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Climate-Driven Advance of Beavers Into the Arctic Region Likely Causing Increased Methane Emissions

The climate-driven advance of beavers into the Arctic tundra is causing the release of more methane - a greenhouse gas - into the atmosphere.

11 Sep 2023

How Climate Change is Changing the Distribution and Ecology of Marine Plankton

Marine plankton plays an important role in the food chain, which is said to be undergoing a transformation due to climate change. Assistant Professor Kohei Matsuno of the Faculty of Fisheries Sciences spoke about how climate change is changing the distribution and ecology of marine plankton and what impact this will have on higher-trophic predators, including humans.

8 Sep 2023

Understanding the Impact of Climate Change on the Terrestrial Carbon Cycle

Before Leila Mirzagholi arrived at MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) to begin her postdoc appointment, she had spent most of her time in academia building cosmological models to detect properties of gravitational waves in the cosmos.

7 Sep 2023

Wind-Blown Snow in the Central Arctic Contributes to Seasonal Surface Warming

Atmospheric scientists at Washington University in St. Louis discovered abundant fine sea salt aerosol production from wind-blown snow in the central Arctic, increasing seasonal surface warming.

7 Sep 2023

Ministers, CEOs and Global Business Leaders Commit to Unified Industry Action Towards Net Zero on Opening Day of Gastech 2023

Gastech 2023, the world’s largest meeting place for natural gas, LNG, hydrogen, low-carbon solutions, and climate technologies, opened today welcoming record-breaking numbers to Singapore EXPO.

7 Sep 2023

Sofia Offshore Wind Farm: Powering the UK’s Clean Energy Future

Sofia Offshore Wind Farm is poised to become one of the largest single offshore wind farms in the world, with an operational date set for 2026.

5 Sep 2023

Green Infrastructure Key to Net Zero Carbon Cities

According to recent research, dozens of European cities could achieve net zero carbon emissions in the next 10 years by implementing nature into their infrastructure.

4 Sep 2023

New Study Finds Antarctic Ice Shelves Are Thinner Than Previously Thought

As global ice dams begin to weaken due to warming temperatures, a new study suggests that prior attempts to evaluate the mass of the huge floating ice shelves that line the Antarctic ice sheet may have overestimated their thickness.

4 Sep 2023

Higher Global Temperatures Likely to Provoke Rapid Sea Level Rises

The rapid sea level rise and resulting retreat of coastal habitat seen at the end of the last Ice Age could repeat itself if global average temperatures rise beyond certain levels, according to an analysis by an international team of scientists from more than a dozen institutions, including Rutgers.

1 Sep 2023

NSF Funding Helps Paleoclimate Lab Researchers to Study the Earth's Climate History

Last summer, the University at Albany's Paleoclimate Lab opened its doors, offering a new way to analyze samples of natural materials, such as coral and lake sediment, to help reconstruct Earth's climate history.

1 Sep 2023