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Impact of Ancient Climate Crisis on Water Circulation in the Mediterranean

About 13,000 years ago, a climate crisis caused a global drop in temperatures in the northern hemisphere.

17 May 2023

Could Underground Gravity Energy Storage Offer a Solution to Future Energy Storage Needs?

As part of the energy transition and the move to renewables, an international team of researchers has recently proposed a new technology - Underground Gravity Energy Storage (UGES) - which can store and discharge electricity.

16 May 2023

Research Could Help Understand About the Earth's Climate and Future of Ice Sheets

A team of scientists, including climatologists and an astronomer, have used a better computer model to recreate the pattern of ice ages (periods of extreme cold) that occurred 1.6 to 1.2 million years ago.

16 May 2023

ClimRR Portal Wins 2023 Climate Leadership Award

The Climate Risk and Resilience Portal received a 2023 Climate Leadership Award recognizing Argonne National Laboratory's collaboration with AT&T and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The portal provides projections and maps to enhance U.S. preparedness for climate risks.

12 May 2023

Transferable Design for Oyster-Based Shoreline Protection

A University of Central Florida engineering scientist is part of an international team of experts working to build oyster-based shoreline protection for US coastlines.

12 May 2023

Temperature Shift Drives Call Change in Puerto Rico’s Frogs

The coqui frog is one of Puerto Rico's most iconic animals. It gets its name from its distinctive two-note call, "co-qui," which can be heard throughout the island every night.

11 May 2023

Survey: Many Floridians are Concerned About Human-Caused Climate Change

An increasing number of Floridians agree that human actions are causing climate change, including a record number of Florida Republicans, according to a new survey from Florida Atlantic University

11 May 2023

Argonne-Led Project Aims to Help Neighborhoods Understand and Adapt to Chicago’s Changing Climate

Climate change is bringing flooding, heat islands and extreme weather to Chicago. An Argonne-led project from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Urban Integrated Field Laboratory will help neighborhoods understand and adapt to the city’s changing climate.

9 May 2023

Climate Warming Reduces the Diversity of Soil Archaea

Led by Jizhong Zhou, Ph.D., the director of the Institute for Environmental Genomics at the University of Oklahoma, an international research team conducted a long term experiment that found that climate warming reduced the diversity of and significantly altered the community structure of soil archaea.

9 May 2023

International Project Aims to Build Community Resilience to Climate Change Effects

An international project to build community resilience to the effects of climate change, launched by Community Jameel and a research team at MIT, has been recognized as an innovation sprint at the 2023 summit of the United States' and United Arab Emirates' Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate (AIM4C).

9 May 2023