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Finding Less Costly Ways to Reach the Paris Agreement

Five researchers shed new light on a key argument to reduce greenhouse gases: they provided the first economic analysis of conversion factors of other GHG like methane into their CO2 equivalent in overshoot scenarios.

31 May 2021

Researchers Reconstruct Demographic Histories to Understand How Kea Populations Respond to Ice Age Climate Change

With global warming decreasing the size of New Zealand's alpine zone, a University of Otago study found out what this means for our altitude-loving kea.

28 May 2021

Corals and Their Symbiotic Algae May Have Capacity to Adjust to Current Ocean Warming

One of the most important and widespread reef-building corals, known as cauliflower coral, exhibits strong partnerships with certain species of symbiotic algae, and these relationships have persisted through periods of intense climate fluctuations over the last 1.5 million years, according to a new study led by researchers at Penn State.

27 May 2021

Study Shows that Warm Ice may Fracture Differently than Ice Studied in Laboratories

Researchers at Aalto University in Finland have found strong evidence that warm ice - that is, ice very close in temperature to zero degrees Celsius - may fracture differently than the kinds of ice typically studied in laboratories or nature.

27 May 2021

Recent Global Warming has Led to a Decrease in Dust Storm Events

Dust storms are generally defined as disastrous weather events in which huge amounts of dust particles are lifted and transported by powerful winds. Such storms are characterized by suddenness, weak horizontal visibility (less than 1 km), brief duration, and extreme destruction.

27 May 2021

Newly Discovered Fish Fossils Thrived in Warming Climates

The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, or PETM, was a short interval of highly elevated global temperatures 56 million years ago that is frequently described as the best ancient analog for present-day climate warming.

26 May 2021

Solar Geoengineering can Mitigate the Worst Impacts of Global Warming on Crops

Solar geoengineering -- putting aerosols into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight and reduce global warming -- is not a fix-all for climate change but it could be one of several tools to manage climate risks.

25 May 2021

Satellite Measurements of Troposphere Temperature may have Underestimated Global Warming

A new study carried out by climate scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and their collaborators demonstrates that satellite measurements of the temperature of the troposphere (the lowest region of the atmosphere) might have undervalued global warming in the past four decades.

25 May 2021

Natural Climate Conditions were Responsible for Recent Drought in the Pantanal

The severe drought experienced by the Pantanal between 2019 and 2020 is believed to be the worst in the last five decades. It was triggered by natural climate conditions that were analogous to those that caused the 2014–2016 critical water crisis in São Paulo state.

25 May 2021

Researchers to Evaluate How Climate Model Simulates Extreme Precipitation Events

How well can a climate model simulate an extreme precipitation event and what causes it? Researchers from Portland State's Climate Science Lab have been awarded an $843,000 grant from NASA to evaluate just that.

21 May 2021