This scene underscores a shifting paradigm in personal mobility: the rise of the heavy-duty electric bike. Far more than a standard commuter, a true heavy-duty electric bike is an engineered platform ...

The lifetime of nitrous oxide is decreasing more quickly than expected, which is changing climate projections.

A region of northern Alaska’s permafrost roughly the size of Wisconsin is thawing at an accelerating pace, funneling ancient ...

Polystyrene is one of the most highly used synthetic polymers in the world and is extremely resistant to decomposition.

Abstract: The annual compliance cycle of the carbon trading system allows generation companies (GenCos) to decouple the timing of carbon allowance purchases from their actual emissions. However, ...

COLUMBIA — The odorless, colorless, and tasteless gas, carbon monoxide, is a silent killer. “It will bind where oxygen binds and not allow your hemoglobin to carry oxygen, which impacts all your cells ...

We analyze the revolutionary three-stream adaptive cycle engine powering the F-47 fighter, examining how variable airflow streams allow a single engine to shift between fuel-efficient cruise and ...

Deep in the Arctic north, drained peatlands—once massive carbon vaults built over thousands of years—are quietly leaking greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. But new field research from northern ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ian writes on fossil energies, climate, and transition to renewables. The Supreme Court in 2007 ruled the EPA should regulate ...

It is well documented that the Gulf Stream plays a pivotal role in the climate system through its transfer of heat, which ultimately supplies warmth to northern latitudes in the North Atlantic. What ...

Susan Trumbore, a professor of earth system science at the University of California, Irvine, who simultaneously teaches Ph.D students in Germany, studies the carbon cycle and how forests and soils ...