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UK-Led Study Receives NSF Funding to Understand Climate Change, Biodiversity

A study led by the University of Kentucky has been selected for funding by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) "Biodiversity on a Changing Planet" program, an international, transdisciplinary effort that addresses major challenges related to climate change.

30 Aug 2022

Researchers Gain New Insights into the Mechanisms of Arctic Sea Ice Decline

Sea ice levels in the Arctic Ocean are rapidly declining, thanks to global warming. Now, to understand and forecast the growth and decay of the ice, researchers from Japan and collaborating countries have conducted a survey in the Arctic Ocean to investigate the influence of ocean heat on sea ice in the ice-ocean boundary layer.

30 Aug 2022

Extreme Weather Could be a Potential Threat to Heart Health

An analysis in nearly 2.3 million Europeans has found detrimental associations between cold weather and deaths from heart disease, particularly in poor neighbourhoods.

29 Aug 2022

Natural Climate Solutions are Critical to Slow Down the Rate of Global Warming

Natural climate solutions (NCS), which comprise various land stewardship options, are approaches to trapping carbon in terrestrial pools and/or reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. They are critical for slowing down the rate of global warming over the next few decades.

29 Aug 2022

Record-Breaking Heat Events of Recent Summers to Become Much More Common in 2100

Record-breaking heat waves have occurred recently from Delhi to the Pacific Northwest, and the number of these deadly events is expected to increase. New research from the University of Washington and Harvard University gives a range of heat impacts worldwide by the end of this century, depending on future emissions of greenhouse gases.

26 Aug 2022

Siberia Records the Warmest Summers of the Last 7,000 Years

The north of Western Siberia is recording the warmest summers of the last 7,000 years. While for several millennia the temperature of the region was following a general cooling, in the 19th century there has been an abrupt change with rapidly rising temperature that has reached its highest value in the recent decades. These findings were published today in Nature Communications.

26 Aug 2022

Adaptation to Climate Change Requires More Energy than Previously Estimated, Study Finds

A new study published today in Nature Communications by researchers from the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, the European Institute on Economics and the Environment and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine finds that adapting to climate change will require more energy than previously estimated, leading to higher energy investments and costs.

26 Aug 2022

Towards Better and Sustainable Weather Forecasting in the Southern Hemisphere

The high-latitude region of the Southern Hemisphere suffers from erroneous weather forecasting owing to an infrequent distribution of observation networks.

26 Aug 2022

Warming Oceans Could Reduce the Carbon Sequestration Potential of Decomposing Kelp

Kelp forms vast seaweed forests along temperate coastlines, which sequester large amounts of atmospheric carbon.

25 Aug 2022

Understanding How Communities View the Acute Threat of Climate Change

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration expects up to 10 hurricanes this season, with as many as six storms between Category 3 and Category 6, threatening lives and increasing the risk to residential and commercial infrastructure in coastal regions.

24 Aug 2022