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 ...
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.
Caribbean nations face an increasing threat from super hurricanes, which can cost a significant fraction of their GDP. Climate change is expected to make the strongest hurricanes stronger. The post The Caribbean has a super-hurricane problem appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
This is a re-post from The Climate Brink There are a lot of things I agree with in Bill Gates’ new memo on climate change. The recent cutbacks on international spending on vaccination, malaria control, feeding the hungry, and poverty alleviation by many of the richest countries (driven in part by a desire for more military spending) is a catastrophe that will cost thousands if not millions of lives. Adaptation is a critically important part of addressing climate change, and a world with more prosperity and less inequality is one where we can better deal with the impacts of climate change – at least up to a point. But in other areas I feel that it needlessly sets up a conflict between laudable goals: we can both mitigate emissions and alleviate poverty...
Climate change and the associated rising temperatures are melting more and more frozen ground in the Arctic. This dissolved matter contains large amounts of organic carbon which is flowing into the central Arctic ocean. In a new study, scientists led by Alfred-Wegener-Institute quantified how much terrestrial organic matter accumulates in the central Arctic Ocean. Using chemical fingerprints, they were able to assess how fast it degrades, thus releasing additional CO2 to the ocean. These findings are an important basis to project how inputs from land affect Arctic marine ecosystems and the ability of the ocean to store CO2 in a warming climate. The results are published in the journal Nature Geoscience.
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 Bill Gates just published a climate think piece that has taken the internet by storm. While conservatives are claiming he's backtracked on climate change, the truth is much more subtle. So what does the Microsoft founder, Gates, get right and wrong about climate change? And why might he be downplaying the risks at a crucial moment for our planet's climate? Support ClimateAdam on patreon: https://patreon.com/climateadam
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections Joe Rogan has one of the most popular podcasts on Spotify and Apple Podcasts and a combined 50 million followers on YouTube, Spotify, and Instagram. And like nearly all of today’s most popular online shows , Rogan’s spreads climate misinformation. In an October episode of his podcast, Rogan interviewed two octogenarian fringe climate contrarians, Richard Lindzen and William Happer, who together have been spreading climate misinformation since at least 2012 . For over two hours, the trio discussed climate myths and conspiracy theories, many of them identical to the misinformation Lindzen and Happer were peddling well over a decade ago. ( See here for a brief debunking...
They were cowboys amid the mesas in a corner of New Mexico. For years they coexisted with an oil company — until one day they couldn’t. The post The David vs. Goliath story of a ranching family and an oil giant appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, November 2, 2025 thru Sat, November 8, 2025. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Change Impacts (6 articles) Revisiting The Category 6 Conversation After Hurricane Melissa Forbes, Marshall Shepherd, Nov 1, 2025. Insurer calls for climate action as severe weather drives premiums up A major insurer is warning Australians to expect rising home insurance premiums, in part due to increasingly frequent and damaging weather events. Australian Broadcasting Corp., Samuel Yang and Yiying Li, Nov 03, 2025. The ground is swallowing homes in this Native village in Alaska. Residents have no choice but to move The climate crisis is causing...
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 130, Issue 21, 16 November 2025.
Rogan exposes millions to climate denial. Let’s break down his tactics. The post Five ways Joe Rogan misleads listeners about climate change appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Image: Ahead of the 30th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP30) taking place in Belém, Brazil, from 10-21 November, this IRIDE image shows the Branco River and its surrounding forests in the Brazilian state of Roraima.
Earth may be on the verge of crossing several climate change tipping points that could have irreversible and devastating consequences. Here's everything you need to know about these "points of no return."
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE02047F, Paper Xiao Jun Shi, Huanwen Wang, Taoqiu Zhang, Tong Xue, Haiyong He, Hong Jin Fan For ultrafast-response supercapacitors, it is very challenging for typical porous carbon electrodes to exhibit both high volumetric (Cv) and areal (Ca) capacitances, especially under high rates, due to inefficient pore... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have made the first 3D map of an alien planet's atmosphere, revealing extreme temperature swings on the exoplanet WASP-18b.
