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Australia Experiences Hottest Year Due to Human-Caused Global Warming

Australia's hottest year on record in 2013 along with the accompanying droughts, heat waves and record-breaking seasons of that year was virtually impossible without the influence of human-caused global warming.

30 Sep 2014

Change in the Nordic Seas at Receiving End of Global Climate System Change

The melting Arctic is not the source for less saline Nordic Seas. It is the Gulf Stream that has provided less salt.

29 Sep 2014

Abundant Natural Gas May Not Help Lower Greenhouse Gas Emissions Significantly

Abundant supplies of natural gas will do little to reduce harmful U.S. emissions causing climate change, according to researchers at UC Irvine, Stanford University, and the nonprofit organization Near Zero. They found that inexpensive gas boosts electricity consumption and hinders expansion of cleaner energy sources, such as wind and solar.

26 Sep 2014

Megacities Carbon Project Targets Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Driving down busy Interstate 5 in Los Angeles in a nondescript blue Toyota Prius, Riley Duren of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, is a man on a mission as he surveys the vast urban jungle sprawled around him.

24 Sep 2014

Tropical Rabbitfish Pose a Major Threat to the Mediterranean Ecosystem

The tropical rabbitfish which have devastated algal forests in the eastern Mediterranean Sea pose a major threat to the entire Mediterranean basin if their distribution continues to expand as the climate warms, a new study warns.

22 Sep 2014

NASA Conducting Airborne Campaigns to Study Impact of Rising Temperatures on the Arctic

Over the past few decades, average global temperatures have been on the rise, and this warming is happening two to three times faster in the Arctic. As the region’s summer comes to a close, NASA is hard at work studying how rising temperatures are affecting the Arctic.

17 Sep 2014