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Global Warming Threatens Hudson Bay Polar Bears with Longer Ice-Free Periods

Recent research by Julienne Stroeve and colleagues, published in Communications Earth & Environment, projects that global warming would extend the Hudson Bay’s ice-free period, hence shortening the resident polar bears’ hunting season.

14 Jun 2024

Historic Regulations Lead to Decrease in Harmful Ozone-Depleting Chemicals

A new study by an international team of researchers, published today in Nature Climate Change, has revealed significant progress in the drive to reduce atmospheric levels of chemicals that destroy the Earth’s protective ozone layer, confirming the success of historic regulations limiting their production and use.

12 Jun 2024

North American Bird Populations Face Greater Decline by Century’s End Due to Climate Change

Following decades of decline, even fewer birds will darken North American skies by the end of the century, according to a new analysis by scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

12 Jun 2024

Nitrous Oxide Emissions Soared 40 Percent from 1980-2020, Greatly Accelerating Climate Change, New Study Led by Boston College Scientists Finds

Emissions of nitrous oxide – a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide or methane – continued unabated between 1980 and 2020, a year when more than 10-million metric tons were released into the atmosphere primarily through farming practices, according to a new report led by Boston College scientists for the Global Carbon Project.

12 Jun 2024

Study on Climate Change Control with ML Named Best Paper

The Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning Workshop at the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), held in Vienna, Austria, and remotely in May, awarded a best paper award to a group that is exploring and utilizing machine learning to predict weather.

11 Jun 2024

Report Warns of Rapidly Approaching Climate Tipping Point

According to the University of Leeds' second annual Indicators of Global Climate Change study, human-induced warming has increased to 1.19 °C during the past ten years (2014–2023), up from 1.14 °C seen in 2013–2022 (detailed in the previous year’s report).

5 Jun 2024

Innovative Strategies to Reduce Resource Consumption and Fossil Fuel Emissions

Alessio Mastrucci, Charlie Wilson, Volker Krey, and Felix Creutzig of the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) in Berlin, along with numerous collaborators from the IIASA-led CircEUlar and EDITS research projects, led a perspective piece published in Nature Climate Change that details novel approaches that drastically cut down on resource consumption and fossil fuel emissions.

5 Jun 2024

Five Projects Will Receive Funding to Advance Understanding of Ocean Systems in a Changing Climate

Five global science and technology projects have been selected to join the Ocean Biogeochemistry Virtual Institute (OBVI) addressing gaps in ocean data and modeling efforts by improving the breadth of research in the field and expanding capacity to understand ocean resources.

From Schmidt Sciences 4 Jun 2024

Abandoned Farmlands Could Become Key Players in Combating Climate Change

Farmland is often a battleground in the fight against climate change.Solar panels and energy crops are pitted against food production, while well-intended policy choices can create incentives for farmers to till up new lands, releasing even more heat-trapping gas into the atmosphere.

31 May 2024

Solar-Powered CO2 Capture and Green Methanol Production Unveiled

Researchers have proposed an innovative approach to address the pressing issue of climate change by integrating solar thermal energy-assisted direct air capture (DAC) technology with the production of green methanol.

29 May 2024