HEAT STRESS
Heat stress from extreme heat and humidity is expected to annually affect areas now home to 1.2 billion people by[…]
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Month: March 2020
SAVING FOOD
Chemists have created a tiny sensor able to detect ethylene gas (a plant hormone) in minuscule concentrations. It could be[…]
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CORONA AND THE COMPRESSOR
Construction of a compressor station in Weymouth continues unabated, posing a public health problem in the middle of the coronavirus[…]
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CORONA CLIMATE CONSEQUENCES
Fewer cars on the road will help with the climate crisis since for average Americans, the biggest source of greenhouse[…]
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ANTARCTIC MELT
A nine-day heat wave in February melted almost a quarter of an Antarctic island’s snow cover — an increasingly common[…]
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LIGHTYEAR ONE
It’s the world’s first solar charged car with a solar roof and hood. Always charging while in the sun, its[…]
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NIXING NEPA
Major revisions to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) statute could shrink the scope and timeline of environmental review. Under[…]
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SILICON SOLAR CELLS
Researchers have overcome a key obstacle in combining the emerging solar-harvesting technology of perovskites with silicon solar cells. The result[…]
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CORONAVIRUS AND CLIMATE CHAOS
COVID-19 has already disrupted crucial negotiations ahead of a November conference in Glasgow that could determine the Paris Agreement’s success[…]
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SOLAR SHEEP
With more than 2 million existing solar installations, the U.S. photovoltaic capacity could more than double over the next five[…]
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