Climate undermined by lobbying
For all the evidence that the benefits of reducing greenhouse gases outweigh the costs of regulation, disturbingly few domestic climate change policies have been...
Societal values and perceptions shape energy production and use as much as new technology
Societal values and perceptions have shaped the energy landscape as much as the technologies that drive its production and consumption, a new article suggests.
New York state winters could pose solar farm ‘ramping’ snag for power grid
With low energy demand around midday in the winter, combined with solar-electricity production, New York's power system could face volatile swings of 'ramping' --...
Study of northern Alaska could rewrite Arctic history
New research on the North Slope of Alaska could help revise predictions about the Arctic's oil, gas and mineral wealth.
A warming Arctic produces weather extremes in our latitudes
Atmospheric researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) have now developed a climate model that can accurately...
New mutations for herbicide resistance rarer than expected
New evidence suggests that herbicide resistance in weeds is more likely to occur from pre-existing genetic variation than from new mutations.
New genetic engineering strategy makes human-made DNA invisible
Scientists have developed a new technique to genetically engineer bacteria by making human-made DNA invisible to a bacterium's defenses. In theory, the method can...
Helping cities make power grids safer, more reliable
Solar power researchers have traditionally used the power measurements from single residential solar photovoltaic systems to estimate the power generated within a city. But...
Fossil zooplankton indicate that marine ecosystems have entered the Anthropocene
New research shows that the associations of marine plankton in the present are markedly different from those of pre-industrial times.
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