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Urgent Globally Coordinated Efforts Needed to Mitigate Climate Change and Extreme Heat

Extreme heat is an increasingly common occurrence worldwide, with heat-related deaths and illnesses also expected to rise.

20 Aug 2021

Researchers Study How Two Arctic-Alpine Plants Respond to Global Warming

It is the most comprehensive study of its kind to date: Researchers at the University of Bonn and the University of South-Eastern Norway have studied how two characteristic arctic-alpine plant species respond to global warming.

13 Aug 2021

Rising Seas Force Dune and Beach Movement

Evidence of the impact of rising sea level has been found in beach and sand dune movement along the Dutch coastline – indicating that the effect and future impact will impact all coastal areas.

10 Aug 2021

Study Investigates Carbon Release from Frozen Permafrost Post-2020 Heatwaves

A new study headed by geologists from the University of Bonn, Germany, attempted to compare the temporal and spatial distribution of methane concentrations in the air of northern Siberia with the help of geological maps.

3 Aug 2021

NASA Mission Investigates the Effect of Intense Summer Storms

NASA's ER-2 aircraft will soar to altitudes as great 70,000 feet above Kansas to collect samples of particles deposited in the stratosphere by overshooting storms.

29 Jul 2021

The Identification of Wildfires from Air and Space Gets a Major Boost

A 1.5 million USD grant will help improve methods of spotting destructive wildfires from the air and from geostationary orbit.

26 Jul 2021

Clouds Likely to Enhance Global Heating, Satellite Data Reveals

A new approach to analyse satellite measurements of Earth's cloud cover reveals that clouds are very likely to enhance global heating.

20 Jul 2021

Climate Change and the Moon’s ‘Wobble’ Could Result in Extreme Flooding by 2030s

NASA warns the 2030s could see a rapid increase in flooding, particularly for US coastal regions, due to rising sea levels and the moon’s 'wobble'.

15 Jul 2021

Changes to El Nino Characteristics Impact Western North Pacific Anomalous Anticyclone Projections

The impact of El Nino on East Asian climate under a warmer climate will be dominated by the change in El Nino decaying pace, according to a new paper published by a research team based in the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.

13 Jul 2021

Seismic Monitoring Could Help Track Permafrost Stability Under Climate Change

In the past three years, seismic waves that pass through the ground near Longyearbyen in the Adventdalen valley, Svalbard, Norway, have steadily slowed down most probably because of permafrost warming in the Arctic valley.

9 Jul 2021