A decade-high surge in onshore wind applications in England is evidence that developers are returning to the market.
Trace gases - gases that make up only a tiny amount of the atmosphere - can affect how cloud droplets form. Stable cloud droplets form when enough water molecules stick to a particle, called a cloud condensation nucleus, in the atmosphere.
As ocean temperatures rise, corals' ability to withstand and adapt to heat stress is critical for the future of coral reefs.
Coastal blue carbon ecosystems--mangroves, salt marshes, and seagrasses--store carbon and protect shorelines, but conservation often lags behind rapid coastal change. This study introduces a dual-constraint spatial planning framework that couples habitat suitability with land-sea anthropogenic pressures to identify where these ecosystems can persist, expand, or be restored. Applying it across China's 18,000-km coastline, researchers integrated 60 environmental variables and 13 pressure indicators to map potential suitable distribution areas and optimize protection priorities. The framework reveals a proactive blue carbon expansion capacity 7 to 24 times larger than current extents. It also shows that existing reserves cover only about 20% of high-priority zones, leaving most target areas dependent on active restoration.
Climate policy models usually assume people hold accurate beliefs about climate damages. A new study builds disinformation into a climate-economy model and finds that informed democratic majorities can deliver stronger carbon taxes than a politically constrained planner, but this advantage collapses abruptly once disinformation tips the majority. Late and persistent disinformation yields the most severe warming, while counter-disinformation efforts can largely restore effective policy.
The Sierra Nevada mountain range in California is as stunning as it is diverse, with storms from the Pacific Ocean dumping rain and snow on the range's western slopes while arid conditions mark much of its eastern face. David Des Marais, MIT's Amgen Career Development Associate Professor, knows the mountains well. His childhood in San Francisco was filled with hiking and camping excursions throughout the range.
The methodology, applied in Bilbao, Madrid and Caceres, has shown that socio-economic conditions and the characteristics of the urban fabric have a significant influence on vulnerability. The tool generates vulnerability maps that help determine where adaptation measures to combat heatwaves should be prioritised.
The United States currently exports large quantities of soybeans, maize and other feed crops to China, where they support livestock production. This arrangement has advantages: growing the feed in the United States causes less global nitrogen loss than producing the same feed entirely in China, according to the study. Yet the feed and the animals that consume it are largely separated across two countries.
Seaweed aquaculture is a nature-based climate solution. Macroalgae contribute roughly 1.5 petagrams of carbon (PgC) to global annual net primary production, and farm sediments can bury about 1.87 ± 0.73 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) per hectare per year—about twice the rate of adjacent non-farmed areas.
An international research team, led by UNSW researchers, has identified why mangroves thrive on some coastlines yet die on others.
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