A warmer world is expected to bring more thunderstorms, especially at higher latitudes.
Lightning Strikes the Arctic: What Will It Mean for the Far North?
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Some of Your AI Prompts Could Cause 50 Times More CO2 Emissions Than Others
Every query typed into a large language model (LLM), such as ChatGPT, requires energy and produces CO2 emissions.
Climate Change May Make Prescribed Fires Rarer – but Increase Their Air Quality Impacts
Prescribed burns are important for land management and preventing wildfires, but a new study finds these managed fires are also significant contributors to air pollution in the southeastern United States – particularly in areas with large minority and low-income populations.
Sea Ice Plays Important Role in Variability of Carbon Uptake by Southern Ocean
New research reveals the importance of winter sea ice in the year-to-year variability of the amount of atmospheric CO2 absorbed by a region of the Southern Ocean.
Helping Energy Systems Weather the Storm
When Hurricane Fiona struck Puerto Rico in 2022, it exposed the vulnerabilities of the island’s energy infrastructure.
How Ubiquitous Small Particles Turn Harmful Inside Plants
A new UC Riverside-led study reveals how common small particles produced by nature as well as human activities can transform upon entering plant cells and weaken plants’ ability to turn sunlight into food.
