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Notre Dame Climate Change Researchers Bring Real-World Solutions to Global Communities

At the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27), hosted this month by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC), world leaders plan to "demonstrate a new era of implementation by turning their commitments under the Paris Agreement into action" to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve global adaptation and mitigation efforts through enhanced funding.

3 Nov 2022

Report Lays Out How Countries Could Reorient Their Problematic Climate Plans

A new study is the first to calculate that countries collectively need a total of 1.2 billion hectares of land to fulfill the promises laid out in their official climate plans, part of global efforts to meet Paris Agreement goals.

2 Nov 2022

Trade, Migration, Job Options Will Impact How States and Countries Fare Over Changing Climate

When people talk about adapting to climate change, they often refer to innovations – a new crop variety that can withstand more extreme heat or building underwater pumps to cool coral reefs. But Gary Lyn, an assistant professor who specializes in international trade and economic geography at Iowa State University, says trade, migration and job options will also affect how individual states and countries fare over the next 100 years.

2 Nov 2022

New Approach to Explain the Vulnerability of Species

A new analysis considers natural fluctuations and predictability to evaluate which parts of an ecosystem are most threatened by climate change and other disturbances.

1 Nov 2022

Flood Risk in Los Angeles is Larger than Previously Indicated, New Modeling Platform Reveals

Flood risk in Los Angeles is vastly larger than previously indicated by federally defined flood maps, and low-income and marginalized communities face a significantly higher threat, according to a study led by researchers at the University of California, Irvine.

1 Nov 2022

Space-Based CO2 Observations Quantify Emission Reductions

According to the Paris Agreement, nations must monitor greenhouse gas emissions at the level of individual “super emitters,” such as power plants, in almost real-time.

31 Oct 2022

Warming Temperatures and Ocean Acidification may Spur Ecosystem-Altering Changes

The Pacific blue mussel (Mytilus trossulus) is a foundational and beneficial species in the intertidal environments of the northern Pacific Ocean. Comparative physiologists have recently studied how two aspects of climate change-;warming temperatures and increasingly acidic waters-;may affect this ecologically important species.

31 Oct 2022

Warmer Temperatures and Increased Salt Levels may Negatively Affect School Sharks

Preliminary research data suggest warmer temperatures and increased salt levels might have negative effects on the behavior and physiology of school sharks. A clear indicator of physiological changes is higher levels of stress markers such as glucose and lactate concentrations in the blood.

31 Oct 2022

Mathematical Model Estimates Monito's Survival Rates in the Advent of Global Warming

A South American marsupial with ties to an ancient line of animals may go extinct in the next half-century due to warming temperatures. Researchers from the Universidad Austral de Chile will present a mathematical model of the monito del monte's survival predictions this week at the American Physiological Society (APS) Intersociety Meeting in Comparative Physiology: From Organism to Omics in an Uncertain World conference in San Diego.

31 Oct 2022

Ocean Warming Harms Food Security, Increases the Growth Rate of Fish

Higher temperatures spurred by worsening climate change increased the growth rate of fish and consumption of their yolk sac-;a structure that provides an embryo with food and helps develop important structures, such as blood cells.

31 Oct 2022