Flash flood warnings from the National Weather Service have hit a record pace this year, while the Atlantic hurricane season stays at a low ebb. The post As flash floods rage, the tropical Atlantic stays mellow appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
When the polar vortex stretches, North America feels the chill. New research reveals some of the stratospheric patterns controlling these cold snaps.
With the world on the cusp of passing 1.5°C of warming, scientists are turning their attention to defining a new limit for temperature rises – but not everyone agrees that we should
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE03460D, Paper Gao Yu , Pengfei Ji, Xiaobo Gao, Tengfei Zhou, Shengbo Wang , Wei Gao, Hao Li, Zhong Lin Wang, Baodong Chen Pedestrian-level wind (PLW, 0-2m above ground level) as an affordable and clean energy, is characterized by high transience, low-Reynolds-number airflow and turbulence. PLW energy capture is severely limited in conventional... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Open access notables Climate change has increased the odds of extreme regional forest fire years globally , Abatzoglou et al., Nature Communications Regions across the globe have experienced devastating fire years in the past decade with far-reaching impacts. Here, we examine the role of antecedent and concurrent climate variability in enabling extreme regional fire years across global forests. These extreme years commonly coincided with extreme (1-in-15-year) fire weather indices (FWI) and featured a four and five-fold increase in the number of large fires and fire carbon emissions, respectively, compared with non-extreme years. Years with such extreme FWI metrics are 88-152% more likely across global forested lands under a contemporary (2011–2040) climate compared...
Social norms that welcome men into caregiving and cooperation strengthen communities as they face climate shocks. The post Toxic masculinity isn’t just a social issue. It prevents us from fully addressing climate change, too. appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 130, Issue 14, 28 July 2025.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE02940F, Paper Yuan Wang, Shuyan Guo, Yuntian Guo, Peng Zhang, Guoming Ma, Dingguo Xia, Hao Zhao Operando monitoring of the H2 evolution within lithium-ion batteries is essential for decoding their thermal runaway mechanism and preventing fires. Here, we track the H2 evolution over multiple charging‒discharging cycles... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Using samples collected by the Chinese Chang’e 5 mission, researchers have discovered a new way to release water from lunar regolith and process the carbon dioxide breathed out by astronauts
The aurora australis arcs above a partly cloudy Indian Ocean in this photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 269 miles above in between Australia and Antarctica on June 12, 2025. Astronauts aboard the space station take photos using handheld digital cameras, usually through windows in the station’s cupola, for Crew Earth Observations. […]
The videos include personal musings and conclusions of the creators climate scientist Dr. Adam Levy and geologist Dr. Rachel Phillips . They are presented to our readers as an informed perspective. Please see video descriptions for references (if any). Adam Levy and Rachel Phillips collaborated on two videos for their respective Youtube channels explaining the study A 485-million-year history of Earth’s surface temperature published by Emily J. Judd and colleagues in 2024. Today's climate is changing. Fast. But what has happened in our planet's past? Have climate changes taken place long ago? In fact, there have been huge shifts in the planet's climate over the past hundreds of millions of years - from ice ages to temperatures far hotter than today. These...
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D5EE02213D, Paper Qi Li, Meng Xu, Shiqiang Wei, Anuj Kumar, Kovan Khasraw Abdalla, Yueyang Wang, Linfeng Yu, Mengyao Liu, Xiangrong Jin, Jiazhan Li, Li Song, Yi Zhao, Xiaoming Sun Herein, we introduced a PANI layer to provide a proton-rich micro-environment for an organic modified MnO 2 cathode featuring Mn–N bonds, enabling selective H + insertion rather than Zn 2+ and reversible MnO 2 /Mn 2+ redox for advanced Zn–MnO 2 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
Learn about the new hydrothermal feature that appeared last winter in Yellowstone National Park, possibly on Christmas Day.
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 . Did CO 2 contribute to early 20th century warming? Warming from 1920 to 1940 was influenced by both natural dynamics or “forcings” as well as human-caused greenhouse gas emissions such as CO 2 . Human-caused CO 2 began rising during the Industrial Revolution and contributed to early 20th century warming. At the same time, solar activity rose slightly and volcanic activity was unusually low, adding to warming. Ocean circulation changes also raised regional temperatures in areas like the North Atlantic. The myth that early warming disproves CO 2 ’s role in climate change...
Proposed budget cuts in the US will lead to the loss of vital carbon dioxide measurements, but no other countries are preparing to step in so far, researchers warn
NASA research has shown that cell-like compartments called vesicles could form naturally in the lakes of Saturn’s moon Titan. Titan is the only world apart from Earth that is known to have liquid on its surface. However, Titan’s lakes and seas are not filled with water. Instead, they contain liquid hydrocarbons like ethane and methane. […]
This is a re-post from The Climate Brink by Andrew Dessler My heart is breaking for the tragedy that’s unfolding in central Texas right now. At present, more than 70 people have died in the flooding in the Texas Hill Country. Given the widespread interest in this event and numerous requests for comment from the media, I’ve compiled the essential points you need to know here. The role of climate change I’ve written about the influence of climate change in intense precipitation events before , and here’s what I said: Let me emphasize up front that climate change doesn’t cause rain events. Rather, the role of climate change is like steroids for the weather — it injects an extra dose of intensity into existing weather...
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE02225H, Review Article Xiaofeng Ke, Weicong Xu, Chao Liu, Yakun Wang, Xiaozhong Huang, Rui Xiao, Xiaomin Xu, Tao Li, Zongping Shao The electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction reaction (eCO2RR) is a key technology for converting intermittent renewable energy into value-added fuels and chemicals, offering a promising pathway to re-balance the carbon cycle.... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
More than 100 people died in the flash floods. The disaster has the fingerprints of climate change all over it. The post The science behind Texas’ catastrophic floods appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Record breaking and extreme weather has become increasingly commonplace in the UK as our climate has changed over the last few decades.
A listing of 29 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, July 6, 2025 thru Sat, July 12, 2025. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Change Impacts (6 articles) DeBriefed 4 July 2025: Trump `megabill` guts clean energy; Europe`s record heat; Scientists discuss `most worrying` tipping points Carbon Brief, Carbon Brief Staff, Jul 04, 2025. Devastating flash floods slam Texas Hill Country; Tropical Storm Chantal heads for Carolinas Yale Climate Connections, Jeff Masters and Bob Henson, Jul 05, 2025. Update on Texas flooding Andrew Dessler's update on the flooding in Texas The Climate Brink, Andrew Dessler, Jul 07, 2025. Experts: Which climate tipping point is the most concerning?...
As flash floods ravage areas like the Texas Hill Country, research shows that technology alone cannot save lives during flooding emergencies.
A drop in shipping emissions has caused a surge in warming at the Great Barrier Reef, fuelling calls for drastic actions such as marine cloud brightening to lower the risk of coral bleaching
Models suggest that meeting climate targets will be virtually impossible without steep emissions cuts paired with a huge expansion of carbon management technologies
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Volume 130, Issue 7, July 2025.
Open access notables Americans and policymakers underestimate endorsement for the most popular climate solution narrative, combining personal and political action , Sparkman et al., Communications Earth & Environment A wide variety of existing narratives describe how we might address climate change. Which of these approaches is popular among the American public? Do the general public and their elected officials accurately perceive which climate solutions are popular? We assess personal endorsement and perceptions of public support in national representative samples of the U.S. public (N = 1500) and local-level U.S. policymakers (N = 500). Proactive narratives, like ones advocating for both personal behavior and policy action, are widely...
The Qimmeq (Greenland sled dog) has worked continuously with the Inuit in Greenland for more than 800 years. However, they now face drastic population declines caused by climate change, urbanization, and competition from snowmobiles. This study sequenced ...
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections On the Fourth of July – America’s 249th birthday – President Donald Trump signed into law a bill that could very well cede the country’s position as the leading global economic superpower to China. As the nonpartisan energy think tank RMI has argued , the world is in the midst of a transition from the Information Age, which the United States led by dominating the development of new software and information technologies, to the Renewable Age, in which the development and deployment of electric and renewable energy technologies will drive the global economy. This transition is dominated by insurgent clean technologies, such as solar, wind, electric vehicles, and batteries, whose prices are falling rapidly...
Conditions are warming up, with heatwave criteria expected to be reached in parts of the UK by the end of the week.
The “One Big Beautiful Bill” just signed by President Trump will slash support for clean energy, leaving the US far short of its Paris Agreement pledge
The Sun is 93 million miles away, but its presence is felt strongly even at this distance. One of the more beautiful effects of this presence are the auroras which light up the sky in the Northern and Southern polar regions. These displays, also called the Northern and Southern Lights, are caused by interactions between particles of energy from the Sun and the molecules in the atmosphere above Earth’s poles.
More than 100 people have died in devastating flash floods in Kerr County, Texas. But what caused this extreme weather, and will events like this get more common?
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 global warming just due to El Niño? El Niño Southern Oscillation is a short-term and cyclical weather phenomenon caused by alternating wind patterns that result in heat exchange between the ocean and the atmosphere; it cannot explain long-term warming. El Niño originates when westward moving trade winds weaken, allowing warm surface waters to shift east across the tropical Pacific. This reverses the La Niña pattern, where trade winds push warm surface water toward Asia, upwelling cold water off the coast of South America. During El Niño, heat is transferred...
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 130, Issue 13, 16 July 2025.
Glacial melt could increase volcanic activity in North America, New Zealand and Russia, spewing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
The loss of snow cover in temperate forests is set to slow their growth and reduce their ability to remove carbon from the atmosphere, an overlooked consequence of climate change
This is a re-post from the Climate Brink The publication of an article titled “The World Is Warming Up. And It’s Happening Faster” by the New York Times kicked off a pretty heated debate among climate scientists over the evidence of acceleration and how strong a claim can be made based on the evidence today. The NYT included the illustrative figure below, which draws simple ordinary least squares trends over three time periods: 1880-1970, 1970-2010, and 2010-present (May 2025). It appears to show a notable acceleration over the past 15 years compared to the rate of warming that characterized the post-1970 “modern warm period” when climate change began to notably take off alongside human emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases. However...
False claims about climate change are rampant on social media. The post New campaign asks young people to help their parents recognize misinformation appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D5EE02408K, Perspective Wenhao Ren, Yao Zheng, Shi-Zhang Qiao We discuss emerging phenomena in membrane electrode assembly CO 2 electrolysers and highlight the critical role of electrolyte-free interfaces in governing catalytic performance at the device level. 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
A listing of 27 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, June 29, 2025 thru Sat, July 5, 2025. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Change Impacts (4 articles) What does climate change mean for agriculture? Less food, and more emissions New research sheds light on how rising temperatures are squeezing farmers and raising prices for consumers. Grist, Frida Garza, Jun 30, 2025. How unusual is this UK heat and is climate change to blame? A second spell of UK temperatures well over 30C before the end of June - how unusual is this and how much is climate change to blame? BBC News, Mark Poynting, Jun 30, 2025. Climate change has doubled the world's heat waves: How Africa is affected The...
At least 27 deaths were confirmed in central Texas, with dozens of people still missing. The post Devastating flash floods slam Texas Hill Country; Tropical Storm Chantal heads for Carolinas appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that forests in many parts of the world were wiped out, disrupting the carbon cycle and ensuring that Earth remained hot for millions of years
Learn more about the new hydrothermal feature that appeared last summer in Yellowstone National Park, and how, even though it went dormant over the winter, it could appear again this summer.
GPS positions were off by up to 230 feet during the Gannon Solar Storm in May 2024 in a disruption that lasted for up to two days, a new study has revealed.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE01892G, Paper Lingshi Zhang, Zhongbao Wei, Chunxia Liu, Hongwen He, Kailong Liu, Guangmin Zhou, Yunhui Huang, Zhichuan J. Xu Thermal characterization and diagnosis are critical for the whole-life-cycle safety of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). However, conventional techniques are time-delayed and discontinuous due to the sealed structure and intricate mechanisms of... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE02997J, Paper Kangjia Hu, Jiahui Zhang, Xinrun Yu, Jin-Bao Wang, Xianluo Hu Silicon anodes promise revolutionary lithium-ion battery energy density, yet commercial viability remains constrained by catastrophic volume expansion and interfacial degradation under demanding thermal conditions. Here, we demonstrate engineered crack pinning... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
On 25 June, the World Health Organization (WHO) concluded its participation in a 36-hour nuclear emergency exercise organized by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The exercise was part of the IAEA’s Level 3 Convention Exercise (ConvEx-3), the highest and most complex level of its emergency exercises. These large-scale exercises are conducted every three to five years to test emergency preparedness and response capacities and identify areas in need of improvement. The last ConvEx-3 exercise took place in 2021 in cooperation with the United Arab Emirates. The exercise involved more than 75 countries and 10 international organizations and was based on a simulated accident at a nuclear power plant in Romania, resulting in the release of significant amounts of radioactive material...
Climate and ecosystem dynamics vary across timescales, but research into climate-driven vegetation dynamics usually focuses on singular timescales. We developed a spectral analysis–based approach that provides detailed estimates of the timescales at ...
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00262A, Paper Jie Zhang, Dawei Yang, Canhuang Li, Qianhong Gong, Wei Bi, WEIHONG LAI, Shengjun Li, Yaojie Lei, Guangmin Zhou, Andreu Cabot, Guoxiu Wang Single-atom catalysts (SACs) have become the key to overcoming the inherent limitations of lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries for their exceptional catalytic activity, high selectivity, and strong affinity towards lithium polysulfides (LiPSs).... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Australia has offered a lifeline to the people of Tuvalu, whose island is threatened by rising sea levels. But the deal comes with strings attached – and there will be millions more climate migrants in need of refuge by 2050
The Discovery A giant planet some 400 light-years away, HIP 67522 b, orbits its parent star so tightly that it appears to cause frequent flares from the star’s surface, heating and inflating the planet’s atmosphere. Key Facts On planet Earth, “space weather” caused by solar flares might disrupt radio communications, or even damage satellites. But […]
A new book traces the environmental collapse of a crucial ecosystem and how its return could fight climate change. The post How America’s prairie was nearly destroyed — and why it should be restored appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
The second of the Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) satellites and the first instrument for the Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission lifted off at 23:04 CEST on Tuesday, 1 July. The satellite is now on its way to monitor Earth’s atmosphere from an altitude of 36 000 km. From this geostationary orbit, the missions can provide game-changing data for forecasting severe storms and air pollution over Europe.
Learn why a surge in the Southern Ocean’s salinity is an alarming sign for the future of Antarctic ice.
Operators lost contact with the MethaneSAT satellite on 20 June, a significant blow to efforts to track – and stop – methane emissions
Antarctic sea ice extent has fallen dramatically in recent years – the effects include accelerated ocean warming, faster loss of inland ice sheets and severe impacts on wildlife
‘Losing so much all at once, I think it crippled the spirit of the people.’ The post One year after Hurricane Beryl, the Union Island community is trying to recover what was lost appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
In the vacuum of space, where temperatures can plunge to minus 455 degrees Fahrenheit, it might seem like keeping things cold would be easy. But the reality is more complex for preserving ultra-cold fluid propellants – or fuel – that can easily overheat from onboard systems, solar radiation, and spacecraft exhaust. The solution is a […]
A first-of-its-kind lottery for residents of Tuvalu who want to move to Australia due to climate change threats is closing today, with more than 5,000 applications received.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE01853F, Paper Jing Guo, Ruomei Wang, Li Zhang, Siqin Wang, Linyan Li, Mengbing Du, Fangyuan Zhong, Chuan Zhang, Yafei Li, Yixuan Zheng, Xiaoya Liu, Xi Lu, Jinnan Wang The global transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy is vital for mitigating climate change, yet plans to transition China are generally coarsely resolved. This study introduces the China New... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
July will see the launch of the groundbreaking Solar EruptioN Integral Field Spectrograph mission, or SNIFS. Delivered to space via a Black Brant IX sounding rocket, SNIFS will explore the energy and dynamics of the chromosphere, one of the most complex regions of the Sun’s atmosphere. The SNIFS mission’s launch window at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico opens on Friday, July 18.
In a spotless cleanroom, engineers at Redwire’s facilities in Belgium, have completed the assembly of a key part ESA’s ALTIUS ozone mission – the all-important satellite platform is now fully formed ready to receive its measuring instrument.
Extreme weather is common in high malaria burden areas and is likely to increase in severity owing to climate change–related severe weather events. Yet, data on infection rates after these events and the consequences for planning disease control programs ...
The idea that we might attempt large-scale experiments to cool the planet is horrifying to some, but it looks increasingly likely that we will have to do so this century
New pictures taken in Yukon, Canada, show a perfectly preserved fossil skull, which experts say belonged to a male, teenage horse that lived during the last ice age.
Large flat surfaces carved by ancient rivers deep beneath the East Antarctica are influencing how ice flows across the continent today, according to a new study.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE01591J, Paper Yu Tang, Chenyi Fang, Xin Xu, Feng Li, Lei Fan, Di Zhu, Jun Ding, Joseph Imbrogno, Sui Zhang, Wentao Yan Solar water evaporation can produce water at low carbon footprint using abundant solar energy, but efficiency and stability are hindered by low evaporation rates and salt accumulating issues. We report... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Nature, Published online: 16 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09352-wTemperature-Related Hospitalization Burden under Climate Change
Without enough liquid water on the surface, a planet's atmosphere can become choked with carbon dioxide, raising temperatures to a level beyond what is survivable for all known life
Much like hurricanes further south, the strongest storms to pummel the US north-east are getting even stronger as sea surface temperatures rise
UK company Superdielectrics says its polymer technology could make batteries cheaper and easier to recycle, but its energy density must improve to compete with lithium-ion devices
Satellite data suggests cloud darkening is responsible for much of the warming since 2001, and the good news is that it is a temporary effect due to a drop in sulphate pollution
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE01597A, Paper Junwei Han, Xinru Wei, Guanzhong Ma, Han Wang, Yiming Sun, Zihui Liu, Lu Zhao, Chenyu Ma, Qihao Liu, Wenting Feng, Debin Kong, Wei Lv, Quanhong Yang, Linjie Zhi Rechargeable lithium-chlorine (Li-Cl2) batteries are recognized as powerful candidates for energy storage with high energy density and harsh environment adaptability. However, porous materials used in Li-Cl2 battery cathodes have poor... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Learn about the new technique being used to study cracks that have formed on Antarctica's unstable Doomsday Glacier.
Satellite imagery has revealed a yet-to-be-explained rise in the Southern Ocean's salinity. It could be a key factor in the decline of the region's sea ice.
Large swathes of the UK have met heatwave criteria as the widely hot, dry, and sunny weather continues today and into the weekend.
12 must-read climate change titles to add to your list. The post Cool books for a hot summer appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 11 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02362-6Global datasets of surface temperature and sea surface temperature (SST) are routinely used in climate change studies. Here the authors show that while surface temperature datasets closely agree, four main SST datasets show substantial variation, with implications for their application.
So it’s important for everyone to make a plan to stay safe during flooding. The post Climate change is increasing the risk of intense rain appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE00415B, Analysis Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Philipp Voß, Benedikt Gruber, Miriam Mitterfellner, Jan-Darius Plöpst, Florian Degen, Richard Schmuch, Simon Lux Sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) are on the verge of mass adoption, with several players striving for gigafactory-scale production. Uncertainty remains regarding their competitiveness with lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). This study addresses this... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 10 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02381-3The authors evaluate heritable genetic variation in thermal tolerance in a common reef-building coral. They show widespread heritable genetic variation, which is strongly associated with marine heatwave-imposed selective pressure, suggesting adaptation to climate warming.
Citizen science projects result in an overwhelmingly positive impact on the polar tourism experience. That’s according to a new paper analyzing participant experiences in the first two years of FjordPhyto, a NASA Citizen Science project.. The FjordPhyto citizen science project invites travelers onboard expedition cruise vessels to gather data and samples during the polar summer […]
We now have the ability to rapidly assess the impact of climate change after extreme weather events – a first-of-its-kind analysis has shown that it nearly tripled the death toll from the most recent European heatwave
Learn more about the connection between melting glaciers and volcanic eruptions, a volatile relationship that has existed since the last Ice Age.
Putting aerosols in the stratosphere to reflect sunlight could prevent the shutdown of key ocean currents, but only if it is done soon, a computer model suggests
Fossil fuel PR campaigns have misled people into believing that climate solutions are more controversial than they actually are. The post Climate solutions are more popular than you might think appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Nature, Published online: 08 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02153-1Old CO₂ released from rivers complicates evaluations of fossil-fuel emissions
Learn about the ability of some fig trees to store atmospheric carbon dioxide and turn it into stone, a process that could push back against climate change.
Learn how dairy cows are responding to increasingly warmer temperatures and what farmers can do to help protect them.
Things will warm up this week, with heatwave criteria being reached in parts of the UK by the end of the week.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D5EE01311A, Review Article Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Ahmad Alem, Pooria Poormehrabi, Jonas Lins, Lukas Pachernegg-Mair, Christine Bandl, Virginia Ruiz, Edgar Ventosa, Stefan Spirk, Torsten Gutmann In operando techniques allow for real-time monitoring to elucidate mechanisms, assess degradation rates, and optimize functionality of redox-flow 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
Some carbon dioxide absorbed by fig trees gets turned into calcium carbonate within the wood and the surrounding soil, ensuring that the carbon is kept out of the air for longer
Learn more about some of the microbes found in Yellowstone National Park hot springs and how they may hold the secrets to how life evolved on Earth.
Forest-based carbon-offset projects need a buffer to guarantee their climate benefits will last – but they may not have nearly enough in reserve
Using data from ESA’s SMOS satellite, scientists have revealed a surprising shift in the Southern Ocean – surface waters around Antarctica are growing saltier, even as sea ice is diminishing rapidly. This finding defies the norm because melting ice typically freshens ocean surface water.The implications are far-reaching as changes in this remote region can disrupt global ocean currents, affect climate patterns, and alter ecosystems far beyond the Antarctic.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE02663F, Paper Wenhe Zhang, Chengbing Wang, Lu Wang, Fan Wang, Puxin Tan, Jinchi Ma, Jingjing Jin, Zhongrong Geng, Hongyao Xie, Li-Dong Zhao Solar-powered simultaneous electricity and freshwater production is a promising solution to address energy and water shortages. However, current technologies are limited by their reliance on sunlight and have yet to... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Open access notables The Emergence of Near-Permanent Marine Heat wave State in the Tropical Indian Ocean During 2023–2024 , Soumya, International Journal of Climatology In 2023/24, global mean surface temperatures exceeded 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, and the Tropical Indian Ocean (TIO) experienced a record-breaking basin mean anomalous warming of 0.88°C. This unprecedented warming in the TIO is linked to the severe and long-lasting marine heatwave (MHW) events ever recorded in the region, reconciling with the ongoing long-term warming and internal climate variabilities. The MHW events of 2023/24 were primarily centred in the Arabian Sea (AS) and southwestern TIO regions, with mean intensities of 0.73°C and 0.89°C, respectively...
Recent polling shows that nearly 80% of registered U.S. voters want government agencies to keep researching and sharing global warming data. The administration is dismantling both. The post Trump’s climate research cuts are unpopular, even with Republicans appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE01118C, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Patricia Mayer, Florian Joseph Baader, David Yang Shu, Ludger Leenders, Christian Zibunas, Stefano Moret, André Bardow The chemical industry's transition to net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is particularly challenging due to the carbon inherently contained in chemical products, eventually released to the environment. Fossil feedstock-based production... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Samantha Harrington Republicans in the U.S. Senate are working to pass their version of the budget reconciliation bill before Congress goes on holiday for July 4. As it stands, the bill would terminate most clean energy tax credits long before their original phase-out date in 2032. The tax credits, which include money back on electric cars, electric appliances, energy efficiency improvements, and more, have a lot of public support. In a December 2024 survey , researchers at the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, the publisher of this site, found that 91% of liberal Democrats, 70% of moderate or conservative Democrats, 42% of liberal or moderate Republicans, and 28% of conservative Republicans support tax rebates...
On Wednesday, 2 July 2025, the Polarstern will set sail from Tromsø, Norway, embarking on an expedition to the Arctic Ocean. Over the next two months, an international research team will analyse the feedback effects between global warming and sea ice retreat in the Arctic Ocean. The investigations will focus on the differences in the melting of various sea ice types – representing the Arctic of the past decades, the present and the future. A parallel airborne campaign will complement the measurements and, at the outset of the expedition, the Polarstern will support the first ice testing of the new French Tara Polar Station research platform.
It is possible to make a material absorb more radiation than it has to re-emit, violating the laws of physics in a way that could make energy-harvesting devices more efficient
Find out how some animals at Yellowstone National Park make fatal mistakes, and learn about the real reason why hot springs are so dangerous.
An unexpectedly strong solar storm rocked our planet on April 23, 2023, sparking auroras as far south as southern Texas in the U.S. and taking the world by surprise. Two days earlier, the Sun blasted a coronal mass ejection (CME) — a cloud of energetic particles, magnetic fields, and solar material — toward Earth. Space scientists […]
Image: A powerful heatwave has been gripping large parts of southern Europe. This image, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission’s Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer on 29 June 2025, reveals the temperature of the land surface.
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 human CO 2 emissions driving current global warming? While many natural factors influence Earth’s climate, human emissions of heat-trapping carbon dioxide are driving today’s global warming. Scientists have conducted detailed studies of climate “forcings,” or the factors impacting global temperatures, especially with the past 50 years of satellite data. Long-term natural forcings, such as changes in Earth’s orbit or tectonic movement, take tens of thousands of years. They cannot explain the pace of recent warming. More immediate, smaller-impact changes occur...