Human activity caused the long-term growth of greenhouse gas methane Decadal growth rate of methane in the atmosphere varied dramatically over the past 30 yeas with three distinct periods of slowed (1988-1998), quasi-stationary (1999-2006) and renewed (2007-2016) phases. An inverse analysis with atmospheric chemistry trans
2021-01-29 00:00:00
Otago study examines attitudes toward climate change risk A University of Otago study explored factors which influence Americans' levels of concern over climate change, providing discussion on how those factors could impact mitigation efforts.
2021-01-28 00:00:00
Research illuminates lobsters' genetic response to changing climate The American lobster, which supports the most valuable fishery in North America, may be more susceptible to climate change than previously thought. Studies of the early life stages of lobsters have concluded that ocean acidification, compared to warming,
2021-01-28 00:00:00
Crowdfunding? Check weather forecast first! Investors' moods are affected by gloomy weather. New research from Copenhagen Business School recommends entrepreneurs looking for finance should be aware of the weather forecast at the time they want to launch their crowdfunding campaigns.
2021-01-28 00:00:00
Majority skeptical healthcare costs will fall anytime soon as Biden begins presidency In his inaugural address, President Biden vowed that 'help is on the way' to a nation grappling with a pandemic that has already claimed over 420,000 lives and counting. However, despite the promise of a better future, a new survey from West Health and Ga
2021-01-28 00:00:00
World's largest opinion survey on climate change: Majority call for wide-ranging An innovative UNDP global survey conducted in collaboration with Oxford University experts -- the largest-ever opinion survey on climate change (1.2 million people in 50 countries) -- finds 64% (+/- 2%) deem climate an 'emergency.' Worldwide, most people
2021-01-27 00:00:00
Up-trending farming and landscape disruptions threaten Paris climate agreement goals UC Irvine Earth system science researchers conducted an analysis of greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture and land use since 1961, finding some opportunities for mitigation as well as areas where curtailment will require sacrifices.
2021-01-27 00:00:00
More than just CO2: It's time to tackle short-lived climate-forcing pollutants Climate change mitigation is about more than just CO2. So-called 'short-lived climate-forcing pollutants' such as soot, methane, and tropospheric ozone all have harmful effects. Climate policy should be guided by a clearer understanding of their different
2021-01-27 00:00:00
Getting to net zero -- and even net negative -- is surprisingly feasible, and affordable Reaching zero net emissions of carbon dioxide from energy and industry by 2050 can be accomplished by rebuilding U.S. energy infrastructure to run primarily on renewable energy, at a net cost of about $1 per person per day, according to new research publi
2021-01-27 00:00:00
How climate caprices can trigger plants Climate change may challenge organismal responses through not only extreme cues. An uncommon combination of benign cues - warm and short days - can also trigger reactions such as misregulations of leaves.
2021-01-27 00:00:00
Ocean toxin a heartbreaking threat for sea otters Heart disease is a killer threat for southern sea otters feasting on domoic acid in their food web, according to a study led by the University of California, Davis. Climate change projections indicate that toxic blooms and domoic acid exposure will contin
2021-01-26 00:00:00
Satellite data reveals bonds between emissions, pollution and economy Burning fossil fuels has long powered world economies while contributing to air pollution and the buildup of greenhouse gases. A new analysis of nearly two decades of satellite data shows that economic development, fossil-fuel combustion and air quality a
2021-01-26 00:00:00
Reef fish futures foretold There are markedly different outcomes for different species of coral reef fishes under climate change - scientists are now another step closer to uncovering the 'winners and losers'.
