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Strong Ocean Currents Can Affect Bacteria That Feed on Methane

Offshore the Svalbard archipelago, methane gas is seeping out of the seabed at the depths of several hundred meters. These cold seeps are a home to communities of microorganisms that survive in a chemosynthetic environment - where the fuel for life is not the sun, but the carbon rich greenhouse gas.

5 May 2015

New Energy Model Examines Link Between Climate, Income Growth, and Air Conditioning Adoption

The continual increase in global incomes means people are living more comfortably, including having the ability to afford air conditioning. Staying cool is good but there's a wealth of fallout. The demand for more "AC" will also cause consumers to use more electricity causing stress on energy prices, infrastructure, and environmental policy, according to a new study.

28 Apr 2015

Research Shows Aggregated HFC Emissions Are Not Accurately Reported

Reported emissions of a group of potent greenhouse gases from developed countries are shown to be largely accurate, but for the wrong reasons, according to new findings from an international team, led by researchers at the University of Bristol.

28 Apr 2015

High Mountain Regions Could Be Warming Faster Than Previously Believed

An international team of scientists is calling for urgent and temperature patterns in mountain regions after compiling evidence that high elevations could be warming faster than previously thought.

25 Apr 2015

Ancient Carbon Locked in Arctic Permafrost Being Transformed into Carbon Dioxide

While climatologists are carefully watching carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, another group of scientists is exploring a massive storehouse of carbon that has the potential to significantly affect the climate change picture.

25 Apr 2015

Empirical Data Suggests Middle-of-the-Road Global Warming Scenario

A new study based on 1,000 years of temperature records suggests global warming is not progressing as fast as it would under the most severe emissions scenarios outlined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

23 Apr 2015

Amazon Deforestation Increases Potential Impact of Climate Change

Human activity has removed more than one-tenth of trees and plants from the Amazon rainforest since the 1960s, a study shows.

22 Apr 2015

Study Reveals Phytoplankton are Potentially Key Driver of Arctic Warming Under Greenhouse Warming

Phytoplankton, commonly known as plant plankton that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through photosynthesis, are potentially a key driver of Arctic warming under greenhouse warming, a study reveals.

22 Apr 2015

Limited Soil Nutrients Will Curtail Accelerated Plant Growth Due to Increasing Carbon Dioxide Emissions

Many scientists assume that the growing level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will accelerate plant growth. However, a new study co-written by University of Montana researchers suggests much of this growth will be curtailed by limited soil nutrients.

21 Apr 2015

Fast Ocean Currents Promote Escape of Methane into the Atmosphere

Ocean and Earth Science researchers from the University of Southampton were part of an international team of scientists to reveal how the interplay between ocean currents and marine microbiology serve to regulate potentially damaging emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane, created beneath the Arctic Ocean.

21 Apr 2015