With the continuous growth of global energy demand and the intensification of environmental issues, CO₂ emissions have surged dramatically, reaching up to 54 billion tons annually, drawing worldwide attention. Converting CO₂ into high-value chemicals not only helps mitigate global climate change but also promotes the development of the carbon cycle and green chemistry. Electrochemical CO₂ reduction reactions offer an effective pathway for this conversion, and porous materials, with their unique physicochemical properties, have shown tremendous potential in these reactions.

Salk scientists have created a new atlas of plant cells during immune response, in turn discovering a new rare cell state, called Primary IMmunE Responder (PRIMER), that acts as an immune response hub to initiate defense strategy throughout plants. The publicly available database offers novel insight into the plant immune response—an urgent task in the face of climate change growing antimicrobial resistance.

In the ongoing battle against climate change, quantifying the carbon locked within trees is essential for tracking the effectiveness of our mitigation efforts.

A study of Chinese agriculture recommends planting areas currently growing maize and rapeseed with alternative crops to reduce environmental costs while maximizing food production as the climate changes. 

There is a new mouth to feed in the coastal waters of the Northwest where juvenile salmon first enter the ocean, and it’s a hungry one. Over the last two decades large numbers of juvenile sablefish have spread into coastal waters from central Oregon north to northern Washington. New research published in the journal Marine and Coastal Fisheries shows the new competition follows the warming of ocean temperatures off the West Coast. It matches reports of fishing boats catching more small sablefish closer to shore.

An international team led by McGill University researchers has devised a way to improve the accuracy of climate change models for the Global South by integrating historical records kept by missionaries and other visitors.

An interdisciplinary collaboration has redefined how we study climate change by introducing a new perspective on extreme events and probability distribution shifts.