Driftwood plays a key role in Arctic coastal ecosystems: it stores carbon, stabilises coastlines and provides a habitat for animals. At the same time, it can offer clues regarding climate change in the Arctic region, providing information on the likes of storm surges, coastal erosion and shifting fluvial dynamics. Despite the crucial role it plays, there is still a lot that we do not know about the large-scale distribution patterns of driftwood. Now, for the first time, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute have systematically mapped driftwood deposits along an 11,000 kilometre stretch of coastline in Alaska and North West Canada, using satellite imagery and AI-powered evaluation methods. The result is the largest database ever produced, with researchers able to identify over 19,000...
During recent storms, satellites recorded ocean waves averaging nearly 20 metres high – as tall as the Arc de Triomphe in Paris and the largest ever measured from space. Moreover, satellite data now reveal that ocean swells act as storm ‘messengers’: even though a storm may never make landfall, its swell can travel vast distances and bring destructive energy to distant coastlines.
A pioneering new space weather forecasting modelling suite will enable operational modelling of the upper atmosphere at the Met Office for the first time in a major breakthrough for UK atmospheric science.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE03522H, Paper Xingxing Meng, Xiao Zhang, Litong Shi, Zhe Chen, Jiashen Meng, Feixiang Ding, Xiong Liu, Baokang Zhang, Qian Wang, Liqiang Mai, Chaojiang Niu Lithium metal batteries (LMBs) are expected to have significant advantages under extreme low-temperature conditions (i.e., −40°C), mainly due to the much short ion transport pathway and deposition/stripping mechanism of Li... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Jerry is predicted to be a Cat 1 hurricane when it makes its closest approach to the northern Leeward Islands on Thursday night and Friday. The post Tropical Storm Jerry forms; a close pass by the Leeward Islands expected appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 130, Issue 19, 16 October 2025.
Skeptical Science is partnering with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. You can submit claims you think need checking via the tipline . Do errors in Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' disprove climate change? While Gore’s 2006 documentary proved incorrect about the extent and timeline of some predictions, it does not negate the reality, confirmed by decades of peer-reviewed evidence, that humans are warming the planet. One erroneous claim is that Kilimanjaro’s ice loss was driven mainly by warming. Research now indicates sublimation and local dryness as dominant causes. Another is that sea levels could rise by 20 feet in the near future as ice sheets face imminent collapse – outcomes scientists expect...
Praised as “the strongest polar ship of its time,” the Endurance revealed major structural flaws that may explain why it never reached its final destination.
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). Adam Levy breaks down the latest Trump speech, sifting through the wide-ranging climate change misinformation it contains. On September 23rd 2025, President Donald Trump took to the United Nations. Instead of calling for harmony and co-operation, his one hour speech fixated on migration and climate change. This might just be the first time a president of the USA has spent so much time talking about climate... but the speech wasn't a call to action. It was dismissal and denial of everything from basic science to renewable technologies. So what's the truth behind Trump's claims?...
A listing of 25 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, September 28, 2025 thru Sat, October 4, 2025. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Change Impacts “This Heat Killed Six Football Fields Of Ice”: Swedish Glaciers Gone In One Summer While Earth’s Temperature Breaks All Records "The unprecedented disappearance of eight glaciers in Sweden's Kebnekaise mountain range highlights the urgent and tangible impacts of global warming, prompting renewed calls for international action to combat climate change." Climate, The Sustainability-, Rosemary Potter, Sep 26, 2025. Giant trees of the Amazon get taller as forests fatten up on carbon dioxide We're not seeing signs of them dying...
In the Atlantic, we're watching a tropical wave that emerged from the coast of Africa on October 3 that might develop in about a week as it approaches the Lesser Antilles Islands. The post Climate change behind 36% of damage inflicted by Typhoon Ragasa in China appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
The number of deaths from exposure to wildfire smoke in the U.S. could rise by more than 70% in the next 25 years. The human and economic costs involved would be astronomical, researchers say.
