Climate change strikes: Lightning patterns change with global warming
New research has shown climate change could alter lightning patterns across Europe.
No sign of decrease in global CO2 emissions
Global carbon emissions in 2022 remain at record levels -- with no sign of the decrease that is urgently needed to limit warming to...
Thirsty wheat needed new water management strategy in ancient China
Research shows that a practice of purposeful water management, or irrigation, was adopted in northern China about 4,000 years ago as part of an...
New technology creates carbon neutral chemicals out of thin air
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The world will probably warm beyond the 1. 5-degree limit, but peak warming can...
The world's current climate pledges are insufficient to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius. We will overshoot. In new research, scientists chart several...
Previously unseen processes reveal path to better rechargeable battery performance
To design better rechargeable ion batteries, engineers and chemists have collaborated to combine a powerful new electron microscopy technique and data mining to visually...
Navigating urban spaces: Indoor and outdoor wayfinding technology for vision-impaired people
A new report explores how to leverage low-cost methods to enable people with blindness, deaf-blindness, visual impairment or low vision to more easily move...
Using 1980s environmental modeling to mitigate future disasters: Could Japan’s 3/11 disaster have been...
On March 11, 2011, multiple catastrophes in Japan were triggered by the Great East Japan Earthquake, including the nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi...
Using monsoons of the past to predict climate conditions of the future
As temperatures around the world continue to rise because of global warming, a team of researchers are looking for environmental clues from millions of...
Molecular fingerprint behind beautiful pearls revealed
Researchers produce the first robust genome of pearl oysters, which they hope can be used to find strains that are resilient to increasingly common...
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