German Groups Sue Major Carmakers for Fueling the Climate Emergency <span>German Groups Sue Major Carmakers for Fueling the Climate Emergency</span>
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2021-09-03 18:55:10
New Climate Study: Arctic Heat Fueled Deadly February Texas Freeze <span>New Climate Study: Arctic Heat Fueled Deadly February Texas Freeze</span>
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2021-09-03 13:32:33
Climate Groups Target Congress With 'Gas Is Not Clean' Campaign <span>Climate Groups Target Congress With 'Gas Is Not Clean' Campaign</span>
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2021-09-01 18:10:18
Atmospheric CO2 Levels Haven't Been This High in 800,000 Years: NOAA <span>Atmospheric CO2 Levels Haven't Been This High in 800,000 Years: NOAA</span>
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2021-08-25 16:41:46
Could this solar farm be a climate change solution? UN experts say rapid innovative solutions are needed to end our dependency on fossil fuels. Could this new project provide an answer?
2021-08-24 23:01:08
Climate Check: Why a warmer world will also be wetter Human activity is causing unprecedented changes in our climate - that's the main message in the latest report from the IPCC. In this month's Climate Check, Ben Rich explains why a warmer world will also be a wetter one.
2021-08-11 16:07:04
Climate Check: Why a warmer world will also be wetter Human activity is causing unprecedented changes in our climate - that's the main message in the latest report from the IPCC. In this month's Climate Check, Ben Rich explains why a warmer world will also be a wetter one.
2021-08-11 16:07:04
Landslides in India Kill 100+ as Monsoon Rains Pummel Nation <span>Landslides in India Kill 100+ as Monsoon Rains Pummel Nation</span>
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2021-07-23 14:11:03
The impact of climate change on Kenya's Tana river basin Many species within Kenya's Tana River Basin will be unable to survive if global temperatures continue to rise as they are on track to do - according to new research from the University of East Anglia. A new study published in the journal PLOS ONE outline
2021-07-23 00:00:00
China's carbon-monitoring satellite reports global carbon net of six gigatons About six gigatons -- roughly 12 times the mass of all living humans -- of carbon appears to be emitted over land every year, according to data from the Chinese Global Carbon Dioxide Monitoring Scientific Experimental Satellite (TanSat).
2021-07-23 00:00:00
California's carbon mitigation efforts may be thwarted by climate change itself To meet an ambitious goal of carbon neutrality by 2045, California's policymakers are relying in part on forests and shrublands to remove CO2 from the atmosphere, but researchers at the University of California, Irvine warn that future climate change may
2021-07-22 00:00:00
Informing policy for long-term global food security More than 820 million people in the world don't have enough to eat, while climate change and increasing competition for land and water are further raising concerns about the future balance between food demand and supply. The results of a new IIASA-led stu
2021-07-22 00:00:00
Land repair vital for survival Restoration of degraded drylands is urgently needed to mitigate climate change, reverse desertification and secure livelihoods for the two billion people who live there, experts warn in a major new paper in Nature Ecology & Evolution. Scientists leadi
2021-07-22 00:00:00
RNA breakthrough creates crops that can grow 50% more potatoes, rice A new RNA breakthrough is allowing plants to yield dramatically more crops and increase drought tolerance, which could have an impact on food scarcity and production as climate change threatens ecosystems. In initial tests, adding a gene encoding for a pr
2021-07-22 00:00:00
How do wind turbines impact Golden Eagles? Results from a study published in Ibis show that how close Golden Eagles will fly to wind turbines depends on habitat suitability inside and outside of a wind farm. Also, the largest impact of wind farms was a loss of Golden Eagle habitat, which could be
2021-07-21 00:00:00
The challenge of capturing carbon In the race to combat climate change, capturing carbon dioxide emissions has been touted as a simple road to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. While the science behind carbon capture is sound, current technologies are expensive and not optimized for all s
2021-07-21 00:00:00
Communicating about climate change: What's politics got to do with it? In the United States, climate change is controversial, which makes communicating about the subject a tricky proposition. A recent study by Portland State researchers Brianne Suldovsky, assistant professor of communication, and Daniel Taylor-Rodriguez, ass
2021-07-21 00:00:00
Review evaluates the evidence for an intensifying Indian Ocean water cycle The Indian Ocean has been warming much more than other ocean basins over the last 50-60 years. While temperature changes basin-wide can be unequivocally attributed to human-induced climate change, it is difficult to assess whether contemporary heat and fr
2021-07-20 00:00:00
Three key habitat-building corals face worrying future due to climate crisis The climate crisis will lead to changes in distribution and habitat loss of stony corals in the tropical Atlantic, shows a new study published by the open access publisher Frontiers. The loss of such coral species could have devastating consequences for t
2021-07-19 00:00:00
Climate change to bring more intense storms across Europe Investigating how climate affects intense rainstorms across Europe, climate experts have shown there will be a significant future increase in the occurrence of slow-moving intense rainstorms. The scientists estimate that these slow-moving storms may be 14
2021-07-16 00:00:00
Complexity yields simplicity: The shifting dynamics of temperate marine ecosystems Researchers from the University of Tsukuba find that the combined effects of ocean warming and acidification in temperate marine ecosystems are resulting in a loss of kelp habitat and a shift to a simple turf-dominated ecosystem. Such changes will lead to
