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Researchers Study How Corals React to Changing Environmental Conditions

PhD student Fabian Gösser from the Department of Animal Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity has been studying how corals react to changing environmental conditions and how their stress response could contribute to the survival of the reefs.

15 Nov 2021

Climate Change is Altering Familiar Conditions and Creating New Environments in the World's Oceans

Climate change is altering familiar conditions of the world's oceans and creating new environments that could undermine efforts to protect sea life in the world's largest marine protected areas, new research from Oregon State University shows.

15 Nov 2021

APS Approves a Revised Statement on Earth’s Changing Climate

The Council of the American Physical Society (APS) today approved a revised Statement on Earth's Changing Climate. The statement, which has undergone a meticulous process of draft and review, unequivocally implicates human activities as the "dominant driver" of global warming.

12 Nov 2021

Increased Temperatures During a Historic Drought Helped a Beetle Kill Many Giant Pine Trees

A new study shows climate change can have cascading effects on forests.

12 Nov 2021

FACT Alliance Launched to Make Food Systems More Resilient and Sustainable

Announced at the UN Climate Change Conference, the initiative aims to make food systems more resilient and sustainable by better connecting research to practice.

11 Nov 2021

Current Temperatures are Unprecedented in 24,000 Years, Study Suggests

A University of Arizona-led effort to reconstruct Earth's climate since the last ice age, about 24,000 years ago, highlights the main drivers of climate change and how far out of bounds human activity has pushed the climate system.

11 Nov 2021

IIASA Researchers Culminate a New Policy Brief to Deal with Climate Risk

As the impacts of climate change become more severe and limits to adaptation draw near, vulnerable communities will need different kinds of finance to build resilience and transform how they protect themselves.

11 Nov 2021

Study Reveals How the Compound Hot Extremes Affect Human Health

Most areas of the world are experiencing increasing and intensifying hot extremes. Heat-related health consequences vary with the characteristics of the exposed landscape and types of hot extreme.

10 Nov 2021

Study Analyzes How Climate and Household Characteristics Drive Air-Conditioning Adoption

The rise of air-conditioning is on the brink of becoming a new emergency, adding unprecedented challenges to the already difficult task of decarbonizing the economy and reducing emissions.

10 Nov 2021

Agricultural Soils Produce Sufficient Nitrous Oxide Emissions to Contribute to Climate Change

Poorly drained agricultural soils emit enough of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide that the resulting climate change effects could far exceed the benefits of using the same soils as a means of sequestering carbon, according to a recently published scientific study.

9 Nov 2021