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Study Suggests a New Consumption-Based Climate Target

As per the new research report commissioned by the Swedish Parliament, several measures have to be taken in combination by Sweden to come any closer to emission levels as per the Paris Agreement.

8 Apr 2022

Invertebrates Living in High Mountain Streams can Indicate Ecosystem Health

A new tool can better assess an important but overlooked indicator of global warming: the variety of bugs, worms, and snails living in high mountain streams.

8 Apr 2022

Landslide and Tsunami Signal Climate-Related Threat at a Melting Glacier

In 2020, seismologist Goran Ekström noticed a peculiar wiggle picked up on Nov. 28 by seismographs around the world. It emanated from a remote area in British Columbia's steep, glaciated Central Coast Mountains, some 2,400 miles from Ekström's office at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, in Palisades, N.Y.

8 Apr 2022

Ancient Microbes Reduce Gas Bill and CO2

Producing gas in your own backyard has become a real alternative to dependence on imported gas thanks to innovative processes. Essential for this are technologies to enhance the fermentation processes as well as methods for gas purification developed for the automotive industry.

From Krajete GmbH 8 Apr 2022

Study Provides First Near-Global Estimate of Aboveground Forest Biomass and the Carbon it Stores

A significant milestone has been reached by NASA’s GEDI mission with the liberation of its latest data product. This offers the first near-global evaluation of aboveground forest biomass and the amount of carbon it stores—thereby filling a main gap in climate research.

7 Apr 2022

Study Illustrates Slow-Down in Summer Warming and Ice Loss in Greenland Over the Past Decade

Researchers at Hokkaido University Japan have explained the confusing, ten-year-old deceleration in summer warming throughout Greenland.

7 Apr 2022

Chevron Joins Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation

Chevron announced an agreement to join the Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation (GCMD). Chevron’s involvement aims to help support GCMD’s efforts to develop potentially scalable lower carbon technologies – including those that enable the use of ammonia as a maritime fuel – and the commercial means to enable their adoption.

7 Apr 2022

"Hotter-Drought Fingerprint" Reveals Link Between Global Forest Mortality and Climate Extremes

How hot is too hot, and how dry is too dry, for the Earth's forests? A new study from an international team of researchers found the answers – by looking at decades of dying trees.

6 Apr 2022

Rising Greenhouse Gases Have a Long-Term Warming Effect on the Amundsen Sea, Study Shows

A new study provides the first evidence that rising greenhouse gases have a long-term warming effect on the Amundsen Sea in West Antarctica. Scientists from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) say that while others have proposed this link, no one has been able to demonstrate it.

6 Apr 2022

Climate Change Influencing Foraging Behavior of Spotted Hyenas

Spotted hyenas adapt to a reduced presence of migratory prey in their areas triggered by climate change. This is the core finding of a study recently reported in the scientific journal Ecosphere.

5 Apr 2022