Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE06001J, Paper Xiaofeng Cui, Limin Liu, Xinyang Li, Na Gao, Jie Feng, Dandan Yin, Lanya Zhao, Hetong Qi, Xiangyang Li, Hongyang Zhao, Chunhui Xiao, Shujiang Ding, Wei Yu Aqueous zinc-ion batteries are promising for grid-scale energy storage due to inherent safety and low cost. However, their practical application under high current densities is severely limited by the hydrogen... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 130, Issue 23, 16 December 2025.
A rare tropical cyclone dropped torrential rains on the Indonesian island, fueling extensive and destructive floods.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE06160A, Paper Zhiheng Shi, Guigui Liu, Haolong Huang, Ziyuan He, Chuanping Lei, Fubin Zheng, Minghui Ye, Yufei Zhang, Zhipeng Wen, Wencheng Du, Xiaoqing Liu, Yue Wei, Qi Yang, Yongchao Tang, Cheng Chao Li Dual-deposition aqueous Zn||I2 batteries, via reversible Zn plating/stripping and four-electron (4e-) iodine redox, represent promising high-energy systems. However, their practical application is hindered by low areal capacity and limited cycle... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Open access notables Bedrock uplift reduces Antarctic sea-level contribution over next centuries , van Calcar et al., Nature Communications The contribution of the Antarctic Ice Sheet to barystatic sea-level rise could be as high as eight metres around 2300 but remains deeply uncertain. Ice sheet retreat causes bedrock uplift, which can exert a stabilising effect on the grounding line. Yet, sea-level projections exclude bedrock adjustment, use simplified Earth structures or omit the uncertainty in climate response and Earth structure. We show that the grounding line retreat is delayed by 50 to 130 years and the barystatic sea-level contribution reduced by 9–23% when the heterogeneity of the solid Earth is included in a coupled ice – bedrock model under...
'The more we learned, the more afraid we were.' The post The EPA let companies estimate their own pollution levels. We discovered real emissions are far worse. appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE05198C, Review Article Ke-Feng Ren, Zhong-Yu Li, Xin Shen, Cong Guo, Weizhai Bao, Feng Yu, Ebrahim Nemati-Kande, Long Kong, He Liu, Xin-Bing Cheng, Jingfa Li Solvation structure of electrolytes can decide the movement of ions and regulate interfacial chemistries in rechargeable batteries. A variety of novel solvation structures are reported with the rapid evolution of... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D5EE03477A, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Shijie Wei, Arnold Tukker, Bernhard Steubing We systematically assess the climate change mitigation potential of hydrogen-based fuels in global container shipping at the fleet level from 2020 to 2050. 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
New James Webb telescope observations of the 'super-puff' planet WASP-107b show that the exoplanet's runaway atmosphere is frantically escaping into space.
Advocates are working to ensure that world leaders don’t ignore people displaced by climate change. The post Millions have fled weather disasters, but they had few champions at COP30 appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE05170C, Paper Tengxiu Tu, Xinyuan Zhang, Yijin Wu, Zhixian Mao, Jifang Zhang, Jiapeng Ji, Lei Xing, Jian Kang, Shan Chen, Porun Liu, Haimin Zhang, Huajie Yin, Huijun Zhao Electrochemical carbon capture offers a sustainable route to mitigate CO2 emissions, but practical deployment is often limited by modest capture rates and system complexity. Here we report a saline-water electrolysis... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Volume 130, Issue 12, December 2025.
Over the past 250 million years, periods when coral reef growth has peaked have coincided with big rises in sea temperatures
Extraordinarily, three of 2025’s 13 named storms (23%) reached Category 5 strength: Erin, Humberto, and Melissa. The post A Cat 4 and 5 extravaganza: A look back at the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Nature, Published online: 01 December 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03879-8A study of the effects of COVID-19 policies highlights the underexplored impacts of commercial cooking on air quality.
A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, November 23, 2025 thru Sat, November 29, 2025. Stories we promoted this week, by category: International Climate Conferences and Agreements (8 articles) Bad COP Personal Blog, Michael E. Mann, Nov. 22, 2025. COP30: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Belém A voluntary plan to curb fossil fuels, a goal to triple adaptation finance and new efforts to “strengthen” climate targets have been launched at the COP30 climate summit in Brazil. Carbon Brief, Carbon Brief Staff, Nov 23, 2025. UN warns world losing climate battle but fragile Cop30 deal keeps up the fight Reaching agreement in divisive political landscape...
Video: 01:45:00 ESA’s first Scout mission, HydroGNSS, was launched on 28 November 2025, marking a significant step in advancing global understanding of water availability and the effects of climate change on Earth’s water cycle.The two twin HydroGNSS satellites were carried into orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, US.Embracing the New Space concept, HydroGNSS is one of ESA’s new Scout missions being developed within the Earth Observation FutureEO programme.
We found the psychological impetus people need to take action on climate change — realizing it will affect them and their way of life personally.
Logging and mining are destroying swathes of the Congo rainforest, with the result that African forests went from being a carbon sink to a carbon source in 2010 to 2017
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE04892C, Paper Wang Xu, Yongbiao Mu, Yaoyu Yin, Anjun Hu, Yuanjian Li, Jian Wang, Qi Liu, Jianping Long, Lin Zeng, Shimou Chen High-voltage lithium metal batteries (LMBs) face severe cathode-electrolyte interfacial degradation at elevated temperatures. To address this issue, we develop a conjugated topologically confined composite electrolytes (M-FGPE) by in situ incorporating... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE05379J, Paper Libin Zeng, Xinyue Wang, Dashuai Wang, Xianyun Peng, Zhibin Liu, Na Wu, Kexin Wang, Zhongjian Li, Bin Yang, Qinghua Zhang, Lecheng Lei, Paolo Samorì, Yang Hou Electrochemical conversion of methane (CH4) represents a sustainable route for converting greenhouse gases into valuable liquid fuels and chemicals. However, achieving high-yield products at industrially relevant current densities remains a... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Open access notables Observed large-scale and deep-reaching compound ocean state changes over the past 60 years , Tan et al., Nature Climate Change Multiple climate-related stressors affect the ocean, including warming, acidification, deoxygenation and variations in salinity, with profound effects on Earth system cycles, marine ecosystems and human well-being. Nevertheless, a global perspective on the combined impacts of these changes on both surface and subsurface ocean conditions remains unclear. Here, applying a time-of-emergence methodology to observed physical and biogeochemical variables, collectively referred to as compound climatic impact-drivers, we show individual and compound ocean state changes have become increasingly prominent globally over the past...
The European Space Agency has signed a letter of intent with Norway to advance the prospect of a new ESA Arctic Space Centre to be hosted in Tromsø.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D5EE04460J, Paper Carlos D. Rodríguez-Gallegos, Oktoviano Gandhi, Huixuan Sun, Shi An Ting, Even Hjetland, Avi Alcalay, Philippe Selve, Daniel Reinhardt, Michael Chochole, Thomas Reindl Global analysis reveals that offshore floating PV could meet the global electricity demand several times over, with extensive areas already suitable for cost-competitive deployment. 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
Launched just a little over three months ago, Copernicus Sentinel-5A has returned its first images – including a global map of ozone, maps of nitrogen dioxide over the Middle East and South Africa, formaldehyde over parts of Africa, and emissions of sulphur dioxide from an active volcano in Russia – showcasing the mission’s powerful capability to monitor atmospheric gases worldwide.
The SonTierra ensemble uses rhythms and melodies to start conversations about climate change. The post Songs for a fevered Earth appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE05181A, Review Article Min Xu, Hongmin Liu, Xinran Gao, Yitao Lou, Huakun Liu, Shi Xue Dou, Nana Wang, Zhongchao Bai All-solid-state lithium batteries (ASSLBs) offer exceptional energy density and safety, yet interfacial instability at both cathode and anode remains a major challenge. This review pioneers a unified, multiscale framework that... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE05191F, Paper Wen Zhou, Gaohong Liu, Yanbing Mo, Xiao Zhu, Kaiyue Zhu, Xiaoli Dong The slow desolvation process and the low ionic conductivity of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) pose significant challenges, severely limiting their performance in extreme environments. Herein, we propose a weakly-solvated electrolyte system... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
The ozone hole over the Antarctic was small in 2025 compared to previous years and remains on track to recover later this century. The hole this year was the fifth smallest since 1992, the year a landmark international agreement to phase out ozone-depleting chemicals began to take effect.
