Nicola Jones

Here's some fun news for summer: plenty of old freezers use refrigerants that are being phased out under the Montreal protocol (including CFCs and HCFCs for their ozone-eating damage, and even HFCs for their greenhouse warming potential) -- including the freezers that scientists use to store ice cores taken from Greenland, the Antarctic and mountain top glaciers.  The NSF storage facility in Denver, which currently uses an HCFC, is now getting an upgrade -- to transcritical CO2. Most fridges still use HFCs... watch this space to see what winds up replacing them. HFOs? Propane? Ammonia? Or CO2? The hunt is on! https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02287-8

How the planes, trains and automobiles of the future will get around without warming the planet. My feature for Knowable. https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/technology/2024/decarbonization-of-transportation-predictions

 The warming planet is muddling ice core records, sinking meteorites out of sight, and threatening archaeological discoveries. My story for Yale E360 https://e360.yale.edu/features/glacier-melt-ice-cores-artifacts-meteorites

Thrilled and honoured to be selected the winner of "best feature" by the Canadian National Media Awards Foundation in their 2024 Digital Publishing Awards, for my feature in Hakai magazine about the seaweed rush. https://digitalpublishingawards.ca/2024winners/