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What does Arctic Ice Loss Mean for Global Sea Levels?

$$IMAGE$$ Image Credit: Michal Balada/Shutterstock.com As the Arctic warms at an accelerated rate, the very real potential for significant ice loss could see sea levels rise, which would have devastating consequenc...

11 Dec 2019

Challenges Faced in Efforts to Meet Global Climate Change Targets

American Geophysical Union has found that understanding the factors influencing the amount of methane in the atmosphere is one of the principal challenges in the earth sciences in the next decades due to methane’s highly important role in fulfilling climate warming targets.

11 Dec 2019

Study Identifies Importance of Forests for Mitigation of Climate Change

A research performed by scientists at Oregon State University has identified forests in the western United States that must be preserved for their capability to alleviate climate change through carbon sequestration, as well as to improve biodiversity.

10 Dec 2019

Oxford Researchers Launch a 21st Century Conservation Plan

Nature is moving to the top of the international agenda. The loss of biodiversity is increasingly recognised as a crisis, linked to climate change, which needs urgent action. But without a framework that translates actio...

10 Dec 2019

Global Temperatures Considerably Lower Due to Montreal Protocol

In 1987, an international agreement called the Montreal Protocol was signed to bring an end to the destruction of the ozone layer by chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs).

9 Dec 2019

Zebra Finches Survive Australian Heatwaves by Predicting High Temperatures

The survival habits of a native Australian bird have given Curtin University researchers vital clues that may help understand how wildlife can withstand harsh heatwaves that may prove fatal.

3 Dec 2019

New Research on Prokaryotes Could Help Develop More Accurate Climate Models

While adapting to hotter temperatures, bacteria tend to accelerate their respiration rate and emit more carbon, thus possibly speeding up climate change.

13 Nov 2019

Researchers Discover Potential Oxyfluoride Materials for Water Splitting Reaction

Researchers from the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) studied a material capable of splitting water molecules (H2O) to generate dihydrogen (H2) in the presence of sunlight.

18 Oct 2019

Solutions to Overcome Seasonal Variations in Urban Heat Island Effect

During the heat of summer, cities tend to swelter more than neighboring rural areas and suburbs. While the size of this urban heat island effect differs broadly among the world’s cities, heat island intensity can fundamentally be explained by a city’s precipitation level and population, scientists stated in a paper published in the journal Nature on September 4th, 2019.

5 Sep 2019