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September 17, 2024

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To Build a Thriving Electric Vehicle Market, Prioritize Equity and Justice

Aug. 28, 2024 — When it comes to purchasing and using electric vehicles (EVs), housing- and income-related factors significantly shape perceptions and preferences among potential buyers, finds a new study. This research is among the first to examine both EV ...

Sharing Risk to Avoid Power Outages in an Era of Extreme Weather

Aug. 20, 2024 — Heat waves, droughts, and fires place growing stress on the West's electric grid. New research suggests that more integrated management of electricity resources across the region could significantly reduce the risk of power outages and accelerate ...

Researchers Develop Index to Quantify Circular Bioeconomy

Aug. 19, 2024 — As the world faces the challenges of mitigating climate change and providing resources for a growing population, there is increasing focus on developing circular economies for sustainable production. But to evaluate strategies and impacts, it is ...

Nighttime Light Data Shows Inequities in Restoring Power After Hurricane Michael

Aug. 14, 2024 — Using nighttime lightdata from NASA, remote sensing, official outage records and census information, a study reveals notable differences in power-restoration rates between urbanized and rural areas ...

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Renewable Energy Policies Provide Benefits Across State Lines

Aug. 20, 2024 — New research suggests U.S. states with clean energy policies provide benefits to their neighbors, including states without their own renewable energy ...

Nitrogen Interventions as a Key to Better Health and Robust Ecosystems

Aug. 16, 2024 — An international research team combined multidisciplinary methods to evaluate how nitrogen interventions could improve air quality and reduce nitrogen deposition. Their study found that ...

Climate Reporting Standards Insufficient, Must Be Expanded, Say Experts

Aug. 14, 2024 — A new article concludes that current climate standards are not sufficiently incentivizing the big picture innovations necessary to deliver net zero, and must be expanded to include a company's ...

Balancing Technology and Governance Are Key to Achieving Climate Goals

Aug. 12, 2024 — Despite advancements in clean energy, global CO2 emissions continue to rise. IIASA researchers contributed to a new international study that underscores the importance of integrating technological ...

Research Catalogs Greenhouse Gas Emissions Tied to Energy Use for Interbasin Water Transfers

Aug. 1, 2024 — Much of the water in the West is transported across vast geographical areas by large infrastructure projects known as interbasin water transfers. Two ...

Researchers Explore the Potential of Clean Energy Markets as a Hedging Tool

July 31, 2024 — Clean energy investments offer potential stability and growth, especially during volatile market conditions. A recent study explored the relationship between clean energy markets and global stock ...

California a Botanical and Climate Change Hot Spot

July 29, 2024 — Climate-driven shifts in California's biodiversity call for innovation and continued environmental stewardfship, says a new study. California's 30x30 Initiative and efforts to harmonize biodiversity ...

Best Bioenergy Crops for Sustainable Aviation Fuels by U.S. Region, Policy Goals

July 23, 2024 — Researchers analyzed the financial and environmental costs and benefits of four biofuels crops used to produce sustainable aviation fuels in the U.S. ...

Study Shows New Efficiency Standards for Heavy Trucks Could Boost Energy Use

July 18, 2024 — A new study suggests that the U.S. government's push to increase heavy-duty trucks' energy efficiency could encourage more shipping by truck instead ...

Researchers Examine Economic Effects on Technological Advancements of Blue Hydrogen Production

July 9, 2024 — Experience from the deployment of blue hydrogen projects will be helpful in lowering future costs of hydrogen production and will remain cost ...

Soil Footprint: A Simple Indicator of a Crop's Impact on Soil Erosion

Sep. 17, 2024 — A research team proposes a method to calculate, compare and communicate how different crops affect the loss of agricultural soil, with the aim of raising awareness of this problem and promoting ...

What Works: Groundbreaking Evaluation of Climate Policy Measures Over Two Decades

Aug. 23, 2024 — Researchers have unveiled the first comprehensive global evaluation of 1,500 climate policy measures from 41 countries across six continents. The study provides a detailed impact analysis of the wide ...

Fracking Frenzy in India: A Water Crisis in the Making?

