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Research Lays the Groundwork for More Accurate Global Measurement of Carbon Storage

Scientists from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and international collaborators demonstrated a new method for mapping the location and size of trees growing outside of forests, discovering billions of trees in arid and semi-arid regions and laying the groundwork for more accurate global measurement of carbon storage on land.

19 Oct 2020

Scientists and Public Expect to Receive Advanced Warning of Hazardous Weather Events

In this year of extreme weather events -- from devastating West Coast wildfires to tropical Atlantic storms that have exhausted the alphabet -- scientists and members of the public are asking when these extreme events can be scientifically linked to climate change.

19 Oct 2020

Deep Sea Coral Time Machines Provide New Insights into Ancient CO2 Burps

The Southern Ocean played a critical role in the rapid atmospheric carbon dioxide increase during the last deglaciation that took place 20,000 to 10,000 years ago, according to a new report by Boston College geochemist Xingchen (Tony) Wang and an international team in the online edition of Science Advances.

19 Oct 2020

New Evidence of Past Permafrost Thawing During Climate Warming Events

Sea floor sediments of the Arctic Ocean can help scientists understand how permafrost responds to climate warming.

19 Oct 2020

New System to Continuously Remove Carbon Dioxide from Waste Gases

A new system developed by chemical engineers at MIT could provide a way of continuously removing carbon dioxide from a stream of waste gases, or even from the air.

19 Oct 2020

Ancient Deep-Sea Corals Could Offer Insights into Effect of Ocean on Rising CO2 Levels

According to a new study performed by the Universities of Bristol, St Andrews, and Nanjing, the fossilized remains of ancient deep-sea corals may serve as time machines that offer new understanding of the effect the ocean has on the ever-increasing CO2 levels.

19 Oct 2020

Study Investigates Drivers Responsible for Madagascar Megafaunal Extinction

In the past thousand years, there was complete destruction of the endemic megafauna of Madagascar and the Mascarene islands. An international research team analyzed the probable drivers of this extinction by developing an 8000-year record of the previous climate of the island.

19 Oct 2020

Keeling Curve Carbon Dioxide Measurement Receives $1 Million in Continuation Funding

The Keeling Curve carbon dioxide measurement-the long-term atmospheric measurement that alerted the world to human-induced climate change- will receive $1 million in continuation funding from philanthropists Eric and Wendy Schmidt, Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego announced today.

16 Oct 2020

Climate Change is Linked to Extinction of Early Humans

Among the early humans constituting six or more different species and belonging to the genus Homo, only Homo sapiens were able to survive.

16 Oct 2020

Irreversible Changes Noticed in Asian Ecosystem Due to Climate Change

Thirty-four million years ago, unexpected climate change led to an ecological collapse in Central Asia.

16 Oct 2020

Researchers Shed Light on Evolutionary Origin of Corals to Handle Warmer Oceans

In 1998, ocean temperatures soared, and the world experienced its first significant coral bleaching event.

15 Oct 2020

Glitter Could be Causing Ecological Damage to the Rivers

New research indicates that glitter could be causing ecological damage to our rivers and lakes.

15 Oct 2020

Climate Scientists Extend the Record of Atlantic Sea-Surface Temperature

Taking advantage of unique properties of sediments from the bottom of Sawtooth Lake in the Canadian High Arctic, climate scientists have extended the record of Atlantic sea-surface temperature from about 100 to 2,900 years, and it shows that the warmest interval over this period has been the past 10 years.

15 Oct 2020

New Project to Develop Cost-Effective Green Space Cooling Technologies

A new project to develop cost-effective space cooling technologies powered by green technologies has been launched by a global consortium led by the University of Birmingham.

15 Oct 2020

Bringing People Together to Tackle Climate Change

A new study suggests that engaging, high-quality media programming could help Democrats and Republicans see eye to eye when it comes to climate change.

15 Oct 2020