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Study of Flooding During Hurricane Harvey Could Help in Quantifying Climate Change

How much do the effects of climate change contribute to extreme weather events? It's hard to say--the variables involved are plentiful, each event is unique, and we can only do so much to investigate what didn't happen.

11 Jun 2021

Deep Decarbonization by 2050 Currently Not Plausible, Study Reports

Today the Hamburg-based Cluster of Excellence "Climate, Climatic Change, and Society" publishes a new, essential study on climate futures.

11 Jun 2021

International Energy Forum Launches Methane Measurement Project to Address Climate Change

The International Energy Forum has launched a new initiative to develop a measurement methodology for methane emissions from the energy industry, allowing its member countries to collect standardized data to address a major cause of climate change.

11 Jun 2021

Corals' Natural Sunscreen may Help them Withstand Climate Change

Researchers at Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute are one step closer to understanding why certain corals have the ability to endure climate change better than others and the secret may lie in a particular protein that creates a natural sunscreen.

10 Jun 2021

Embracing New Ways of Social and Economic Practices to Tackle Climate Crisis

Tackling the climate crisis will require embracing new ways of thinking and challenging dominant social and economic practices, a new book suggests.

10 Jun 2021

New Systematic Framework Helps Identify Feasibility Concerns Raised by Climate Mitigation Scenarios

While the IPCC is in the midst of the drafting cycle of the Sixth Assessment Report, whose publication will start in the second half of 2021 - one of the most relevant events for the global climate change community, there is an ongoing debate on how to assess the feasibility of ambitious climate mitigation scenarios developed through integrated assessment models and to what extent they are actually achievable in the real world.

10 Jun 2021

Beetle Study Finds Diversity in the Sub-Antarctic Linked to Global Cooling

An international research team led by Monash University has demonstrated that cooling temperatures and glacial cycles over the past 15 million years were essential for an explosion in terrestrial animal diversity throughout the Antarctic region.

10 Jun 2021

Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Could Help Maintain Tree Diversity, Study Finds

When it comes to climate change, policymakers may fail to see the trees for the forest.

9 Jun 2021

Most Cities in São Paulo State Show Low Readiness to Deal with Climate Change

Most cities in São Paulo state have low potential capacity to adapt to climate change in terms of the ability to formulate public policy that facilitates the revamping of their housing and transportation systems, for example, to account for the impact of climate change.

9 Jun 2021

Greenhouse Gases from Food Production are Systematically Underestimated

According to a new global study, greenhouse-gas emissions from food systems have been systematically underestimated for a long time — but there are significant opportunities to reduce them.

9 Jun 2021