The global steel industry is slowly embracing electric-arc furnaces, a cleaner alternative to the blast furnaces typically used to make steel, as detailed in a new report.
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Climate Science is Catching Up to Climate Change With Predictions That Could Improve Proactive Response
In Africa, climate change impacts are experienced as extreme events like drought and floods.
A Stagnant Jet Stream Is Fueling Intense Heat Worldwide. Could Climate Change Be to Blame?
The jet stream, the narrow band of westerly winds circling the northern hemisphere, is stagnating, giving rise to severe heat across much of the globe, and climate change may be making it worse, a new study finds.
New Study Finds European Breeding Birds Respond Slowly to Recent Climate Change
In a new study, leading scientists from our Department of Biosciences have found that local colonisation and extinction of European breeding birds are very weakly influenced by climate change.
Picturing the Places Wildlands and People Meet at a Global Scale
Researchers led by a team at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have created the first tool to map and visualize the areas where human settlements and nature meet on a global scale.
NASA's TROPICS Offers Multiple Views of Intensifying Hurricanes
NASA's newest storm-watching satellites have collected their first views of hurricanes, offering scientists a new tool for understanding the inner workings of storms over shorter time spans.