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Using Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement as a Potential Way to Remove CO2 from the Atmosphere

With human-induced greenhouse gases fueling global climate change, there is an urgent need to bolster emissions reductions with large-scale carbon dioxide removal.

8 Jun 2023

British Firm Agricarbon Selected for Major European Climate Project

Agricarbon, a Dundee-based automated soil carbon measurement company has partnered with HeavyFinance, a European climate tech investment marketplace.

8 Jun 2023

Climate Scientists Discover a Natural Cycle in the Atmosphere’s Antarctic Oscillation

Climate scientists at Rice University have discovered an "internally generated periodicity" — a natural cycle that repeats every 150 days — in the north-south oscillation of atmospheric pressure patterns that drive the movement of the Southern Hemisphere's prevailing westerly winds and the Antarctic jet stream.

7 Jun 2023

Research Marks an Important Step Toward Calibrating Climate Models

Shallow lakes and ponds emit significant amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, but emissions from these systems vary considerably and are not well understood.

7 Jun 2023

Analysis of Snowmaking’s Environmental Sustainability

The first national research to analyze the impact of generating artificial snow reveals the stress the process is placing on the environment, with approximately 17,000 homes’ worth of annual energy required to manufacture snow for yearly ski operations in Canada alone.

7 Jun 2023

AI-Powered Tool Launches to Unlock 170k+ Global Climate Documents

Climate Policy Radar launches The Global Stocktake Explorer - an open AI-powered tool that has unlocked over 1,600 documents and 170,000 pages of global climate policy and research. Funded by the ClimateWorks ...

7 Jun 2023

Carbon Sequestration by Whales Makes a Minimal Impact on Climate Change

Do whales increase the removal of carbon from the atmosphere?

6 Jun 2023

How Does CRISPR/Cas9 Help in Coral Conservation and Restoration?

Recent research guided by Carnegie’s Phillip Cleves employs innovative CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing tools to unravel a gene that is vital for stony corals’ capability to build reef architectures.

6 Jun 2023

Likelihood of Extreme Temperatures in Wheat-Producing Regions Could Affect Crop Yields

The world is getting hotter, causing shifts in seasonal patterns and increasing the amount of extreme weather such as severe droughts and heat waves, which can affect crop yields and food supplies.

5 Jun 2023

Warming Climate Could Flip Mixotrophic Microbes from Carbon Sinks to Carbon Emitters

New research finds that a warming climate could flip globally abundant microbial communities from carbon sinks to carbon emitters, potentially triggering climate change tipping points

2 Jun 2023