2021-01-26 00:00:00
Climate change increases coastal blue carbon sequestration Coastal wetlands are important ecosystems, especially in mitigating climate change. Prof. Faming Wang from South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Prof. Sanders from Southern Cross University,Australia worked together with several c
2021-01-25 00:00:00
Climate change in antiquity: mass emigration due to water scarcity The absence of monsoon rains at the source of the Nile was the cause of migrations and the demise of entire settlements in the late Roman province of Egypt. This demographic development has been compared with environmental data for the first time by profe
2021-01-25 00:00:00
Street trees close to the home may reduce the risk of depression Daily contact with trees in the street may reduce the need for antidepressants. This is the result of a study by researchers at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) and Leipzig U
2021-01-25 00:00:00
Role of dams in reducing global flood exposure under climate change A new collaborative study led by researchers at the National Institute for Environmental Studies, the University of Tokyo, and Michigan State University exposes the role of dams for mitigating flood risk under climate change. Flood is amongst the costlies
2021-01-22 00:00:00
AI trained to read electric vehicle charging station reviews to find infrastructure gaps Although electric vehicles that reduce greenhouse gas emissions attract many drivers, the lack of confidence in charging services deters others. Building a reliable network of charging stations is difficult in part because it's challenging to aggregate da
2021-01-22 00:00:00
How to get more electric cars on the road MIT researchers reveal the kinds of infrastructure improvements that would make the biggest difference in increasing the number of electric cars on the road, a key step toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions from transportation.
2021-01-21 00:00:00
Climate change puts hundreds of coastal airports at risk of flooding Newcastle University scientists have found that 269 airports are at risk of coastal flooding now. A temperature rise of 2C - consistent with the Paris Agreement - would lead to 100 airports being below mean sea level and 364 airports at risk of flooding.
2021-01-21 00:00:00
Abandoned cropland should produce biofuels More biofuels are needed to counteract climate change. But producing them shouldn't diminish food production or wilderness areas. The solution may be to grow more grass on recently abandoned cropland.
2021-01-21 00:00:00
Making protein 'superfood' from marine algae Marine microalgae-based cellular agriculture is a promising new way to sustainably produce plant-based 'meat' and healthy 'superfoods' for the future.Researchers at Flinders University's Centre for Marine Bioproducts Development (CMBD) in Australia are re
2021-01-21 00:00:00
A new carbon budget framework provides a clearer view of our climate deadlines Nature's Communications Earth and Environment just published a paper by a group of researchers led by Damon Matthews in which they present a new framework for calculating the remaining carbon budget that is able to generate a much narrower estimate and it
2021-01-19 00:00:00
Improving long-term climate calculations Climate researchers have found a simple but efficient way to improve estimations of ultimate global warming from complex climate models. The finding is relevant for the evaluation and comparison of climate models and thus for accurate projections of futur
2021-01-19 00:00:00
UCI researchers: Climate change will alter the position of the Earth's tropical rain belt In a study to be published Jan. 18 in Nature Climate Change, researchers at the University of California, Irvine describe future changes to the tropical rain belt with expected climate change. The changes will cause droughts in large sections of the globe
2021-01-18 00:00:00
Stuck in a rut: Ocean acidification locks algal communities in a simplified state Researchers from the University of Tsukuba have found that ocean acidification limits algal communities to a state of low diversity and complexity. Communities grown in waters rich in carbon dioxide (CO2) were dominated by turf algae, and had low biodiver
2021-01-15 00:00:00
Climate change doesn't spare the smallest With a combined century of experience in the tropics, the University of Pennsylvania's Daniel Janzen and Winnie Hallwachs have seen a striking contraction of insect numbers and diversity. They share new data suggesting that climate change is the culprit a
2021-01-14 00:00:00
New classification marks paradigm shift in how conservationists tackle climate change A new study co-authored by researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society's (WCS) Global Conservation Program and the University of British Columbia (UBC) Faculty of Forestry introduces a classification called Resistance-Resilience-Transformation (RRT
2021-01-14 00:00:00
Micro-climate moulds and reshapes northern insect communities, herbivory and predation Climate and changes in it have direct impacts on species of plant and animals - but climate may also shape more complex biological systems like food webs. Now a research group from the University of Helsinki has investigated how micro-climate shapes each
2021-01-14 00:00:00
Resilience to climate change? A recent study examined the effects of acidic water on octopuses, potentially bringing new insight into both how our activities impact the world around us, and the way that world is adapting in response.
