For some, visions of a future powered by clean, renewable energy are clouded by fears of blackouts driven by intermittent electricity supplies.
Stanford Researchers Point the Way to Avoiding Blackouts With Clean, Renewable Energy
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Climate Change May Make Hurricanes Hit Sooner and Last Longer
This past hurricane season was a pretty nasty one. With 21 storms from June 1 to November 30, for the second year in a row the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ran out of names on their official list and had to swap over to a backup.
UNH Research Finds Future Snowmelt Could Have Costly Consequences on Infrastructure
Climate change and warmer conditions have altered snow-driven extremes and previous studies predict less and slower snowmelt in the northern United States and Canada.
New Research Makes Waves Tackling the Future of Tsunami Monitoring and Modeling
The coastal zone is home to over a billion people. Rising sea levels are already impacting coastal residents and aggravating existing coastal hazards, such as flooding during high tides and storm surges.
Renewable Energy Is Great—but the Grid Can Slow It Down
Say you want to build a wind farm. You find a nice empty knoll in northern Vermont, where the breeze blows steadily and the neighbors don’t complain about sullied views.
Geophysicists Detect Electron Dance Deep Inside the Earth, With a Twist
Most are aware that electrons are negatively charged particles that surround the nucleus of atoms and whose behaviour governs chemical interactions.
