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New Light on Ice Sheet Evolution and Their Contribution to Sea Level Rise

ULB study sheds a new light on the stability of the Antarctic ice sheet. It shows for the first time that ice rises (pinning points that keep the floating parts of ice sheets in place) are formed during the transition between glacial and interglacial periods, which significantly slows down the response of the ice sheet to climate change.

27 May 2015

Implementation of the Montreal Protocol Benefits the Ozone Layer

We are already reaping the rewards of the Montreal Protocol, with the ozone layer in much better shape than it would have been without the UN treaty, according to a new study in Nature Communications.

27 May 2015

Scientists Use Mineral Cave Deposits to Find Clues about Prehistoric Climate Changes

When the conversation turns to the weather and the climate, most people's thoughts naturally drift upward toward the clouds, but Jessica Oster's sink down into the subterranean world of stalactites and stalagmites.

25 May 2015

Arctic Warming Linked with Severe Weather in Other Countries

Professor Edward Hanna and PhD student Richard Hall, from the University of Sheffield’s Department of Geography, are part of a select group of international climate scientists investigating links between Arctic climate change and extreme weather in the northern mid-latitudes.

21 May 2015

Researchers Find Clear Indications of Warming in the Upper Troposphere

Researchers have published results in Environmental Research Letters confirming strong warming in the upper troposphere, known colloquially as the tropospheric hotspot. The hot has been long expected as part of global warming theory and appears in many global climate models.

15 May 2015

Climate Change Contributes to Drop in Ozone Levels

Researchers at the University of Houston have determined that climate change - in the form of a stronger sea breeze, the result of warmer soil temperatures - contributed to the drop in high-ozone days in the Houston area.

15 May 2015

Researchers Discover How Abrupt Global Warming Event Triggered Highly Corrosive Deep-Water Current

Around 55 million years ago, an abrupt global warming event triggered a highly corrosive deep-water current through the North Atlantic Ocean. The current's origin puzzled scientists for a decade, but an international team of researchers has now discovered how it formed and the findings may have implications for the carbon dioxide emission sensitivity of today's climate.

13 May 2015

Dual Mechanism Slows Peat Decay and Helps Reduce Carbon Emissions

Duke University scientists have discovered a previously unknown dual mechanism that slows peat decay and may help reduce carbon dioxide emissions from peatlands during times of drought.

12 May 2015

Climate Change Likely to Increase Frequency, Severity of Coral Disease Outbreaks

As greater atmospheric carbon dioxide boosts sea temperatures, tropical corals face a bleak future. New climate model projections show that conditions are likely to increase the frequency and severity of coral disease outbreaks, reports a team of researchers led by Cornell scientists, published today (May 4) in Nature Climate Change.

6 May 2015

ERC Awards €2.26 Million to Bernese Climate Physicist for Research on Polar Ice Cores

The Bernese climate physicist Hubertus Fischer is awarded a grant of 2.26 Million Euro by the European Research Council for research on polar ice cores. This is Fischer’s second project funded by one of the prestigious «ERC Advanced Grants», illustrating the internationally top ranking ice and climate research at the University of Bern.

5 May 2015