Scientists are beginning to understand the sudden loss of sea ice in Antarctica – and there is growing evidence that it represents a permanent shift with potentially catastrophic consequences
A Met Office Amber warning for wind has been issued as Storm Amy will bring very strong winds and heavy rain for many in the north of the UK in the coming days.
Upwelling generates a nutrient-rich “cold tongue” in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean (EEP), with impacts on global climate, oceanic biological productivity, and the carbon cycle. The cold tongue was reduced during the Pliocene Epoch, a feature ...
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE05118E, Paper Hongbo Wu, Gongxun Lu, Chang Dong, Tao Yang, Zeyang Sun, Zhijin Ju, Chengbin Jin, Ouwei Sheng, Dexin Yang, Tianyu Shen, Haojie Ji, Jian Zhang, Guangmin Zhou, Xuefeng Zhang Aqueous Zn-ion batteries (AZIBs) hold promise for grid-scale storage due to their intrinsic safety and low cost, yet face critical irreversible anode degradation from dendritic proliferation and parasitic reactions. Here,... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
New research finds the disappearance of glaciers in the Sierra Nevada will be unprecedented in the human history of North America.
This is a re-post from The Climate Brink by Kevin Trenberth A new analysis issued by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) found that the evidence linking rising greenhouse gas emissions to negative human health outcomes is “beyond scientific dispute.” Climate change is real and it has already resulted in major damage. The main cause is increasing atmospheric greenhouse gases of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide, all from human activities. Because carbon dioxide has a very long lifetime (hundreds to thousands of years), it is cumulative emissions that matter and the U.S. is the biggest contributor (although China, with a population 4x bigger than the U.S., has been a bigger annual contributor for the last two decades)...
Learn more about how researchers track water movement through a technique called fingerprinting at Yellowstone National Park.
New observations suggest that the dwarf planet Makemake is surrounded by faintly glowing methane gas. Scientists are unsure if the gas is contained within a wispy atmosphere or being ejected into space.
Heat waves and droughts seem to be pushing more amphibians toward extinction. The post Many amphibians may be imperiled by climate change, study finds appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Forecasters expect Hurricane Humberto to pull Tropical Storm Imelda away from landfall and into a Fujiwhara dance, but the East Coast is still set to experience heavy rains and life-threatening rip currents.
This is a re-post from The Climate Brink I have a new guest essay in the New York Times with David Keith that builds off my earlier Climate Brink post The Geoengineering Question . Below I’ve included some more detailed thoughts that couldn’t make it into the published piece given the word limit constraints. We are already geoengineering the planet today, but badly. Humans are cooling the climate today by emitting 75 million metric tons of sulfur dioxide into the lower atmosphere, almost entirely as a byproduct of burning fossil fuels. This cooling offsets about 0.5C of warming that would have otherwise occurred from CO2 and other greenhouse gases, but it comes at the cost of millions of premature deaths per year caused by the sulfate aerosols...