A clip from the upcoming series "Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age" shows how iconic ice age creatures adapted to their changing environment as temperatures rose and ice sheets started to melt.
Heavier precipitation, partially caused by climate change, is stressing our aging infrastructure. The post U.S. dams, levees, stormwater, and wastewater systems get D to D+ grades, need almost $1 trillion in upgrades appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
The 194 countries still taking part in UN climate negotiations reaffirmed the Paris Agreement following the US withdrawal, even if they agreed on little else
A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, November 16, 2025 thru Sat, November 22, 2025. Stories we promoted this week, by category: International Climate Conferences and Agreements (9 articles) Extreme Heat, Leaks and Security Issues Roil COP30 The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change raised multiple concerns about the makeshift venue in Belém. Inside Climate News, Bob Berwyn, Nov 18, 2025. Keeping promises on renewables, energy efficiency and methane `would avoid nearly 1C of global heating` Analysis published at Cop30 summit shows adhering to pledges offer world hope of avoiding climate breakdown The Guardian, Fiona Harvey and Jonathan Watts in Belém, Nov...
Methanotrophs, including those that capture methane from the air, seem to outcompete methanogens in dry environments, a new study shows.
The state was to get $400 million for solar energy in disadvantaged communities. The Trump administration took it all back. The post Known for its oil, Texas became a renewable energy leader. Now it’s being unplugged. appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
With China’s surge in renewable energy, greenhouse gases are reaching a turning point
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 changes in solar activity causing climate change? The rise in global temperatures over the past century cannot be explained by the small changes in the sun’s energy output. The sun varies slightly in brightness through several natural cycles, including an 11-year sunspot cycle, but these shifts are small and largely cancel out over decades. Satellite measurements show total solar irradiance actually drifted slightly downward since the late 1970s, which would have caused mild cooling, not rapid warming. Over longer timescales, research has found that solar changes account...
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 130, Issue 22, 28 November 2025.
A collaboration between the NASA Earth Science Education Collaborative (NESEC) and Earth to Sky (ETS) – an exciting, growing partnership between NASA, the National Park Service, and other federal, state, and local organizations – is facilitating the implementation of a simple, yet incredibly effective activity that will help millions of national park visitors connect with […]
Swarthmore is working to ditch fossil fuels by storing heat underground to warm and cool its campus. The post This college is turning the Earth into a giant battery appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Faculty Advisors: Tom Bell, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Graduate Mentor: Sarah Lang, University of Rhode Island Oceans Group Introduction Faculty Advisor Tom Bell and Graduate Mentor Sarah Lang Isabella Showman Detecting Coastal Sea Ice Extent and Freshet Event Timing in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska Using Sentinel-1 C-SAR Isabella Showman, University of Washington The detachment of coastal […]
The depths of the Arctic Ocean have warmed more than scientists expected. New research has placed the blame on warmer water from Greenland
An interview with the psychoanalyst at the center of the hit Showtime docuseries ‘Couples Therapy.’ The post Couples therapist Orna Guralnik thinks climate change is affecting your relationship appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE05519A, Perspective Anchun Tang, Minsi Li, Xueliang Sun, Weihan Li All-solid-state lithium metal batteries (ASSLMBs) are widely regarded as promising candidates for next-generation energy storage systems due to their high energy density and intrinsic safety. However, the full realization of... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
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 Climate change is here, today, and it's threatening our lives. Whether through the direct danger of extreme weather - from floods, to heatwaves, to wildfires - the dangers of diseases and new pandemics, or the harms from climate change's causes: whether that's toxic air or unhealthy diets. So let's take a look at all the ways climate change harms our lives, what we can do to protect ourselves, and what we have to gain by halting global warming. Support ClimateAdam on patreon: https://patreon.com/climateadam
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Volume 130, Issue 11, November 2025.
This is a re-post from The Climate Brink “Super pollutants” – short-lived climate pollutants like methane (CH4) and some refrigerants (halocarbons) – are having a moment. There were numerous sessions on the topic during the recent New York Climate Week, and a number of companies are exploring investments in reducing these emissions as part of their climate goals. Reducing emissions of short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) is, by itself, an unambiguously good thing. Methane in particular is responsible for around a third of all warming to-date from well-mixed greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and reductions in emissions can have a rapid cooling effect on the planet. It is when methane (or other SLCPs) are used to offset or neutralize CO2 emissions –...
Video: 00:02:09 Copernicus Sentinel-6B was launched on 17 November 2025, ready to continue a decades-long mission to track the height of the planet’s seas – a key measure of climate change. The satellite was carried into orbit on a Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, US.Sentinel-6B follows in the footsteps of its predecessor, Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, which was launched in 2020. The mission is the reference radar altimetry mission that continues the vital record of sea-surface height measurements until at least 2030.Copernicus Sentinel-6 has become the gold standard reference mission to monitor and record sea-level rise. The mission’s main instrument is the Poseidon-4 dual-frequency (C-band and Ku-band) radar altimeter. Developed by ESA, the altimeter...
Video: 00:01:45 Copernicus Sentinel-6B was launched on 17 November 2025, ready to continue a decades-long mission to track the height of the planet’s seas – a key measure of climate change. The satellite was carried into orbit on a Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, US.Sentinel-6B follows in the footsteps of its predecessor, Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, which was launched in 2020. The mission is the reference radar altimetry mission that continues the vital record of sea-surface height measurements until at least 2030.Copernicus Sentinel-6 has become the gold standard reference mission to monitor and record sea-level rise. The mission’s main instrument is the Poseidon-4 dual-frequency (C-band and Ku-band) radar altimeter. Developed by ESA, the altimeter...
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 17 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02509-5Author Correction: The carbon hoofprint of cities is shaped by geography and production in the livestock supply chain
Set to track sea levels across more than 90% of Earth’s ocean, the mission must first get into orbit. Here’s what to expect. Sentinel-6B, an ocean-tracking satellite jointly developed by NASA and ESA (European Space Agency), is ready to roll out to the launch pad, packed into the payload fairing of a SpaceX Falcon 9 […]
NASA will provide live coverage of prelaunch and launch activities for Sentinel-6B, an international mission delivering critical sea level and ocean data to protect coastal infrastructure, improve weather forecasting, and support commercial activities at sea. Launch is targeted at 12:21 a.m. EST, Monday, Nov. 17 (9:21 p.m. PST, Sunday, Nov. 16) aboard a SpaceX Falcon […]
They plug into a standard outlet, hang on the sill, and slash climate-warming pollution. The post New window-mounted heat pumps make ditching fossil fuels easier appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
A pair of NASA spacecraft ultimately destined for Mars will study how its magnetic environment is impacted by the Sun. The mission also will help the agency prepare for future human exploration of Mars. NASA’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) spacecraft launched at 3:55 p.m. EST, Thursday, aboard a Blue Origin New […]
Open access notables Robust increase in observed heat storage by the global subsurface , Cuesta-Valero et al., Science Advances Changes in heat storage within the different components of the climate system alter physical and biogeochemical phenomena relevant for human societies and ecosystems. Among such processes, permafrost thawing, soil carbon storage, and surface energy exchanges depend on the persistent heat gain by the continental subsurface. Nevertheless, there are not enough data to estimate ground heat storage at the global scale after the year 2000. We solve this problem by expanding the database of geothermal data with remote sensing observations from satellite platforms. Estimates from satellite data show a heat gain between 16.4 ± 3.4...
