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China has an opportunity to massively increase its use of wind power -- if it properly integrates wind into its existing power system, according to a new study. The research forecasts that wind power could provide 26 percent of China's projected electricity demand by 2030, up from 3 percent in 2015.

Such a change would be a substantial gain in the global transition to renewable energy, since China produces the most total greenhouse gas emissions of any country in the world.

By the year 2100, sea levels might rise as much as 2.5 meters above their current levels, which would seriously threaten coastal cities and other low-lying areas. In turn, this would force animals to migrate farther inland in search of higher ground. But accelerated urbanization, such as the rapidly expanding Piedmont area that stretches from Atlanta to eastern North Carolina, could cut off their escape routes and create climate-induced extinctions.

Una técnica de cultivo practicado durante siglos por los habitantes de África Occidental, que convierte el suelo de la selva tropical pobre en nutrientes, en tierras de cultivo fértiles, podría ser la respuesta a la mitigación del cambio climático y revolucionar la agricultura en África.

Researchers at the University of British Columbia and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have discovered a new way to optimize electron transfer in semi-conductors used in solar fuel solutions.

The finding, published today in Nature Chemistry, could have a big impact on devices that convert sunlight into electricity and fuel.

¿Qué tan ambicioso es el mundo? La conferencia sobre el clima de París en diciembre pasado sorprendió a muchos al prometer no sólo el mantener el calentamiento "muy por debajo de dos grados centígrados," sino también a "proseguir los esfuerzos" para limitar el calentamiento a 1,5 grados C. Esto plantea una cuestión muy importante: ¿Cuál es la diferencia entre un mundo con un aumento de dos grados y otro con aumento de 1,5 grados?