Tag: ENN

The global steel industry is slowly embracing electric-arc furnaces, a cleaner alternative to the blast furnaces typically used to make steel, as detailed in a new report.

The jet stream, the narrow band of westerly winds circling the northern hemisphere, is stagnating, giving rise to severe heat across much of the globe, and climate change may be making it worse, a new study finds.

NASA's newest storm-watching satellites have collected their first views of hurricanes, offering scientists a new tool for understanding the inner workings of storms over shorter time spans.

Researchers led by a team at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have created the first tool to map and visualize the areas where human settlements and nature meet on a global scale. 

Carbon-based materials have several qualities that make them attractive as catalysts for speeding up chemical reactions.

The transition to an environmentally sustainable economy has begun, but it will be a generation (about twenty years) before we will see moderation of global warming.

Anyone who has ever perspired on a hot summer day understands the principle — and critical value — of evaporative cooling.

For approximately 3,000 years, generations of green sea turtles have returned to the same Mediterranean seagrass meadows to eat. 

We know less about the rainforest canopy, where most of the world’s species live than we do about the surface of Mars or the bottom of the ocean. 

Coastal forests are increasingly exposed to the effects of climate change and sea level rise.