A recent Department of Energy report falsely states that rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere will boost agricultural yields. In fact, climate change is much more likely to make food scarcer and more expensive. The post Fact-checking a Trump administration claim about climate change and crops appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Skeptical Science is partnering with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. You can submit claims you think need checking via the tipline . Does increasing CO 2 have a noticeable effect? The warming effect of increasing atmospheric CO 2 is well-established physics, confirmed by direct observation. Experiments in the 1800s by Fourier, Foote, and Tyndall demonstrated how CO 2 absorbs infrared radiation — the heat Earth emits back toward space — and re-radiates some downward, keeping the planet warmer. In 1896, Arrhenius calculated that doubling CO 2 would raise global temperatures by 5-6°C (9-10.8°F) . Modern estimates hover around 3°C (5.4°F), with an upper range near 4.5°C (8.1°F)...
Lorenzo's formation brings the Atlantic hurricane season to near-average in three out of four categories. The post Tropical Storm Lorenzo forms in the central tropical Atlantic appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Locals face a perfect storm — they can’t afford insurance and climate change threatens their livelihood. The post On Louisiana’s Gulf Coast, residents fume as insurers hike rates and invest in fossil fuel projects appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Record-breaking ocean temperatures have caused widespread bleaching and death among warm-water corals, which could have far-reaching consequences
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 130, Issue 20, 28 October 2025.
Rising levels of CO2 in the atmosphere may trigger a series of geological and biological processes that could ensure the next ice age arrives on time instead of being delayed, researchers say.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE03490F, Paper Xinmiao Wang, Simeng Zhang, Junyi Yue, Xingyu Wang, Yang Xu, Yue Gong, Liyu Zhou, Changtai Zhao, Jianwen Liang, Xiangzhen Zhu, Han Wu, Xiaolong Yan, Biwei Xiao, Meng Li, Chenxiang Li, Shuo Wang, Xueliang Sun, Xiaona Li As a key component of sodium-ion all-solid-state batteries (ASSBs) with promising high safety and energy density, solid-state electrolytes (SSEs) play a critical role in determining electrochemical performance. However, current synthesis... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Learn more about how the chikungunya virus spreads and what can be done to stop outbreaks.
China has committed to slash its greenhouse gas emissions by 7% to 10% by 2035 — but is this going to cut it? Tell us what you think.
The Coral Triangle is an extremely biodiverse patch of ocean around the Philippines and Papua New Guinea. Its relatively murky waters appear to shield it against climate change — for now.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D5EE01370D, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Geng Zou, Hewei Liu, Tianfu Liu, Shaobo Han, Zijian Tan, Shaowei Zhang, Yige Guo, Jingcheng Yu, Xiaomin Zhang, Fang Lu, Yuefeng Song, Guoxiong Wang, Xinhe Bao The CoO 6 octahedral distortion induced by A-site high-entropy engineering enhances lattice oxygen activity and boosts high-temperature oxygen evolution reaction performance in solid oxide electrolysis cells. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Volume 130, Issue 10, October 2025.
The European Space Agency’s upcoming FORUM mission is set to provide unique insights into Earth’s radiation budget, filling in a missing piece in the climate puzzle. The mission’s spectrometer will be the first space-based instrument to measure Earth’s outgoing radiation in the far-infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum with unprecedented resolution and accuracy. New technologies were needed to make this possible – among these an on-ground calibration device developed by the National Metrology Institute of Germany PTB within a recent activity funded by ESA’s General Support Technology Programme. This device is used to calibrate FORUM’s onboard reference source and ensures the accurate operation of the spectrometer.
For nearly three decades, the Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change has convened global leaders, policy-makers, and scientists—at considerable cost, including a hefty environmental footprint—to confront one of humanity’s greatest existential threats: climate change. Milestones achieved at prior COPs such as the Kyoto Protocol, the Paris Agreement, and the Glasgow Climate Pact provided optimism and guidance, yet rhetoric has often eclipsed action. Pledges and targets proliferate, and new frameworks may recycle old goals, weakening meaningful change. Meanwhile, challenges facing fundamental needs such as food production are mounting. Weather shocks, growing populations, loss of biodiversity, and conflicts combine to form a perfect storm that...
