A new study details the vast price society is paying for burning coal, oil, and gas. The post Fossil fuel pollution’s effect on oceans comes with huge costs appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, February 15, 2026 thru Sat, February 21, 2026. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Policy and Politics (17 articles) Democratic senators launch inquiry into EPA’s repeal of key air pollution enforcement measure "Senators said repeal was ‘particularly troubling’ and was counter to EPA’s mandate to protect human health" The Guardian, Marina Dunbar, Feb 10, 2026. What repealing the ‘endangerment finding’ means for public health "The EPA has scrapped a rule stating that climate change harms human health. Here’s what that could mean" Scientific American, Andrea Thompson, Feb 12, 2026. Trump...
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Volume 131, Issue 2, February 2026.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE06320E, Paper Wenbin Wang, Hongyu Zhang, Miao Guo, Chaoqun Li, Xian Zhou, Guanglin Xia, Xuebin Yu Solvation sheath rearrangement is recognized as a key strategy for modifying electrolytes to enhance the kinetics of magnesium batteries. However, its fundamental mechanism diverges significantly from that in Li-ion batteries... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 131, Issue 4, 28 February 2026.
Learn more about the massive avalanche near Lake Tahoe that killed eight skiers and is exposing how snow droughts and climate change are increasing avalanche risk.
A pioneering energy-generating device utilizes reliable wind speeds at an altitude of 6,500 feet (2,000 meters).
White House push to boost nuclear power could lead to more cancer cases, some researchers say
Learn how glacier fronts in Greenland concentrate polar cod and create critical feeding grounds for ringed seals.
The Amazon's biggest trees store disproportionately more carbon than smaller trees do, new study finds. But in the Peruvian Amazon, large trees are currently prioritized for harvest.
Each year, the world’s leading climate scientists evaluate the most critical evidence on how our planet is changing. Their assessments draw heavily on data from Earth-observing satellites – and the latest report delivers a stark warning: the planet’s energy balance is drifting further out of alignment, ocean warming is now accelerating, and the land’s capacity to absorb carbon is declining, along with other troubling trends.
A look at what we know and don't yet know about how climate change could affect the paths of these storms — and the all-important question of how often they'll make landfall. The post The future of Atlantic hurricane tracks appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE07058A, Paper Jie Sun, Xiaoyi Wang, Shaojie Zhang, Yu Cao, Haochen Gong, Mengting Zheng, Jun Lu The initial irreversible capacity loss (ICL) during the first charging process greatly reduces the affordable energy and power densities of commercial Li-ion batteries (LIBs). Though various solid-phase prelithiation additives have... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Learn how Antarctica’s gravity hole formed inside Earth and grew stronger as its ice sheets took hold.
Earth’s river deltas, home to about 5% of the global population and some of the world’s major cities, are experiencing subsidence, which exacerbates the risks from sea-level rise. The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission has captured a decade's worth of data showing land sinking faster than previously thought.
This video includes personal musings and conclusions of the creator and climate scientist Dr. Adam Levy . It is presented to our readers as an informed perspective. Please see video description for references (if any). Video description Artificial Intelligence is here, and it's changing the world. But when it comes to climate change, whether those AI changes are going to save us or doom us depends heavily on who you ask. I take a look at what our AI Overlord CEOs have been saying about climate change, and about AI's huge energy needs. And see just how much they contradict each other and themselves - especially when it comes to the vast amounts of energy our AI future (might) need, and the climate change consequences this would cause. Featuring Sam Altman, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg...
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Sara Peach The Trump administration on Thursday revoked the basis for federal climate regulations, undermining the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to protect the environment and public health. Here’s what every U.S. resident should know about what just happened. The EPA determined in 2009 that climate pollution endangers public health and welfare. Mainstream, peer-reviewed scientific research shows that climate-warming greenhouse gases are increasing the number of extreme heat waves, severe storms, and other dangerous weather events. Under former President Barack Obama, the EPA reviewed the evidence, and the agency’s “scientific conclusion, known as the...
Unsettled weather continues for the UK this week, with rain, wind, snow and ice in the forecast bringing the potential for disruption.
This month's new moon brings an annular (or "ring of fire") solar eclipse, but it will only be visible from parts of Antarctica.
