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New Study Assesses Factors Affecting Climate Change Adaptation

A new study assesses the factors that affect climate change adaptation and ranks six American cities, finding that Portland, Boston and Los Angeles are all in the advanced to middle stages of planning for extreme weather events linked to climate change while Raleigh and Tucson are in the early to middle stages.

17 Nov 2015

Lakes in the Northern Hemisphere Could Release More CO2 due to Global Climate Change

Many of the world’s approximately 117 million lakes act as wet chimneys releasing large amounts of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, CO2, into the atmosphere. The most recent estimates show that CO2 emissions from the world’s lakes, water courses and reservoirs are equivalent to almost a quarter of all the carbon dioxide produced by burning fossil fuels.

11 Nov 2015

Substitutes for Ozone-Damaging Chemicals Can Break Down to Form Long-Lasting Greenhouse Gas

Some substitutes for ozone-damaging chemicals being phased out worldwide under international agreements are themselves potent greenhouse gases and contribute to warming.

4 Nov 2015

NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 Sees Seasonal Change Patterns and Carbon Dioxide Variations around the Globe

Scientists busy poring over more than a year of data from NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) mission are seeing patterns emerge as they seek answers to the science questions that drive the mission.

2 Nov 2015

Vanderbilt University Decreases Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions decreased by 18 percent from its peak in 2008 and by 13 percent overall from calendar years 2005 to 2014, according to the Vanderbilt Sustainability and Environmental Management Office’s latest annual GHG inventory.

30 Oct 2015

NPL Supports Decarbonathon Competition

The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is supporting a new competition to identify innovative technologies that reduce carbon emissions and bring them to market quicker.

28 Oct 2015

Allocation of Greenhouse-Gas Emissions Reductions Key for Outcome of World Climate Summit

Though most countries around the globe agree that warming must be limited to 2 degrees Celsius to avoid the raft of climate risks, they clash about who should do what to reach this target.

27 Oct 2015

MIT and Norwegian Scientists Gauge Fairness and Ambition of Top Three Emitters’ Pledges

Over two weeks in December, delegates from virtually every country in the world will gather in Paris for the 21st annual United Nations Climate Change Conference. Their ambitious goal: to hammer out a binding international agreement on climate action.

20 Oct 2015

Study Reveals Utility-Scale Solar Energy Development is a Source of Land-Cover Change

On Oct. 7, Gov. Jerry Brown of California signed legislation aimed at increasing renewable-energy generation. Among renewable energy systems, solar energy has high potential for mitigating climate change, resulting in diverse technologies that capture the sun's thermal energy.

20 Oct 2015

Methane Seeps from Svalbard Seafloor Deposits Near Release Less Greenhouse Gas

Methane seeps from seafloor deposits near Svalbard release less ‘greenhouse gas’ into the atmosphere than other Arctic sites because ocean currents there form an effective barrier.

20 Oct 2015