Saltwater flooding is a serious fire threat for EVs and other devices with lithium-ion batteries

If you live in a flood-prone area, especially near the ocean, it’s important to know the risks if your EV is flooded. Or your golf cart, e-bike or other device with lithium-ion batteries.

Xinyu Huang, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of South Carolina • conversation
Nov. 15, 2024 ~8 min

Jails and prisons often fail to protect incarcerated people during natural disasters

Prisons and jails are difficult to evacuate when wildfires or storms approach. Many of these facilities lack evacuation plans and may keep incarcerated people on-site instead of moving them to safety.

Tara Goddard, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning, Texas A&M University • conversation
Nov. 12, 2024 ~10 min


Countries spend huge sums on fossil fuel subsidies – why they’re so hard to eliminate

Countries have promised to reduce their fossil fuel subsidies to fight climate change, but it’s harder to do than it looks. An energy law expert explains the challenges.

Bruce Huber, Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame • conversation
Nov. 12, 2024 ~9 min

Gender inequality ingrained in global climate negotiations, say researchers

Climate governance is dominated by men, yet the health impacts of the climate crisis often affect women, girls, and gender-diverse people disproportionately,

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Nov. 11, 2024 ~9 min

Disaster survivors want to rebuild safer, more sustainable homes, but cost misperceptions often stand in the way

In interviews with residents and builders after disasters from Hawaii to Colorado to Puerto Rico, an engineer and policy specialist found people often overestimating the cost of building back better.

Abbie B. Liel, Professional of Civil Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder • conversation
Nov. 8, 2024 ~9 min

Planting trees in the Arctic could make global warming worse, not better, say scientists

Tree planting has been widely touted as a cost-effective way of reducing global warming, due to trees’ ability to store large quantities of carbon from the

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Nov. 7, 2024 ~6 min

Cop16: the world’s largest meeting to save nature has ended with no clear path ahead

Targets to restore global biodiversity were not accompanied by concrete plans for action or the financial commitments that many at Cop16 were hoping for.

Harriet Bulkeley, Professor of Geography, Durham University • conversation
Nov. 4, 2024 ~9 min

Beyond bottled water and sandwiches: What FEMA is doing to get hurricane victims back into their homes

FEMA’s recovery work after Helene and Milton has been hampered by misinformation. Here’s what the agency actually does to help people displaced by disasters.

Walter Gillis Peacock, Professor of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning, Texas A&M University • conversation
Oct. 29, 2024 ~10 min


Study: Marshes provide cost-effective coastal protection

As climate change accelerates sea-level rise and intensifies storms, marsh-fronted seawalls can provide an economical coastal defense, MIT engineers report.

David Chandler | MIT News • mit
Oct. 23, 2024 ~7 min

The gas crisis is not over yet

A cold winter in Europe and war in the Persian Gulf could send prices soaring.

Louis Fletcher, Research Fellow in Energy and Climate Politics, University of Warwick • conversation
Oct. 22, 2024 ~8 min

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