Climate Change News

RSS

Biofertiliser for Better Farms

While agricultural production around the world struggles with declining soil health, Australian researchers are investigating production of a sustainable organic nitrogen fertiliser made from aquatic cyanobacterial biomass – ideally suited for badly degraded areas reliant on chemical fertilisers.

28 Jul 2021

Tree Mortality in Subalpine Colorado Forests Mainly Caused by Extreme Heat, Dry Summers

Even in the absence of bark beetle outbreaks and wildfire, trees in Colorado subalpine forests are dying at increasing rates from warmer and drier summer conditions, found recent University of Colorado Boulder research.

27 Jul 2021

Experts Propose Use of Advanced Scientific Models to Enhance Climate Resilience

Climate change mitigation is one of the stressing challenges of the 21st century. The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory hosted the America Resilient virtual climate conference on April 14th, 2021, to discuss the issue.

27 Jul 2021

Researchers Report a New Way to Keep Tabs on the Vulnerability of Tropical Forests

Humid tropical forests, vital in global efforts to limit rising temperatures, are under threat as a result of changes in land use and climate.

26 Jul 2021

Study Analyzes the Impact of Paris Agreement Target on Energy Sector Jobs

Scientists developed a global dataset of job footprints in 50 countries and employed a model to analyze the effect of attempting to meet the Paris Agreement global climate target of staying well below 2 °C on energy sector jobs.

26 Jul 2021

The Fincons Forest Blooms: 1750 Trees to Fight Climate Change and Help Local Communities in Africa

Fincons Group, an established international family company providing IT business consulting and system integration, planted 1750 new trees in Africa, one for each member of the Group, to celebrate World Environment Day.

26 Jul 2021

Planting Seeds for Revival of Vital Drylands

Restoration of degraded drylands is urgently needed to mitigate climate change, reverse desertification and secure livelihoods for the two billion people who live there, experts warn in a major new paper in Nature Ecology & Evolution.

23 Jul 2021

Cornell Researchers to Develop First High-Resolution Carbon Monitoring System for East Africa

Cornell University researchers will develop the first high-resolution carbon monitoring system for East Africa that combines "bottom up" ecological modeling with "top down" satellite data, thanks to a three-year, $1 million NASA grant.

23 Jul 2021

Aggressive Approaches Needed to Curtail CO2 Emissions

Policymakers of California depend in part on shrublands and forests to remove CO2 from the atmosphere to attain the ambitious goal of carbon neutrality by 2045. However, scientists at the University of California, Irvine caution that future climate change might limit the ecosystem’s ability to provide this service.

23 Jul 2021