Feb. 14 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.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE06789H, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Tae-gwang Yun, Yejin Lee, Joonchul Shin, Dong Ho Lee, Min Taek Hong, Seonghun Lee, Sang-Joon Kim, Hyun Ji Lee, Jiwon Lee, Gyeongrok Min, Seunghyun Weon, Minho Choi, Ho Won Jang, Han Seul Kim, Ji-Soo Jang Capturing greenhouse gases (GHGs) while generating electricity offers a new paradigm for climate mitigation. Here, we report a GHG-driven energy harvesting system, termed a gas capture and electricity generator (GCEG),... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
People who love their heat pumps are now teaching neighbors to go electric. The post The clean energy coach next door appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
NASA’s Carbothermal Reduction Demonstration (CaRD) project completed an important step toward using local resources to support human exploration on the Moon. The CaRD team performed integrated prototype testing that used concentrated solar energy to extract oxygen from simulated lunar soil, while confirming the production of carbon monoxide through a solar-driven chemical reaction. If deployed on the Moon, this technology could enable the production of propellant using […]
The glacier in southeastern Svalbard pulses with the changing seasons, speeding up and slowing its flow toward the sea.
The carbon emissions of the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitter have plateaued for nearly two years.
Open access notables Shifting baselines alter trends and emergence of climate extremes across Africa , Taguela & Akinsanola, Atmospheric Research World Meteorological Organization baselines used to identify climate extremes are routinely updated to reflect recent climate conditions. Yet the implications of these updates for the characterization, trends, and detectability of climate extremes remain poorly understood, particularly in data-sparse and highly vulnerable regions such as Africa. Here, we quantify how updating the reference period from 1981–2010 to 1991–2020 systematically alters the characterization of temperature and precipitation extremes across the continent. Using multiple observational and reanalysis datasets (BEST, ERA5, MERRA-2...
As preparations for the fifth International Polar Year kick off, organizers grapple with U.S. climate skepticism and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE06034F, Paper Minghui Wang, Xihui Li, Peng Zhang, Zhaoxu Wang, Shumeng Hao, Shuang He, Xuan Qin, Guangmin Zhou, Weidong Zhou Advancing clean energy and waste recycling is essential for green ecology. Here, we propose a strategy of upcycling polyethylene terephthalate (PET) wastes into polymer electrolytes through depolymerizing PET and then... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D5EE04672F, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Qiu-Cheng Chen, Wenjin Zhu, Yiqing Chen, Hongmin An, Shuang Yang, Yong Wang, Yali Ji, Guangcan Su, Rui Wang, Jianan Erick Huang, Ji-Yoon Song, Jaerim Kim, Weiyan Ni, Charles Musgrave, Ke Xie, Edward H. Sargent A bipolar membrane generates ultrahigh pH (∼15) locally, achieving 93% selectivity for liquid products (ethanol/ethylene = 70 : 1) with 12× less crossover and long-term stability, advancing scalable electrosynthesis of carbon-neutral fuels. 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
Legal challenges are certain to come. The post Trump EPA set to repeal scientific finding that serves as basis for US climate change policy appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Sarah Wesseler Want to lower your carbon footprint? Consider ditching your car. In a 2025 study, researchers at the World Resources Institute found that going car-free is the most effective step individuals can take to lower their personal emissions. In fact, it has a bigger impact than adding a home solar system and going vegan combined, they wrote, and 78 times more effective than composting. But in much of the U.S., getting around without a car is difficult, if not impossible, due to overwhelmingly car-centric infrastructure. However, while going car-free may be hard for many Americans to imagine, this could change. As cities like Amsterdam and Paris have shown, when governments take...
Learn more about the Bergstrom site in Montana, which was abandoned by bison hunters in response to their changing climate.
Setting a limit for global warming didn't succeed in galvanising climate action quickly enough – now we should focus on making the annual average temperature rise clear for all to see, says Bill McGuire
On 20 March 2026, the glaciologist will take over as scientific director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). To date, he has been active as the director of the International Arctic Research Center at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks.
