Melissa is expected to impact the Bahamas and Bermuda as a Cat 2 hurricane, then become extratropical near Newfoundland, Canada, on Friday. The post Cat 3 Hurricane Melissa hits Cuba, speeds through the Bahamas appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Community leaders have debuted a high-tech biodigester designed to capture emissions, feed gardens, and inspire the next generation. The post A biodigester on Chicago’s South Side turns waste into power appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
WHO and global partners are calling for the protection of people’s health to be recognized as the most powerful driver of climate action, as a new global report released today warns that continued overreliance on fossil fuels and failure to adapt to a heating world are already having a devastating toll on human health. The 2025 report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change, produced in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), finds that 12 of 20 key indicators tracking health threats have reached record levels, showing how climate inaction is costing lives, straining health systems, and undermining economies. “The climate crisis is a health crisis. Every fraction of a degree of warming costs lives and livelihoods,” said Dr Jeremy Farrar...
At landfall in western Jamaica, Melissa’s 185 mph winds and 892 mb pressure tied with the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 in the Florida Keys as the strongest on record for the Atlantic. The post Catastrophic Hurricane Melissa hits Jamaica as the strongest landfalling Atlantic hurricane on record appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
The monster hurricane pummelling Jamaica is powered by abnormal sea surface temperatures in the Caribbean, which were made at least 500 times more likely by global warming
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 there empirical evidence for human-caused global warming? There are multiple lines of evidence that our greenhouse gas emissions are warming the planet. The greenhouse effect is the process whereby “greenhouse” gases such as carbon dioxide create a kind of atmospheric blanket, absorbing outgoing heat energy and re-radiating a portion of it back down to Earth. CO 2 levels surged after humans began burning fossil fuels such as coal and oil. Today, we’re over 420 parts per million — up 50% from pre-industrial times and higher than for millions of years. We...
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Volume 130, Issue 10, October 2025.
Mark Easter’s “The Blue Plate” turns shrimp, bread, and even pie into lessons on saving the planet, one delicious bite at a time. The post The ecologist who serves up climate science on a plate appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
This is a re-post from And Then There's Physics There’s a recent Carbon Brief article about a supposedly controversial methane metric . The metric in question is GWP*, which I’ve actually written about before . Methane emissions are typically compared to CO 2 using a metric known as Global Warming Potential (GWP). These are often measured over periods of 20 years (GWP20) or 100 years (GWP100). For methane GWP20 has a value of about 80, while GWP100 has a value of about 30. As the Carbon Brief article says, these are often interpreted as suggesting that one tonne of methane causes the same amount of warming as around 80 tonnes of CO2, when measured over a period of 20 years…….. When calculated over 100 years, methane’s...
By planting wildflowers instead of grass, developers are creating habitat for bees, butterflies, and birds. The post Solar farms can bloom with life, not just energy 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, October 19, 2025 thru Sat, October 25, 2025. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Policy and Politics (8 articles) DeBriefed: Earth`s first `tipping point`; Climate adviser interview; How warming affects children`s health For those interested in keeping up with policy details of our climate blunder and how we're going to deal with it, we recommend Carbon Brief's weekly "Debrief" feature. Carbon Brief, Emma Hancox, Oct 17, 2025. US-led alliance wins a year`s delay in adoption of green shipping deal A landmark deal to clean up the global shipping industry’s emissions has been postponed for at least a year, after a successful campaign...
Halving how much edible food is thrown away, swapping beef for pork or chicken and having one meatless day a week could slash the carbon "hoofprint" of U.S. cities by up to 51%, a new study finds.
Melissa is expected to be a hurricane by Saturday and a major hurricane on Sunday, when it will pass very close to Jamaica. The post Melissa bringing deadly and destructive rains to the Caribbean appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Climate change may be helping bacteria develop resistance to antibiotics. Antimicrobial resistance factored in 1.27 million deaths worldwide in 2019, the WHO said. The post Deadly bacteria may thrive in warmer soils appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D5EE02865E, Review Article Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Ningaraju Gejjiganahalli Ningappa, Karthik Vishweswariah, Sabbir Ahmed, Mohamed Djihad Bouguern, M. R. Anil Kumar, Karim Zaghib Pathways to net-zero aviation through sustainable propulsion - integrating SAFs, hydrogen fuel cell, advanced batteries, and hybrid-electric systems for reduced lifecycle emission and enhanced energy efficiency. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
With the tropical storm predicted to be a major hurricane by Monday, a prolonged life-threatening flood threat is expected for Jamaica, eastern Cuba, and Hispaniola. The post Melissa’s slowdown is bad news for the central Caribbean appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
After a brutal heat wave, scientists race to predict how Bering Sea snow crabs will cope with climate change
Researchers who visited Svalbard expected deep snow, but instead they found meltwater pools and thawed ground. The post Scientists get a shocking glimpse of Arctic climate change appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Rising seas are irreversible on human time scales and among the most severe consequences of climate change.
Researchers have unveiled ice XXI, a new form of ice that's solid at room temperatures when subjected to immense pressure.
The track forecast is more uncertain than usual, but Melissa is likely to bring colossal rains and life-threatening flooding to multiple islands in the Caribbean. The post Tropical Storm Melissa not yet strengthening, but still expected to become a dangerous Caribbean hurricane appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
But you can buy a separate flood insurance policy – a step experts are urging people to take as floods get more extreme and common, even outside of high-risk flood zones. The post Your homeowner’s insurance policy almost certainly doesn’t cover floods appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 22 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02469-wHeatwaves worsen educational inequality in Brazil
It’s still uncertain which way Melissa will track, and how quickly, but the storm is likely to bring colossal rains and life-threatening flooding to multiple islands in the Caribbean. The post Tropical Storm Melissa on track to be a dangerous Caribbean hurricane appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
An astrophotographer snapped a stunning shot of Comet Lemmon's flowing tail getting shredded by a strong gust of solar wind, just three days before it reaches its closest point to Earth.
This is a re-post from Carbon Brief India’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from its power sector fell by 1% year-on-year in the first half of 2025 and by 0.2% over the past 12 months, only the second drop in almost half a century. As a result, India’s CO2 emissions from fossil fuels and cement grew at their slowest rate in the first half of the year since 2001 – excluding Covid – according to new analysis for Carbon Brief. The analysis is the first of a regular new series covering India’s CO2 emissions, based on monthly data for fuel use, industrial production and power output, compiled from numerous official sources. (See the regular series on China’s CO2 emissions, which began in 2019 .) Other key findings...
Scientists have launched the first batch of a novel type of radiation monitor into the atmosphere as part of an innovative project to enhance space weather models and deepen scientific understanding of the impact of space weather.
A listing of 27 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, October 12, 2025 thru Sat, October 18, 2025. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Change Impacts (6 articles) Climate Change Comes for the House of the Seven Gables At the edge of Salem’s harbor, caretakers face a race against rising seas and intensifying storms to protect a landmark bound up in America’s literary and colonial past. Inside Climate News, Ryan Krugman, Oct 12, 2025. Net-zero is a pipe dream: civilisation now faces an existential threat Crops now grown will no longer survive, water shortages will become widespread, and food will be scarce. Are we ready for widespread environmental refugees? Newsroom NZ, Kevin...
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 130, Issue 20, 28 October 2025.
Scientists debate whether current extinction rates mark a planet-wide crisis or reflect a more nuanced reality, highlighting the challenges of defining and measuring human impact on biodiversity.
Climate models suggest that climate change could reduce the Southern Ocean’s ability to absorb carbon dioxide (CO2). However, observational data actually shows that this ability has seen no significant decline in recent decades. In a recent study, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute have discovered what may be causing this. Low-salinity water in the upper ocean has typically helped to trap carbon in the deep ocean, which in turn has slowed its release into the atmosphere – until now, that is, because climate change is increasingly altering the Southern Ocean and its function as a carbon sink. The study is published in the journal Nature Climate Change.
Greenhouse gas concentrations increased by a record amount in 2024 as more carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide became locked in Earth's atmosphere, a World Meteorological Organization report finds.
