In chilly Rhode Island, Pearl is dreaming of a heat pump water heater. And Sam, a renter in Wisconsin, plans to drop hints that her landlord should swap out her furnace for cold-climate heat pumps.

Several technologies can aid the transition, including building insulation and weatherization, cold climate heat pumps, thermal energy storage systems, and higher-voltage distribution grids.

according to the Department of Energy -- and make it easy to stay comfortable in hot or cold weather. But if you want to appreciate the benefits of a heat pump, it's imperative to choose the right ...

In addition, blowing warm air into the persons lungs may assist in internal rewarming. Tissue temperature in cold weather is regulated by two factors, the external temperature and the internal heat ...

A new incentive program aimed at getting Maine homeowners to switch to high-efficiency heat pumps for all their heating and cooling has finally taken off, according to Efficiency Maine Trust. The ...

Nov. 4, 2024 — Research helps reconstruct an ancient climate and challenges the timing of the Andes Mountains ... Buried Alive: Carbon Dioxide Release from Magma Deep Beneath Ancient Volcanoes ...

By Catrin Einhorn A second Trump administration could stop defending the E.P.A. against lawsuits attacking its climate policies ... wildfires and dangerous heat. Damage to the natural world ...

Especially vulnerable are the elderly, with the number of heat-related deaths in people over 65 last year reaching a level 167% above the number of such deaths in the 1990s. Without climate change, ...

Extreme climate events such as heat waves, cold snaps, floods and dry spells have significant impacts on society. To examine whether such extremes have changed over time a variety of extreme climate ...

Oct. 27, 2024 — The warming climate in polar regions may significantly disrupt ocean circulation patterns, a new study indicates. Scientists discovered that in the distant past, growing inflows ...