The Bahama nuthatch was already threatened by habitat loss and non-native predators when Hurricanes Matthew and Dorian came along. The post Major hurricanes likely pushed a small Bahamanian bird to extinction appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Video: 00:30:00 The Copernicus Sentinel-1D satellite has joined the Sentinel-1 mission in orbit. Launch took place on 4 November 2025 at 22:02 CET (18:02 local time) on board an Ariane 6 launcher from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.The Sentinel-1 mission delivers high-resolution radar images of Earth’s surface, performing in all weathers, day-and-night. This service is used by disaster response teams, environmental agencies, maritime authorities and climate scientists, who depend on frequent updates of critical data.Sentinel-1D will work in tandem with Sentinel-1C, flying in the same orbit but 180° apart, to optimise global coverage and data delivery. Both satellites have a C-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) instrument on board, which captures high-resolution imagery of Earth’s...
Video: 00:03:11 The Copernicus Sentinel-1D satellite has joined the Sentinel-1 mission in orbit. Launch took place on 4 November 2025 at 22:03 CET (18:03 local time) on board an Ariane 6 launcher from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.The Sentinel-1 mission delivers high-resolution radar images of Earth’s surface, performing in all weathers, day-and-night. This service is used by disaster response teams, environmental agencies, maritime authorities and climate scientists, who depend on frequent updates of critical data.Sentinel-1D will work in tandem with Sentinel-1C, flying in the same orbit but 180° apart, to optimise global coverage and data delivery. Both satellites have a C-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) instrument on board, which captures high-resolution imagery of Earth’s...
Researchers have found 6 million-year-old ice in the Allan Hills region of Antarctica and say the oldest-of-its-kind sample offers an unprecedented view into Earth's ancient climate.
Skeptical Science is partnering with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. You can submit claims you think need checking via the tipline . Does cold weather disprove human-caused climate change The planet continues to warm due to human activity; bouts of cold weather don’t change this. Satellites around the world measure temperatures at different places throughout the year. These are averaged to calculate annual global temperatures. The past ten years (2015-2024) have been the ten hottest since modern record-keeping began in 1850, and 2024 was the all-time hottest. The last time Earth had a colder-than-average year was 1976. Weather refers to meteorological conditions — heat, humidity, precipitation...
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 04 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02468-xHuman greenhouse gas emissions are raising temperatures and sea levels, collapsing ice sheets and acidifying oceans. Now, research maps out the range of emissions pathways that can limit these changes.
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
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
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...
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
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Volume 130, Issue 12, December 2025.
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
In a small blow to the search for extraterrestrial life, a nearby star shot out a strong enough coronal mass ejection to strip away the atmosphere of any rocky planets that could have been in the way.
These books and reports will bring you up to speed on the latest climate developments, from emissions gaps to climate justice. The post Must-reads to mark the start of COP30 in Belém, Brazil appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE04804D, Paper Chunlin Xie, Shengfang Liu, Jin Wang, Xianghui Meng, Shuyi Yu, Jiaming Zhang, Haijun Peng, Dan Sun, Yougen Tang, Hai-Yan Wang Anode-free sodium batteries (AFSBs) offer superior cost, energy density, and manufacturing advantages over sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) by eliminating the conventional anode. However, their development is fundamentally hindered by dead sodium... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
The most powerful solar flare of 2025 has launched a ball of energy toward Earth that could trigger widespread auroras across the United States tonight.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE05276A, Paper Mingqiang Cheng, Juanjian Ru, Shukai Miao, Yixin Hua, Qibo Zhang, Cunying Xu, Zhipeng Zhou, Ding WANG, Wenchao Zhang, Jiexi Wang, Zaiping Guo The selective recovery of metals from spent lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), particularly from Ni-based ternary (NCM) cathode materials, is a significant challenge due to their complex elemental composition. Herein, we present... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Discover how tracing space dust in Arctic seafloor sediment can help us understand how ice coverage changed over millennia, without the need for satellites.
The electric cars of the Formula E racing championship can accelerate faster than Formula 1 cars and their top speeds are catching up – but battery capacity would let them down in a head-to-head
Today marks 10 years since the Met Office named its first storm, Storm Abigail, launching a public-facing initiative that has since become a cornerstone of weather communication in the UK.