Environmentalists and advocates called it good news for consumers and the planet. The post The consumer-friendly Energy Star program survived Trump. What about other efficiency efforts? appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
A listing of 29 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, February 1, 2026 thru Sat, February 7, 2026. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Policy and Politics (11 articles) Flawed economic models mean climate crisis could crash global economy, experts warn "States and financial bodies using modelling that ignores shocks from extreme weather and climate tipping points" The Guardian, Damian Carrington, Feb 4, 2025. ‘That ends now’: German court ruling raises pressure to fix stalled climate plans "The ruling ends a nearly two-year long legal battle and requires the German government to act." euronews, Craig Saueurs, Jan 30, 2026. A Secret Panel to Question Climate Science Was...
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE07479G, Paper Yongchuan Liu, Hengyang Zhu, Chenyu Wang, Guihuang Fang, Xiangxin Zhang, Baisheng Sa, Yuanqiang Chen, Ying Liu, Lunhui Guan, Yining Zhang High-voltage lithium metal batteries (LMBs) face a critical barrier to practical deployment: conventional electrolytes fail to stabilize both the cathode and anode interfaces, triggering rapid degradation and safety risks. To... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Due to a weird quirk of geology, New Mexico's Bandera Volcano Ice Cave never warms above 31 degrees Fahrenheit, even when temperatures outside exceed 100 F in summer.
With fewer cars on the road, planes in the air and factories running, the skies seemed cleaner during the Covid-19 pandemic. However, while there was a decline in pollutants such as nitrogen dioxide, scientists were surprised to see that methane surged in the early 2020s and then dropped – and now they know why.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 131, Issue 3, 16 February 2026.
A change in atmospheric chemistry during the covid pandemic resulted in methane concentrations spiking, raising concerns that cleaning up pollution could have similar knock-on effects in the future
Open access notables Risk perception and response to changing wildfire hazards: family forest owners in the western US Pacific Northwest , Fischer et al., Climate Risk Management Climate models predict future increases in the frequency, magnitude, and duration of natural hazard events, including heat waves, droughts, and wildfires. People may be aware of these natural hazards but unfamiliar with new patterns expected under climate change. Ideally, people would take action to protect themselves from natural hazard events—even those with which they have limited prior experience. Doing so would likely reduce the public costs of later assisting individuals impacted by events when they occur. Although a large body of research has examined how people perceive...
The Met Office will provide its world-class weather and climate scientific consultancy, along with high-resolution environmental data, to support a project aimed at making the UK’s overhead power lines safer and more efficient.
The atmospheric methane (CH4) growth rate surged after 2019, peaking at 16.2 parts per billion per year (ppb year−1) in 2020 before declining to 8.6 ppb year−1 in 2023. Using multiple atmospheric inversions constrained by observation- and model-based ...
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Bob Henson his week’s mammoth U.S. winter blast wasn’t the only storm affecting the annual meeting of the American Meteorological Society occurring in Houston, Texas. Looming in the background of the meeting – and jumping into the foreground during an evening town hall on Wednesday, January 28 – was the fate of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, or NCAR, which the Trump administration is moving to dismantle. Based in Boulder, Colorado, and sponsored by the National Science Foundation since its founding in 1960, NCAR (or NSF NCAR, as the center brands itself) is a premier national and global hub for weather, water, and climate-related research. Beyond carrying out its own...
Chemicals used in refrigeration break down in the atmosphere to produce trifluoroacetic acid, a persistent pollutant that could be harmful to humans and aquatic life
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE06706E, Paper Longhai Zhang, Cheng Ji, Quanwei Ma, Hongbao Li, Rui Wang, Lin Zhang, Shilin Zhang, Qingyu Yan, Dongliang Chao, Chaofeng Zhang Aqueous aluminum-ion batteries represent a promising energy storage technology, leveraging their exceptional capacity, low cost, and inherent safety. However, practical implementation has been hampered by severe performance degradation at subzero... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
An image of polar bears napping along the Hudson Bay coast in Canada has been shortlisted for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Nuveen People's Choice Award 2026.
Up to four in ten cancer cases worldwide could be prevented, according to a new global analysis from the World Health Organization (WHO) and its International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). The study examines 30 preventable causes, including tobacco, alcohol, high body mass index, physical inactivity, air pollution, ultraviolet radiation – and for the first time – nine cancer-causing infections.
Icebreakers play a critical role in delivering supplies to America’s largest research base in Antarctica.