2021-01-13 00:00:00
Study looks at how land acquisitions affect climate change In a newly published study in the journal Nature Food, researchers looked at what drives large-scale land acquisitions and how the implementation of large-scale land acquisitions for agricultural development affect carbon emissions, and in turn, climate c
2021-01-13 00:00:00
Wetland methane cycling increased during ancient global warming event Wetland methane cycling increased during a rapid global warming event 56 million years ago and could foreshadow changes the methane cycle will experience in the future, according to new research led by the University of Bristol.
2021-01-13 00:00:00
Pollinators not getting the 'buzz' they need in news coverage A dramatic decline in pollinating insects threatens the global food supply, yet it's getting "vanishingly low levels of attention" in mainstream news, even compared to coverage of climate change. That's the conclusion of a study titled "No
2021-01-13 00:00:00
Northern lakes at risk of losing ice cover permanently, impacting drinking water Close to 5,700 lakes in the Northern Hemisphere may permanently lose ice cover this century, 179 of them in the next decade, at current greenhouse gas emissions, despite a possible polar vortex this year, researchers at York University have found. Those l
2021-01-13 00:00:00
Researchers speed up analysis of Arctic ice and snow data through AI Professors at University of Maryland, Baltimore County have developed an artificial intelligence technique to quickly analyze newly collected data based on Arctic ice and snow thickness. Researchers previously analyzed these data manually; this AI will as
2021-01-12 00:00:00
A bucket of water can reveal climate change impacts on marine life in the Arctic We know very little about marine life in the Arctic. Now researchers from the University of Copenhagen, among others, are trying to change that. They have shown that a simple water sample makes it possible to monitor the presence, migration patterns and g
2021-01-12 00:00:00
Study finds future too warm for baby sharks A new study conducted at the New England Aquarium finds that as climate change causes the ocean to warm, baby sharks are born smaller, exhausted, undernourished, and into environments that are already difficult for them to survive in.
2021-01-12 00:00:00
New climate change study: Number of people suffering extreme droughts will double Michigan State University is leading a global research effort to offer the first worldwide view of how climate change could affect water availability and drought severity in the decades to come. By the late 21st century, global land area and population fa
2021-01-11 00:00:00
New process more efficiently recycles excess CO2 into fuel, study finds For years, researchers have worked to repurpose excess atmospheric carbon dioxide into new chemicals, fuels and other products traditionally made from hydrocarbons harvested from fossil fuels. The recent push to mitigate the climactic effects of greenhous
2021-01-11 00:00:00
Impacts of climate change on our water and energy systems: it's complicated Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), UC Berkeley, and UC Santa Barbara have developed a science-based analytic framework to evaluate the complex connections between water and energy, and options for adaptations in response
2021-01-11 00:00:00
It's getting hot in here: Warming world will fry power plant production in coming years During the year's hottest months, many people rely on electricity-generated cooling systems to remain comfortable. But the power plants that keep air conditioners pushing out cold air could soon be in a vicious cycle in a warming world-not able to keep up
2021-01-06 00:00:00
Will global warming bring a change in the winds? Dust from the deep sea provides a clue In a new paper published in Nature, climate researchers from Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory describe a new method of tracking the ancient history of the westerly winds--a proxy for what we may experience in a future warming world.
2021-01-06 00:00:00
Dungeness crab fishing industry response to climate shock Fishermen contend with regulations, natural disasters, and the ups and downs of the stocks they fish, along with many other changes. As a result, fishing communities are quite resilient. That is, they can withstand, recover from, and adapt to change.
2021-01-05 00:00:00
Climate change caused mangrove collapse in Oman Most of the mangrove forests on the coasts of Oman disappeared about 6,000 years ago. Until now, the reason for this was not entirely clear. A current study now sheds light on this: It indicates that the collapse of coastal ecosystems was caused by climat
2021-01-05 00:00:00
Drought of the century in the Middle Ages -- with parallels to climate change today? The transition from the Medieval Warm Period to the Little Ice Age was apparently accompanied by severe droughts between 1302 and 1307 in Europe. In the journal Climate of the Past, researchers from the Leibniz Institutes for the History and Culture of Ea
2021-01-05 00:00:00
Rare footage captured of jaguar killing ocelot at waterhole In what may be a sign of climate-change-induced conflict, researchers have captured rare photographic evidence of a jaguar killing another predatory wild cat at an isolated waterhole in Guatemala.
