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NextGen Climate Action Releases Fourth Ad Against XL Pipeline

Today, NextGen Climate Action released the fourth and final ad in its $1 million TV ad series explaining the arguments for rejecting the Keystone XL Pipeline. The ad can be viewed at: www.KeystoneTruth.com.

1 Oct 2013

Sixth Abu Dhabi Sustainability Group Hiwar Session Focuses on Climate Change

The Abu Dhabi Sustainability Group (ADSG) held its sixth Hiwar Session (Hiwar is the Arabic word for dialogue) to help in raising awareness and building a common understanding on the key issues of climate change and how a green economy could be financed.

30 Sep 2013

UC Davis to Lead Two-Year $11.2 Million Research Consortium Focused on Climate Change

The University of California, Davis, has been selected in a national competition this week to lead a two-year, $11.2 million research consortium for the U.S. Department of Transportation, focused on addressing and preparing for climate change.

26 Sep 2013

Stanford School of Earth Sciences Professors Named 2013 MacArthur Fellows

Two professors in the Stanford School of Earth Sciences – David Lobell, an associate professor of environmental Earth system science and Kevin Boyce, an associate professor of geological and environmental sciences – have been named 2013 MacArthur Fellows.

26 Sep 2013

UCSD Climate Researcher Honored with UN Champions of the Earth Award

Veerabhadran Ramanathan, a distinguished professor of climate and atmospheric sciences at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, whose landmark research showed that cutting emissions of black carbon and other short lived climate pollutants can significantly lessen the impacts of regional and global climate change, improve the health of millions of rural poor, and avoid crop losses, will receive tonight (Sept. 20) a 2013 Champions of the Earth award, the United Nations’s highest environmental accolade.

21 Sep 2013

ASU Student Studies Impact of Climate Change on Nepali Farmers

In a country where she didn’t know anyone, couldn’t speak the language and was a stranger to the culture, Tayler Jenkins pushed through her mission to research sustainable agriculture and livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Nepal.

19 Sep 2013

Malaria Transmission in West Africa May not be Affected by Climate Change

As public-health officials continue to fight malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, researchers are trying to predict how climate change will impact the disease, which infected an estimated 219 million people in 2010 and is the fifth leading cause of death worldwide among children under age 5.

17 Sep 2013