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Study Reveals Snow Cover is Important for Revegetation After Extreme Forest Fires

A study by researchers at Oregon State University (OSU) and the University of Nevada, Reno states that a key factor in the return of vegetation would depend on how much and how long a severely burned Pacific Northwest mountain landscape remains covered in winter snow.

23 Nov 2021

The PowerHouse to Explore Maritime Transport Sector Decarbonization

The PowerHouse, a Highlands global centre of excellence launched earlier this year by Opportunity Cromarty Firth to work on research into innovative renewable energy technologies, has secured its first project.

23 Nov 2021

New Framework may Help Better Understand How Climate Change will Affect Flood Risk

Understanding how climate change will affect the flooding of rivers may become easier with a new framework for assessing flood risk that's been developed by an interdisciplinary team from Penn State.

22 Nov 2021

Atmospheric Rivers may Drastically Alter Australia’s Alpine Wilderness

The Australian Alps may suffer from a loss of snow and surrounding regions could endure flooding as climate change supercharges phenomena known as 'atmospheric rivers'.

22 Nov 2021

Study Explores How Extreme Rainfall and Earthquakes can Induce Landslide Rates

Earthquakes and extreme rainfall can lead to a six-fold increase in the rates of rainfall-triggered landslides occurring during Nepal’s monsoon season, according to new research.

19 Nov 2021

Rising Rivers Pose Danger to the Coast and Farther Inland, Research Shows

If you think living away from the coast keeps you safe from climate change and rising waters, think again.

19 Nov 2021

Study Reveals How to Manage the Landscape in Cities to Reduce Effects of Stormwater Runoff

As the global climate change conversation intensifies and nations look to minimize environmental impacts in their own backyards, nature-based solutions are garnering new levels of interest.

19 Nov 2021

Groundwater Storage Recovery in California has Been Dismal After Last Two Droughts

Groundwater in California's Central Valley is at risk of being depleted by pumping too much water during and after droughts, according to a new study in the AGU journal Water Resources Research, an interdisciplinary journal that focuses on hydrology and water resources.

19 Nov 2021

Antarctic Ice-Mass Loss Could be the Start of Irreversible Period of Ice Sheet Retreat

After the natural warming that followed the last Ice Age, there were repeated periods when masses of icebergs broke off from Antarctica into the Southern Ocean.

19 Nov 2021

MIT's New Climate Action Plan Shows Progress

Two recent online events related to MIT's ambitious new climate action plan highlighted several areas of progress, including uses of the campus as a real-life testbed for climate impact research, the creation of new planning bodies with opportunities for input from all parts of the MIT community, and a variety of moves toward reducing the Institute's own carbon footprint in ways that may also provide a useful model for others.

19 Nov 2021