2021-01-05 00:00:00
Uncovering how grasslands changed our climate Grasslands are managed worldwide to support livestock production, while remaining natural or semi-natural ones provide critical services that contribute to the wellbeing of both people and the planet. Human activities are however causing grasslands to bec
2021-01-05 00:00:00
New data-driven global climate model provides projections for urban environments Cities only occupy about 3% of the Earth's total land surface, but they bear the burden of the human-perceived effects of global climate change, researchers said. Global climate models are set up for big-picture analysis, leaving urban areas poorly repres
2021-01-04 00:00:00
How to identify heat-stressed corals Researchers have found a novel way to identify heat-stressed corals, which could help scientists pinpoint the coral species that need protection from warming ocean waters linked to climate change, according to a Rutgers-led study.
2021-01-04 00:00:00
Using solar energy and agriculture to limit climate change, assist rural communities Co-developing land for both solar photovoltaic power and agriculture could provide 20% of total electricity generation in the United States with an investment of less than 1% of the annual US budget, a new paper by Oregon State University researchers foun
2021-01-04 00:00:00
Flag leaves could help top off photosynthetic performance in rice A team from the University of Illinois and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) found that some flag leaves of different varieties of rice transform light and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates better than others, potentially opening new opport
2020-12-29 00:00:00
A new TanSat XCO2 global product for climate studies The 1st Chinese carbon dioxide (CO2) monitoring satellite mission, TanSat, was launched in 2016. The 1st TanSat global map of CO2 dry-air mixing ratio (XCO2) measurements over land was released as version 1 data product with an accuracy of 2.11 ppmv (part
2020-12-24 00:00:00
Climate crisis is causing lakes to shrink Climate change is impacting not only the oceans, but also large inland lakes. As the world's largest lake, the Caspian Sea is a perfect example of how a body of water can and will change. In an article in the Nature journal Communications Earth & Envi
2020-12-23 00:00:00
Capturing 40 years of climate change for an endangered Montana prairie Over 40 years of monitoring, an endangered bunchgrass prairie became hotter, drier and more susceptible to fire annually--but dramatic seasonal changes (not annual climate trends) seem to be driving the biggest changes in plant production, composition, an
2020-12-23 00:00:00
Chemists describe a new form of ice Scientists from the United States, China, and Russia have described the structure and properties of a novel hydrogen clathrate hydrate that forms at room temperature and relatively low pressure. Hydrogen hydrates are a potential solution for hydrogen stor
2020-12-22 00:00:00
Pandemic and forthcoming stimulus funds could bring climate targets in sight -- or not The lockdowns that resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic have reduced greenhouse gas emissions. However, in the recovery phase, emissions could rise to levels above those projected before the pandemic. It all depends on how the stimulus money that governmen
2020-12-22 00:00:00
Climate change: threshold for dangerous warming will likely be crossed between 2027-2042 The threshold for dangerous global warming will likely be crossed between 2027 and 2042 - a much narrower window than the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's estimate of between now and 2052. In a study published in <i>Climate Dynamics</i
2020-12-21 00:00:00
CRISPR helps researchers uncover how corals adjust to warming oceans The CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing system can help scientists understand, and possibly improve, how corals respond to the environmental stresses of climate change. Work led by Phillip Cleves--who joined Carnegie's Department of Embryology this fall--details h
2020-12-21 00:00:00
Roadmap to renewables unites climate and sustainability goals Are clean energy plans missing the forest for the GHGs? A study from UC Davis and John Hopkins University presents a roadmap to renewables that unites climate change and biodiversity goals.
