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BNL Scientist Wins Kenneth T. Whitby Award for Outstanding Contributions to Aerosol Science

Jian Wang, an atmospheric scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, has been awarded the Kenneth T. Whitby Award in recognition of his outstanding technical contributions to aerosol science and technology. The award honors Wang for developing and implementing new techniques for measuring concentrations and size distributions of tiny particles in Earth's atmosphere and assessing their impact on the formation of clouds and Earth's climate.

29 Oct 2013

NASA Satellite Data Reveals Antarctic Ozone Hole Bit Below Average in 2013

The ozone hole that forms each year in the stratosphere over Antarctica was slightly smaller in 2013 than average in recent decades, according to NASA satellite data.

28 Oct 2013

Scientists Model Effects of Future Climate Change on Forests

In a warming world, how far will forest species need to shift in space in order to find survivable climate conditions? And how much will temperature change on the forest floor – the landscape that serves as a nursery for tree seedlings, and thus is critical to forest survival?

23 Oct 2013

New Study Provides Key Insights into Dynamics of Deep Biosphere

Traces of past microbial life in sediments off the coast of Peru document how the microbial ecosystem under the seafloor has responded to climate change over hundreds of thousands of years. For more a decade scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology and their colleagues at MARUM and the University of Aarhus have investigated microbial life from this habitat.

23 Oct 2013

Volvo Environment Prize Awarded to Chinese Glaciologist and Climate Scientist

The Chinese glaciologist and climate scientist Dr. Qin Dahe has been awarded this year’s Volvo Environment Prize. The award winner is a key contributor to the fifth assessment report from the UN climate panel (IPPC), whose first section, the “Physical Science Basis”, was released in September. He attracted wide attention last year with a report on how climate change leads to more extreme weather events.

22 Oct 2013

New Research Shows Human Evolution Driven by Rapid Environmental Change

Early human evolution was driven by short pulses of rapid environmental change in East Africa, according to new research from academics at UCL and The University of Manchester.

19 Oct 2013

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Will Affect 98% of the Oceans by 2100

A new study looking at the impacts of climate change on the world’s ocean systems concludes that by the year 2100, about 98 percent of the oceans will be affected by acidification, warming temperatures, low oxygen, or lack of biological productivity – and most areas will be stricken by a multitude of these stressors.

18 Oct 2013

Manmade Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trigger Ocean Biogeochemical Changes Affecting Marine Ecosystems

An ambitious new study that includes Lisa Levin of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego describes the full chain of events by which ocean biogeochemical changes triggered by manmade greenhouse gas emissions may cascade through marine habitats and organisms, penetrating to the deep ocean and eventually influencing humans.

17 Oct 2013