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Research on Snow Distribution can Increase Understanding of Arctic Climate

Comprehensive data from several seasons of field research in the Alaskan Arctic will address uncertainties in Earth-system and climate-change models about snow cover across the region and its impacts on water and the environment.

18 Aug 2022

New Federal Climate Legislation Holds Potential to Reshape Energy Economy at the Macro-Level

On Tuesday, President Joe Biden signed the historic Inflation Reduction Act, which is the first major piece of federal climate legislation ever to be signed into law in the United States.

18 Aug 2022

Decarbonization Scenarios Outlined by Energy Companies Incompatible with Paris Agreement Goals

Decarbonisation scenarios produced by BP, Royal Dutch Shell and Equinor are incompatible with Paris Agreement goals for a safe and habitable planet.

17 Aug 2022

New Report Finds Value of Wind Energy Far Exceeds Costs

Wind energy continues to see strong growth, solid performance, and attractive prices in the U.S., according to a report released by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and prepared by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).

17 Aug 2022

UF Researchers Take a Small Step Toward Revitalizing Sea Urchin Populations

Coral reef ecosystems are severely threatened by pollution, disease, overharvesting and other factors. For thousands of years, long-spined sea urchins helped keep reefs intact. They eat seaweed, which can kill or seriously damage coral. Without coral, reefs suffer severe consequences, including diminished ability to support fish.

17 Aug 2022

Propane Proves to be the Superior Solution for Sustainable Air Conditioning

Current severe heatwaves that will likely increase in severity and frequency in the future are driving a rise in the use of air conditioners, threatening the environment with their high energy consumption and refrigerants with high warming potential.

17 Aug 2022

Climate Change Affects Grassland Soil Organic Carbon Storage

According to a new review, grasslands can store carbon, making them a valuable weapon in the fight against climate change.

16 Aug 2022

Monsoon ‘Pulls’ Chemical Pollutants that Accelerate Climate Change into the Upper Atmosphere

While the Asian monsoon brings rain that is vital for the agricultural economy of the vast region, it is also known to suck up into the upper atmosphere chemical pollutants that accelerate climate change.

16 Aug 2022

Study: 900 Years of Cooling in the Gulf of Maine Suddenly Reversed in the Late 1800s

By combining seawater data taken from clam shells and thousands of climate simulations, researchers found that 900 years of cooling in the Gulf of Maine were suddenly reversed in the late 1800s.

16 Aug 2022

Antarctica's Ice Shelves may be Melting at a Faster Rate, New Model Suggests

A new model developed by Caltech and JPL researchers suggests that Antarctica's ice shelves may be melting at an accelerated rate, which could eventually contribute to more rapid sea level rise.

16 Aug 2022

Optimizing the Energy Output of Wind Farms

Researchers at MIT investigate if there is a way to optimize the energy output of wind farms and generate more power, without the need for any extra investment in turbine hardware.

By David J. Cross 15 Aug 2022

Synthetic Genes Could Make Plants More Resilient to Increasing Pressures from Climate Change

Increasingly, global food production is being threatened by the effects of climate change. As floods, droughts, and extreme heat waves become more common, crops need to be able to adapt faster than ever.

12 Aug 2022

Researchers Radio-Track Migrating Hawkmoths for the Longest Distance Ever

Insects are the world's smallest flying migrants, but they can maintain perfectly straight flight paths even in unfavorable wind conditions, according to a new study from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior (MPI-AB) and the University of Konstanz.

12 Aug 2022

Research Reveals the Development Process and Contributing Factors of Powerful Mongolian Cyclone

An extremely strong dust storm struck Mongolia and northern China successively, causing 590 herdsmen to disappear and 16 people to die in Mongolia. When the dust storm reached central Inner Mongolia in the early morning of 15 March, the gust speed reached up to 40 m s-1, which is equivalent to the intensity of a grade 12 typhoon.

12 Aug 2022

The Arctic is Warming Much Faster than Previously Predicted

A new study finds that the Arctic has been warming nearly four times faster than the globe, which is a higher ratio than most scientists have predicted. The phenomenon, known as Arctic amplification, indicates that climate models systematically tend to underestimate the speed of increasing temperatures.

12 Aug 2022