As the COP30 climate conference gets underway in Brazil, the world’s attention is once again drawn to the plight of the Amazon – the planet’s largest and most vital rainforest. With the European Space Agency’s Earth Explorer Biomass satellite now in orbit, ESA is helping Brazil prepare to transform this new mission’s groundbreaking data into actionable knowledge for protecting the rainforest and confronting climate change.
For decades, helium has been produced with natural gas, generating huge carbon emissions. Now, geologists are looking for new helium sources — and finding enormous "carbon-free" reservoirs that could revolutionize the industry.
An online tool helps businesses figure out how much climate change could increase what they pay for their employees’ health care. The post Climate change is boosting health care costs appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE04331J, Communication Guixiang Ding, Zhaoqiang Wang, Zihe Chen, Yin Xiao, Xin Liu, Li Shuai, Lihui Chen, Hongwei Huang, Guangfu Liao Achieving efficient photocatalytic carbon dioxide (CO2) reduction is pivotal for sustainable energy and carbon neutrality. However, a fundamental challenge resides in the rational design and fine-tuning of catalyst active sites.... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
NASA has selected two science instruments designed for astronauts to deploy on the surface of the Moon during the Artemis IV mission to the lunar south polar region. The instruments will improve our knowledge of the lunar environment to support NASA’s further exploration of the Moon and beyond to Mars. “The Apollo Era taught us that […]
When flying in certain weather conditions, tiny freezing water droplets floating in the air can pose a risk to aircraft. If not taken into consideration, these water droplets can accumulate on an aircraft as ice and pose a safety risk. But NASA software tools such as Glenn Icing Computational Environment (GlennICE) are working to keep […]
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE05927E, Paper Jiaqi Ni, Jing Yan, Ying Tao, Jie Ding, Auttaphon Chachvalvutikul, Ouardi Akdim, Lingyue Liu, Shanshan Huang, Weixu Wang, Hongli Sun, Haifeng Qi, Chenliang Su, Bin Liu The sustainable production of ammonia (NH3) via electrochemical nitrate reduction reaction (NO3-RR) presents a dual solution for environmental remediation and renewable energy storage. However, this process is hindered by the... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
True to its promise, the European Space Agency’s EarthCARE satellite is now being used to calculate directly how clouds and aerosols influence Earth’s energy balance – the all-important balance that regulates our climate. In doing so, EarthCARE is poised to sharpen the accuracy of climate models, the very tools that guide global climate policy and action.
This video includes personal musings and conclusions of the creators and climate scientists Dr. Adam Levy and Dr Ella Gilbert . It is presented to our readers as an informed perspective. Please see video description for references (if any). Video description Ten years ago today, world leaders met to agree a plan to finally solve climate change. This was COP21, which led to the historical Paris Climate Agreement. But did the Paris Agreement actually achieve anything? After all, ten years on, we're emitting more than ever. But lots has changed in all this time. So in this video ?@ClimateAdam? & ?@DrGilbz? sit down and discuss what Paris did and didn't achieve for our planet, and what we can expect from the future of climate change. Support ClimateAdam on patreon: https://patreon.com/climateadam...
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 the recent slowdown in Arctic sea-ice extent loss disprove human-caused warming? The recent pause in Arctic sea-ice loss is natural variability on top of a long-term, human-driven decline. Arctic sea ice naturally expands in winter and contracts in summer, but satellite records since the late 1970s show a steep multi-decade decline in the yearly minimum of sea ice. Short-term fluctuations such as changes in ocean currents and regional weather can temporarily slow or accelerate melt, but cannot reverse the overall downward trajectory. Although the record low minimum ice extent occurred...
Nature Energy, Published online: 02 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41560-025-01924-4Electrochemical CO2 reduction in acidic media offers a promising route for CO2 valorization but faces challenges owing to competing hydrogen evolution and sluggish C–C coupling. Here the authors demonstrate that surface-adsorbed iodide ions enhance performance on Cu-based catalysts, doubling ethylene selectivity and reducing overpotentials.
Rising sea levels and storm surges from hurricanes will bring more frequent extreme floods to northeastern U.S. states, including Connecticut, New York and New Jersey.