The five winners of the Climate Cardinals-Yale Climate Connections youth essay contest share their ideas for addressing the global crisis. The post The climate needs a chorus’: Teenagers from around the world speak up appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
A pair of side-by-side tropical cyclones is roiling the Northwest Atlantic this weekend. After rocketing from tropical storm to Category 4 strength on Friday, Hurricane Humberto – safetly out to sea from North America’s perspective – could hit Cat 5 strength before Sunday, pushing big surf from the U.S. East Coast to Bermuda. Meanwhile, newborn Tropical […] The post Humberto hits Category 4, while The Bahamas and Southeast U.S. prep for the next storm appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
When you think about national park and public land astronomy programs, you might picture remote locations far from city lights. But a recent NASA Earth to Sky training, funded by NASA’s Science Activation Program, challenges that assumption, demonstrating how urban parks, wildlife refuges, museums, and green spaces can be incredible venues for connecting communities with […]
Invest 94L will likely become a tropical storm over the Bahamas this weekend, and it might reach the Southeast U.S. as a hurricane by Monday, but the uncertainty is high. The post As Humberto rages, another fast-evolving system bears a close watch appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Climate change may lead to less frequent but bigger and more devastating hail storms, new research has shown.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE02930A, Perspective Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Gan Huang, Ewan Gage, Boris Breiner, Monica Saavedra, Dmitry Busko, Norbert J Janowicz, Dominic S. Wright, Bryce S Richards Greenhouses enable crop production in challenging climates, ensuring food security through controlled environments. Sustainable development requires addressing the food-energy-water nexus while optimising four key factors – light, temperature, CO2 levels,... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Unusually warm waters are fueling a busy few days near the peak of hurricane season. The post Gabrielle heads for Azores while Humberto and 94L brew in NW Atlantic appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Rising carbon dioxide levels have boosted the growth of trees in the Amazon rainforest over the past few decades, but it is unclear if this trend will continue
It is almost impossible to make cement without emissions, but carbon-capture-and-storage technology is finally being deployed to decarbonise the sector
This is a re-post from The Climate Brink by Andrew Dessler Let’s run a thought experiment. Imagine that you’re the Secretary of Energy. But you’re not just any public servant. You're a former fossil fuel executive, and you’re cartoonishly, mustache-twirlingly evil. Your singular goal is to keep America hooked on fossil fuels — a dirty, expensive product that enriches you personally — by slowing as much as possible the deployment of clean, cheap renewable energy that benefits everyone else . One of the main obstacles to your plan is the EPA’s “endangerment finding,” the EPA’s judgment that greenhouse gases threaten public health and welfare. To push your agenda, you need to overturn it. And, to do...
As flooding gets more frequent and extreme, we've been directly affected. The post Flood insurance, extra dog food: How your editors are dealing with floods appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
From COVID-19 testing to replacing fossil fuels, Yellowstone’s ancient thermophiles play a key role in scientific advancement.
The hybrid bird is the product of two species whose habitat ranges began to overlap a few decades ago, potentially due to climate change, researchers said.
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 . Has the IPCC overestimated climate change impacts? The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change compiles the consensus of thousands of models, and many independent lines of research suggest its estimates were more conservative than what was subsequently observed. For example, sea-level rise predictions in earlier IPCC reports were later found to be too low compared to recently observed melting of ice sheets and thermal expansion. Studies show IPCC’s mid-range forecasts have been highly accurate, but reports often understate high-end risks. IPCC reports must be approved by nearly 200...
Can ice generate electricity? It’s not as far-fetched as you may think. Learn about the new research that “brings the vision of harnessing ice power one step closer to reality.”
Long-buried layers of saline permafrost seem to be accelerating climate change's transformation of the Arctic
We used to think that deforestation in the Amazon would dry out the local climate, but the effects may be even more extreme and varied
A listing of 23 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, September 14, 2025 thru Sat, September 20, 2025. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Policy and Politics Ani Dasgupta talked to 100 climate experts. He came away optimistic. In his new book, ‘The New Global Possible,’ Dasgupta shares what he learned from talking with dozens of climate luminaries and how that can reshape how we think about climate action. Interview, Yale Climate Connections, Michael Svoboda, Sep 9, 2025. Climate impacts are real — denying this is self-defeating The US administration is attempting to undermine efforts to curb greenhouse-gas emissions. It will ultimately leave that country, and the world...
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 130, Issue 18, 28 September 2025.
As part of the agency’s Artemis campaign, NASA has awarded Blue Origin of Kent, Washington, a CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) task order with an option to deliver a rover to the Moon’s South Pole region. NASA’s VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) will search for volatile resources, such as ice, on the lunar surface […]
Hidden beneath the biggest ice mass on Earth, hundreds of subglacial lakes form a crucial part of Antarctica’s icy structure, affecting the movement and stability of glaciers, and consequentially influencing global sea level rise.Thanks to a decade of data from the European Space Agency’s CryoSat satellite, researchers have identified 85 previously unknown lakes several kilometres under the frozen surface surrounding the South Pole. This increases the number of known active subglacial lakes below Antarctica by more than half to 231.