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D5EE05097A, Paper Young-Hoon Lee, Hee Jeong Park, Eunbin Park, Geumbi Na, Ji Hwan Kim, Se-Woong Baek, Seunghwan Bae, June Huh, Yung-Eun Sung, Seung-Ho Yu Incorporating provitamin B5 co-solvent for aqueous zinc-ion batteries facilitates the formation of a provitamin B5–Zn ion complex, which promotes uniform zinc deposition over extended distances and superior long-term cycling stability. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Learn how astronomers spotted 2025 TF, an asteroid that passed just 266 miles over Antarctica in early October 2025.
This is a re-post from The Climate Brink by Andrew Dessler In the last few weeks, I’ve often been asked, “What’s the most significant mistake in the DOE Climate Working Group Report?” While the report contains numerous issues, one in particular stands out for its far-reaching implications. I write about it in this post. A recent report from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Climate Working Group (DOE CWG) attempts to analyze and critique the findings from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In doing so, the DOE CWG Report makes several fundamental errors due to a misunderstanding of the peer-reviewed literature. One in particular stands out, as it leads the authors to incorrectly represent the established...
A nonprofit coalition is building a fleet of satellites to help firefighters and communities respond when disaster strikes. The post Satellite program aims to track every wildfire on Earth appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Arctic permafrost stores massive amounts of organic carbon in its frozen soils and deeper deposits. However, as the Arctic warms particularly rapidly, these deposits are thawing out. As a result, more and more greenhouse gases will be released into the atmosphere. There has been little research on where and how quickly permafrost thaws, as well as on the processes that cause the rapid thaw. PeTCaT (Rapid Permafrost Thaw Carbon Trajectories) is an international project that, above all, aims to increase our knowledge of these rapid thaw processes. Under the leadership of the Alfred Wegener Institute, researchers from Germany, the USA, Canada, the Netherlands, and Sweden plan to build a new dataset that will allow them to make projections about the possible developments and impacts of greenhouse...
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE03522H, Paper Xingxing Meng, Xiao Zhang, Litong Shi, Zhe Chen, Jiashen Meng, Feixiang Ding, Xiong Liu, Baokang Zhang, Qian Wang, Liqiang Mai, Chaojiang Niu Lithium metal batteries (LMBs) are expected to have significant advantages under extreme low-temperature conditions (i.e., −40°C), mainly due to the much short ion transport pathway and deposition/stripping mechanism of Li... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Jerry is predicted to be a Cat 1 hurricane when it makes its closest approach to the northern Leeward Islands on Thursday night and Friday. The post Tropical Storm Jerry forms; a close pass by the Leeward Islands expected appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 130, Issue 19, 16 October 2025.
Skeptical Science is partnering with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. You can submit claims you think need checking via the tipline . Do errors in Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' disprove climate change? While Gore’s 2006 documentary proved incorrect about the extent and timeline of some predictions, it does not negate the reality, confirmed by decades of peer-reviewed evidence, that humans are warming the planet. One erroneous claim is that Kilimanjaro’s ice loss was driven mainly by warming. Research now indicates sublimation and local dryness as dominant causes. Another is that sea levels could rise by 20 feet in the near future as ice sheets face imminent collapse – outcomes scientists expect...
Praised as “the strongest polar ship of its time,” the Endurance revealed major structural flaws that may explain why it never reached its final destination.
This video includes personal musings and conclusions of the creator climate scientist Dr. Adam Levy . It is presented to our readers as an informed perspective. Please see video description for references (if any). Adam Levy breaks down the latest Trump speech, sifting through the wide-ranging climate change misinformation it contains. On September 23rd 2025, President Donald Trump took to the United Nations. Instead of calling for harmony and co-operation, his one hour speech fixated on migration and climate change. This might just be the first time a president of the USA has spent so much time talking about climate... but the speech wasn't a call to action. It was dismissal and denial of everything from basic science to renewable technologies. So what's the truth behind Trump's claims?...