This article by Mathew Barlow , Professor of Climate Science, UMass Lowell and Judah Cohen , Climate scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article . A severe winter storm that brought crippling freezing rain, sleet and snow to a large part of the U.S. in late January 2026 left a mess in states from New Mexico to New England. Hundreds of thousands of people lost power across the South as ice pulled down tree branches and power lines , more than a foot of snow fell in parts of the Midwest and Northeast, and many states faced bitter cold that was expected to linger for days. The sudden blast may have come as a shock to many Americans after a mostly mild start...
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 02 February 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02528-2The authors consider the changing sensitivity of the leaf-onset date to temperature (ST) for boreal deciduous broadleaf forests. ST increased between 1982–1996 and 1998–2012—potentially linked to enhanced chilling accumulation—but this increase is underestimated in phenology models.
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections . Watch the video accompanying this transcript here That’s the report in which the agency concluded that climate pollution endangers public health and welfare and thus must be regulated under the Clean Air Act. It’s the basis of all federal climate regulations. As I wrote back in August when the EPA released its draft proposal, the agency has now – over a decade and a half later – reinterpreted the Clean Air Act to only apply to direct health impacts from local pollution, and not to indirect health effects, like those associated with global climate pollutants. The agency finalized the decision six months later. And the EPA has already been rolling back all...
These books and reports span topics of migration, indigenous movements, African-American communities, and the Disability Rights movement. The post 12 environmental & climate justice reads appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE05591A, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Zipeng Liu, T Terlouw, Patrick Frey, Christian Bauer, Russell McKenna Low-carbon fuels (LCFs) such as green hydrogen, synthetic hydrocarbons, and biofuels are critical for decarbonizing sectors that are difficult to electrify. In this study, we present a globally harmonized techno-economic... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
After a Falcon 9 rocket stage burned up in the atmosphere, vaporised lithium and other metals drifted over Europe. This growing type of pollution could destroy ozone and form climate-warming clouds
Inconsistent snow is forcing a longtime winter attraction to adapt to a warming climate. The post Why these Lake Tahoe sleighs have wheels now appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
The US Magnuson–Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act establishes federal fisheries management to support the food supply, the economy, human health, and recreation (1). Section 312 of the act authorizes disaster assistance in the event of a natural disaster, such as a tropical storm that destroys fishing vessels or seafood processing infrastructure, or a technological disaster, such as an oil spill that shuts down a fishery (1). On 19 November 2025, US Representative Nancy Mace (R-SC) introduced House Resolution (HR) 6150 (2), legislation that would amend Section 312 of the act to classify economic hardship, caused by lawful or unlawful actions by a foreign entity, as a disaster that justifies co-opting disaster assistance funds as subsidies. The bill, which is under referral with...
By Denise Lineberry On Jan. 31, 1958, Explorer 1 became the first satellite launched by the United States. Its primary science instrument, a cosmic ray detector, was designed to measure the radiation environment in Earth orbit. Though its final transmission was in May 1958, it continued to revolve around Earth more than 58,000 times. As […]
This is a re-post from The Climate Brink With the advent of modern reanalysis products (weather models run backwards in time, ingesting data from satellites, weather balloons, airplanes, and surface observations) we now have an unprecedented look at the real-time evolution of the Earth’s climate. I often use ECMWF’s ERA5 reanalysis (which is arguably the most state-of-the-art of the bunch) to look at current daily global temperature anomalies, to forecast where the current month might end up, or to use as inputs to a model (along with El Nino / La Nina predictions) to estimate what temperatures for the year will be. But rather than manually making these charts every week or so, I (admittedly with the help of Claude Code) have put together an interactive...
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE07347B, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Kyle Shank, Hefei Xu, Yunming Xu, Amirmohammad Arjomand Kermani, Jiangzhou Qin, Shang Zhai Advancing a net-negative carbon economy requires efficient and cost-effective CO2 capture and utilization methods. Here, we introduce a novel sodium carbonate (Na2CO3) looping process that accelerates CO2 capture and mineralization... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Antarctica plays a crucial role in the Earth’s climate system by reflecting solar radiation back into space. The large white ice surfaces and clouds play a decisive role in this process. However, how clouds actually form in Antarctica, how they interact with the atmosphere and what role aerosols play in this process has not been sufficiently researched to date. Engaging in the SANAT flight campaign, the Alfred Wegener Institute, the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research and the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry aim to help close this knowledge gap. The flight-based aerosol measurements conducted in Antarctica are the first of their kind in 20 years and also the first to extend deep into the interior.
The discovery of an antibiotic-resistant microbe locked in Romanian cave ice highlights both the risks of a warming world and an unexpected source of future medicines.
Learn how warming winters are making life harder for grey wolves, a struggle that the species has faced at least once before.
Shrinking lakes in Tibet likely woke up long-dormant tectonic faults, a new study finds. The findings strengthen the link between climate change and earthquakes
Warmer winters can result in thinner ice, so knowing safety rules is essential. The post Lake lovers beware: Winter ice isn’t always what it used to be appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
A listing of 30 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, February 8, 2026 thru Sat, February 14, 2026. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Policy and Politics (10 articles) After Republican complaints, judicial body pulls climate advice "Meant to help judges handle scientific issues, document is now climate-free." Ars Techica, John Timmer, Feb 10, 2026. The E.P.A. Is Barreling Toward a Supreme Court Climate Showdown "The agency is racing to repeal a scientific finding that requires it to fight global warming. Experts say the goal is to get the matter before the justices while President Trump is still in office." The New York Times, &by Maxine Joselow & Lisa Friedman, Feb 10, 2026...
Four researchers dive into the health risks associated with climate change, and why the recent decision by the Trump administration to rescind key environmental policies could lead to serious harm.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the atmosphere temporarily lost its ability to break down methane, leading to a huge spike in the greenhouse gas.
Planting trees on 6.4 million hectares of northern taiga forest could remove 3.9 gigatons of CO2 by 2100 — five times Canada's annual emissions.
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 13 February 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02571-7Planning for climate action in food systems requires disaggregated spatial information on greenhouse gas emissions and removals. Now, a study on the major emission sources for global croplands yields such emissions estimates, identifies the locations of hotspots and assesses mitigation trade-offs with food productivity.
Forests regulate global and local climates in ways that impact human well-being. In this Review, we discuss the scale-dependent mechanisms through which forests regulate climate, highlighting their contributions to global mitigation and local adaptation. ...
A fleet of wind-propelled robot boats could act as a sensor network covering a wide area and relay acoustic signals to a submarine
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE06849E, Review Article YuChun Zeng, Hao Zhong, Yuhuo Luo, Qianhong Huang, Xiaoming Lin, Jun Liu Sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) have attracted considerable attention for large-scale energy storage owing to their low cost, high safety, and resource abundance. Among various anode materials, hard carbon stands out for... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
An analysis of peatland soil samples and satellite images has found that wildfires on Alaska's North Slope are more frequent and severe now than they were at any point over the past 3,000 years.
The sewn hide, cordage and needles show how Indigenous Americans used complex technology to survive the freezing temperatures at the end of the last ice age and as a means of social expression.
Huge-scale ecological engineering around the edges of one of the world's largest and driest deserts has turned it into a carbon sink that absorbs more CO2 than it emits, research suggests.
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 11 February 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02564-6Early life stages are particularly critical for human brain development. A large-scale study in China shows that heat exposure in early life is associated with increased risks of delayed neurodevelopment in preschool children.
Electric vehicle batteries are typically retired once they reach about 80 per cent of their original capacity, but they could be repurposed in electricity grids to balance out slumps in renewable generation
Use these tools to find out. The post What are the biggest climate polluters near you? appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
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 . Can nearby solar farms reduce property values? Property values can decline from close proximity with utility-scale solar farms, but the losses are modest and less than from nearby fossil fuel plants. One 2023 study of 1.8 million homes found minor impacts on property values. Homes within 0.5 miles of solar farms experienced around 1.5% price reductions; homes more than one mile away received no significant effects. Another study of 400,000 transactions found an average value decrease of 1.7% within one mile of a solar farm. Most recently, 2025 research indicated a slightly higher decrease...
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE02574E, Paper Thi Kim Anh Nguyen, Thanh Tran-Phu, Xuan Minh Chau Ta, Biswaranjan Mohanty, Jodie Yuwono, Silvia Nappini, llargi Napal Azcona, Qi Wang, Anita Wing Yi Ho-Baillie, Christopher Bailey, Elena Magnano, Antonio Tricoli Using solar energy and water to convert biomass-derived 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) into valuable chemicals, while simultaneously producing green hydrogen, offers a promising recycling approach for a significant source of agricultural waste.... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
In 2025, solar and wind surpassed coal as a global energy source.
The flow of ice at Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica has sped up dramatically due to the disintegration of the ice shelf in front of it, and this could lead to faster sea level rise
With the departure of the research vessel Polarstern from Punta Arenas (Chile) scheduled for this weekend, the "Summer Weddell Sea Outflow Study" (SWOS) international expedition will commence. Up to early April, a multidisciplinary international research team will investigate the northwestern region of the Weddell Sea – an area of central importance for the global climate and ocean system, but one that can only be explored on site by research icebreakers such as the Polarstern due to challenging sea ice conditions.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE07379K, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Yuezhang He, Hongxi Luo, Yuancheng Lin, Carl Talsma, Anna Li, Zhenqian Wang, Yujuan Fang, Pei Liu, Jesse D Jenkins, Eric Larson, Zheng Li High costs of green hydrogen and of carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration (CCUS) have hindered policy ambition and slowed real-world deployment, despite their importance for decarbonizing hard-to-abate sectors, including cement... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Developed in response to a warming world, NOAA’s revised scale more precisely identifies which episodes are likely to have the biggest impacts. The post A new and better way to keep tabs on El Niño and La Niña appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
The latest forecast from Met Office scientists indicates that the rate of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) increase this year will remain too fast to meet climate targets outlined for limiting global warming to 1.5°C.
In his lyrical book Frostlines, Neil Shea argues that we are more connected to the Arctic than we might think, says Elle Hunt
Description These observations by NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) show the infrared light emitted by the dust, water, organic molecules, and carbon dioxide contained within comet 3I/ATLAS’s coma. The comet brightened significantly during the December 2025 period when SPHEREx made the observations — about two […]
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D5EE06609C, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Min Jae Lee, Xuanjie Wang, Tae Han Kim, Rohith Mittapally, Won Sik Kim, Young Ko, Bong Jae Lee, Jae Hyun Song, Hyung Jun Lee, Doo Nam Moon, Seung Hwan Ko, Gang Chen A scalable transparent radiative cooling film for vehicles can reduce the cooling load by 20% and cut annual carbon emission by 25.4 megatons of CO 2 , equivalent to removing over 5 million gasoline cars from the road. 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, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE06502J, Perspective Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Xingyu Ding, Xianbiao Fu The hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) plays a pivotal role in sustainable hydrogen production and the transition to a carbon-neutral energy future. Traditionally, HER catalyst design has focused on optimizing as-synthesized... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Learn more about the rare instances when seismic and magma activity overlap in Yellowstone National Park.
Learn about the latest model of Jupiter's deep atmosphere that reveals how much oxygen the planet contains.
The first false-color image from ESA's newly operational Biomass satellite shows off a unique perspective of the rainforests, grasslands and wetlands surrounding a winding river in Bolivia.
A new study reveals the dramatic decrease in lead exposure in the U.S. following the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency 55 years ago.
NASA's Artemis II simulated launch is scheduled for tonight after Arctic weather forced the mission to be delayed. The first crewed Artemis mega moon rocket could still leave Earth as early as this weekend.
A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, January 25, 2026 thru Sat, January 31, 2026. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Change Impacts (11 articles) Thailand’s endangered ‘sea cows’ are washing ashore – pointing to a crisis in our seas "The Andaman Coast has one of the largest concentration of dugong in the world, so why are numbers falling dramatically and what can they tell us about a biodiversity warning cry" The Guardian, Gloria Dickie, Jan 23, 2026. How the polar vortex and warm ocean are intensifying a major US winter storm The Conversation US, Mathew Barlow & Judah Cohen, Jan 24, 2026. Heat Dome Fuels Extreme Heatwave across Australia...
Dams in the U.S. are showing signs of damage that are worsening with age and climate change. Could satellites help prioritize repairs amid budget and inspection constraints?