Hydrogen instead of electrification? Potentials and risks for climate targets
Hydrogen-based fuels should primarily be used in sectors such as aviation or industrial processes that cannot be electrified, finds a team of researchers. Producing...
Sharks use Earth’s magnetic fields to guide them like a map
Sea turtles are known for relying on magnetic signatures to find their way across thousands of miles to the very beaches where they hatched....
Flooding might triple in the mountains of Asia due to global warming
A research team has revealed the dramatic increase in flood risk that could occur across Earth's icy Third Pole in response to ongoing climate...
New study tracked large sharks during hurricanes
Biologists tracked large sharks in Miami and The Bahamas to understand how these migratory animals respond to major storms, like hurricanes.
More than one way for animals to survive climate change
Researchers found that to live in hotter more desert-like surroundings, and exist without water, there is more than one genetic mechanism allowing animals to...
Microalgae biofuels: Changing carbohydrates into lipids
Engineers have developed a technique to repartition carbon resources from carbohydrates to lipids in microalgae. It is hoped that this method can be applied...
Zero to hero: Overlooked material could help reduce our carbon footprint
Reducing the amount of CO2 in our environment is crucial for mitigating climate change and needs materials that can adsorb CO2 from air under...
Roadmap to expand NY solar energy, meet green goals
Solar-power developers need to explore using lower-quality agricultural land for solar energy, incentivize dual-use (combined agriculture and solar) options, avoid concentrated solar development and...
Antarctica remains the wild card for sea-level rise estimates through 2100
A massive collaborative research project offers projections to the year 2100 of future sea-level rise from all sources of land ice, offering the most...
Ice core chemistry study expands insight into sea ice variability in Southern Hemisphere
Sea ice cover in the Southern Hemisphere is extremely variable, from summer to winter and from millennium to millennium, according to a new study....
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