A listing of 25 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, September 28, 2025 thru Sat, October 4, 2025. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Change Impacts “This Heat Killed Six Football Fields Of Ice”: Swedish Glaciers Gone In One Summer While Earth’s Temperature Breaks All Records "The unprecedented disappearance of eight glaciers in Sweden's Kebnekaise mountain range highlights the urgent and tangible impacts of global warming, prompting renewed calls for international action to combat climate change." Climate, The Sustainability-, Rosemary Potter, Sep 26, 2025. Giant trees of the Amazon get taller as forests fatten up on carbon dioxide We're not seeing signs of them dying...
In the Atlantic, we're watching a tropical wave that emerged from the coast of Africa on October 3 that might develop in about a week as it approaches the Lesser Antilles Islands. The post Climate change behind 36% of damage inflicted by Typhoon Ragasa in China appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
The number of deaths from exposure to wildfire smoke in the U.S. could rise by more than 70% in the next 25 years. The human and economic costs involved would be astronomical, researchers say.
Scientists are beginning to understand the sudden loss of sea ice in Antarctica – and there is growing evidence that it represents a permanent shift with potentially catastrophic consequences
A Met Office Amber warning for wind has been issued as Storm Amy will bring very strong winds and heavy rain for many in the north of the UK in the coming days.
Upwelling generates a nutrient-rich “cold tongue” in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean (EEP), with impacts on global climate, oceanic biological productivity, and the carbon cycle. The cold tongue was reduced during the Pliocene Epoch, a feature ...
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE05118E, Paper Hongbo Wu, Gongxun Lu, Chang Dong, Tao Yang, Zeyang Sun, Zhijin Ju, Chengbin Jin, Ouwei Sheng, Dexin Yang, Tianyu Shen, Haojie Ji, Jian Zhang, Guangmin Zhou, Xuefeng Zhang Aqueous Zn-ion batteries (AZIBs) hold promise for grid-scale storage due to their intrinsic safety and low cost, yet face critical irreversible anode degradation from dendritic proliferation and parasitic reactions. Here,... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
New research finds the disappearance of glaciers in the Sierra Nevada will be unprecedented in the human history of North America.
This is a re-post from The Climate Brink by Kevin Trenberth A new analysis issued by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) found that the evidence linking rising greenhouse gas emissions to negative human health outcomes is “beyond scientific dispute.” Climate change is real and it has already resulted in major damage. The main cause is increasing atmospheric greenhouse gases of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide, all from human activities. Because carbon dioxide has a very long lifetime (hundreds to thousands of years), it is cumulative emissions that matter and the U.S. is the biggest contributor (although China, with a population 4x bigger than the U.S., has been a bigger annual contributor for the last two decades)...
Learn more about how researchers track water movement through a technique called fingerprinting at Yellowstone National Park.
New observations suggest that the dwarf planet Makemake is surrounded by faintly glowing methane gas. Scientists are unsure if the gas is contained within a wispy atmosphere or being ejected into space.
Heat waves and droughts seem to be pushing more amphibians toward extinction. The post Many amphibians may be imperiled by climate change, study finds appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Forecasters expect Hurricane Humberto to pull Tropical Storm Imelda away from landfall and into a Fujiwhara dance, but the East Coast is still set to experience heavy rains and life-threatening rip currents.
This is a re-post from The Climate Brink I have a new guest essay in the New York Times with David Keith that builds off my earlier Climate Brink post The Geoengineering Question . Below I’ve included some more detailed thoughts that couldn’t make it into the published piece given the word limit constraints. We are already geoengineering the planet today, but badly. Humans are cooling the climate today by emitting 75 million metric tons of sulfur dioxide into the lower atmosphere, almost entirely as a byproduct of burning fossil fuels. This cooling offsets about 0.5C of warming that would have otherwise occurred from CO2 and other greenhouse gases, but it comes at the cost of millions of premature deaths per year caused by the sulfate aerosols...
