A move to install electric heat pumps for the entire house instead of individual rooms has drawn strong interest from ...

Modern heat pumps, including those designed specifically for cold climates, often don’t switch to backup heat until the ...

A deep drought gripped the region in the 1950s. With less river water available for irrigation, farmers began to drill wells and pump groundwater. Hydrologists now understand that wells drilled ...

But Australia’s land and seas are now at record levels of heat. Globally ... and tarmac prevent the ground from soaking up excess water and in low-lying coastal areas where rising sea levels ...

Heat-related deaths in people over the age of 65 reached the highest levels on record, 167% higher in the 1990s. “This isn’t just about extreme weather events,” said Jeremy Farrar ...

Three powerful ways to accelerate sustainable development In the study, the scientists looked at three possible pathways to achieve the 17 sustainable development goals used by governments ...

Now, just 200 grams—the mass of about one cup of water—of a new material developed by scientists at UC Berkeley can pull as much carbon out of the atmosphere as a tree. Omar Yaghi, senior ...

For those who follow NASA's human spaceflight program, when the Orion spacecraft's heat shield cracked and chipped away during atmospheric reentry on the unpiloted Artemis I test flight in late ...

Bosch is now the first manufacturer to bring a cold-climate heat pump to market as part of the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Residential Cold Climate Heat Pump Challenge. The new Bosch IDS ...

Low water level at the Mazar hydroelectric plant in Las Palmas, Ecuador. The nation this week will lift power cuts from eight to 14 hours a day due to the worst drought it has faced in six decades.

Across Philadelphia, dozens of silver haired, climate-conscious canvassers are going door to door in the last weeks before Election Day, leaving green slips of paper with guides on how to register ...

Thames Water has secured a £3bn injection to avoid running out of cash. There were fears the UK's biggest water supplier, which serves 16 million customers, could have run out of money by Christmas.