Storing energy as heat is a proven pathway to address the challenge solar power faces when it’s dark or cloudy outside by enabling the capture, storage and on-demand release of thermal energy.
Can Steelmaking Waste Help Solar Power Store Energy?
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We Could Soon Be Able to Track Changes in Australia’s Forests in Near-real Time – Using Satellites
Forests and woodlands cover millions of hectares across Australia, from tropical rainforests and temperate eucalypt forests to the vast woodlands and shrublands of the arid interior.
Study Confirms Permanent Loss of Canada’s Last Arctic Epishelf Lake
Canada’s last epishelf lake drained into the Arctic Ocean following the 2020 breakup of the Milne Ice Shelf and will not recover, a new study confirms.
Why Most Rivers Don’t Respond to Storms the Same Way Twice
The same amount of rain falling on the same landscape at different times can send very different amounts of water into its rivers, according to a new study in Nature Water.
A New Approach to Forecasting Toxic Metals in Wildfire Smoke
In early July 2026, Stanford postdoctoral researcher Alex Honeyman and graduate student Mark Leone attached a box the size of a briefcase to a firetruck in Colorado that was about to be dispatched to a wildfire 300 miles away.
Pollinators Keep a Later Calendar in Human-Modified Landscapes, Study Finds
Human development may be changing more than where pollinators live — it may also be changing when they are active.