The transport sector faces challenges from a large variety of natural hazards including storms, flooding, and landslides many of which will pose increasing pressures as the climate changes.
When humans manage to cut enough emissions and eventually reduce global temperatures, new research shows the Southern Ocean could kick warming back into gear.
Which planet is the furthest from the sun? Some may think it’s Pluto, but it’s actually Neptune. Learn more about this ice giant and how it can help us understand more about planets in our Solar System.
The European Space Agency’s first Scout mission, HydroGNSS, was launched today, 28 November, marking a significant step in advancing global understanding of water availability and the effects of climate change on Earth’s water cycle.The two twin HydroGNSS satellites were carried into orbit at 19:44 CET aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, as part of the Transporter-15 rideshare flight from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Video: 00:02:27 ESA’s first Scout mission, HydroGNSS, was launched on 28 November 2025, marking a significant step in advancing global understanding of water availability and the effects of climate change on Earth’s water cycle.The two twin HydroGNSS satellites were carried into orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, US.Embracing the New Space concept, HydroGNSS is one of ESA’s new Scout missions being developed within the Earth Observation FutureEO programme.
Over nearly 70 years, they’ve documented atmospheric CO2 levels rising at Mauna Loa. The post Why scientists monitor carbon dioxide levels at a Hawaiian volcano appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE05453B, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Andreas Josef Bornschlegl, Attila Janos Mozer, Jessie Ann Posar, Jianchang Wu, Juan S. Rocha-Ortiz, Patrick Duchstein, Mauricio Caicedo Reina, Alejandro Ortiz, Braulio Insuasty, Dirk Zahn, Justin B. Davies, Marco Petasecca, Larry Lüer, Christoph J Brabec Molecular semiconductors have the potential to enable new possibilities in the fields of radiation detection and space applications, but they need to prove resilience against the ionizing radiation present in... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE04802H, Paper Wenyan Du, Qi Huang, Yaokang Lv, Ziyang Song, Lihua Gan, Mingxian Liu Organic p-type cathodes for Zn-organic batteries (ZOBs) have high-voltage (1.0-1.2 V), but face limited redox capacity (generally < 250 mAh g -1 ) due to low-density active sites. Here we... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
The domestic cat (Felis catus) descends from the African wildcat Felis lybica lybica. Its global distribution alongside humans testifies to its successful adaptation to anthropogenic environments. Uncertainty remains regarding whether domestic cats ...
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE06107E, Paper Long Pan, Kaining Cao, Mufan Cao, Min Gao, Yuan Zhang, Yang Zhou, Zhengming Sun Tellurium-based aqueous batteries (TeABs) promise high theoretical capacity but are constrained by sluggish Te 0 /Te 4+ conversion and rapid capacity fading. Here, we introduce a dilute electrolyte-heterostructure interlocking (DEHI) strategy that couples a... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
This is a re-post from The Climate Brink I still spend a decent amount of time engaging with folks who disagree with me on X (nee Twitter). One thing there has recently caught my eye is the integration of Grok, xAI’s large language model (LLM), into twitter engagements. Users can ask Grok questions and get answers, and in many cases (particularly for scientific questions) these answers are not necessarily what they are looking for: Grok is somewhat of an outlier in the LLM space as its developers have tried to manipulate its outputs to fit their ideological priors (with some unfortunate results ). But even Grok is surprisingly consistent at giving scientifically accurate answers to questions about topics like climate change, vaccines, evolution, GMOs...
The first high-resolution images have been received from Copernicus Sentinel-1D and were shared publicly for the first time at the European Space Agency’s Ministerial Council, held today in Bremen, Germany. Glaciers in Antarctica, the tip of South America, as well as the city of Bremen, are visible in these stunning radar images.