Video: 00:03:39 The Copernicus Sentinel-1D satellite has joined the Sentinel-1 mission in orbit. Launch took place on 4 November 2025 at 22:02 CET (18:02 local time) on board an Ariane 6 launcher from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.The Sentinel-1 mission delivers high-resolution radar images of Earth’s surface, performing in all weathers, day-and-night. This service is used by disaster response teams, environmental agencies, maritime authorities and climate scientists, who depend on frequent updates of critical data.Sentinel-1D will work in tandem with Sentinel-1C, flying in the same orbit but 180° apart, to optimise global coverage and data delivery. Both satellites have a C-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) instrument on board, which captures high-resolution imagery of Earth’s...
As the United Nations COP30 climate change conference convenes in Belém, Brazil, the world's attention will turn to the heart of the Amazon rainforest – a region that symbolises both hope and concern in the fight against climate change.Once considered one of Earth's most vital carbon sinks, the Amazon is now showing troubling signs – satellite observations reveal that parts of this vast ecosystem are no longer absorbing carbon dioxide as they once did. In some areas, the forest has even become a net source of carbon emissions.
Open access notables Tropical cyclones expand faster at warmer relative sea surface temperature , Wang et al., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Tropical cyclone (TC) size strongly affects its hazards and impacts. This study shows that observed TC size expands substantially faster over relatively warmer water across the major Northern Hemisphere ocean basins. Expansion rates increase much more slowly with global-mean warming as found in simple model simulation experiments. Hence, ocean regions that warm more quickly are more likely to support storms that expand more rapidly, potentially increasing their potential to cause damage and make forecasting the area of their impacts more difficult. Increasing extreme winds challenge offshore...
Climate change–related natural disasters such as floods, fires, and storms devastate communities, and their massive costs continue to grow. But as climate risks increase, financial risk management infrastructure is not keeping pace. Analytical tools on ...
The UNEP's 2025 Emissions Gap report has found that global average temperatures will exceed 1.5 C (2.7 F) before 2035 — and this just days before the COP30 climate summit kicks off in Brazil.
Video: 00:01:48 The Copernicus Sentinel-1D satellite has joined the Sentinel-1 mission in orbit. Launch took place on 4 November 2025 at 22:02 CET (18:02 local time) on board an Ariane 6 launcher from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.The Sentinel-1 mission delivers high-resolution radar images of Earth’s surface, performing in all weathers, day-and-night. This service is used by disaster response teams, environmental agencies, maritime authorities and climate scientists, who depend on frequent updates of critical data.Sentinel-1D will work in tandem with Sentinel-1C, flying in the same orbit but 180° apart, to optimise global coverage and data delivery. Both satellites have a C-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) instrument on board, which captures high-resolution imagery of Earth’s...
Video: 01:17:22 The Copernicus Sentinel-1D satellite has joined the Sentinel-1 mission in orbit. Launch took place on 4 November 2025 at 22:03 CET (18:03 local time) on board an Ariane 6 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. The Sentinel-1 mission delivers high-resolution radar images of Earth’s surface, performing in all weathers, day-and-night. This service is used by disaster response teams, environmental agencies, maritime authorities and climate scientists, who depend on frequent updates of critical data.The Sentinel-1D satellite will work in tandem with Sentinel-1C, flying in the same orbit but 180° apart, to optimise global coverage and data delivery. Both satellites have a C-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) instrument on board, which captures high-resolution imagery...
Learn how early hominins crafted the same sharp-edged Oldowan tools through 300,000 years of climate change, revealing one of the longest-lasting technologies in human history.
In this excerpt from "Sink or Swim," author Susannah Fisher explores the future of human migration, and what that will look like based on the difficult choices we make in the coming years.
How might Arctic sea-ice loss affect Britain’s weather? That is the question a team of researchers from the University of Exeter and the Met Office have been investigating.
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Jeff Masters Visible satellite image (with lightning) of Hurricane Melissa at 4:55 p.m. EDT Sunday, Oct. 26, when it was a Category 4 storm with 145 mph (230 km/h) winds. (Image credit: NOAA/CIRA) Human-caused climate change increased Hurricane Melissa’s wind speeds by 7% (11 mph, or 18 km/h), leading to a 12% increase in its damages, found researchers at the Imperial College of London in a rapid attribution study just released. A separate study by scientists at Climate Central found that climate change increased Melissa’s winds by 10%, and the near-record-warm ocean waters that Melissa traversed — 1.2 degrees Celsius (1.2°F) warmer than average — were up to 900 times...