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Climate & Energy Energy, emissions, and the physics of a warming planet.
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Edition No. 32
Friday, October 30, 2026
Updated 06:51 UTC
Stronger verdicts first · Score orders stories within each verdict
Global gridded crop models (GGCMs) are crucial for assessing the performance of food producing systems, for example under climate change or their contribution to environmental challenges.
By Lin, Bathiany, Gelbrecht +3 · Oct 27, 2026
Score █████░░░░░ 4.6
Top stories 01 Water demand is the volume of water required by a sector to satisfy its needs1,2.
Verdict: Notable█████░░░░░ 4.5
02 Emergent constraints are increasingly used to reduce uncertainty in regional climate projections by exploiting relationships across models between observable historical predictors and projected changes.
Verdict: Notable████░░░░░░ 4.4
More top stories No.03 to No.06
OpenAlex by Baliaka, Ward, Raffuse +13
Urban fire smoke is chemically distinct from wildland fire smoke, yet remains poorly understood.
No.03 Oct 28, 2026 Verdict: NotableScore ████░░░░░░ 4.4
OpenAlex by Clermont, Yang, Roche +1
No.04 Oct 27, 2026 Verdict: NotableScore ████░░░░░░ 4.3
OpenAlex by Tong, Yuan, Sun +2
Frequent flooding induced by climate change has been posing growing threats to human 2 lives and property worldwide.
No.05 Oct 27, 2026 Verdict: NotableScore ████░░░░░░ 4.3
OpenAlex by Dong, Ying, Wu +13
The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) remains a key bottleneck in sustainable hydrogen production and energy conversion.
No.06 Oct 28, 2026 Verdict: NotableScore ████░░░░░░ 4.3
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