The five winners of the Climate Cardinals-Yale Climate Connections youth essay contest share their ideas for addressing the global crisis. The post The climate needs a chorus’: Teenagers from around the world speak up appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
A pair of side-by-side tropical cyclones is roiling the Northwest Atlantic this weekend. After rocketing from tropical storm to Category 4 strength on Friday, Hurricane Humberto – safetly out to sea from North America’s perspective – could hit Cat 5 strength before Sunday, pushing big surf from the U.S. East Coast to Bermuda. Meanwhile, newborn Tropical […] The post Humberto hits Category 4, while The Bahamas and Southeast U.S. prep for the next storm appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
When you think about national park and public land astronomy programs, you might picture remote locations far from city lights. But a recent NASA Earth to Sky training, funded by NASA’s Science Activation Program, challenges that assumption, demonstrating how urban parks, wildlife refuges, museums, and green spaces can be incredible venues for connecting communities with […]
Invest 94L will likely become a tropical storm over the Bahamas this weekend, and it might reach the Southeast U.S. as a hurricane by Monday, but the uncertainty is high. The post As Humberto rages, another fast-evolving system bears a close watch appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Climate change may lead to less frequent but bigger and more devastating hail storms, new research has shown.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE02930A, Perspective Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Gan Huang, Ewan Gage, Boris Breiner, Monica Saavedra, Dmitry Busko, Norbert J Janowicz, Dominic S. Wright, Bryce S Richards Greenhouses enable crop production in challenging climates, ensuring food security through controlled environments. Sustainable development requires addressing the food-energy-water nexus while optimising four key factors – light, temperature, CO2 levels,... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Unusually warm waters are fueling a busy few days near the peak of hurricane season. The post Gabrielle heads for Azores while Humberto and 94L brew in NW Atlantic appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Rising carbon dioxide levels have boosted the growth of trees in the Amazon rainforest over the past few decades, but it is unclear if this trend will continue
It is almost impossible to make cement without emissions, but carbon-capture-and-storage technology is finally being deployed to decarbonise the sector
This is a re-post from The Climate Brink by Andrew Dessler Let’s run a thought experiment. Imagine that you’re the Secretary of Energy. But you’re not just any public servant. You're a former fossil fuel executive, and you’re cartoonishly, mustache-twirlingly evil. Your singular goal is to keep America hooked on fossil fuels — a dirty, expensive product that enriches you personally — by slowing as much as possible the deployment of clean, cheap renewable energy that benefits everyone else . One of the main obstacles to your plan is the EPA’s “endangerment finding,” the EPA’s judgment that greenhouse gases threaten public health and welfare. To push your agenda, you need to overturn it. And, to do...
As flooding gets more frequent and extreme, we've been directly affected. The post Flood insurance, extra dog food: How your editors are dealing with floods appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
From COVID-19 testing to replacing fossil fuels, Yellowstone’s ancient thermophiles play a key role in scientific advancement.
The hybrid bird is the product of two species whose habitat ranges began to overlap a few decades ago, potentially due to climate change, researchers said.
Skeptical Science is partnering with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. You can submit claims you think need checking via the tipline . Has the IPCC overestimated climate change impacts? The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change compiles the consensus of thousands of models, and many independent lines of research suggest its estimates were more conservative than what was subsequently observed. For example, sea-level rise predictions in earlier IPCC reports were later found to be too low compared to recently observed melting of ice sheets and thermal expansion. Studies show IPCC’s mid-range forecasts have been highly accurate, but reports often understate high-end risks. IPCC reports must be approved by nearly 200...
Can ice generate electricity? It’s not as far-fetched as you may think. Learn about the new research that “brings the vision of harnessing ice power one step closer to reality.”
Long-buried layers of saline permafrost seem to be accelerating climate change's transformation of the Arctic
We used to think that deforestation in the Amazon would dry out the local climate, but the effects may be even more extreme and varied
A listing of 23 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, September 14, 2025 thru Sat, September 20, 2025. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Policy and Politics Ani Dasgupta talked to 100 climate experts. He came away optimistic. In his new book, ‘The New Global Possible,’ Dasgupta shares what he learned from talking with dozens of climate luminaries and how that can reshape how we think about climate action. Interview, Yale Climate Connections, Michael Svoboda, Sep 9, 2025. Climate impacts are real — denying this is self-defeating The US administration is attempting to undermine efforts to curb greenhouse-gas emissions. It will ultimately leave that country, and the world...
A 2025 satellite photo shows a particularly complex section of the Yarlung Zangbo River as it twists its way through the Tibetan Plateau. This part of the "braided" waterway has experienced drastic visual changes over recent decades, which could soon be accentuated by climate change.
