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Study Suggests Marine Heatwave Killed One Million Seabirds During 2015 and 2016

A record-breaking area of unusually warm water known as ‘the blob’ is thought to have been responsible for the deaths of around one million seabirds. Between the years 2013 and 2016, this patch of water lurke...

16 Jan 2020

New Study Helps Understand How Earth Works When it is in a Warm Mode

During the middle Miocene Climate Optimum period, global temperatures were warmer by 3 to 4 degrees, compared to present average temperatures, analogous to the estimates for the year 2100. The seas were thriving with life and the continents’ positions were just like today.

10 Jan 2020

Melting Antarctic Ice Sheets Have Made Southern Ocean More Acidic, Warmer

According to a new study, the increased freshwater caused by melting ice sheets in Antarctica, combined with the increased Antarctic wind has decreased the oxygen level in the Southern Ocean.

8 Jan 2020

Study Indicates Lack of Evidence for Decadal Internal Oscillatory Signals

According to a group of meteorologists, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) and the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) do not seem to exist.

6 Jan 2020

Statistical Learning Techniques Help Extract Climate Change Fingerprint

In October 2019, Utah-based weather scientists measured the lowest temperature of -37.1 °C in the United States (except for Alaska). This temperature was the lowest to be ever recorded in the month of October.

3 Jan 2020

Annual River Ice Cover will Decline with Increase in Global Temperatures

Each year, water in more than half of the rivers on Earth freeze. Such frozen rivers serve as vital transportation networks for industries and communities situated at higher latitudes.

2 Jan 2020

Ancient Mediterranean Seawall First Known Defence Against Sea Level Rise and it Failed

7000 year old seawall in Tel Hreiz, Israel reveals earliest known structure built against sea level rise and provides new insights into current battle with flooding threat.

20 Dec 2019

Australian Seasonal Forecasts Challenged by Pacific Ocean Warming

CSIRO research has found global warming will make it more difficult to predict multi-year global climate variations, a consequence of changes to long-term climate variability patterns in the Pacific Ocean.

17 Dec 2019

Indigenous Discovery Project Among Prestigious ARC Grants Announced for Southern Cross University

New research into the impact of environmental changes on freshwater and marine animals aims to help safeguard natural populations and aquatic habitats integral to Indigenous and non-indigenous Australians.

13 Dec 2019

New Study Identifies Climate-Ready Trees Around the World

Botanists from Trinity College Dublin have learned that “penny-pinching” evergreen species such as Christmas favorites, ivy, and holly are more climate-ready in the face of warming temperatures when compared to deciduous “big-spending” water consumers such as oak and birch.

12 Dec 2019