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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 10-Nov-2025 03:11 ET (10-Nov-2025 08:11 GMT/UTC)

2-Jul-2025

U.S. military spending reductions could substantially lower energy consumption

A new analysis suggests that reductions in U.S. military spending could result in significant decreases in energy consumption by the Department of Defense, leading to reduced greenhouse gas emissions. Ryan Thombs of Penn State University, U.S., and colleagues present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS Climate on July 2.

Journal: PLOS Climate

2-Jul-2025

Smarter flight decisions can cool the planet, UC Irvine study shows

University of California - Irvine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers led by a UC Irvine professor developed a new tool to measure aviation’s impact on climate when making tradeoffs.

Cutting aircraft contrails or nitrogen oxide emissions can offset small increases in carbon dioxide.

The Global Warming per Activity tool enables users to develop decision risk curves that help policymakers make smarter, climate-friendly choices.

Journal: Nature

2-Jul-2025

Smarter flight decisions can cool the planet, UC Irvine study shows

University of California - Irvine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers led by a UC Irvine professor developed a new tool to measure aviation’s impact on climate when making tradeoffs. Cutting aircraft contrails or nitrogen oxide emissions can offset small increases in carbon dioxide. The Global Warming per Activity tool enables users to develop decision risk curves that help policymakers make smarter, climate-friendly choices.

Journal: Nature

2-Jul-2025

Global drought hotspots report catalogs severe suffering, economic damage in 2023-2025

United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)
Reports and Proceedings

Fuelled by climate change and relentless pressure on land and water resources, some of the most widespread and damaging drought events in recorded history have taken place since 2023, according to a UN-backed report launched today. The report provides a comprehensive account of how droughts compound poverty, hunger, energy insecurity, and ecosystem collapse.

2-Jul-2025

Chinese scientists reveal how climate shift enhanced Jurassic biodiversity in East Asia

Science China Press
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A Chinese research team has shown how a climate shift from wet to sub-humid conditions 167 million years ago reshaped East Asia’s landscapes, driving an increase in biodiversity in the Yanliao Biota. Published in National Science Review, the study highlights how varied habitats drove the evolution of early mammals, dinosaurs, and insects in the North China Craton.

Journal: National Science Review
Funder: National Natural Science Foundation of China

2-Jul-2025

Ignoring peatlands could derail climate goals

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Northern peatlands could seriously complicate efforts to cool the planet, especially after a temporary overshoot of the 1.5°C global warming limit, according to new IIASA-led research.

Journal: One Earth

2-Jul-2025

Data-driven strategies to advance methane pyrolysis catalysts

Advanced Institute for Materials Research (AIMR), Tohoku University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers have explored how artificial intelligence and machine learning are helping scientists identify catalysts for methane pyrolysis, a reaction that produces hydrogen without emitting carbon dioxide.

Journal: ACS Catalysis

2-Jul-2025

Young forests could help to capture carbon in climate change fight

University of Birmingham
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Young forests regrowing from land where mature woodlands have been cut down have a key role to play in removing billions of tonnes of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) and combating climate change.

Journal: Nature Climate Change

2-Jul-2025

What about tritiated water release from Fukushima? Ocean model simulations provide an objective scientific knowledge on the long-term tritium distribution

Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers from the Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, have revealed that releasing treated water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant site have negligible short- and long-term effects on tritium concentrations in the ocean, which remain well below international safety standards.

Journal: Marine Pollution Bulletin

1-Jul-2025

Study: What we learned from record-breaking 2021 heat wave and what we can expect in the future

Portland State University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study from some of the Pacific Northwest's top climate scientists synthesized more than 70 publications addressing the causes and consequences of the extreme heat wave in June 2021 and the potential for similar high-heat events to happen in the future.

Journal: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society