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Heavy Industry in Australia Could Decarbonise, Help Limit Warming to 1.5 degrees and Create Up to 1.35 million Jobs: New Report Outlines Pathways

A new report has, for the first time in Australia, outlined decarbonisation pathways that show it is possible for five of Australia's most significant heavy industry supply chains to transition to net zero, consistent with global efforts to limit warming to 1.5 ºC.

20 Feb 2023

American West’s Water Future Hinges on the Future of Precipitation

An ongoing water crisis in the West has seven states struggling to agree on how to divide water from the Colorado River, leaving the federal government to forge a plan that will likely lead to litigation.

17 Feb 2023

First Spatial Field Reconstruction of European Summer Hydroclimate Based on Tree-Ring Isotopes

The 2015–2018 summer droughts have been exceptional in large parts of Western and Central Europe over the last 400 years, in terms of the magnitude of drought conditions. This indicates an influence of man-made global warming.

17 Feb 2023

New Review Revisits the Holocene Global Temperature Conundrum

Accurate climate models play a critical role in climate science and policy, helping to inform policy- and decision-makers throughout the world as they consider ways to slow the deadly effects of a warming planet and to adapt to changes already in progress.

16 Feb 2023

Rapid Upward Shifts in North American Mountain Vegetation Due to Warming Climate

In mountainous western North America, vegetation cover has moved upward at a rapid rate over the past several decades, according to a study published in PLOS Climate by James R. Keller at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States and colleagues.

16 Feb 2023

Planktonic Microorganisms Shift Poleward Under Global Warming Scenarios

The tropical oceans have the most diversified plankton populations on the planet, and they serve as the foundation of marine food chains.

16 Feb 2023

The Need to Develop More Complex Earth System Models

Recent research carried out by an international group of researchers reveals that irreversible loss of the West Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets, as well as a related rapid acceleration of sea level rise, could be inevitable if the global temperature change is not stabilized below 1.8 °C relative to preindustrial levels.

15 Feb 2023

An Out-of-This-World Approach To Mitigate the Effects of Global Warming

Scientists from Harvard have revealed an out-of-this-world geoengineering approach that has the potential to slow the effects of global warming using space dust. While something of a moonshot, the researchers claim dust mined and launched from the moon could have an impact on the flow of solar radiation, slowing down the effects of climate change.

14 Feb 2023

Widespread Tree Scorch in the Pacific Northwest Mainly Attributed to Heat than to Drought Conditions

Widespread tree scorch in the Pacific Northwest that became visible shortly after multiple days of record-setting, triple-digit temperatures in June 2021 was more attributable to heat than to drought conditions, Oregon State University researchers say.

7 Feb 2023