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 19 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02441-8Nearly one-third of the global shoreline is in the Arctic, a region undergoing some of the most rapid warming and substantial environmental transitions due to climate change. While Arctic research has largely focused on terrestrial and open-ocean systems, there is now an urgent need to focus on the unique challenges associated with changing coastal ecosystems.
Open access notables The weak land carbon sink hypothesis , Randerson et al., Science Advances Over the past three decades, assessments of the contemporary global carbon budget consistently report a strong net land carbon sink. Here, we review evidence supporting this paradigm and quantify the differences in global and Northern Hemisphere estimates of the net land sink derived from atmospheric inversion and satellite-derived vegetation biomass time series. Our analysis, combined with additional synthesis, supports a hypothesis that the net land sink is substantially weaker than commonly reported. At a global scale, our estimate of the net land carbon sink is 0.8 ± 0.7 petagrams of carbon per year from 2000 through 2019, nearly a factor of two lower...
Rangelands are Earth’s dominant land type, supporting the livelihoods of more than 2 billion people. Concerns about rangeland degradation typically focus on overgrazing. But climate change may be a greater culprit. Using spatially disaggregated, ...
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE03662C, Paper Yunpei Lu, Yuezheng Liu, Shichao Zhang, Yong Wu, Hao Cheng, Yingying Lu Developing electrolytes that enable stable lithium metal anodes and high-voltage cathodes is critical for next-generation lithium metal batteries (LMBs). In-situ polymerized gel polymer electrolytes (GPEs) offer notable advantages in high-energydensity... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Ian McEwan’s excellent What We Can Know is set in a UK largely swallowed up by rising seas. Emily H. Wilson explores the story of a scholar hunting a great lost poem – which may have something to with climate change
A study of human placentas suggests that urban air pollution may push the organ's resident immune cells into an inflammatory state.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE03421C, Paper Jun Wang, Xifan Chen, Song Jin, Ying Zhang, Zhengkun Yang, Junzhong Wang, Juan-Ding Xiao, Xiaoping Gao, Jia Yang Flexible zinc-air batteries (FZABs) capable of operating across a broad temperature range are highly desirable for powering next-generation wearable electronics. However, FZABs still suffer from unsatisfied performance under extreme temperature,... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Longer growing seasons and more ragweed pollen mean more sneezing, runny noses, and itchy eyes. The post Climate change is supercharging fall allergies appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE03323C, Paper Xiaotong Chang, Ruolin Cheng, Tengfei Wang, Xiaohui Kan, Mengyang Jia, Zhijie Bi, Xiulin Fan, Xiangxin Guo Polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF)-based electrolytes show huge potential in applications of solid-state lithium batteries (SSLBs) due to their broad potential windows and reliable mechanical strengths. However, the critical interfacial issues associated... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
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 . Has the greenhouse effect been falsified? The greenhouse effect is basic physics that has been known for nearly 200 years. Without it, the Earth would not be warm enough for life. Greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide act like an insulating blanket. By preventing some outgoing heat from escaping the atmosphere by absorbing and re-emitting it, they keep Earth around 33°C (59°F) warmer than it would be otherwise. In comparison, the Moon, lacking an atmosphere, swings from 120°C (248°F) in daytime to -130°C (-202°F) at night. Venus’s thick CO2-rich atmosphere always...
The UK government has announced a raft of tiny nuclear power projects, while Russia, China and a host of tech giants are also betting big on small nuclear reactor designs. Does the idea make sense and can they really be built any time soon?
Scientists studying the rocky exoplanet TRAPPIST-1e may have found hints of an atmosphere. If confirmed, it could be an important step toward finding a habitable world outside our solar system.
Learn how astronomers spotted 2025 TF, an asteroid that passed just 266 miles over Antarctica in early October 2025.
A nonprofit coalition is building a fleet of satellites to help firefighters and communities respond when disaster strikes. The post Satellite program aims to track every wildfire on Earth appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D5EE02644J, Paper Song Kyu Kang, Minho Kim, Seochan Hong, Jae-Hong Lim, Gwan Hyeon Park, Junhyuk Ji, Jeongbin Cho, Hansol Bae, Won Bae Kim A magnetically tailored conversion strategy integrates ferromagnetic oxides with an external magnetic field to regulate Li + flux and homogenize nucleation barriers, thereby enabling dendrite-free Li deposition and enhancing energy density. 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
For decades, forest, grasslands and other land ecosystems have collectively absorbed up to a third of the carbon dioxide we emit each year - but this climate buffer may be collapsing far sooner than anyone expected
Called ec³, the material is made by combining cement and water with a liquid electrolyte and carbon powder — both readily available.
Toro’s new cartoon collection was released on October 7. The post Tom Toro’s favorite Tom Toro cartoons about climate change appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Learn more about the Will-o’-the-Wisp and how this mysterious phenomenon, which has inspired faerie folklore, may actually be bursts of methane gas.
A new technique has been developed for capturing solar power through windows, which could dramatically improve solar energy utilization, particularly for high-rise buildings.
Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than previously thought — and may be a big reason that our planet harbors life.
An expert explains why some offsets don’t deliver real climate benefits and what must change to make them trustworthy. The post The flaws of carbon credits designed to protect forests – and how to fix them appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Open access notables The first emergence of unprecedented global water scarcity in the Anthropocene , Ravinandrasana & Franzke, Nature Communications Access to water is crucial for all aspects of life. Anthropogenic global warming is projected to disrupt the hydrological cycle, leading to water scarcity. However, the timing and hotspot regions of unprecedented water scarcity are unknown. Here, we estimate the Time of First Emergence (ToFE) of drought-driven water scarcity events, referred to as “Day Zero Drought” (DZD), which arises from hydrological compound extremes, including prolonged rainfall deficits, reduced river flow, and increasing water consumption. Using a probabilistic framework and a large ensemble of climate simulations, we attribute...
Misleading WhatsApp groups and political sound bites aren’t just nonsense – they’re putting Latino communities in danger during floods, fires, and storms. The post Inside the viral lies that spread climate confusion appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
The vital commercial artery depends on a supply of fresh water to move ships between the two oceans. Drought conditions that were once rare could become common by the end of the century, greatly impacting the canal’s operation.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D5EE03530A, Opinion John B. Waugh, Mikhail Redko, Xiuyu Jin, Gabriel Muldoon, Evgenii L. Kovrigin, Betar M. Gallant, Yuzhang Li, Gao Liu, John Muldoon Uncovering the truth of lithium polymer 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
Broadcaster and campaigner Chris Packham is on a mission to cut overconsumption, take on fossil fuel giants and create a fairer world
The hurricane is expected to pass over or very near Bermuda early Thursday morning as a Cat 2 storm. The post Bermuda braces for a pounding from strengthening Hurricane Imelda appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE01732G, Review Article Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Mijndert Van der Spek, André Bardow, Chad M. Baum, Vittoria Bolongaro, Vincent Dufour-Décieux, Carla Esch, Livia Fritz, Susana García, Christiane Hamann, Dianne Hondeborg, Ali Kiani, Sarah Lueck, Shrey Kalpeshkumar Patel, Shing Bo Peh, Maxwell Pisciotta, Peter Psarras, Tim Repke, Paola Alejandra Sáenz-Cavazos, Ingrid Schulte, David Yang Shu, Qingdian Shu, Benjamin Kenneth Sovacool, Jessica Strefler, Sara Vallejo Castaño, Jin-Yu Wang, Matthias Wessling, Jennifer Wilcox, John Young, Jan Christoph Minx Direct air CO2 capture and storage (DACCS) is a technology in an emerging portfolio for carbon...
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 . Are humans responsible for climate change? Our rapid burning of fossil fuels has caused a buildup of heat-trapping carbon dioxide gas in our atmosphere. Until we started burning fossil fuels, the CO 2 moving between the Earth’s atmosphere, oceans and land remained relatively steady for thousands of years. Fossil fuel burning took trapped carbon from the solid Earth, where it had been safely stored for millions of years, and injected it — as CO 2 — into our atmosphere. Humans have emitted more than one trillion metric tons of carbon dioxide since the Industrial Revolution...
Imelda is expected to turn sharply east-northeastward on Tuesday and threaten Bermuda as a Cat 2 hurricane on Wednesday. The post Tropical Storm Imelda drenches the Bahamas appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
A listing of 27 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, September 21, 2025 thru Sat, September 27, 2025. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Change Impacts (7 articles) Tens of thousands more people will die from wildfires in US over next 25 years, researchers say "Western states will be most impacted overall, with the largest number of projected deaths in California" Cilmate, The independent, Julia Musto, Sep 19, 2025. Hurricane Gabrielle makes a run for the Azores "A hurricane watch is up, while two other Atlantic systems percolate, and far south China braces for Typhoon Ragasa." Eye on the Storm, Yale Climate Connections, Bob Henson, Sep 23, 2025. Super Typhoon Ragasa: 17 killed...
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Volume 130, Issue 10, October 2025.
Tree trunks in the Amazon are getting 3.3% thicker every decade as the plants absorb extra carbon dioxide, suggesting they are more resilient to global warming than previously thought.
Stratospheric temperatures in Antarctica are spiking, which could see strange weather unfold across the southern hemisphere in the coming months
Image: Part of the icy landscape of the Northeast Greenland National Park, the largest national park in the world, is pictured in this Copernicus Sentinel-2 image.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE04064G, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Baotieliang Wang, Ji-Chun Zhao, Chuanjia Jiao, Jiayan Li, Zhaoyu Ran, Donghua Xu, Zhao-Yan Sun, Qi Li, Jiawei Zou, Shifang Luan High-temperature dielectric energy storage materials are essential for next-generation power electronics and electrical systems operating in extreme environments. However, achieving high-energy storage in polymer dielectrics at ultrahigh temperatures (e.g., 200°C)... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
The newly-discovered penguin species went extinct when the ice age hit, but researchers don't think the cold was to blame for their demise.
Negative feedback between climate and atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), mediated by the weathering of silicate minerals on land, is thought to provide the primary regulation of Earth’s climate on geological timescales. By contrast, we found that faster ...
From anger to hope, Kate Marvel and Tim Lenton explain how to tackle the tricky feelings aroused by climate change and harness them to take action
A hurricane watch is up, while two other Atlantic systems percolate, and far south China braces for Typhoon Ragasa. The post Hurricane Gabrielle makes a run for the Azores appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Millions across China are under evacuation or stay-at-home orders as the storm closes in on the country's southern coast.
Scores of instruments are peering down through Earth’s atmosphere, finding pollution all across the globe every day. The post Satellites are mapping the biggest CO2 polluters in the world appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 23 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02429-4Causal approaches employed at the scale of commercial agriculture are required to build high-quality evidence that climate-smart agricultural interventions result in real emissions reductions and removals. Such project-scale empirical data are additionally required to demonstrate and advance the viability of process-based models and digital measurement, reporting and verification as tools to scale soil carbon accounting.
Both systems intensified rapidly atop unusually warm waters. The post Hurricane Gabrielle cranks up in the Atlantic; Typhoon Ragasa heads for southern China appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
This is a re-post from And Then There's Physics It seems that the US Department of Energy has now disbanded the Climate Working Group that drafted the report that I discussed in this post . However, about a week ago, Steven Koonin – one of the authors of the report – had an article in the Wall Street Journal titled At Long Last, Clarity on Climate . Clarity is a bit of a stretch. Personally, I think it more muddied the waters, than brought clarity. A general point that I didn’t really make in my previous post (and that has just been highlighted in a comment ) is that it is explicitly focussed on the US. The richest country in the world probably is more resilient than most others and could well decide that it’s better to deal...
