Atmospheric Science

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12-Jun-2025

Virginia Tech fog harp gets an upgrade

Virginia Tech
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Engineering and industrial design faculty came together in 2018 to create the fog harp, a new approach for harvesting water from fog. Seven years later, the team has dramatically improved its design by developing a hybrid harvester that combines the best aspects of existing nets and harps.

12-Jun-2025

Domino effect: smarter water use cuts wastewater emissions at the source

Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

What if reducing greenhouse gas emissions wasn’t just about upgrading industrial facilities, but about how we use water at home and in cities? 

Journal

Environmental Science and Ecotechnology

12-Jun-2025

Hanyang University researchers discovered new breakthrough catalyst for cheaper green hydrogen production

Industrial Cooperation & research Planning team, Hanyang University ERICA
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Hydrogen is a clean energy source that can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. However, its large-scale production is currently impeded by the need for expensive and rare catalysts, required for electrochemical water-splitting. In a new study, researchers have developed novel tunable boron-doped cobalt phosphide nanosheet-based electrocatalysts using metal-organic frameworks. These electrocatalysts offer high efficiency, low cost, and long-term stability, with the potential to enable large-scale hydrogen production. 

Journal

Small

11-Jun-2025

A California dairy tried to capture its methane. It worked

University of California - Riverside
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study shows the effectiveness of dairy digesters, which can reduce atmospheric methane emissions from farms by roughly 80 percent, a result that closely matches estimates California state officials have used in their climate planning.

11-Jun-2025

Lawn story: Turfgrass data may improve urban greenhouse gas emission estimates

Penn State
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Data that has been lost in the weeds — or more accurately the turfgrass — could help improve estimates of carbon dioxide emissions from urban areas, according to a team led by scientists at Penn State.

Journal

Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences

Funder

National Institute of Standards and Technology

11-Jun-2025

Naval Research Laboratory and NASA launch joint effort to study wildfire-induced thunderstorms

Naval Research Laboratory
Business Announcement

WASHINGTON, D.C. — As wildfires grow more intense and frequent across the globe, scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) are working to better understand a rare but powerful byproduct of these blazes: pyrocumulonimbus clouds, or pyroCbs.

10-Jun-2025

Tool identifies ecologically equivalent areas to guide restoration projects

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Model designed to comply with current legislation uses biodiversity, landscape, and ecosystem services data and could support public policies.

Journal

Environmental Impact Assessment Review

Funder

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo