The latest issue of The Takeaway explores the financial implications of coal-to-gas fuel switching in U.S. power plants.

If the aim of a 2,000 Watt Society is to be achieved, peri-urban residential neighborhoods – where the average single-family home consumes 6.5 times more power than that target – must adapt.

An F&ES analysis of 478 cities with populations of more than 1 million people finds that urban growth across the world is predominantly moving outward rather than upward, a trend that is generally considered inefficient and unsustainable.

The Wood Wonders exhibition to be opened at Helsinki Airport on the 5th of February will show passengers the innovations related to wood construction and display the sector’s latest developments.

Sometimes to understand the present, it takes looking to the past. That’s the approach coastal researchers, supported by the NOAA Climate Program Office Climate Observations and Monitoring (COM) Program, are taking to pinpoint the causes of extreme sea level changes.

Natural ecosystems provide critical services for people as well as biodiversity, including regulating water quality.

Recent research demonstrates that lightweight and compact inerters, similar to those developed for the suspension systems of Formula 1 cars, can reduce the required weight of tuned mass dampers by up to 70 percent, harvest energy from wind-induced oscillations, and lessen carbonemissions by using fewer construction materials.

International team led by Göttingen University studies protection of coastal communities in biodiversity hotspots

Climate Hazards Center receives funding for two large projects in Africa.

Study points to solutions that could protect residents in at-risk neighborhoods.