Learn more about these ancient microorganisms that have been buried in permafrost for 40,000 years, and how, as the climate warms, they may be releasing more greenhouse gases.
This is a re-post from The Climate Brink We focus a lot on global average temperatures, but this tends to mask the real local impacts that climate change is having. The land – where all of us live – is warming about 40% faster than the global average, and high latitude regions are warming even faster. One of the many ways to visualize this regional heat is to look at when all time high temperature records were set for each region of the world. Here I’m build upon a Carbon Brief analysis I published back in 2023 that looked at daily temperature data from ERA5 – a great resource, but one that unfortunately only extended back to 1950 at the time (and back to 1940 today). We know of at least some regional heat...
Researchers incubated permafrost samples from Alaska at different temperatures and found that microbes from the last ice age can reactivate and resume breaking down carbon.
A listing of 24 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, October 5, 2025 thru Sat, October 11, 2025. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Change Impacts (7 articles) Climate change behind 36% of damage inflicted by Typhoon Ragasa in China "In the Atlantic, we’re watching a tropical wave that emerged from the coast of Africa on October 3 that might develop in about a week as it approaches the Lesser Antilles Islands." Eye on the Storm, Yale Climate Connections, Jeff Masters, Oct 3, 2025. Most of the world has recently set all-time heat records Regional exceptions like the 1930s in the continental US notwithstanding The Climate Brink, Zeke Hausfather, Oct 06, 2025. Climate change...
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE04165A, Paper Wenqian Xing, Deyu Wang, Kai Feng, Shihao Ding, Xinle Zhang, Haolan Xu, Jiang Gong, Jinping Qu, Ran Niu The rising demand for lithium, essential for energy storage, has heightened the need for efficient extraction methods from salt-lake brines, as current techniques are inefficient and energy-intensive. Here we present... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Karen popped up at the same latitude as Minneapolis, while Jerry douses the Northern Leeward Islands, Priscilla threatens to drench the U.S. Southwest, and an unnamed storm slams the Mid-Atlantic coast. The post Karen becomes the Atlantic’s northernmost named storm on record appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
After damaging wildfires in LA, tornadoes and series of floods, the first six months of this year smashed multiple extreme weather records in the U.S., data show — and experts say this trend is likely to continue.
Trans advocate Jasmine McKenzie is building a lifeline for Black and trans Floridians who often can’t safely access disaster services from FEMA or religious organizations. The post When a hurricane hits, she shows up for those left behind appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Open access notables Climate-linked escalation of societally disastrous wildfires , Cunningham et al., Science Climate change and land mismanagement are creating increasingly fire-prone built and natural environments. However, despite worsening fire seasons, evidence is lacking globally for trends in socially and economically disastrous wildfires, partly due to sparse systematic records. Using a 44-year dataset (1980 to 2023) we analyze the distribution, trends, and climatic conditions connected with the most lethal and costly wildfires. Disastrous wildfires occurred globally over this period but were concentrated in the Mediterranean and temperate conifer biomes. Disaster risk was highest where highly energetic daily fire events intersected affluent, populated...
Despite public promises by many fossil fuel firms that they are investing in the green transition, it turns out that they have made little contribution to the growth of renewable energy
Driftwood plays a key role in Arctic coastal ecosystems: it stores carbon, stabilises coastlines and provides a habitat for animals. At the same time, it can offer clues regarding climate change in the Arctic region, providing information on the likes of storm surges, coastal erosion and shifting fluvial dynamics. Despite the crucial role it plays, there is still a lot that we do not know about the large-scale distribution patterns of driftwood. Now, for the first time, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute have systematically mapped driftwood deposits along an 11,000 kilometre stretch of coastline in Alaska and North West Canada, using satellite imagery and AI-powered evaluation methods. The result is the largest database ever produced, with researchers able to identify over 19,000...
The conspiracy theory that bad actors use "chemtrails" from aircraft to poison us sucks energy from legitimate protest against aviation's effects on the climate, says Graham Lawton
During recent storms, satellites recorded ocean waves averaging nearly 20 metres high – as tall as the Arc de Triomphe in Paris and the largest ever measured from space. Moreover, satellite data now reveal that ocean swells act as storm ‘messengers’: even though a storm may never make landfall, its swell can travel vast distances and bring destructive energy to distant coastlines.
