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Study Highlights Human Resilience in the Face of Climate Change in Ancient Turkey

An examination of two documented periods of climate change in the greater Middle East, between approximately 4,500 and 3,000 years ago, reveals local evidence of resilience and even of a flourishing ancient society despite the changes in climate seen in the larger region.

30 Oct 2020

Converted Land Restoration Could Help Mitigate Climate Change, Extinction

According to a new study, a better way to stop or reverse the impacts of carbon dioxide and other earth-warming greenhouse gas emissions is to determine the main areas where the action can be economical.

30 Oct 2020

New Insight into How Wildfires are Impacting the Earth's Atmosphere

Researchers with the University of Saskatchewan's Institute of Space and Atmospheric Studies are part of a global team that has found that the smoke cloud pushed into the stratosphere by last winter's Australian wildfires was three times larger than anything previously recorded.

29 Oct 2020

Study: Climate Change Drives Extinction of Plants in the German Black Forest

Climate change is leaving its mark on the bog complexes of the German Black Forest. Due to rising temperatures and longer dry periods, two plant species have already gone extinct over the last 40 years.

29 Oct 2020

Seawater CO2 and Ocean Acidification are Rapidly Increasing on the Reef, Shows Study

Ocean acidification is no longer a sombre forecast for the Great Barrier Reef but a present-day reality, a new study reveals.

29 Oct 2020

A Vicious Circle: Impact of Global Warming and Ice Loss

The loss of huge ice masses can contribute to the warming that is causing this loss and further risks. A new study now quantifies this feedback by exploring long-term if-then-scenarios.

28 Oct 2020

Acceleration of Ice loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet Transforms Landscape

Ice loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet has accelerated significantly over the past two decades, transforming the shape of the ice sheet edge and therefore coastal Greenland, according to scientific research led by Twila Moon, deputy lead scientist of the National Snow and Ice Data Center.

28 Oct 2020