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High Mountain Regions Could Be Warming Faster Than Previously Believed

An international team of scientists is calling for urgent and temperature patterns in mountain regions after compiling evidence that high elevations could be warming faster than previously thought.

25 Apr 2015

Ancient Carbon Locked in Arctic Permafrost Being Transformed into Carbon Dioxide

While climatologists are carefully watching carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, another group of scientists is exploring a massive storehouse of carbon that has the potential to significantly affect the climate change picture.

25 Apr 2015

Empirical Data Suggests Middle-of-the-Road Global Warming Scenario

A new study based on 1,000 years of temperature records suggests global warming is not progressing as fast as it would under the most severe emissions scenarios outlined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

23 Apr 2015

Amazon Deforestation Increases Potential Impact of Climate Change

Human activity has removed more than one-tenth of trees and plants from the Amazon rainforest since the 1960s, a study shows.

22 Apr 2015

Study Reveals Phytoplankton are Potentially Key Driver of Arctic Warming Under Greenhouse Warming

Phytoplankton, commonly known as plant plankton that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through photosynthesis, are potentially a key driver of Arctic warming under greenhouse warming, a study reveals.

22 Apr 2015

Limited Soil Nutrients Will Curtail Accelerated Plant Growth Due to Increasing Carbon Dioxide Emissions

Many scientists assume that the growing level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will accelerate plant growth. However, a new study co-written by University of Montana researchers suggests much of this growth will be curtailed by limited soil nutrients.

21 Apr 2015

Fast Ocean Currents Promote Escape of Methane into the Atmosphere

Ocean and Earth Science researchers from the University of Southampton were part of an international team of scientists to reveal how the interplay between ocean currents and marine microbiology serve to regulate potentially damaging emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane, created beneath the Arctic Ocean.

21 Apr 2015

Berkeley Researchers Design Artificial Photosynthetic System Using Sequestrated Carbon Dioxide

A research team from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley has developed a hybrid system of bacteria and semiconducting nanowires, which imitate the natural process of photosynthesis by which plants use solar energy for carbohydrate synthesis from water and carbon dioxide.

17 Apr 2015

Armadas of Icebergs May Not Be the Cause of Cooling in the North Atlantic

Armadas of icebergs were probably not the cause of abrupt episodes of cooling in the North Atlantic over the past 440,000 years, according to new research published today in Nature.

17 Apr 2015

Huge Reservoir of Methane Discovered in Deep Fram Strait of the Arctic Ocean

Methane, a highly effective greenhouse gas, is usually produced by decomposition of organic material, a complex process involving bacteria and microbes.

15 Apr 2015