2021-07-16 00:00:00
Arrival of land plants changed Earth's climate control system In a new study, published in the journal Nature, researchers looked at samples from rocks spanning the last three billion years and found evidence of a dramatic change in how the carbon cycle functioned about 400 million years ago, when plants started to
2021-07-15 00:00:00
Climate regulation changed with the proliferation of marine animals and terrestrial plants Earth's climate was relatively stable for a long period of time. For three billion years, temperatures were mostly warm and carbon dioxide levels high - until a shift occurred about 400 million years ago. A new study suggests that the change at this time
2021-07-15 00:00:00
Melting High Mountain Asia glaciers are revealed as a potential source of greenhouse gases For the first time, researchers have measured the flux variations of greenhouse gases (CO2 and CH4) in typical glacial basins in High Mountain Asia. They have discovered that rapid cryospheric retreat has made the basins strong sources of carbon with posi
2021-07-15 00:00:00
New method makes vital fertilizer element in a more sustainable way An international research team that includes scientists and engineers from The University of Texas at Austin has devised a new method for making urea that is more environmentally friendly than today's process and produces enough to be competitive with ene
2021-07-14 00:00:00
How climate change and fires are shaping the forests of the future As temperatures rise, the risk of devastating forest fires is increasing. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) are using artificial intelligence to estimate the long-term impact that an increased number of forest fires will have on fore
2021-07-14 00:00:00
Baylor study evaluates biodiversity impacts of alternative energy strategies Climate change mitigation efforts have led to shifts from fossil-fuel dependence to large-scale renewable energy. However, renewable energy sources require significant land and could come at a cost to ecosystems. A new study led by Ryan McManamay, Ph.D.,
2021-07-13 00:00:00
Just 25 mega-cities produce 52% of the world's urban greenhouse gas emissions New research published by the open access publisher Frontiers inventories greenhouse gas emissions of 167 globally distributed cities. The study shows that just 25 mega-cities produce 52% of the greenhouse gas emissions from the studied cities. Asian citi
2021-07-12 00:00:00
Mapping extreme snowmelt and its potential dangers Rapid snowmelt can be dangerous, and understanding its drivers is important for understanding the world under the influence of climate change.
2021-07-12 00:00:00
Rise in Southeast Asia forest clearance increasing greenhouse gases Forest clearance in Southeast Asia is accelerating, leading to unprecedented increases in carbon emissions, according to new research.The findings, revealed by a research team including University of Leeds academics, show that forests are being cut down a
2021-07-12 00:00:00
Humans can learn from animals and insects about impact of climate change If we pay closer attention to how birds, rabbits and termites transform their local living spaces in response to varying climate conditions, we could become much better at predicting what impact climate change will have on them in future.This is according
2021-07-12 00:00:00
Coastal ecosystems worldwide: Billion-dollar carbon reservoirs Australia's coastal ecosystems alone save the rest of the world costs of around 23 billion US dollar a year by absorbing CO2 from the atmosphere. This is according to calculations just published by researchers at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy
2021-07-12 00:00:00
Elevated warming, ozone have detrimental effects on plant roots, promote soil carbon loss Two factors that play a key role in climate change - increased climate warming and elevated ozone levels - appear to have detrimental effects on soybean plant roots, their relationship with symbiotic microorganisms in the soil and the ways the plants sequ
2021-07-09 00:00:00
Improving transparency of integrated assessment models related to climate change An article published in WIREs Climate Change that's co-authored by officials at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) documents various activities underway to enhance the transparency of Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) and their assess
2021-07-08 00:00:00
How can counselors address social justice amid climate change? We're currently living in what many scientists are calling the Anthropocene, the period during which human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and the environment. An article published in the Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Develop
2021-07-08 00:00:00
UB team analyzes the impact of climate change in dry and hot periods in the Pyrenees A team of the University of Barcelona has analysed for the first time what the dry and hot periods could be like in the area of the Pyrenees. Under an intermediate scenario, there would not be a rise in long-lasting dry episodes, but temperatures would ri
2021-07-08 00:00:00
Researchers propose a scheme that treats carbon emissions like financial debt The recent extreme heat in the Western United States and Canada may seem remarkable now, but events like these are made more likely, and more severe, under climate change. The consequences are likely to be far-reaching, with overwhelmingly negative impact
2021-07-08 00:00:00
How fishing communities are responding to climate change What happens when climate change affects the abundance and distribution of fish? Fishers and fishing communities in the Northeast United States have adapted to those changes in three specific ways, according to new research published in Frontiers in Marin
2021-07-08 00:00:00
Arctic seabirds are less heat tolerant, more vulnerable to climate change The Arctic is warming at approximately twice the global rate. A new study led by researchers from McGill University finds that cold-adapted Arctic species, like the thick-billed murre, are especially vulnerable to heat stress caused by climate change.
2021-07-07 00:00:00
Changes in Earth's orbit enabled the emergence of complex life "Snowball Earth" is the most extreme climate event in Earth's history, when it was completely engulfed in ice.The theory of its existence has faced two challenges - how life survived and variations in rock formations from the time implying chang
2021-07-07 00:00:00
Secret to weathering climate change lies at our feet Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently discovered that the ability of agricultural grasses to withstand drought is directly related to the health of the microbial community living on their stems, leaves and seeds.
2021-07-06 00:00:00
Studies add to concern about climate tipping Two climate model studies document the probability of climate tipping in Earth subsystems. The findings support the urgency of restricting CO2 emissions as abrupt climate changes might be less predictable and more widespread in the climate system than ant
2021-07-06 00:00:00
Improved prediction of Indian Monsoon onset three months in advance using machine learning The onset of the Indian summer monsoon has been predicted three months ahead for the last 40 years with the highest precision up until today. The result indicates longer seasonal forecasts based on machine learning may be a way to mitigate the consequence
2021-07-06 00:00:00
Global network transforming tropical forest research A huge global network of researchers is working together to take the pulse of our global tropical forests.ForestPlots.net, which is co-ordinated from the University of Leeds, brings together more than 2,500 scientists who have examined millions of trees t
2021-07-02 00:00:00
Earth's cryosphere shrinking by 87,000 square kilometers per year A new study in AGU's journal Earth's Future reports the first global assessment of the extent of snow and ice cover on Earth's surface--a critical factor cooling the planet through reflected sunlight--and its response to warming temperatures.
2021-07-01 00:00:00
Scientists intensify electrolysis, utilize carbon dioxide more efficiently with magnets A promising approach captures atmospheric carbon dioxide and then through CO2 electrolysis converts it into value-added chemicals and intermediates, like ethanol. Reducing the energy consumption of this high-power process has been underexplored. In ACS En
2021-06-30 00:00:00
How plants quickly adapt to shifting environmental conditions Research by Salk Institute scientists offers a new understanding of how gene activity directs plant growth, and how quickly plants respond to their environment -- with shifting light conditions triggering molecular changes in as little as five minutes. Th
2021-06-30 00:00:00
'Plugging in' to produce environmentally friendly bioplastics Bioplastics -- biodegradable plastics made from biological substances rather than petroleum -- can be created in a more economical and environmentally friendly way from the byproducts of corn stubble, grasses and mesquite agricultural production, accordin
2021-06-30 00:00:00
Fairer finance could speed up net zero for Africa by a decade Levelling up access to finance so that poorer countries can afford the funds needed to switch to renewable energy could see regions like Africa reaching net zero emissions a decade earlier, according to a study led by UCL researchers. Access to finance (c
2021-06-30 00:00:00
Floods may be nearly as important as droughts for future carbon accounting In a 34-year global analysis, researchers found that photosynthesis -- an important process for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it in soil -- was controlled by extreme wet events nearly as often as droughts in certain locations.
2021-06-30 00:00:00
Fecal records show Maya population affected by climate change A McGill-led study has shown that the size of the Maya population in the lowland city of Itzan (in present-day Guatemala) varied over time in response to climate change. The findings, published recently in Quaternary Science Reviews, show that both drough
2021-06-30 00:00:00
NIST laser 'comb' systems now measure all primary greenhouse gases in the air Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have upgraded their laser frequency-comb instrument to simultaneously measure three airborne greenhouse gases -- nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide and water vapor -- plus the major air p
2021-06-30 00:00:00
Slowing the sugar rush to yield better grapes One of the many challenges for grape growers posed by climate change is the accelerated rate at which grapes ripen in warmer climates, which can result in poor colour and aroma development.
2021-06-30 00:00:00
A 50% rise in the level of CO2 could reduce rainfall in the Amazon more than deforestation Simulations run by Brazilian scientists on a supercomputer at the National Space Research Institute (INPE) show that the direct impact of rising levels of carbon dioxide over the Amazon rainforest would be a reduction in rainfall equivalent to or even gre
2021-06-29 00:00:00
New insight into photosynthesis could help grow more resilient plants A Washington State University-led research team has created a computer model to understand how plants make adjustments to store energy made through photosynthesis. Understanding these adjustments could help develop new plants that can withstand rising tem
2021-06-28 00:00:00
Old oil fields may be less prone to induced earthquakes Subsurface carbon sequestration--storing carbon in rocks deep underground--offers a partial solution for removing carbon from the atmosphere. Used alongside emissions reductions, geologic carbon sequestration could help mitigate anthropogenic climate chan
2021-06-28 00:00:00
How to build a better wind farm Location, location, location--when it comes to the placement of wind turbines, the old real estate adage applies, according to new research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Carnegie's Enrico Antonini and Ken Caldeira.
2021-06-28 00:00:00
DNA data and modelling reveal potential spread of invasive species Scientists at the University of Southampton have found that a marine invasive species - a sea squirt that lives on rocky shores - could spread along 3,500 kilometres of South American coastline if climate change or human activities alter sea conditions.
2021-06-28 00:00:00