A pioneering new space weather forecasting modelling suite will enable operational modelling of the upper atmosphere at the Met Office for the first time in a major breakthrough for UK atmospheric science.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D5EE02644J, Paper Song Kyu Kang, Minho Kim, Seochan Hong, Jae-Hong Lim, Gwan Hyeon Park, Junhyuk Ji, Jeongbin Cho, Hansol Bae, Won Bae Kim A magnetically tailored conversion strategy integrates ferromagnetic oxides with an external magnetic field to regulate Li + flux and homogenize nucleation barriers, thereby enabling dendrite-free Li deposition and enhancing energy density. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
For decades, forest, grasslands and other land ecosystems have collectively absorbed up to a third of the carbon dioxide we emit each year - but this climate buffer may be collapsing far sooner than anyone expected
Called ec³, the material is made by combining cement and water with a liquid electrolyte and carbon powder — both readily available.
Toro’s new cartoon collection was released on October 7. The post Tom Toro’s favorite Tom Toro cartoons about climate change appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Learn more about the Will-o’-the-Wisp and how this mysterious phenomenon, which has inspired faerie folklore, may actually be bursts of methane gas.
A new technique has been developed for capturing solar power through windows, which could dramatically improve solar energy utilization, particularly for high-rise buildings.
Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than previously thought — and may be a big reason that our planet harbors life.
An expert explains why some offsets don’t deliver real climate benefits and what must change to make them trustworthy. The post The flaws of carbon credits designed to protect forests – and how to fix them appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Open access notables The first emergence of unprecedented global water scarcity in the Anthropocene , Ravinandrasana & Franzke, Nature Communications Access to water is crucial for all aspects of life. Anthropogenic global warming is projected to disrupt the hydrological cycle, leading to water scarcity. However, the timing and hotspot regions of unprecedented water scarcity are unknown. Here, we estimate the Time of First Emergence (ToFE) of drought-driven water scarcity events, referred to as “Day Zero Drought” (DZD), which arises from hydrological compound extremes, including prolonged rainfall deficits, reduced river flow, and increasing water consumption. Using a probabilistic framework and a large ensemble of climate simulations, we attribute...
Misleading WhatsApp groups and political sound bites aren’t just nonsense – they’re putting Latino communities in danger during floods, fires, and storms. The post Inside the viral lies that spread climate confusion appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
The vital commercial artery depends on a supply of fresh water to move ships between the two oceans. Drought conditions that were once rare could become common by the end of the century, greatly impacting the canal’s operation.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D5EE03530A, Opinion John B. Waugh, Mikhail Redko, Xiuyu Jin, Gabriel Muldoon, Evgenii L. Kovrigin, Betar M. Gallant, Yuzhang Li, Gao Liu, John Muldoon Uncovering the truth of lithium polymer batteries. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Broadcaster and campaigner Chris Packham is on a mission to cut overconsumption, take on fossil fuel giants and create a fairer world
The hurricane is expected to pass over or very near Bermuda early Thursday morning as a Cat 2 storm. The post Bermuda braces for a pounding from strengthening Hurricane Imelda appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE01732G, Review Article Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Mijndert Van der Spek, André Bardow, Chad M. Baum, Vittoria Bolongaro, Vincent Dufour-Décieux, Carla Esch, Livia Fritz, Susana García, Christiane Hamann, Dianne Hondeborg, Ali Kiani, Sarah Lueck, Shrey Kalpeshkumar Patel, Shing Bo Peh, Maxwell Pisciotta, Peter Psarras, Tim Repke, Paola Alejandra Sáenz-Cavazos, Ingrid Schulte, David Yang Shu, Qingdian Shu, Benjamin Kenneth Sovacool, Jessica Strefler, Sara Vallejo Castaño, Jin-Yu Wang, Matthias Wessling, Jennifer Wilcox, John Young, Jan Christoph Minx Direct air CO2 capture and storage (DACCS) is a technology in an emerging portfolio for carbon...