Aug. 14, 2024 — India's plans to scale up fracking operations without robust regulations could spell disaster for the country's finely balanced water security, according to ...

Energy Planning in Ghana as a Role Model for the World

July 25, 2024 — Researchers are investigating ways to better plan for climate-resilient energy systems in the Global South. Focusing on the case study of Accra, the capital of Ghana, the multidisciplinary team ...

Strategic Emission Caps Key to Ammonia Industry Decarbonization, Researchers Find

July 23, 2024 — New research has revealed critical insights into how strategic emission cap choices can lead to cost-effective, near-100% ammonia industry decarbonization while avoiding issues such as land use ...

Why Do You Keep Your House So Cold? Science Says: Ask Your Parents

July 3, 2024 — Childhood home temperature and community connectedness can help predict how U.S. residents set their thermostats, offering new ways to encourage energy conservation and combat climate change, ...

What Was Behind the 2021-2022 Energy Crisis Within Europe?

July 2, 2024 — A team of researchers had already been working with electricity price data for years before Russia's invasion of Ukraine, exploring statistics and developing forecasting methods. Now they zero ...

Researchers Engineer AI Path to Prevent Power Outages

June 24, 2024 — Researchers developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model that could help electrical grids prevent power outages by automatically rerouting electricity in milliseconds. The approach is an early ...

Polarization and Risk Perception Could Play Important Roles in Climate-Policy Outcomes

June 17, 2024 — Times of crises often call for strong and rapid action, but in polarized societies, strong top-down policies can backfire. Scientists present a conceptual model of how these dynamics could play out ...

US Public Opinion on Social Media Is Warming to Nuclear Energy, but Concerns Remain

June 5, 2024 — The U.S. public displays more positive than negative sentiment toward nuclear energy but concerns remain about waste, cost and safety, according to an analysis of 300,000 posts on social ...

Some Countries Could Meet Their Total Electricity Needs from Floating Solar Panels

June 4, 2024 — Floating solar photovoltaic panels could supply all the electricity needs of some countries, new research has shown. The researchers calculated the daily electrical output for floating photovoltaics ...

Innovative Demand Strategies for Clean Energy

June 4, 2024 — A perspective piece describes innovative strategies that significantly reduce both resource consumption and fossil fuel ...

Risky Path to Meeting Climate Targets for Stockholm

May 29, 2024 — The Swedish capital Stockholm aims to capture more carbon dioxide than is emitted by 2030. Therefore, the city is investing in new technology at a combined heat and power plant. But it is a strategy ...

Wind Farms Are Cheaper Than You Think -- And Could Have Prevented Fukushima, Says Global Review

May 28, 2024 — Offshore wind could have prevented the Fukushima disaster, according to a review of wind ...

Decarbonization Dynamics: New Analysis Unveils Shifting Trends in the Voluntary Carbon Offset Market

May 20, 2024 — Researchers have conducted a worldwide analysis of voluntary carbon offset programs and identified trends into which types of carbon reduction technologies are selected and prioritized. Their ...

Can We Revolutionize the Chemical Industry and Create a Circular Economy? Yes, With the Help of Catalysts

May 17, 2024 — A new commentary paper puts forth a transformative solution to the unsustainable reliance on fossil resources by the chemical industry: catalysis to leverage sustainable waste resources, ushering the ...

Wind Farms Can Offset Their Emissions Within Two Years

May 16, 2024 — After spinning for under two years, a wind farm can offset the carbon emissions generated across its entire 30-year lifespan, when compared to thermal power ...

The Case for Sharing Carbon Storage Risk

May 14, 2024 — Even the most optimistic projections for the rapid build-out of solar, wind, and other low-carbon resources acknowledge that coal, natural gas, and other fossil fuels will dominate the world's ...

90% of Floridians Believe Climate Change Is Happening

May 14, 2024 — The latest 'Florida Climate Resilience Survey' found that 90% of Floridians believe that climate change is happening. Belief in human-caused climate change has surged among Florida ...

The Price Tag of Phasing-out Coal

May 13, 2024 — Coal phase-out is necessary to solve climate change, but can have negative impacts on workers and local communities dependent on coal for their livelihoods. Researchers have studied government plans ...