu Aqueous multivalent metal batteries represent an attractive option for energy storage. Currently, various metals have been attempted for aqueous battery operation, ranging from divalent metals (zinc, iron, nickel, manganese) to... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00132C, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Kun Zhang, Yijia Yuan, Gang Wang, Fangzheng Chen, Li Ma, Chao Wu, Jia Liu, Bao Zhang, Chenglin Li, Hongtian Liu, Changan Lu, Shibo Xi, Xing Li, Keyu Xie, Junhao Lin, Kian Ping Loh Rechargeable aqueous zinc metal-based batteries present a promising alternative to conventional lithium-ion batteries due to their lower operating potentials, higher capacities, intrinsic safety, cost-effectiveness, and environmental sustainability. However, the use... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Marine mammals rely on maintaining sufficient blood oxygen levels while diving to prevent drowning. Generally, oxygen is cognitively imperceptible to mammals that instead sense rising carbon dioxide as a proxy for low oxygen. Not perceiving oxygen, ...
Improving our understanding of sudden climate shifts is welcome. But framing this as creating an "early-warning system" is wrong on so many levels it is hard to know where to begin, says Bill McGuire
Bedmap3 is the most fine-grain map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice. Scientists created it using more than 60 years' worth of data from satellites, ships and dog-drawn sleds.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE06171C, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Yi Yuan, yang Hu, Yi Gan, Zhi Liang Dong, Yijia Wang, Enzhong Jin, Mingrui Yang, Frederick Benjamin Holness, Vinicius Martins, Qingsong Tu, Yang Zhao Sulfide electrolytes have emerged as the preferred choice for solid-state sodium-sulfur (Na-S) batteries due to their excellent compatibility with sulfur cathodes. Despite their advantages, such as high ionic conductivity, mechanical... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
The imprint of human-induced climate change is evident in the 2024 State of the Global Climate Report from the World Meteorological Organization.
This blog was authored by Suzi Kerr, Senior Advisor, Economics and Carbon Pricing, EDF and Juan Pablo Hoffmaister, former AVP, Global Engagement and Partnerships, EDF. Last November at COP29 in Baku, countries agreed on the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) and set a target of mobilizing $1.3 trillion annually by 2035, including a commitment of at […] The post Multiple Roads to the 1.3T Goal: Integrating Quality Finance for Climate Action appeared first on Market Forces .
Speedy new chargers from Chinese automaker BYD take just 5 minutes to restore 400 kilometres of an electric car’s range
Environmentalist and author Paul Hawken speaks to Live Science about the worldview that has led to the mindless exploitation of the planet — and how we can shift perspectives for a better future.
Check for structural damage and gas leaks and take pictures of damage before you move back in. The post What to do when you return home after a wildfire appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05818F, Paper Junru Wu, Ziyao Gao, Zhiqiang Fu, Lili Lin, Xianshu Wang, Yun Zhao, Lele Peng, Feiyu Kang, Zhenyu Guo, Maria-Magdalena Titirici, Yunlong Zhao, Xiulin Fan, Baohua Li Raising the cut-off voltage to 4.6 V can boost the energy density of lithium metal batteries (LMBs) with LiCoO2 cathode. However, the unfavorable cathode electrolyte interphase (CEI) formed on high-voltage... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured direct images of multiple gas giant planets within an iconic planetary system. HR 8799, a young system 130 light-years away, has long been a key target for planet formation studies. The observations indicate that the well-studied planets of HR 8799 are rich in carbon dioxide gas. This provides […]
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05109B, Paper Dawei Xi, Zheng Yang, Michael S Emanuel, Panlin Zhao, Michael J. Aziz Carbon dioxide capture and management are critical technologies for achieving carbon neutrality and mitigating the impacts of global warming. One promising approach for decarbonization involves electrochemical generation of concentrated acid... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Learn about the precarious state of satellites orbiting Earth, as greenhouse gas pollution puts them in danger of colliding and creating space debris.
As the 100th anniversary of the nation's deadliest tornado nears, a major tornado outbreak looms from the mid-Mississippi Valley into the South, with extreme fire weather in the Southern Plains. The post Potent March storm to deliver a dangerous, multi-pronged extreme weather onslaught appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
These brilliant images show how researchers in Switzerland are using weather-modification techniques to understand how ice crystals form in clouds, an important and poorly understood factor in climate and weather models
Learn how viruses lingering in sewage can enter bodies of water, posing a public health risk that may be on the rise as climate change brings more rain.
Open access notables Would Adding the Anthropocene to the Geologic Time Scale Matter? , McCarthy et al., AGU Advances: The extraordinary fossil fuel-driven outburst of consumption and production since the mid-twentieth century has fundamentally altered the way the Earth System works. Although humans have impacted their environment for millennia, justification for a new interval of geologic time lies in the radical shift in the geologic record that marks this “Great Acceleration” of the human enterprise. The rejection of a proposal to define the beginning of the Anthropocene epoch with a “golden spike” in varved sediments from Crawford Lake, Canada, means that we officially we still live in the Holocene, when in practical terms we do not. Formal recognition...
Last year’s increase was due to an unusual amount of ocean warming, combined with meltwater from land-based ice such as glaciers. Global sea level rose faster than expected in 2024, mostly because of ocean water expanding as it warms, or thermal expansion. According to a NASA-led analysis, last year’s rate of rise was 0.23 inches […]
The most detailed map of the landscape under the Antarctic ice sheet to date has been created by a team of international scientists under the Head of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and with the participation of the Alfred Wegener Institute. The map, called Bedmap3, covers more than six decades of survey data collected by aeroplanes, satellites, ships and even dogsleds. The results will be published this week in the journal Scientific Data.
Expedition finds H5N1 in 13 bird and seal species on the Antarctic Peninsula
EPA Administrator Zeldin’s Plan Will Increase Pollution in Daily Lives
Restarting Dirty Coal Plants Will Mean More Pollution, Health Harms, Higher Costs for Americans
For companies serious about tackling climate change, setting ambitious goals is just the beginning. The real challenge is figuring out how to get there.
A groundbreaking study reveals that the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) could reach unprecedented magnitudes by the end of the century, leading to severe impacts such as increased flooding and storm damage in northern Europe.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE05582A, Review Article Xiaomin Zhang, Xiaoyu Zhang, Xingbo Wang, Guoliang Cui, Hongge Pan, Wenping Sun Developing efficient catalysts is essential for mitigating the shuttle effect and accelerating the conversion kinetics of polysulfides in lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries. To date, numerous strategies have been employed to optimize... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00116A, Review Article Pengcheng Du, Tianhao Liu, Tuoyu Chen, Meihui Jiang, Hongyu Zhu, Yitong Shang, Hui Hwang Goh, Zhao HaiSen Zhao HaiSen, Chao Huang, Fannie Kong, Tonni Agustiono Kurniawan, Kai Chen Goh, Yu Du, Dongdong Zhang Vehicle-to-Grid accelerates the transition to renewable, low-carbon power systems by integrating electric vehicles. This study analyzes the 2023 U.S. electric vehicle charging demand, variable renewable energy capacities, and charging infrastructure... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry