Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02365J, Review Article Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Hao Zhang, Lei Chen, Feng Dong, zhiwen lu, Enmin Lv, Xing-Long Dong, Huanxin Li, Zhong-Yong Yuan, Xinwen Peng, Shihe Yang, Jieshan Qiu, Zhengxiao Guo, Zhenhai Wen Active sites play a pivotal role in photo/electrocatalysis, particularly in the transition from fossil fuels to clean, efficient and renewable energy sources. Precise identification of catalyst active sites and understanding... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Researchers think climate change will soon cause an increase in the incidence of Naegleria fowleri infections, a "brain-eating" disease.
As the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) undergoes its third program review, it is critical that the program scale its ambition to both meet the demands of the climate crisis and to fully capitalize on the cost-saving potential of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). Ensuring ambitious reductions […] The post Setting an 80 by 30 target is critical for the third RGGI program review, new EDF modeling shows appeared first on Climate 411 .
Humans used the now-destroyed rockshelter throughout the last ice age until just a few decades ago.
Open access notables Could an extremely cold central European winter such as 1963 happen again despite climate change? , Sippel et al., Weather and Climate Dynamics: Here, we first show based on multiple attribution methods that a winter of similar circulation conditions to 1963 would still lead to an extreme seasonal cold anomaly of about −4.9 to −4.7 ° C (best estimates across methods) under present-day climate. This would rank as the second-coldest winter in the last 75 years. Second, we conceive storylines of worst-case cold winter conditions based on two independent rare event sampling methods (climate model boosting and empirical importance sampling): a winter as cold as 1963 is still physically possible in central Europe...
Forests and other land ecosystems emitted almost as much carbon dioxide as they absorbed in 2023 – if this persists it will be much harder to restrict global warming to agreed targets
We need new fuels to transport people and goods around the globe as society moves away from coal, natural gas and oil. Here’s how things are shaping up. The post The greening of planes, trains, and automobiles appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Climate change is causing a dramatic increase in the frequency of temperature extremes and number of temperature records the UK experiences.
Methane, a potent greenhouse gas, is converted to CO2 by microbes in tree bark, meaning trees are even better for the climate than we thought
A hydrothermal eruption Tuesday (July 23) morning surprised visitors walking among the colorful hot springs in Yellowstone National Park's Biscuit Basin, near the famous Old Faithful geyser.
Many extremes over the past 40 years might have triggered transformational change – but didn't. The post Can a colossal extreme weather event galvanize action on the climate crisis? appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 129, Issue 14, 28 July 2024.
Thanks to Earth's atmosphere, solar flares can appear as beautiful aurorae.
This is a re-post from the Climate Brink by Andrew Dessler Headline from 2021 The Texas grid, run by ERCOT, has had a rough few years. In 2021, winter storm Uri blacked out much of the state for several days. About a week ago, Hurricane Beryl knocked out power to millions of Houstonians, and a week later, hundreds of thousands of Houstonians still hadn’t had their power restored. It might seem that these two events are completely different — one was a winter storm that caused a blackout by knocking out the natural gas supply , while the other one is a hurricane that knocked out the power distribution system. Headline from 2024 . Some things don’t change. But the root cause of these two incidents is actually the same. To understand...
Satellite imagery provides a unique perspective on our planet and can encompass a wide range of different scientific disciplines including climate change, weather, volcanic eruptions and even animal behavior. Every week, we take a bird's eye view of Earth, and see how it affects the people living on it.
Discover the universe beyond Earth's atmosphere with the latest astronomy news, features and articles.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02455A, Paper Qiyan Zhang, Dongmou Li, Yueqi Zhong, Yuna Hu, Shuangwu Huang, Shuxiang Dong, Qiming Zhang Electrostatic capacitors based on polymer dielectrics are essential components in advanced electronic and electrical power systems. An urgent challenge, however, is how to improve their capacitive performance at high temperatures... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Using satellite data, researchers identified hundreds of glacial lakes in Greenland that flooded their frozen shores over the past decade – helping speed up global sea level rise
Harris has said, “the urgency of this moment is clear.” Trump has called climate change a “hoax.” The post How Kamala Harris and Donald Trump compare on climate change appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
By Magdalen Sullivan & Kate Roberts As the U.S. oil and gas industry expands, the vast network of largely unregulated pipelines that transport unprocessed natural gas —known as gathering pipelines — has crept closer and closer to residential communities. Most gathering pipelines are currently exempt from regular inspection, which means that leaks and other problems […] The post Mapping the maze: data reveals the need for protective standards for all gas gathering pipelines appeared first on Energy Exchange .
Some species are doing better than others in the race to adapt to climate change.
A listing of 32 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, July 14, 2024 thru Sat, July 20, 2024. Story of the week As reflected by preponderance of coverage, our Story of the Week is Project 2025 . Until now traveling mostly unobserved below the surface of public attention, this public policy submarine launched by the Heritage Foundation and loaded with missiles targeted at civil society as we express it via competent and impartial governance (or sincere attempts at such) now emerges as a hot topic of concern, spanning many domains of public administration. What's Project 2025? If you didn't follow the link above, here's shorthand supplied by the instigators: Our goal is to assemble an army of aligned...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit unanimously denied an attempt by Republican Attorneys General and fossil fuel industry parties to block EPA’s protections limiting climate pollution from power plants.
Exactly 100 years ago, Germany’s northernmost research facilities on the North Sea island Sylt were opened. What began as a small field outpost for oyster research in 1924 would evolve into a modern, fully equipped research station that has been part of the Alfred Wegener Institute since 1998. Today, the AWI Wadden Sea Station on Sylt is pursuing answers to what is likely the most important question concerning the fragile ecosystem at its doorstep: how will climate change affect the Wadden Sea and North Sea in the long term?
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01705F, Paper Xinrong Yang, Yuan Gao, Lin-Yong Xu, Xiaohei Wu, Xingyu Chen, Yiming Shao, Bo Xiao, Shanshan Liu, Jianlong Xia, Rui Sun, Jie Min A highly efficient and stable all-small-molecule system with excellent thickness tolerance and recycling capability has been developed, by integrating a new giant molecule acceptor (Se-Giant) into the MPhS-C2:BTP-eC9 binary system. 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: 19 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02055-6Inadequate information in national adaptation policies limits the ability to track national adaptation progress in Africa. Enhancing coverage, consistency and robustness of these policies offers a clear path to establish effective, nationally led adaptation-tracking infrastructure.
How the models did last year, how they did this year on Hurricane Beryl, and why you should pay the most heed to the National Hurricane Center forecast. The post Which hurricane models should you trust in 2024? appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Introduction Observations of the Sun and Earth from space continue to revolutionize our view and understanding of how solar variability and other natural and anthropogenic forcings impact Earth’s atmosphere and climate. For more than four decades (spanning four 11-year solar cycles and now well into a fifth), the total and spectral solar irradiance and global […]
European banks face significant risk from oil and gas methane emissions in their portfolios. Our recommendations can help banks manage them.
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 18 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02067-2Currently, no comprehensive scientific methodology of corporate risk quantification, in response to new disclosure regulations, has been proposed in the literature. Here we develop fundamental principles that are important for the appropriate use of climate scenario science in transition risk assessments.
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Jeff Masters and Bob Henson June 2024 was Earth’s warmest June since global record-keeping began in 1850 and was the planet’s 13th consecutive warmest month on record, NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information , or NCEI, reported July 12. As opposed to being focused in one region or another, the record heat was unusually widespread, with 14.5% of the world’s surface experiencing record heat – beating the previous June record set in 2023 by 7.4%. Figure 1. Departure of temperature from average for June 2024, the world’s warmest June since record-keeping began in 1850. Record warm temperatures covered 14.5% of the world’s surface. (Image credit: NOAA/NCEI )...
Methane management is increasingly factored into the valuation of oil and gas assets. Investors need a clear picture of updated US methane rules.
July is the warmest month in the Arctic and hence also the month of peak sea ice loss. As of the middle of July 2024, extent is declining at an above average pace. Sea is mostly gone in Hudson Bay, … Continue reading →
Scientists have made major strides in predicting rapidly intensifying storms over the past decade, but even the best tech can't keep up as climate change fuels rapidly intensifying storms
The streaming series “The Hungry Games: Alaska's Big Bear Challenge” follows stars of the park’s Fat Bear Week as they bulk up for winter.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02332C, Review Article Caidi Jin, Mingxia Han, Yuheng Wu, Shurong Wang Selective conversion of renewable biomass to value-added chemicals/fuels via environment-friendly photoelectrochemical (PEC) technology has enormous development potential for solving the increasingly serious problems on energy crisis and environmental pollution. However,... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Dr. Ella Gilbert is a climate scientist and presenter with a PhD in Antarctic climate change, working at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) . Her background is in atmospheric sciences and she's especially interested in the physical mechanisms of climate change, clouds, and almost anything polar. She is passionate about communicating climate science to non-specialist audiences and using film and TV to do it. After all, climate change affects everyone, so everyone should be able to understand it. To help with that, she publishes videos about climate science, Antarctica, weather and anything climate related on her Youtube channel called Dr Gilbz . Here is a sample of her videos to "showcase" her work, each with a description based on what Ella provided on Youtube for it. Climate...
Agency’s technology development prepared fuel cells for tomorrow’s renewable energy grids
This is a re-post from The Climate Brink by Andrew Dessler Air conditioning was initially a symbol of comfort and wealth, enjoyed by the wealthy in theaters and upscale homes. Over time, as technology advanced and costs decreased, air conditioning became more accessible to the general public. With global warming, though, air conditioning has moved from being a luxury to being necessary for survival in many places. If you live in Phoenix or Houston and your air conditioner fails, staying in your house may be impossible and you may need to evacuate. Air-conditioning now plays a central role in protecting public health in homes, workplaces, and public spaces. But, of course, not everyone can afford it. This is one of the biggest equity issues in the climate debate, with some saying...
Climate skeptics sometimes point to heat records from that decade to dismiss the reality of global warming. They're leaving out crucial context. The post Why were the 1930s so hot in North America? appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
"But people’s beliefs and interests need not align if everyone finds some benefit in the recommendations."
EDF Statement regarding the release of a draft equivalency agreement between Environment and Climate Change Canada and Saskatchewan on oil and gas methane emissions
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01659A, Paper Zonghao Wu, Beibei Shi, Jiangsheng Yu, Mengzhen Sha, Jiangkai Sun, Dongcheng Jiang, Xin Liu, Wenxiao Wu, Yang Tan, Huiyuan Li, Shufen Huang, Jingjing Wang, Junwei Liu, Chao Zhang, Xiaoling Ma, Liyong Cui, Long Ye, Fujun Zhang, Bingqiang Cao, Yuguo Chen, Ziwu Ji, Feng Chen, Xiao-Tao Hao, Gang Li, Hang Yin Semitransparent photovoltaic (ST-PV) devices transmitting enough light and generating electricity are one of the research frontiers in emerging PV systems involving organic, perovskite, quantum dot and dye-sensitized solar cells in... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
A few days before they left Skylab on Feb. 8, 1974, the final crew to occupy the station raised its altitude, hoping to keep it in orbit until a future space shuttle could revisit it. But higher than predicted solar activity caused the Earth’s atmosphere to expand, increasing drag on the large vehicle, causing its […]
Open access notables Antarctic Bottom Water Warming, Freshening, and Contraction in the Eastern Bellingshausen Basin , Johnson et al., Geophysical Research Letters Cold winds blowing over polynyas (areas of ice-free water) on the Antarctic continental shelf create sea ice, forming very cold and somewhat salty, hence very dense, waters. These dense shelf waters descend the continental slope to the abyss, mixing with adjacent waters to form Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW). AABW spreads northward from there, filling much of the global abyssal ocean as it mixes with warmer, lighter waters above. AABW has been warming on pressure surfaces, freshening and cooling on density surfaces, and reducing in volume (contracting). These changes are likely a result of melting Antarctic...
Thousands of hospitals are at risk of shutting down due to an extreme weather event. Experts say it’s time to adapt. The post Climate change is coming for hospitals appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01547A, Paper Tianyu Huang, Fan Xu, Jiangbin Hu, Jiang Wu, Shunde Li, Peng Chen, Xiaohan Jia, qiuyang Li, Haoming Yan, Yongqiang Ji, Deying Luo, dengke wang, Juntao Hu, Hao-Hsin Chen, zhangyuchang lu, hongyu Xu, Lei Li, Rui Sha, Qixuan Zhong, Xinyu Bai, M. Ibrahim Dar, Tinglu Song, Zikun Li, Xiaoyu Yang, Lichen Zhao, Zhenghong Lu, Qihuang Gong, Rui Zhu Wide-bandgap (WBG) perovskite solar cells (PSCs) attract intensive attention because of their high tandem compatibility and versatile application scenarios. However, severe interfacial non-radiative recombination of mixed-ion WBG perovskite films was... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
The Canadian government is likely overlooking an important source of climate pollution. Surface casing vent flow and gas migration (types of underground leakage from oil and gas wells) has the potential to leak a lot of methane, but according to new research, neither governments nor companies know how much. Canada has made a pledge to […] The post New research uncovers a climate blindspot for Canada’s oil and gas industry appeared first on Energy Exchange .
Troopers say Pamela Waaser, 67, died June 24 in an accidental drowning after she fell into the river near Denali National Park.
Adding crushed basalt rocks and special fertilisers to soils could cut nitrous oxide emissions without harming the ozone layer, but these strategies will cost billions
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00282B, Paper Xin Jin, Mengfan Pei, Dongming Liu, Zihui Song, Wanyuan Jiang, Runyue Mao, Borui Li, Xigao Jian, Fangyuan Hu The sluggish kinetics limits the practical application of sodium-ion batteries (SIBs), the innovative strategy and design of materials with fast reaction kinetics are important for SIBs. To solve the issues,... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Changes in sea level and glacial melt could make earthquakes more likely in the coming years.
U.S. Court of Appeals Denies Attempt by Industry, Allied States to Block Oil and Gas Methane Protections
Many locals don’t have AC, so heat waves can be deadly. The post Seattle summers are no longer reliably mild appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Parts of the park near its entrance, including the Riley Creek Campground and Horseshoe Lake Trail, will remain closed as crews fight the Riley Fire.
Every month has broken the temperature record of the previous for the past 12 months, and the signs of climate breakdown are already here, a new analysis shows.
A 2017 satellite photo captured three hurricanes — Katia, Irma and Jose — in a near-perfect line across "hurricane alley" in the Atlantic Ocean. Interestingly, the storms, which are named alphabetically, appeared to be in the wrong order.
What happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic, and a new NASA mission is helping improve data modeling and increasing our understanding of Earth’s rapidly changing climate. Changing ice, ocean, and atmospheric conditions in the northernmost part of Earth have a large impact on the entire planet. That’s because the Arctic region acts […]
Firefighters are battling a 'monster' wildfire in the evacuated town of Jasper and Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada.
Lake Kivu, one of the African Great Lakes, sits along a tectonic plate boundary called the East African Rift, which is dotted with hot springs that feed carbon dioxide and methane into the water.
This blog was co-authored by Lulu August, State Climate Policy Intern This month marks five years since New York State’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) was signed into law. At the time of its enactment in 2019, the groundbreaking climate law set New York apart as a national and global climate leader. Indeed, […] The post Five years into New York’s climate law, the state needs a bold cap-and-invest program to bring emissions goals into reach appeared first on Climate 411 .
An element of a NASA-funded commercial space station, Orbital Reef, under development by Blue Origin and Sierra Space, recently completed a full-scale ultimate burst pressure test as part of the agency’s efforts for new destinations in low Earth orbit. This milestone is part of a NASA Space Act Agreement awarded to Blue Origin in 2021. […]
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02119C, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Runxia Cai, Kunran Yang, Xijun Wang, Mahe Rukh, Azin Saberi Bosari, Eric Giavedoni, Alexandra Pierce, Leo Brody, Wentao Tang, Phillip R Westmoreland, Fanxing Li Sorption-enhanced reforming and gasification (SERG) offers a promising approach to intensify hydrogen production from carbonaceous feedstocks. However, conventional sorbents require substantial temperature increases for the endothermic CO2 release step and... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Air pollution causes premature death and disease and disproportionately harms non-white and lower-income groups in the United States. Government policies are responsible for the racial disparity in air pollution exposure and related health outcomes. ...
EDF Heads to Court to Defend EPA Action to Identify Climate Pollution, Including Methane from Landfills
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Jeff Masters and Bob Henson Those who’ve trawled social media during heat waves have likely encountered a tidbit frequently used to brush aside human-caused climate change : Many U.S. states and cities had their single hottest temperature on record during the 1930s, setting incredible heat marks that still stand today. The critical context that’s typically left out is that the 1930s were the decade of the Dust Bowl — the grim result of relentless overplowing of the Great Plains followed by natural oceanic cycles that favored a multiyear drought, which coincided with the Great Depression. It’s a U.S. disaster almost a century old, one that draws little attention today and whose...
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Volume 129, Issue 7, July 2024.
Efficient solar panels have helped make solar power the cheapest form of energy on the planet, and new designs based on space-age technology are going further
As commercial fleets grow, concerns raised about ozone-destroying effects of metal particles
What we’re looking at This global map shows concentrations of carbon dioxide as the gas moved through Earth’s atmosphere from January through March 2020, driven by wind patterns and atmospheric circulation. Because of the model’s high resolution, you can zoom in and see carbon dioxide emissions rising from power plants, fires, and cities, then spreading […]
New photos show a young giraffe with an extremely deformed neck in Kruger National Park. The animal may have survived a broken neck or could have a severe case of an illness that also affects humans.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01936A, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Jinglin Jiang, Jorge Ontaneda, Subhajit Pal, Zhenyu Guo, Chloe Forrester, Kaitian Zheng, Mengnan Wang, Joe Briscoe, Maria-Magdalena Titirici, Heather Au Lithium sulfur (Li-S) batteries are a promising technology due to their high energy density and low cost. However, the polysulfide shuttle effect remains a significant cause of degradation in Li-S... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
A 2020 satellite photo shows "blackwater" flowing from South Carolina's Winyah Bay after Hurricane Sally made landfall and triggered flash flooding.
When it comes to discoveries about our upper atmosphere, it pays to know your surroundings. Using data from the Twin Rockets to Investigate Cusp Electrodynamics (TRICE-2) rocket launch, NASA scientist Francesca Di Mare and Gregory Howes from the University of Iowa studied waves traveling down Earth’s magnetic field lines into the polar atmosphere. These waves […]
A weather and climate model that fuses artificial intelligence and physics simulations can match state-of-the-art performance while slashing the required computer power, say Google researchers
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections Global society may have finally slammed on the brakes for climate-warming pollution released by human fossil fuel combustion. According to the Carbon Monitor Project , the total global climate pollution released between February and May 2024 declined slightly from the amount released during the same period in 2023. Many experts believe that the clean energy transition has reached the point where emissions will stabilize and then begin to decline. The critical milestone of peak climate pollution might be happening right now. And it’s happening none too soon. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported in early June that “carbon is accumulating in the atmosphere faster than ever —...
Solar developer BrightNight is set to transform the Starfire coal mine into an 800-megawatt solar farm, bringing renewable energy and jobs to southern Appalachia. The post Massive solar farm planned for coal mine site in eastern Kentucky appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE02356K, Paper Donglian Wen, Jie Zhao, Yang You, Liang Huang, Haoheng Zhu, Chuanghui Zhang, Donglei Bu, Shaoming Huang Photocatalytic CO2 reduction to formate suffers from poor productivity, selectivity, stability and recyclability. To conquer these drawbacks, a new facile strategy has been utilized to create regenerative in situ formed... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Equitable urban design can help these major population centers respond to and mitigate climate change The post Books for adapting cities to climate change appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01793E, Paper Xingxing Wang, Ziyu Song, Hao Wu, Jiayi Chen, Wenfang Feng, Michel Armand, Zhi-Bin Zhou, Heng Zhang Among existing electrochemical energy storage technologies, lithium carbon fluoride (Li°||CFx) batteries have captured enormous attention owing to their surprisingly high energy density and low self-discharge rate. The features of nonaqueous... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Climate researcher Brian Brettschneider says the rain has “certainly, quite literally put a damper” on wildfire concerns.
Open access notables Improving global temperature datasets to better account for non-uniform warming , Calvert, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society: To better account for spatial non-uniform trends in warming, a new GITD [global instrumental temperature dataset] was created that used maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) to combine the land surface air temperature (LSAT) anomalies of non-infilled HadCRUT5 with the sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies of HadSST4. This GITD better accounts for non-uniform trends in warming in two ways. Firstly, the underlying warming trends in the model are allowed to vary spatially and by the time of year. Secondly, climatological differences between open-sea and sea ice regions are used to better account...
In the first 23 weeks of 2024, Brazil surpassed 6 million cases of dengue (1), a viral disease transmitted by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes (2). Dengue is a cyclical disease with seasonal variations, and outbreaks occur every year during the rainy periods (3, 4); however, the previous record infection rate was 1.7 million cases throughout all of 2015 (2). Despite ongoing mitigation efforts, Brazil faces challenges such as the resistance of the A. aegypti mosquito to insecticides (5), climate changes that favor the proliferation of the vector (3, 4), and a failure to eliminate breeding sites (6). Other countries in South America are facing similar infection rates and challenges (4, 7–9). This outbreak burdens Brazil’s public health system, and the resulting workplace absences have placed a substantial...
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01325E, Review Article Shiya You, Jiewen Xiao, Shuyu Liang, Wenfu Xie, Tianyu Zhang, Min Li, Ziyi Zhong, Qiang Wang, Hong He Electrocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction (CO2RR) is a promising technology that uses renewable energy sources to convert excess atmospheric CO2 into high-value multi-carbon (C2+) products. In the CO2RR mechanism, adsorbed *CO... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Governments must step up if we are to make good on Thermal Energy Storage's promise as a cheap and easy way to help tackle wind and solar power's intermittency problem
New studies, which utilized AI to monitor the effects of climate change on Earth's spin, have shown that our days are getting increasingly longer and that our planet will get more wobbly in the future. These changes could have major implications for humanity's future.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01993H, Paper Huan Xia, Wei Zhang, Chunyang Miao, Hao Chen, Chengjie Yi, Yihan Shang, Tao Shui, Xin Cao, Jiacheng Liu, Song-Zhu Kure-Chu, Feifei Liang, Nosipho Moloto, Yipeng Xiong, Takehiko Hihara, Wei Bing Lu, Zhengming Sun Hydrogel electrolytes are the ideal platform to construct flexible zinc-ion batteries. However, they usually require immersion in salt solutions to the swollen state for high ion transportation, resulting in a... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
The $86,000 fine, issued Friday, is the fourth levied against Alaska's second-largest North Slope oil and gas producer this year.
Alaska’s Bering Strait was hit by an unprecedented bloom of toxic organisms, which cause paralytic shellfish poisoning, in 2022
Clean technology like solar panels, wind turbines, heat pumps, and electric vehicles are helping the world clean up its act. The post A major milestone: Global climate pollution may have just peaked appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
None of the nine people on board the K2 Aviation plane were injured in Friday's Tokositna Glacier landing, with helicopters flying them to Talkeetna.
On July 11 my InBox contained this contribution from a New York Times (subscription) service, a thoughtful piece by David Gelles entitled A.I.’s insatiable appetite for energy. He cited an interview that he and other reporters had held some weeks … Continue reading → The post AI impact on global energy demand. Further incentive to think like the Wright brothers. first appeared on Living on the Real World.
As climate change drives more frequent and severe weather events, the need for accurate and timely forecasting has never been more critical. And now, the next Meteosat Third Generation weather satellite has passed its environmental test campaign with flying colours, taking it a significant step closer to launch.
A listing of 34 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, July 7, 2024 thru Sat, July 13, 2024. Story of the week It's still early summer in the Northern Hemisphere. The season comes as our first year of 1.5 ° C warming of Earth's land surface is recorded and ocean temperature remains at historical highs, leaving our atmosphere loaded with heat and moisture crammed in by our changing our climate. So, it shouldn't come as a surprise that summer 2024 is off to a roaring start, setting numerous new records of various unattractive kinds. Thus our Story of the Week is how only a little warming leads to notably worse and more frequent extreme weather— exemplified by some 1/3rd of this week's collection of news items...
Call to study glacial geoengineering stirs up “civil war” among polar scientists
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01436G, Paper Minkwan Kim, Jiwoo An, Seung-Jae Shin, Insu Hwang, Jimin Lee, Youngbin Park, Jinyoung Kim, Eunseok Park, Jisub Kim, Gyuleen Park, Sujin Kim, Ali Coskun, Jang Wook Choi Localized high-concentration electrolytes (LHCEs) have been proposed for lithium metal batteries (LMBs) to control the solvation structure of the lithium ion and consequently the solid-electrolyte-interphase (SEI) composition. Although this approach... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Thick sea ice is flowing into the Northwest Passage, complicating predictions that melting ice due to climate change will open a shorter route between oceans
The challenge is clear: if tropical deforestation were a country, it would rank fourth, only behind China, the US, and India in emissions. However, the solution is even clearer: these same forests can provide 23% of the cost-effective climate mitigation needed before 2030, if the right economic incentives are in place.[1] Despite numerous pledges, forest […] The post Navigating Jurisdictional REDD+: A Pricing Guide for Tropical Forest Nations appeared first on Climate 411 .
In a warmer world, every El Niño could look like today's most extreme events.
This week the House marked up five funding bills that would dramatically cut funding for federal agencies that protect our air and water and are tasked with reducing the pollution impacting our health, our climate and the severity and frequency of extreme weather, like Hurricane Beryl. House Republicans’ funding bills propose slashing EPA funding to 1998 levels, Department of Energy clean energy programs by 43% and NOAA funding by 11%, and collectively include over 50 harmful environmental provisions that do not belong in funding bills.
These spindly plants provide vital habitat for marine life, reduce coastal erosion, and absorb carbon pollution. The post Eelgrass makes a comeback along the Virginia coast appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Italian firm Energy Dome is building a "CO2 battery" in Sardinia that will store excess power from renewables and release it back to the grid when needed
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 10 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02028-9Projections of the future climate of small island states and territories are currently limited by the coarse resolution of models. We call for rapid global and regional cooperation to develop projections compatible with small island scales, providing relevant local information and decision-making tools.
Yale Climate Connections meteorologist Bob Henson talked heat records, Hurricane Beryl, and even the Dust Bowl with Brian Lehrer on WNYC this morning. The post Our own Bob Henson on the Brian Lehrer show appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
US start-up Savor says its synthetic vegan fat, made without livestock or the crops needed for margarine, could cut carbon emissions and save rainforests
The James Webb Space Telescope revealed that the hot Jupiter exoplanet HD 189733 b, located just 64 light-years from Earth, has an atmosphere full of hydrogen sulfide, meaning it likely smells of rotten eggs.
Arriving at minimal hurricane strength, Beryl maximized its impact on the Houston area with millions of power outages. The post Houston area slammed by Beryl’s winds and water appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
The impacts from climate change will continue to escalate in the years ahead, and a growing number of scientists, philanthropies and companies have become interested in strategies to lower global temperatures more quickly. One of the options is reflecting some sunlight back into space. Because the consequences of Solar Radiation Modification (SRM), as it’s called, […] The post Why it’s time to explore the potential impacts of Solar Radiation Modification appeared first on Climate 411 .
Charging drivers to enter parts of Manhattan would have implications far beyond the five boroughs. The post Here’s what canceling congestion pricing in New York City means for climate change appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.