The beads appear above a swirling hexagonal jet stream at the gas giant's north pole, and could emerge from interactions between its magnetosphere and atmosphere.
Ice core records of atmospheric hydrogen reveal a huge rise in concentration since the Industrial Revolution which has contributed to global warming – and could sway the debate over hydrogen as a fuel
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE02113H, Perspective Kewei Xu, Xiaokang Chen, Peng Peng, Lin Yang, Libin Tian, Yushuai Huang, Yun Huang, Yulong Ding, Qingshan Zhu Industrial decarbonization demands efficient high-temperature thermal energy storage (HT-TES) systems capable of sustained operation above 1000 °C. However, developing scalable, economical, and high-performing HT-TES materials that can withhold these temperatures... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
The veteran activist says that solar has finally scaled to the size of the climate crisis – and he’s organizing a nationwide “Sun Day” this weekend to promote clean energy. The post Bill McKibben says cheap solar could topple Big Oil’s power appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
A jaguar was captured on camera trap on an artificial island near the Serra da Mesa Hydroelectric Power Dam. The only way it could have gotten there was a very long swim.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D5EE90091C, Correction Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Sowjanya Vallem, Malayil Gopalan Sibi, Rahul Patil, Vishakha Goyal, A. Giridhar Babu, EA. Lohith, K. Keerthi, Muhammad Umer, N. V. V. Jyothi, Matthias Vandichel, Daniel Ioan Stroe, Subhasmita Ray, Mani Balamurugan, Aristides Bakandritsos, Sada Venkateswarlu, Rajenahally V. Jagadeesh, Radek Zboril To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 18 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02408-9Climate change will raise the severity and frequency of forest disturbance, damaging the economic value of timber. Researchers show Europe’s timber-based forestry could lose up to €247 billion, yet in some regions the increase in forest productivity could offset these shocks.
With the end of summer approaching in the Northern Hemisphere, the extent of sea ice in the Arctic shrank to its annual minimum on Sept. 10, according to NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center. The total sea ice coverage was tied with 2008 for the 10th-lowest on record at 1.78 million square […]
Tropical Storm Gabrielle in the central Atlantic is the basin’s first tropical cyclone since Tropical Storm Fernand dissipated on August 28. The post The Atlantic’s remarkable 20-day quiet period finally ends appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections he amount of heat trapped by climate-warming pollution in our atmosphere is continuing to increase, the planet’s sea levels are rising at an accelerating rate, and the Paris agreement’s ambitious 1.5°C target is on the verge of being breached, according to a recent report by the world’s top climate scientists. “The news is grim,” said study co-author Zeke Hausfather, a former Yale Climate Connections contributor, on Bluesky. A team of over 60 international scientists published the latest edition of an annual report updating key metrics that are used in reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the leading international scientific authority on climate change...
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D5EE03213J, Paper Zewei Hu, Liyang Liu, Xin Wang, Qingqing Zheng, Haiying Lu, Zhenwei Tang, Chao Han, Weijie Li The electrolyte solvation structure formed via solvent adsorption separators enhances low-temperature performance in anode-free sodium 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
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Volume 130, Issue 9, September 2025.
Archaeologists excavating in a Roman cemetery in the Netherlands have uncovered a unique oil lamp dating to the second century A.D.
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Daisy Simmons Is AI saving the world or breaking it? As the era-defining technology leapfrogs from what-if to what-next, it can be hard for us humans to know what to make of it all. You might be hopeful and excited, or existentially concerned, or both. AI can track Antarctic icebergs 10,000 times faster than humans and optimize renewable energy grids in real time – capabilities that could help us fight climate change. But it also consumes incredible amounts of energy, and ever more of it, creating a whole new level of climate pollution that threatens to undermine those benefits. All that dizzying transformation isn’t just the stuff of news headlines. It’s playing out in daily conversations for many...