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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 7-May-2025 04:09 ET (7-May-2025 08:09 GMT/UTC)

The US weather enterprise: A national treasure at risk

American Meteorological Society
Business Announcement

The American Meteorological Society today released a statement which notes that "U.S. leadership in scientific innovation is at risk due to the recent and ongoing reductions in U.S. federal science capabilities. The consequences to the American people will be large and wide-ranging, including increased vulnerability to hazardous weather."

SwRI, U-Michigan engineers create more effective burner to reduce methane emissions

Southwest Research Institute
Peer-Reviewed Publication

SAN ANTONIO — March 3, 2025 —Researchers at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and the University of Michigan (U-M) have published a new study showing an advanced new methane flare burner, created with additive manufacturing and machine learning, eliminates 98% of methane vented during oil production. The burner was designed by U-M engineering researchers and tested at SwRI.

Journal: Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research

Extreme events: New stride forward in high-resolution climate modeling

CMCC Foundation - Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Robust projections and predictions of climate variability and change, particularly at regional scales, rely on an accurate representation of driving processes in model simulations. A new international effort to further develop the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP), involving CMCC researcher Enrico Scoccimarro, improves how we simulate and understand extreme weather events and their relationship to the climate system, making climate models more detailed and useful for decision makers and placing CMCC at the forefront of global efforts in climate modelling.

New parameterization schemes enhance the prediction accuracy of typhoon intensity

Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New parameterization schemes enhance the prediction accuracy of typhoon intensity

Journal: Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters

Study explores how climate change impacts extreme cold events

University at Albany, SUNY
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study led by Qian Cheng from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with a team of researchers including Aiguo Dai from the University at Albany, examined a 2023 cold wave event in China to better understand how the warming effect of climate change drives or suppresses these types of extremes.

Journal: npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
Funder: National Natural Science Foundation of China

Sustainable anesthesia: Charité lowers CO2 emissions in the OR by 80 percent

Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin has reduced the annual CO₂ emissions originating from gases used for anesthesia by over 80 percent since 2018. This reduction in carbon emissions was achieved by using climate-friendlier anesthetics in the operating room. As a study published in the journal Anesthesia & Analgesia* demonstrates, education and, in particular, fundamental decisions were the keys to success.

Journal: Anesthesia & Analgesia

Are our refrigerants safe? The lingering questions about the chemicals keeping us cool

University of New South Wales
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The latest chemicals used in refrigerants and aerosols can break down into pollutants, UNSW scientists say.

Journal: Journal of the American Chemical Society
Funder: Australian Research Council Discovery Program

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