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Study Suggests Great Earthquakes as Cause of Arctic Warming

A researcher from MIPT has proposed a new explanation for the Arctic’s rapid warming. In his recent paper in Geosciences, he suggests that the warming could have been triggered by a series of great earthquakes.

24 Dec 2020

Novel Method to Predict Global Warming with Lower Uncertainties

According to a new study, the threshold for hazardous global warming will probably be encountered between 2027 and 2042, which is a considerably narrower window compared to the predictions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the period between now and 2052.

22 Dec 2020

Study Indicates Sea-Level Rise Could be Higher than Predicted

According to a new report, if climate change is not challenged, sea levels may rise higher than present estimates by 2100.

21 Dec 2020

Careful Foresight and Planning can Help Balance Climate, Economic Goals in Developing Nations

Developing nations have an opportunity to avoid long-term dependence on fossil fuel-burning infrastructure as they move toward economic stability, even if they are slow to cut carbon emissions, say the authors of a new paper in Environmental Research Letters.

17 Dec 2020

Mapping High-Resolution Methane Emissions From Space

Scientists have used satellite data from the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission, combined with the Sentinel-5P satellite, to detect individual methane emissions from space.

16 Dec 2020

Evolution is Slower than Global Warming

The world is getting warmer, and life has to adapt to new conditions. But if the warming continues, many species may have trouble keeping up.

15 Dec 2020

Starfish Cannot Survive More Frequent and Extreme Marine Heatwaves

Common starfish cannot survive amplified marine heatwaves projected at the end of the century and experience lasting negative effects from current heatwaves, according to new research being presented on at the British Ecological Society's Festival of Ecology.

15 Dec 2020

Rising Temperatures are Increasingly Thawing Permafrost Soils

In the northern hemisphere, around one-quarter of the ground is permanently frozen. It has been estimated that these regions contain carbon that is almost twice as much as the present atmosphere in the world.

11 Dec 2020

Westerly Winds Could Intensify, Migrate Poleward with Climate Change

The most high-resolution past record of the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds has now been developed by polar climate scientists.

10 Dec 2020

Study Reveals Global Warming Accelerates the Loss of Biodiversity

According to research from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), headed by Almut Arneth, a significant number of present and proposed post-2020 biodiversity targets of international organizations are vulnerable due to climate change, even if other obstacles like habitat exploitation are eliminated.

9 Dec 2020