2020-12-18 00:00:00
Devastating skin disease covering up to 70% of a dolphin's body tied to climate change The Marine Mammal Center, in collaboration with Australian researchers, provides the first-ever case definition for fresh-water skin disease in bottlenose dolphins tied to climate change. The study has major implications for the current outbreak in Austra
2020-12-18 00:00:00
Land ecosystems are becoming less efficient at absorbing CO2 Land ecosystems currently play a key role in mitigating climate change. The more carbon dioxide (CO2) plants and trees absorb during photosynthesis, the process they use to make food, the less CO2 remains trapped in the atmosphere where it can cause tempe
2020-12-18 00:00:00
New solutions for addressing systemic risks Systemic risks like climate change, cybersecurity and pandemics are characterised by high complexity, uncertainty, ambiguity, and effects beyond the system in which they originate. That's why novel research approaches and regulatory measures are indispens
2020-12-18 00:00:00
How climate change is disrupting ecosystems When it gets warmer, organisms rise higher from the lowlands. Swiss Researchers investigated what could happen to plant communities on alpine grasslands if grasshoppers from lower elevations settled there.
2020-12-17 00:00:00
Taking greenhouse gas analysis on the road, er, rails Since 2014, the University of Utah has maintained research-grade suites of air quality instruments installed on light rail trains that move throughout the Salt Lake Valley every day. These mobile sensors, researchers estimate in a new study, cover the sam
2020-12-17 00:00:00
Can water saving traits help wine survive climate change? Climate change is expected to make many grape-growing regions too hot and dry to produce high-quality wine from traditional varieties. But scientists at the University of California, Davis, have found that wine grape varieties from regions that are more p
2020-12-17 00:00:00
Change in global precipitation patterns as a result of climate change The Earth's climate system is largely determined by the differences in temperature between the tropics and the poles. Global warming is likely to cause global atmospheric circulation to change and progressively revert to a situation similar to that of 5,0
2020-12-17 00:00:00
Infrastructure key to balancing climate and economic goals in developing countries Developing nations have an opportunity to avoid long-term dependence on fossil fuel-burning infrastructure as they move toward economic stability, even if they are slow to cut carbon emissions, say the authors of a new paper. Countries with low per capita
2020-12-16 00:00:00
AI model shows promise to generate faster, more accurate weather forecasts A model based solely on the past 40 years of weather events uses 7,000 times less computer power than today's weather forecasting tools. An A.I.-powered model could someday provide more accurate forecasts for rain, snow and other weather events.
2020-12-15 00:00:00
Attitudes about climate change are shifting, even in Texas Longstanding skepticism among Texans toward the climate movement has shifted, and attitudes in the nation's leading energy-producing state now mirror those in the rest of the United States, according to new research by UH Energy and the University of Hous
2020-12-15 00:00:00
Empowering women could help address climate change Current and future damages of climate change depend greatly on the ability of affected populations to adapt to changing conditions. According to an international group of researchers, building capacity to adapt to such changes will require eradicating ine
2020-12-15 00:00:00
Mystery solved: new study shows link between hot and dry weather and air quality in Korea Although air quality in Korea has been declining over the past few decades, the reasons behind the steady rise in ground-level ozone concentrations are a mystery. In a recent study, scientists from Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea, inves
2020-12-15 00:00:00
Engineers go microbial to store energy, sequester CO2 By borrowing nature's blueprints for photosynthesis, Cornell University bioengineers have found a way to efficiently absorb and store large-scale, low-cost renewable energy from the sun - while sequestering atmospheric carbon dioxide to use later as a bio
2020-12-15 00:00:00
Climate change caused the demise of Central Asia's river civilizations, not Genghis Khan While Genghis Khan and Mongol invasion is often blamed for the fall of Central Asia's medieval river civilisations, new research shows it may have been down to climate change. Researchers from the University of Lincoln conducted analysis on the region and
2020-12-15 00:00:00
Exploring the relationship between nitrogen and carbon dioxide in greenhouse gas emissions A University of Oklahoma-led interdisciplinary study on a decade-long experiment (1997-2009) at the University of Minnesota found that lower nitrogen levels in soil promoted release of carbon dioxide from soils under high levels of atmospheric carbon diox
2020-12-14 00:00:00
Planning ahead protects fish and fisheries Conservation of fish and other marine life migrating from warming ocean waters will be more effective and also protect commercial fisheries if plans are made now to cope with climate change, according to a Rutgers-led study in the journal Science Advances
2020-12-11 00:00:00
Roadmap offers solutions for future of food, global ag innovation To deflect future world food crises created by climate change, a Cornell University-led international group has created a road map for global agricultural and food systems innovation.