This video includes personal musings and conclusions of the creator Dave Borlace . It is presented to our readers as an informed perspective. Please see video description for references (if any). Video description There is a quiet revolution happening across the vast content of Africa. Imports of solar PV panels jumped 60% in the 12 months to June 2025. Millions of microgrids and individual solar installations are now driving the electrification of just about every African nation. But fossil fuels still dominate most existing utility scale grids. So, can the people of Africa by pass the centralised monopolies and drive their own renewable prosperity. Because if they can, they might just save all of us! Support Dave Borlace and his "Just have a Think" channel on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/justhaveathink
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D5EE04114G, Paper Qingping Yu, Rong Liu, Licheng Wei, Zhenying Zheng, Lifeng Zhang, Hu Yang, Qingyu Kong, Jihao Zhang, Zhiwei Hu, Qilei Song, Xiaoping Gao, Nanjun Chen, Xiaoqing Huang We present Ru–W nanoclusters integrated with W single atoms on a N-doped carbon substrate (RuW/W–NC) for AEMFCs, where RuW/W–NC with a Ru loading of 0.1 mg cm −2 achieves a high power density of 2.03 W cm −2 and can be run stably at 1 A cm −2 for 100 h. 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
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections of an article by Sanket Jain that just won a gold medal from the United Nations Correspondents Association With limited access to indoor cooling or study spaces, Kavya Waghmare often studies under trees. (Image credit: Sanket Jain) Every summer when extreme heat arrives in Dhakale, India, Pramila Waghmare notices her children’s grades drop, only to improve again when winter arrives. After three years of this pattern, she asked her neighbors and learned that heat waves seemed to be hurting the academic performance of at least 40 schoolchildren in her hamlet with a total population of less than 1,000. Schoolteachers told her that students in many nearby villages in Maharashtra state had similar problems, especially...
There are widespread concerns that deep-sea mining for metals will damage fragile ecosystems. But if mining ever goes ahead, hydrogen plasma could shrink the carbon footprint of smelting the metal ores
As the impact of global warming becomes more obvious, you might expect countries to step up climate action and preparation, but we’re seeing the opposite happen
From woolly mammoths to giant sloths, via some lesser-known ice-age beasts like 'killer koalas', the visuals in this documentary are simply astounding
After the Trump administration threatened countries with tariffs and visa restrictions, a first-ever global carbon tax is left to an uncertain future.
Spinning vortices of water trapped under the Thwaites glacier ice shelf account for 20 per cent of the ice melt. They’re expected to get worse as the world warms
The groundbreaking research offers evidence that specific fossil fuel giants drove economic losses for decades. The post This study could reshape climate lawsuits against fossil fuel companies appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Open access notables Observed changes in the temperature and height of the globally resolved lapserate tropopause , Ladstädter et al., Atmospheric Chemistry and Physic The tropopause is a key indicator of atmospheric climate change, influenced by both the troposphere and stratosphere. Here we present a global view of tropopause changes, using high-resolution GNSS radio occultation data from 2002 to 2024. We identify significant trends in lapse rate tropopause (LRT) temperature and height with seasonal and regional detail. The tropical LRT has warmed, with particularly strong warming ( >1 K per decade) over the South Pacific during austral spring and summer, while height changes remain largely insignificant. Outside the tropics, LRT temperature...
Bolivia’s new president, Rodrigo Paz Pereira, took office on 8 November 2025. He has promised to prioritize bridging regional, political, and social divisions to build a long-term vision for the country. This political transition is timely in that it also adds a new dimension to Bolivia’s position at the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP30), which takes place this week in Brazil (1).
Newly released emails show Epstein peddling climate denial myths to scientist Lawrence Krauss while Trump’s first term was getting underway. The post Jeffrey Epstein, climate change doubter appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
This is a re-post from The Climate Brink It's the COP time of the year: the 30th Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC. In addition to countless delegates trekking down to Brazil, this also means the release of a number of high-profile reports approximately timed to the COP to maximize their impact. This year we have three new analyses that explore how much warming might be in store for us under current policies in place today as well as if countries meet their near-term nationally determined contributions under the Paris Agreement and their long-term net zero targets. The new analyses include updates to the high profile annually re-occurring estimates from the UNEP Emissions Gap Report , the IEA’s World Energy Outlook , and Climate Action Tracker...
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE05206H, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Yuan Shang, Yingna Ding, Ravindra Kokate, Ashutosh Rana, Jeffrey E Dick, Xinyuan Wu, Bram Hoex, Mingyue Wang, Nana Wang, Qihui Zhang, Priyank Vijaya Kumar, Dipan Kundu Aqueous zinc-ion batteries promise a safe, inexpensive, and sustainable platform for stationary energy storage, but their reversibility remains limited by dendrite and corrosion-mediated failure of the zinc anode. While low-concentration... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE05317J, Paper Xiaosa Xu, Junjie Chen, Jin Li, Zhenyu Wang, Zixiao Guo, Pengzhu Lin, Yu Wang, Jing Sun, Baoling Huang, Tianshou Zhao Anode-free solid-state lithium metal batteries are promising for energy storage owing to their maximum energy density, safety, and cost-effectiveness. However, their practical application remains hindered by fragile electrode-electrolyte interfaces (EEI)... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Doing so would make a big difference to the climate. The post How satellites can help us find and clean up methane super-polluters appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
For decades, the Amazon rainforest has quietly absorbed vast quantities of human-generated carbon dioxide, helping to slow the pace of climate change. Recent evidence, however, suggests that this vital natural buffer may be weakening – though uncertainties remain.To help close this critical knowledge gap, European and Brazilian researchers have gathered deep in the Amazon to carry out an ambitious European Space Agency-funded field campaign.
The latest guardian of our oceans has taken its place in orbit. The Copernicus Sentinel-6B satellite is now circling Earth, ready to continue a decades-long mission to track the height of the planet’s seas – a key measure of climate change.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE04445F, Paper Cheng-Lin Miao, Lu Feng, Xiao-Xue Wang, De-Hui Guan, Xin-Yuan Yuan, Ji-Jing Xu Organic additives are effective in solving the intractable problems of aqueous zinc-metal batteries (AZMBs). However, the structure design principles and structure-activity relationship of the additives are still elusive. Herein, a... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, November 9, 2025 thru Sat, November 15, 2025. Stories we promoted this week, by category: International Climate Conferences and Agreements (11 articles) Landmark Paris Agreement set a path to slow warming. The world hasn't stayed on it The world has seen faster climate change than expected since the Paris Agreement a decade ago The Independent News, Seth Borenstein, Nov 09, 2025. Amid squabbles, bombast and competing interests, what can Cop30 achieve? Climate summit in Brazil needs to find way to stop global heating accelerating amid stark divisions The Guardian, Fiona Harvey, Nov 09, 2025. Climate conference's webpages emit 10 times more carbon...
Greenland’s melt is expected to slow the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, but research suggests a collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet could in some cases prevent it from shutting down
The COP30 Special report on health and climate change: delivering the Belém Health Action Plan, notes that rising temperatures and collapsing health systems are claiming more lives, and calls for immediate and coordinated action to protect health in a rapidly warming world. It follows the launch of the Belém Health Action Plan, a flagship initiative of Brazil’s COP 30 Presidency, unveiled on the dedicated Health Day of COP30 – 13 November 2025.
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 14 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02493-wAnthropogenic climate change is exacerbating soil moisture droughts globally, but most studies only consider surface layers. Now, a study reveals that global soil moisture droughts are often also found in deeper layers, and that in a warming climate deep soil moisture droughts are projected to become longer lasting and more severe.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE02120K, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Geoffrey A. Ozin, Abdelaziz Gouda, Nazir Kherani, Nhat Truong Nguyen, Juan Manuel Restrepo Florez, Mohini M. Sain, Camilo Viasus, Jessica Ye, Abhinav Mohan, Otavio Augusto Titton Dias, Vijay K Tomer, Andrew Wang, Tamlyn Slocombe, Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Jiabao Shen, Mohamad Hmadeh The transition to sustainable hydrogen production is critical to decarbonizing the global energy system and reducing reliance on carbon-intensive methods such as steam methane reforming (SMR). Methane pyrolysis has emerged... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
The adaptive potential of reef-building corals in a warming world
Global emissions from fossil fuels are expected to hit another record high in 2025, but China’s carbon emissions appear to be reaching a peak