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Can United Nations’ COP26 Save Antarctica’s Ice Sheets from Melting?

For more than 30 years, David Harwood, professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has been a leading scientist investigating how global temperature change affected Antarctic ecosystems and the stability of the large southern ice sheets over millions of years in the ancient past.

30 Nov 2021

Study Assesses the Benefits of Limiting Temperature Overshoot

Mitigation pathways exploring end-of-century temperature targets often entail temperature overshoot, that is the extent to which temperature is allowed to temporarily exceed a given target.

30 Nov 2021

Climate Change is Speeding Up the Flow of Antarctic Circumpolar Current

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current, the only ocean current that circumnavigates the planet, is speeding up.

30 Nov 2021

Strong Climate Action can Reduce Inequality and Alleviate Poverty

According to a Rutgers study, if all countries adopted the same tax on carbon emissions and returned the revenues to their citizens, it is possible to keep the global temperature from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius while also benefiting wellbeing, reducing inequality, and alleviating poverty.

30 Nov 2021

Carbon Gap Calls on European Policymakers to Provide Support for Carbon Removal Alongside Emission Reductions

Carbon Gap, an independent research and advocacy not-for-profit, has called on UK and European governments to lead on supporting and scaling up techniques to remove carbon directly from the air (referred to as carbon removal), alongside immediate and dramatic emissions cuts.

From Carbon Gap 30 Nov 2021

New Research Links Australia's Forest Fires to Climate Change

New research by CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, shows climate change has driven a significant increase in Australia’s forest fire activity over the last three decades.

29 Nov 2021

Fire Activity Increased in the World’s Grasslands After the Megagrazer Extinctions

From 50,000 years to 6,000 years ago, many of the world’s largest animals, including such iconic grassland grazers as the woolly mammoth, giant bison, and ancient horses, went extinct.

26 Nov 2021

Collapse of Ancient Liangzhu Culture in Early China Attributed to Climate Change

"China's Venice of the Stone Age": The Liangzhu excavation location in eastern China is one of the most noteworthy pieces of evidence of Chinese civilization. Over 5000 years ago, the city had an intricate water management system.

25 Nov 2021

Arctic Ocean has Been Warming for Much Longer than Records Suggest

The Arctic Ocean has been getting warmer since the beginning of the 20th century – decades earlier than records suggest – due to warmer water flowing into the delicate polar ecosystem from the Atlantic Ocean.

25 Nov 2021

EU and ECB Devise Plan to Ensure Banks Adopt Climate Plans

Through a blog post from Executive Board member Frank Elderson, the European Central Bank warned on Monday that a majority of the lenders it oversees have not produced strategies to respond to climate change.

24 Nov 2021