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New Membrane Efficiently Separates CO2 from a Mixture of Gases

Researchers at Newcastle University have designed a new kind of self-forming membrane to isolate carbon dioxide (CO2) from a mixture of gases.

4 May 2020

Global Warming Could Lead to Increase in Large-Scale Glacier Detachments

A surprising event took place deep in the remote interior area of the largest national park in the United States, on the evening of August 5th, 2013.

29 Apr 2020

Climate Change Caused by Humans Leads to Slow-Moving Hurricanes

When compared to faster-moving storms, hurricanes traveling slowly across an area are said to inflict more damage.

23 Apr 2020

Standardized Procedure to Analyze Fine Particles in Experimental Chambers

What impact does the development of fine particles and the global warming exert on each other? The complete atmosphere cannot be heated for experimental purposes, so a portion of it is placed in a chamber and examined there.

20 Apr 2020

HKU Scientists Unravel Mystery of Corals’ Tolerance to Climate Change

Researchers at School of Biological Sciences and Swire Institute of Marine Science, The University of Hong Kong have developed a new method for determining what corals eat, and demonstrated that reliance on certain nutritional sources underpins their bleaching susceptibility in warming oceans.

16 Apr 2020

Ice Sheet Models Predict Higher Rates of Sea-Level Rise

A team of glaciologists has formulated an equation that takes the motion of ice resting on soft, deformable ground beneath strangely fast-moving parts of ice sheets into account.

3 Apr 2020

Study Examines Change in Forests in Response to Global Warming

Along with the changing climate, the world’s forests are also changing. Right from the Blue Ridge forest of Appalachia to the misty redwoods in the west, several sylvan ecosystems are acclimatizing to drier environments.

31 Mar 2020

New Study on Boreal Lake Methane Emissions

Researchers in Finland and the United States have conducted a new study demonstrating that warmer and shorter winters result in increased methane emissions from northern lakes.

27 Mar 2020

Unique Test Facility for Active Reduction of Atmospheric CO2

The goal of the NECOC (NEgative Carbon dioxide to Carbon) research project carried out at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is to construct a special test facility for actively bringing down atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2).

26 Mar 2020

Stratospheric Aerosol Geoengineering Could be Useful for Mitigating Climate Change

The concept of stratospheric aerosol geoengineering involves adding a layer of aerosol particles to the upper atmosphere to decrease climate changes due to greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide.

20 Mar 2020