Open access notables Mountain glaciers recouple to atmospheric warming over the twenty-first century , Shaw et al., Nature Climate Chang Recent studies have argued that air temperatures over many mountain glaciers are decoupled from their surroundings, leading to a local cooling which could slow down melting. Here we use a compilation of on-glacier meteorological observations to assess the extent to which this relationship changes under warming. Statistical modelling of the potential temperature decoupling of the world’s mountain glaciers indicates that currently glacier boundary layers warm ~0.83 °C on average for every degree of ambient temperature rise. Future projections under shared socioeconomic pathway (SSP) climate scenarios SSP 2-4.5...
Climate change is intensifying both floods and droughts – sometimes leaving communities to endure both burdens at once. The post When drought meets deluge appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
One town was almost completely inundated by its worst storm surge on record. The post Native Alaskan communities reeling in wake of Typhoon Halong’s remnants appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
A report on the state of the climate has concluded coral reefs are on a knife-edge, even as the world shifts away from making good on net zero
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections A draft report commissioned by the Trump administration’s Department of Energy, or DOE, misleadingly claims that increasing levels of carbon dioxide could be beneficial for agriculture. In fact, mainstream climate experts have found that rising CO2 levels, by causing climate change, are harmful to agriculture overall – and likely to cause food prices to increase. The Trump administration’s claim arose from a draft “critical review” report commissioned by DOE and written by fringe experts. The DOE subsequently disbanded that group when faced with a lawsuit alleging that it violated a law requiring that such federal advisory committees must be transparent and unbiased...
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE02728D, Paper Seth Kane, Baishakhi Bose, Jin Fan, Thomas Hendrickson, Sarah Nordahl, Corinne D. Scown, Sabbie Miller Currently, materials production of materials is responsible for over 25% of anthropogenic CO2 emissions. However, due to their long-lived nature and enormous scale of production, some building materials offer a... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Learn more about the tentative ties between brain degeneration and beaching in dolphins, which could become more and more common as climate change continues.
As ancient humans left Africa, they encountered many harsh environments including the Sahara and the high Arctic, but one of the last places they inhabited was Britain, likely due to the relentless cold and damp climate
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 . Does increasing CO 2 have a noticeable effect? The warming effect of increasing atmospheric CO 2 is well-established physics, confirmed by direct observation. Experiments in the 1800s by Fourier, Foote, and Tyndall demonstrated how CO 2 absorbs infrared radiation — the heat Earth emits back toward space — and re-radiates some downward, keeping the planet warmer. In 1896, Arrhenius calculated that doubling CO 2 would raise global temperatures by 5-6°C (9-10.8°F) . Modern estimates hover around 3°C (5.4°F), with an upper range near 4.5°C (8.1°F)...
Learn more about these ancient microorganisms that have been buried in permafrost for 40,000 years, and how, as the climate warms, they may be releasing more greenhouse gases.
This is a re-post from The Climate Brink We focus a lot on global average temperatures, but this tends to mask the real local impacts that climate change is having. The land – where all of us live – is warming about 40% faster than the global average, and high latitude regions are warming even faster. One of the many ways to visualize this regional heat is to look at when all time high temperature records were set for each region of the world. Here I’m build upon a Carbon Brief analysis I published back in 2023 that looked at daily temperature data from ERA5 – a great resource, but one that unfortunately only extended back to 1950 at the time (and back to 1940 today). We know of at least some regional heat...
Researchers incubated permafrost samples from Alaska at different temperatures and found that microbes from the last ice age can reactivate and resume breaking down carbon.
A listing of 24 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, October 5, 2025 thru Sat, October 11, 2025. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Change Impacts (7 articles) Climate change behind 36% of damage inflicted by Typhoon Ragasa in China "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." Eye on the Storm, Yale Climate Connections, Jeff Masters, Oct 3, 2025. Most of the world has recently set all-time heat records Regional exceptions like the 1930s in the continental US notwithstanding The Climate Brink, Zeke Hausfather, Oct 06, 2025. Climate change...
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE04165A, Paper Wenqian Xing, Deyu Wang, Kai Feng, Shihao Ding, Xinle Zhang, Haolan Xu, Jiang Gong, Jinping Qu, Ran Niu The rising demand for lithium, essential for energy storage, has heightened the need for efficient extraction methods from salt-lake brines, as current techniques are inefficient and energy-intensive. Here we present... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Karen popped up at the same latitude as Minneapolis, while Jerry douses the Northern Leeward Islands, Priscilla threatens to drench the U.S. Southwest, and an unnamed storm slams the Mid-Atlantic coast. The post Karen becomes the Atlantic’s northernmost named storm on record appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
After damaging wildfires in LA, tornadoes and series of floods, the first six months of this year smashed multiple extreme weather records in the U.S., data show — and experts say this trend is likely to continue.
Trans advocate Jasmine McKenzie is building a lifeline for Black and trans Floridians who often can’t safely access disaster services from FEMA or religious organizations. The post When a hurricane hits, she shows up for those left behind appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Open access notables Climate-linked escalation of societally disastrous wildfires , Cunningham et al., Science Climate change and land mismanagement are creating increasingly fire-prone built and natural environments. However, despite worsening fire seasons, evidence is lacking globally for trends in socially and economically disastrous wildfires, partly due to sparse systematic records. Using a 44-year dataset (1980 to 2023) we analyze the distribution, trends, and climatic conditions connected with the most lethal and costly wildfires. Disastrous wildfires occurred globally over this period but were concentrated in the Mediterranean and temperate conifer biomes. Disaster risk was highest where highly energetic daily fire events intersected affluent, populated...
Despite public promises by many fossil fuel firms that they are investing in the green transition, it turns out that they have made little contribution to the growth of renewable energy
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...
The conspiracy theory that bad actors use "chemtrails" from aircraft to poison us sucks energy from legitimate protest against aviation's effects on the climate, says Graham Lawton
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.
The UK is set for a spell of unsettled weather as we approach Halloween and the weekend.
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). Video description Solar power has become ridiculously cheap. And unbelievably powerful at tackling climate change. Today I discuss two of the most absolutely overpowered places we can build solar photovoltaics: reservoirs (floatovoltaics) and deserts. But the future of solar is so bright, that it's worth building even in less-than-ideal locations. Let's take a look at the sunny story of today's solar PV, and what that means for our climate! Support ClimateAdam on patreon: https://patreon.com/climateadam
Learn more about Epiatheracerium itjilik , the Arctic rhino species that is the northernmost rhino ever found.
The U.S. Air Force's "Hurricane Hunters" have flown inside the eye of Hurricane Melissa, capturing eerie footage of the historic storm that is expected to cause widespread devastation in Jamaica.
In their new book, “Atlas of the New World,” photographers Giulia Piermartiri and Edoardo Delille use dreamlike images to depict a planet in the midst of rapid change. The post Playful photos reveal a darker truth about climate change appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Image: This image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission show Hurricane Melissa as it barrelled through the Caribbean Sea
A remarkable three of the Atlantic's five hurricanes this year have hit Cat 5. The post Jamaica braces for Cat 5 Hurricane Melissa, Earth’s strongest storm of 2025 appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE02910D, Review Article Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Shaowen Mao, Siqin Yu, Jianping Xu, Hang Chen, Wen Zhao, Martin Blunt, Qinjun Kang, Michael Robert Gross, Bailian Chen, Jolante Van Wijk, Qingwang Yuan, Kai Gao, Saif R. Kazi, Mohamed Mehana Hydrogen is a versatile resource with important roles in decarbonization, industrial manufacturing, and energy integration. However, current hydrogen production predominantly relies on fossil fuels, resulting in significant emissions and energy... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
As predicted and feared, Hurricane Melissa has become a formidable hurricane in the central Caribbean that is positioned to wreak havoc over Jamaica early this week. Melissa’s top sustained winds vaulted from 70 mph at 11 a.m. EDT Saturday, October 25, to 140 mph at 5 a.m. EDT Sunday, marking one of the most rapid […] The post Melissa leaps from tropical storm to Category 4 hurricane in 18 hours appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
The ingredients are in place for Melissa to become a catastrophic major hurricane before the weekend is out. The post Hurricane Melissa poised to rapidly intensify as it heads toward Jamaica appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Tropical Storm Melissa is moving at a snail's pace but will intensify rapidly over the weekend as it feeds off near-record-warm water temperatures in the Caribbean Sea, forecasters say.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE02643A, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Zixuan Li, Rui Qi, Yi Yuan, Lechen Yang, Lijiang Song, Ashok Sreekumar Menon, Louis F. J. Piper, Didier Wermeille, Paul Thompson, Robert House, Peter G. Bruce, Alex Robertson Aqueous zinc-ion batteries (ZIBs) suffer from sustained capacity loss at the zinc metal anode due to side reactions with the electrolyte, even under idle conditions. The concept of an anode-free... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE05221A, Paper Jiajie Huang, Shuoqing Zhang, Bingxin Wan, Wen Liu, Ruhong Li, Zhiyi Yang, Long Li, Junyi Hua, Fei Chu, Menglu Li, Tao Zhou, Jinze Wang, Yuefei Wu, Zi-Rui Li, Liwu Fan, Lixin Chen, Tao Deng, Xiulin Fan The intrinsic challenge of C-F cleavage and the electron-insulating nature of LiF accumulation impose severe kinetic barriers in lithium/fluorinated carbon (Li/CFx) batteries, particularly under extreme operating conditions. Existing electrolyte systems... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Buried underground near the surface, frozen regions of Mars could have tiny hidden channels full of liquid water, which could be a habitable environment for microscopic organisms
Solar electricity is growing rapidly, but can it really dominate the global energy system? Here is what it will take for us to power the planet on sunshine
The cycling of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) in the ocean is closely linked to seawater alkalinity and the regulation of atmospheric CO2. In the modern pelagic ocean, almost all CaCO3 is produced by three groups of calcifying planktonic organisms: ...
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE03638K, Paper Shun Lv, Ke Yang, Di Zhao, Xiandi Ma, Mengwei Sun, Chang Liu, Yiteng Ma, Likun Chen, Junyao You, Yun Tian, Xu Zhang, Zhen Zhou, Yan-Bing He, Feiyu Kang Realizing homogeneous heat and ion transfer in solid-state electrolytes is critical but remains challenging. Herein, we revealed that localized temperature hotspots in polyvinylidene fluoride electrolyte trigger side reactions and Li... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment is a new book from Brown University’s global Climate Social Science Network, for which a team of more than 100 scholars explored who’s blocking action on climate change and how they’re doing it. John Cook - founder of Skeptical Science and senior research fellow with the Melbourne Centre for Behaviour Change at the University of Melbourne - co-authored chapter 7 in the book titled " Understanding the Political and Psychological Roots of Climate Misinformation and Its Impact on Public Opinion ". The book is available open access for download from the Climate Social Science Network . The book In addition to an introduction by the editors J. Timmons Roberts, Carlos R. S. Milani, Jennifer Jacquet, and Christian...
An exclusive New Scientist survey of leading scientists reveals widespread concern that schemes to tweak Earth’s atmosphere could launch within decades in a risky bid to cool the planet
In April 2024 we announced the (renewed) collaboration between Gigafact and Skeptical Science to create fact briefs , short but credibly sourced summaries that offer “yes/no” answers in response to claims found online. Initially, we published new fact briefs on Saturdays, but switched to Tuesdays earlier this year and while we try to have a new fact brief out each week, we sometimes miss a week due to time constraints and vacations. Regardless of that, we published fact brief #50 - Are humans responsible for climate change? - on September 30, 2025 and thought that this little milestone might make for a good reason to write a short blog post about the current status of this project. From what we can tell, these bite-sized explanations are still useful to people...
Swarms of krill in the Southern Ocean form the second tier of the Antarctic food pyramid, following plant plankton. If stocks were to shrink due to over-intensive fishing, this would incur direct consequences for many animal species that feed almost exclusively on krill. From 20 to 31 October, the annual meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) will take place in Hobart, Australia, where the future regulation of krill fishery will represent a central topic. Prior to this, an international research team headed by Bettina Meyer from the Alfred Wegener Institute presented the sustainable management concept in the scientific journal PNAS, which involves the krill industry in the research and could thereby secure the stocks for the...
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 20 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02456-1Bridging traditional disciplinary silos, a study has mapped cascading climate risks to the European Union through stakeholder-co-produced impact chains and network analysis. It provides country-specific risk profiles by identifying critical intervention points — such as water, livelihoods or violent conflict — to support policy coherence in addressing interconnected vulnerabilities and guiding targeted adaptation.
The Arctic Ocean was once an important source of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere — and it could become one again, researchers warn.
Oct. 18, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.
Climate researcher Prof. Dr. Markus Rex is one of three distinguished recipients of this year’s NOMIS Award for groundbreaking interdisciplinary research. The NOMIS Award is one of the most prestigious and generously funded international scientific awards. The scientist from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) received particular recognition for leading the MOSAiC (Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate) expedition between the autumns of 2019 and 2020. For a year, the research ship drifted through the Arctic, frozen in ice. The goal was to gain a better understanding of the complex interaction between the ocean, the ice, the atmosphere and the ecosystem. Through the MOSAiC expedition, hundreds of scientists...
Image: The changing face of the Chilean glaciers in the Laguna San Rafael National Park is featured in these satellite images from 1987 and 2024.
The rush to grow more biofuels continues, despite the fact they increase CO2 emissions rather than lower them, raise food prices and devastate nature. It has to stop, says Michael Le Page
Scientists are hunting for ancient RNA in Svalbard’s permafrost, hoping to shed light on the evolution of viral diseases
Changes in global mean sea level (GMSL) during the late Cenozoic remain uncertain. We use a reconstruction of changes in δ18O of seawater to reconstruct GMSL since 4.5 million years ago (Ma) that accounts for temperature-driven changes in the δ18O of ...
The latest State of Wildfire report is building unequivocal evidence of how climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of extreme wildfires.
The global average concentration of CO2 surged by 3.5 parts per million to reach 423.9 ppm last year, fuelling worries that the planet’s ability to soak up excess carbon is weakening
Researchers have discovered dozens of new methane seeps littering the ocean floor in the Ross Sea coastal region of Antarctica, raising concerns of an unknown positive climate feedback loop that could accelerate global warming.
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 15 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02448-1Glacier microclimates can decouple glacier temperatures from ongoing climatic warming, slowing down melting. However, these microclimates will decay as glaciers retreat. A statistical model indicates that by the latter half of the twenty-first century, the temperature of glaciers will be increasingly sensitive to fluctuations in atmospheric temperature.
Learn how radiocarbon dating and ancient DNA analysis revealed that hippos were alive and thriving during Europe’s last ice age.
A recent Department of Energy report falsely states that rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere will boost agricultural yields. In fact, climate change is much more likely to make food scarcer and more expensive. The post Fact-checking a Trump administration claim about climate change and crops appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
A 2025 satellite photo shows a particularly complex section of the Yarlung Zangbo River as it twists its way through the Tibetan Plateau. This part of the "braided" waterway has experienced drastic visual changes over recent decades, which could soon be accentuated by climate change.
Lorenzo's formation brings the Atlantic hurricane season to near-average in three out of four categories. The post Tropical Storm Lorenzo forms in the central tropical Atlantic appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Locals face a perfect storm — they can’t afford insurance and climate change threatens their livelihood. The post On Louisiana’s Gulf Coast, residents fume as insurers hike rates and invest in fossil fuel projects appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Record-breaking ocean temperatures have caused widespread bleaching and death among warm-water corals, which could have far-reaching consequences
Rising levels of CO2 in the atmosphere may trigger a series of geological and biological processes that could ensure the next ice age arrives on time instead of being delayed, researchers say.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE03490F, Paper Xinmiao Wang, Simeng Zhang, Junyi Yue, Xingyu Wang, Yang Xu, Yue Gong, Liyu Zhou, Changtai Zhao, Jianwen Liang, Xiangzhen Zhu, Han Wu, Xiaolong Yan, Biwei Xiao, Meng Li, Chenxiang Li, Shuo Wang, Xueliang Sun, Xiaona Li As a key component of sodium-ion all-solid-state batteries (ASSBs) with promising high safety and energy density, solid-state electrolytes (SSEs) play a critical role in determining electrochemical performance. However, current synthesis... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Learn more about how the chikungunya virus spreads and what can be done to stop outbreaks.
China has committed to slash its greenhouse gas emissions by 7% to 10% by 2035 — but is this going to cut it? Tell us what you think.
The Coral Triangle is an extremely biodiverse patch of ocean around the Philippines and Papua New Guinea. Its relatively murky waters appear to shield it against climate change — for now.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D5EE01370D, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Geng Zou, Hewei Liu, Tianfu Liu, Shaobo Han, Zijian Tan, Shaowei Zhang, Yige Guo, Jingcheng Yu, Xiaomin Zhang, Fang Lu, Yuefeng Song, Guoxiong Wang, Xinhe Bao The CoO 6 octahedral distortion induced by A-site high-entropy engineering enhances lattice oxygen activity and boosts high-temperature oxygen evolution reaction performance in solid oxide electrolysis cells. 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
The European Space Agency’s upcoming FORUM mission is set to provide unique insights into Earth’s radiation budget, filling in a missing piece in the climate puzzle. The mission’s spectrometer will be the first space-based instrument to measure Earth’s outgoing radiation in the far-infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum with unprecedented resolution and accuracy. New technologies were needed to make this possible – among these an on-ground calibration device developed by the National Metrology Institute of Germany PTB within a recent activity funded by ESA’s General Support Technology Programme. This device is used to calibrate FORUM’s onboard reference source and ensures the accurate operation of the spectrometer.
For nearly three decades, the Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change has convened global leaders, policy-makers, and scientists—at considerable cost, including a hefty environmental footprint—to confront one of humanity’s greatest existential threats: climate change. Milestones achieved at prior COPs such as the Kyoto Protocol, the Paris Agreement, and the Glasgow Climate Pact provided optimism and guidance, yet rhetoric has often eclipsed action. Pledges and targets proliferate, and new frameworks may recycle old goals, weakening meaningful change. Meanwhile, challenges facing fundamental needs such as food production are mounting. Weather shocks, growing populations, loss of biodiversity, and conflicts combine to form a perfect storm that...
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D5EE05097A, Paper Young-Hoon Lee, Hee Jeong Park, Eunbin Park, Geumbi Na, Ji Hwan Kim, Se-Woong Baek, Seunghwan Bae, June Huh, Yung-Eun Sung, Seung-Ho Yu Incorporating provitamin B5 co-solvent for aqueous zinc-ion batteries facilitates the formation of a provitamin B5–Zn ion complex, which promotes uniform zinc deposition over extended distances and superior long-term cycling stability. 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
Learn how astronomers spotted 2025 TF, an asteroid that passed just 266 miles over Antarctica in early October 2025.
This is a re-post from The Climate Brink by Andrew Dessler In the last few weeks, I’ve often been asked, “What’s the most significant mistake in the DOE Climate Working Group Report?” While the report contains numerous issues, one in particular stands out for its far-reaching implications. I write about it in this post. A recent report from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Climate Working Group (DOE CWG) attempts to analyze and critique the findings from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In doing so, the DOE CWG Report makes several fundamental errors due to a misunderstanding of the peer-reviewed literature. One in particular stands out, as it leads the authors to incorrectly represent the established...
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Arctic permafrost stores massive amounts of organic carbon in its frozen soils and deeper deposits. However, as the Arctic warms particularly rapidly, these deposits are thawing out. As a result, more and more greenhouse gases will be released into the atmosphere. There has been little research on where and how quickly permafrost thaws, as well as on the processes that cause the rapid thaw. PeTCaT (Rapid Permafrost Thaw Carbon Trajectories) is an international project that, above all, aims to increase our knowledge of these rapid thaw processes. Under the leadership of the Alfred Wegener Institute, researchers from Germany, the USA, Canada, the Netherlands, and Sweden plan to build a new dataset that will allow them to make projections about the possible developments and impacts of greenhouse...