2020-12-10 00:00:00
The greening of the earth is approaching its limit Vegetation has a key role in mitigating climate change because it reduces the excess CO2 that we humans emit into the atmosphere. Just as when sportsmen and women are doped with oxygen, plants also benefit from the large amounts of CO2 that accumulate in
2020-12-10 00:00:00
Low oxygen levels in lakes and reservoirs may accelerate global change Ultimately, this study is crucial for how researchers, and the general public, think about how freshwater ecosystems produce greenhouse gases in the future. With low oxygen concentrations increasing in lakes and reservoirs across the world, these ecosyste
2020-12-10 00:00:00
Current pace of action on climate change is "unthinkable" state ex UN climate leaders Justifiable pride can be taken in the incremental accomplishments of international climate change cooperation, but it is "unthinkable" to continue at the current pace. The global response to climate change is completely insufficient and leaves
2020-12-10 00:00:00
COVID-19 lockdown causes unprecedented drop in global CO2 emissions in 2020 The global COVID-19 lockdowns caused fossil carbon dioxide emissions to decline by an estimated 2.4 billion tonnes in 2020 - a record drop according to researchers at Future Earth's Global Carbon Project. This and other findings are now available in the n
2020-12-10 00:00:00
Impacts of COVID-19 emissions reductions remain murky in the oceans While greenhouse gas emissions dropped significantly in the first half of 2020, new research finds ocean acidification remains unchanged--yet the world's oceans can respond quickly in other ways to reduced emissions.
2020-12-10 00:00:00
Warmer springs mean more offspring for prothonotary warblers Climate change contributes to gradually warming Aprils in southern Illinois, and at least one migratory bird species, the prothonotary warbler, is taking advantage of the heat. A new study analyzing 20 years of data found that the warblers start their egg
2020-12-09 00:00:00
Temporal crop diversity stabilizes agricultural production Securing food supplies around the globe is a challenge facing humanity, especially in light of the predicted increase in the world's population and the effects of climate change. Greater crop diversity in agriculture is seen as a stabilising factor for fo
2020-12-09 00:00:00
Nature conservation requires more dynamic approach to weather impacts of climate change A new hard-hitting paper, titled "Post-2020 biodiversity targets need to embrace climate change" argues that nature conservation strategies need to become more flexible and dynamic in how it addresses the impact of climate change on natural habi
2020-12-09 00:00:00
Beavers may help amphibians threatened by climate change A study of pond sites in the Cascades found greater amphibian diversity in sites with beaver damns. Red-legged frogs and northwestern salamanders, which develop more slowly, were detected almost exclusively in dammed sites.
2020-12-08 00:00:00
Science leaders issue clarion call for evidence-based policy Since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, US science leaders and others have expressed frustration with the lack of an informed and coherent federal response, a sentiment that echoes objections to the handling of other pressing issues, such as climat
2020-12-08 00:00:00
Coral recovery during a prolonged heatwave offers new hope University of Victoria biologists have discovered how some corals managed to survive a globally unprecedented heatwave, in a first-ever study that provides new hope for the long-term survival of coral reefs in the face of climate change.
2020-12-08 00:00:00
Climate change exacerbates biodiversity loss A considerable number of existing and proposed post-2020 biodiversity targets are at risk of being severely compromised due to climate change, even if other barriers such as habitat exploitation are removed argue the authors of a study led by Almut Arneth
2020-12-08 00:00:00
Getting to the bottom of Arctic landslides Erosion of the frozen soil of Arctic regions, known as permafrost, is creating large areas of subsidence, which has catastrophic impact in these regions sensitive to climate change. As the mechanisms behind these geological events are poorly understood, r
2020-12-08 00:00:00
Hard and fast emission cuts slow warming in the next 20 years A new study shows that strong and rapid action to cut emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases will help to slow down the rate of global warming over the next twenty years.
2020-12-07 00:00:00
