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Manipulating Photorespiration to Help Crops Withstand Heat

Researchers from the University of Illinois and the U.S. Department of Agriculture have grown genetically modified tobacco plants that exhibit less energy-intensive photorespiration characteristics. These plants have hig...

16 Dec 2021

Massive Heatwaves Could Entirely Restructure the Size Distribution of Corals

Sometimes nature surprises you. That's what happened when a massive marine heatwave took hold in the waters around Moorea, French Polynesia, in late 2018. Fortunately, UC Santa Barbara researchers turned this event into an opportunity to investigate coral bleaching.

16 Dec 2021

Insights into Antarctic Ice’s Deep Past Could Improve Future Predictions

Insights into how the West Antarctic Ice Sheet responded to a warmer climate millions of years ago could improve predictions of its future.

16 Dec 2021

Elkem Launches First TCFD Report on Climate Risks and Opportunities

Elkem has on Wednesday 8 December launched its first TCFD report as an initiative to address the potential financial impact of climate risks and opportunities.

From Elkem 8 Dec 2021

Study Finds Increasing Weather Persistence in European Summer

In our study, we show that persistent weather conditions have an increasing similarity in summer over the North Atlantic, Europe and Siberia, favoring more pronounced extreme weather events.

7 Dec 2021

Decarbonizing Steel Production: Metso Outotec Launches Next Generation of the 100% Hydrogen-Based Circored Process for Fine Ore Reduction

Finding new solutions to decarbonize the steelmaking value chain is a must for the industry to become fossil-free and to help limit global warming to 1.5 °C.

From Metso Outotec Corporation 7 Dec 2021

Arctic Rivers are Discharging Much More Water than Previously Thought, Satellite Data Reveals

A civil and environmental engineering researcher at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has, for the first time, assimilated satellite information into on-site river measurements and hydrologic models to calculate the past 35 years of river discharge in the entire pan-Arctic region.

30 Nov 2021

Can United Nations’ COP26 Save Antarctica’s Ice Sheets from Melting?

For more than 30 years, David Harwood, professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has been a leading scientist investigating how global temperature change affected Antarctic ecosystems and the stability of the large southern ice sheets over millions of years in the ancient past.

30 Nov 2021

Study Shows How Near-Term Mitigation can Help Prevent Temperature Overshoot

A new international study coordinated by IIASA shows how near-term mitigation can help to prevent an overshoot in global temperatures, thereby reducing climate risks and bringing long-term economic gains.

30 Nov 2021

New Study Describes How Two Species of Antarctic Fish Respond to Acute Thermal Stress

At first glance, Antarctica seems inhospitable. Known for howling gales and extremely cold temperatures, the continent is blanketed with a mile-thick ice shelf. Occasional elephant seals and seabirds fleck the glacial shorelines.

30 Nov 2021