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Stanford Study Reveals Soil has Potential to Slow Global Warming

According to Stanford researchers if the soil under our feet is managed well, it has the ability to trap carbon dioxide to a greater extent than previously estimated, and control global warming.

6 Oct 2017

A Combination of Sunlight and Microbes Convert Arctic Carbon into Carbon Dioxide

Almost half of the organic carbon stored in soil globally is contained in Arctic permafrost, which has undergone rapid melting, and that organic material could be changed to greenhouse gases that would worsen global warming.

5 Oct 2017

Carbon Crisis Highlights Need to Move Quickly Towards Low-Carbon World

There is an expert warning that says that we have to quickly move towards a low-carbon world, if we are to have any opportunity of limiting global warming to 2 °C this century.

25 Sep 2017

Study Suggests Ancient Global Warming is Driven by Massive Carbon Emissions from Volcanoes

According to a new study, headed by the University of Southampton and involving a group of International Researchers, massive CO2 emissions from volcanoes were responsible for the extreme global warming event that occurred 56 million years ago, during the formation of the North Atlantic Ocean. The study has been reported in Nature.

31 Aug 2017

Nitric Oxide: A New Threat to Global Warming

A new role for nitric oxide that could send back biochemical textbooks for revision has been discovered by Cornell Chemists.

19 Jul 2017

New Robust Laser System to Track Emissions of Greenhouse Gas Methane

Heatwaves in the Arctic, longer periods of vegetation in Europe, severe floods in West Africa – starting in 2021, scientists want to explore the emissions of the greenhouse gas methane with the German-French satellite MERLIN. This is made possible by a new robust laser system of the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT in Aachen, which achieves unprecedented measurement accuracy.

20 Jun 2017

Climate Change Could Destroy Forested Peatlands, Causing Major Carbon Emissions

Tropical peat swamp forests, which once occupied large swaths of Southeast Asia and other areas, provided a significant "sink" that helped remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. But such forests have been disappearing fast due to clear-cutting and drainage projects making way for plantations.

13 Jun 2017

MIT’s Award-Winning Thesis Shows Clean Energy Development Pathways for India

As the world's second fastest-growing major economy and third largest producer of greenhouse gas emissions, India is at a crossroads.

9 Jun 2017

Climate Change and Wildfire Events Play a Big Role in Reduction of Stored Carbon in Forests

New research from a multi-university team of biologists shows what could be a startling drop in the amount of carbon stored in the Sierra Nevada mountains due to projected climate change and wildfire events.

26 May 2017

Intensity of Extreme Rainfall Could Increase with Rise in Global Temperatures

A new study by researchers from MIT and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich shows that the most extreme rain events in most regions of the world will increase in intensity by 3 to 15 percent, depending on region, for every degree Celsius that the planet warms.

16 May 2017