Top Stories

NASA’s Webb Probes an Extreme Starburst Galaxy

Amid a site teeming with new and young stars lies an intricate substructure.

>> Read the Full Article

California Leads U.S. Emissions of Little-Known Greenhouse Gas

California, a state known for its aggressive greenhouse gas reduction policies, is ironically the nation's greatest emitter of one: sulfuryl fluoride.

>> Read the Full Article

Machine Learning Enables Viability of Vertical-Axis Wind Turbines

EPFL researchers have used a genetic learning algorithm to identify optimal pitch profiles for the blades of vertical-axis wind turbines, which despite their high energy potential, have until now been vulnerable to strong gusts of wind.

>> Read the Full Article

Fans Are Not a Magic Bullet for Beating the Heat!

A new study by researchers at the University of Ottawa throws cold water on the idea that fans can effectively cool you down during extremely hot weather events.

>> Read the Full Article

Health Data Storage Has a Climate Cost. In the Future Data May Be Stored in DNA

A lot of energy is required to analyse and store large amounts of data. 

>> Read the Full Article

Out of the Park: New Research Tallies Total Carbon Impact of Tourism at Yellowstone

People depend on natural ecosystems of trees, grasses and shrubs to capture carbon from the atmosphere and pull it underground to slow the decline toward climate-change disaster.

>> Read the Full Article

EVs Are Lowering Bay Area’s Carbon Footprint

An extensive CO2 monitoring network set up around the San Francisco Bay Area by an atmospheric chemist from the University of California, Berkeley, has recorded the first evidence that the adoption of electric vehicles is measurably lowering the area's carbon emissions.

>> Read the Full Article

Australia on Track for Unprecedented, Decades-Long Megadroughts

Australia could soon see megadroughts that last for more than 20 years, according to new modelling from The Australian National University (ANU) and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes.

>> Read the Full Article

A New Estimate of U.S. Soil Organic Carbon to Improve Earth System Models

Soil contains about twice as much carbon as the atmosphere and plants combined.

>> Read the Full Article