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Can United Nations’ COP26 Save Antarctica’s Ice Sheets from Melting?

For more than 30 years, David Harwood, professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has been a leading scientist investigating how global temperature change affected Antarctic ecosystems and the stability of the large southern ice sheets over millions of years in the ancient past.

30 Nov 2021

Study Shows How Near-Term Mitigation can Help Prevent Temperature Overshoot

A new international study coordinated by IIASA shows how near-term mitigation can help to prevent an overshoot in global temperatures, thereby reducing climate risks and bringing long-term economic gains.

30 Nov 2021

New Study Describes How Two Species of Antarctic Fish Respond to Acute Thermal Stress

At first glance, Antarctica seems inhospitable. Known for howling gales and extremely cold temperatures, the continent is blanketed with a mile-thick ice shelf. Occasional elephant seals and seabirds fleck the glacial shorelines.

30 Nov 2021

Research Illuminates How Warmer Temperatures, Artificial Light Alter the Timing of Urban Tree Leafing

For illuminating how warmer temperatures and artificial light in cities alter the timing of urban tree leafing, Lin Meng is the grand prize winner of the 2021 Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists.

26 Nov 2021

Arctic Ocean has Been Warming for Much Longer than Records Suggest

The Arctic Ocean has been getting warmer since the beginning of the 20th century – decades earlier than records suggest – due to warmer water flowing into the delicate polar ecosystem from the Atlantic Ocean.

25 Nov 2021

Study Attributes Tree Mortality to the Direct Effect of Warming on Bark Beetles

In California's Sierra Nevada, western pine beetle infestations amped up by global warming were found to kill 30% more ponderosa pine trees than the beetles do under drought alone.

24 Nov 2021

Cost-Effective Approach to Turn Global Warming Liability into a Food Security Solution

Like a mirage on the horizon, an innovative process for converting a potent greenhouse gas into a food security solution has been stalled by economic uncertainty.

23 Nov 2021

Carbon Storage Declines Strongly with Rising Temperatures

Global warming will cause the world's soil to release carbon, new research shows.

19 Nov 2021

Antarctic Ice Sheet Changed Alarmingly Quickly in the Past - and may be Happening Again Now

Patterns of rapid ice loss in the past could predict style of future Antarctic ice sheet retreat.

19 Nov 2021

Wetlands can be Restored for Coastal Protection Using Machine Learning

By feeding large experimental data sets to a machine learning model, wetland establishment for flood defense can be enabled by manipulating the local conditions, thus overruling intense global change stressors.

17 Nov 2021