Climate Science and the Case of the Missing Moisture
Expected air moisture is missing over drier areas worldwide, possibly because climate models undervalue the effects of plants and other life. This finding could be a fingerprint of human-caused land degradation, which would underscore calls to solve climate, biodiversity and water availability together.
Nature · Biodiversity Climate Change Water
More than Carbon Sticks
The concept that planting trees will help mitigate climate change by storing CO2 is too simplistic, ignoring the large effect that plants have on the water cycle. Careful restoration of native plant ecosystems can rebalance that cycle, further mitigating climate change while also reducing flood and drought.
Nature · Climate Change Slow Water Water
Smarter Ways with Water
To address an onslaught of crises, people must tune into natural ways to repair water cycles that human development has severely disrupted
Nature · Adaptation Climate Change Nature-Based Solutions Slow Water
Fortresses of Mud
Rising seas threaten the San Francisco Bay Area, home to one of the largest estuaries in North America. But marsh-restoration efforts could hold back the high water.
Nature · Economics Energy Water
The Real Cost of Energy
All energy production has environmental and societal effects. But calculating them — and pricing energy accordingly — is no easy task.
Nature · Energy Renewable Energy
Can Wind and Solar Fuel Africa’s Future?
With prices for renewables dropping, many countries in Africa might leap past dirty forms of energy towards a cleaner future.
Nature · Energy Renewable Energy
Lazarus Batteries
Battery recycling can be hard, energy intensive and uneconomic. But soon, dead power cells could be more easily resurrected.
Businesses Lead Where US Falters
The Paris Agreement requires commitments from countries to take action and reduce emissions, but the corporate world is also looking at its contribution to mitigation.
