Photographer Dmitry Kokh travelled to an abandoned weather station on Kolyuchin island on the Russian side of the Arctic circle and found a load of polar bears playing house.
Carbon Brief published an excellent piece debunking and clarifying 16 myths about solar power, from fire risk, excessive waste fears, wildlife deaths, and dependence on China.
Adaptation Scotland published a useful checklist for businesses to assess their climate resilience, across 5 climate impact topics People, Products, Premises, Processes, and Place.
Researchers at the University of Rochester have increased the efficiency of a solar thermoelectric generator (STEG) to 15% by improving heat dissipation on the cold side and heat absorption on the hot side of the panel.
Branch magazine published an interesting case study of a grid aware website with feature constraints selectable by users, and surveyed the users of their awareness and preferences for feature reductions. Grey scaling images and removing images were the last options users implemented.
Matt Fitzpatrick at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science - Appalachian Lab created a map that shows you what the climate of your city will be like in 60 years by linking it to a place that has that climate now. Cork will have the climate of Guernica in 2080. As you get closer to the equator, the map reads displays the message: Future climate for this location is expected to be unlike anything currently found anywhere on Earth, so there are no climate matches for this location.