Skeptical Science is partnering with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. You can submit claims you think need checking via the tipline . Are humans responsible for climate change? Our rapid burning of fossil fuels has caused a buildup of heat-trapping carbon dioxide gas in our atmosphere. Until we started burning fossil fuels, the CO 2 moving between the Earth’s atmosphere, oceans and land remained relatively steady for thousands of years. Fossil fuel burning took trapped carbon from the solid Earth, where it had been safely stored for millions of years, and injected it — as CO 2 — into our atmosphere. Humans have emitted more than one trillion metric tons of carbon dioxide since the Industrial Revolution...
Imelda is expected to turn sharply east-northeastward on Tuesday and threaten Bermuda as a Cat 2 hurricane on Wednesday. The post Tropical Storm Imelda drenches the Bahamas appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
A listing of 27 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, September 21, 2025 thru Sat, September 27, 2025. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Change Impacts (7 articles) Tens of thousands more people will die from wildfires in US over next 25 years, researchers say "Western states will be most impacted overall, with the largest number of projected deaths in California" Cilmate, The independent, Julia Musto, Sep 19, 2025. Hurricane Gabrielle makes a run for the Azores "A hurricane watch is up, while two other Atlantic systems percolate, and far south China braces for Typhoon Ragasa." Eye on the Storm, Yale Climate Connections, Bob Henson, Sep 23, 2025. Super Typhoon Ragasa: 17 killed...
Tree trunks in the Amazon are getting 3.3% thicker every decade as the plants absorb extra carbon dioxide, suggesting they are more resilient to global warming than previously thought.
Stratospheric temperatures in Antarctica are spiking, which could see strange weather unfold across the southern hemisphere in the coming months
Image: Part of the icy landscape of the Northeast Greenland National Park, the largest national park in the world, is pictured in this Copernicus Sentinel-2 image.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE04064G, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Baotieliang Wang, Ji-Chun Zhao, Chuanjia Jiao, Jiayan Li, Zhaoyu Ran, Donghua Xu, Zhao-Yan Sun, Qi Li, Jiawei Zou, Shifang Luan High-temperature dielectric energy storage materials are essential for next-generation power electronics and electrical systems operating in extreme environments. However, achieving high-energy storage in polymer dielectrics at ultrahigh temperatures (e.g., 200°C)... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
The newly-discovered penguin species went extinct when the ice age hit, but researchers don't think the cold was to blame for their demise.
Negative feedback between climate and atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), mediated by the weathering of silicate minerals on land, is thought to provide the primary regulation of Earth’s climate on geological timescales. By contrast, we found that faster ...
From anger to hope, Kate Marvel and Tim Lenton explain how to tackle the tricky feelings aroused by climate change and harness them to take action
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 130, Issue 18, 28 September 2025.
A hurricane watch is up, while two other Atlantic systems percolate, and far south China braces for Typhoon Ragasa. The post Hurricane Gabrielle makes a run for the Azores appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Millions across China are under evacuation or stay-at-home orders as the storm closes in on the country's southern coast.
Scores of instruments are peering down through Earth’s atmosphere, finding pollution all across the globe every day. The post Satellites are mapping the biggest CO2 polluters in the world appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 23 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02429-4Causal approaches employed at the scale of commercial agriculture are required to build high-quality evidence that climate-smart agricultural interventions result in real emissions reductions and removals. Such project-scale empirical data are additionally required to demonstrate and advance the viability of process-based models and digital measurement, reporting and verification as tools to scale soil carbon accounting.
Both systems intensified rapidly atop unusually warm waters. The post Hurricane Gabrielle cranks up in the Atlantic; Typhoon Ragasa heads for southern China appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
This is a re-post from And Then There's Physics It seems that the US Department of Energy has now disbanded the Climate Working Group that drafted the report that I discussed in this post . However, about a week ago, Steven Koonin – one of the authors of the report – had an article in the Wall Street Journal titled At Long Last, Clarity on Climate . Clarity is a bit of a stretch. Personally, I think it more muddied the waters, than brought clarity. A general point that I didn’t really make in my previous post (and that has just been highlighted in a comment ) is that it is explicitly focussed on the US. The richest country in the world probably is more resilient than most others and could well decide that it’s better to deal...
The beads appear above a swirling hexagonal jet stream at the gas giant's north pole, and could emerge from interactions between its magnetosphere and atmosphere.