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Using Plankton Shells to Gauge the Accuracy of Climate Models

Earth scientists have compiled a comprehensive record of latitudinal sea-surface temperature (SST) gradients over the last 95 million years of the Earth’s history. The results from this study help bridge the gap between empirical observations and existing climate models.

8 Mar 2022

Climate Mitigation Strategies Could Have a Negative Effect on Food Security

Numerous countries have fixed carbon neutrality as a policy goal, but according to a new research by an international group of scientists from IIASA, Japan, and the United States, there are a number of risks related to the reduction of greenhouse gases, particularly in the forestry, agriculture, and land use sectors, that need to be taken into consideration when developing mitigation policies.

8 Mar 2022

Study Analyzes the Reason Behind the Loss of Resilience in the Amazon Rainforest

Data analysis obtained from high-resolution satellite images indicates that the Amazon rainforest is possibly losing its resilience.

8 Mar 2022

El Niño Events Likely to Become More Frequent by 2040

Global weather fluctuations called El Niño events are likely to become more frequent by 2040, a new study shows.

8 Mar 2022

Climate Change and Wildfires: New Study Outlines the Path to Pervasive Adaptation

Every year, 400,000 hectares in the European Union are affected by fire, 85% of which in southern Europe, due to most pronounced 'fire weather' conditions, which are determined by high temperature, low precipitation, strong winds and low relative humidity.

8 Mar 2022

Temperature-Related Mortality Likely To Increase if Global Warming Exceeds 2°C

The death rate linked to extreme temperatures will increase significantly under global warming of 2°C, finds a report by researchers from UCL and the University of Reading.

8 Mar 2022

New Study Confirms CO2 Can Be Stored Below Ocean Floor Sediments

Climate change is one of the most unrelenting challenges that humanity needs to handle.

7 Mar 2022

Deforestation and Climate Change Worsen the Severe Drought Conditions in Brazil

Deforestation for agribusiness expansion in Brazil, in conjunction with climate change, has worsened the already severe drought suffered in the last decade by the transition zone between the eastern Amazon and the Cerrado, the vast tropical savanna ecoregion in central and western Brazil.

7 Mar 2022

NYU Tandon's Sustainable Engineering Initiative Addresses the Interwoven Environmental Challenges

The world and its urban centers are facing existential threats. Confronting them will require solutions for environmental hazards, growing demand for, and equitable distribution of resources, resiliency in the face of our changing climate , and the need to shift to clean energy -; issues complicated by their web of interactions.

7 Mar 2022

Anthropogenic Aerosol Emissions Likely Drive Decadal Weakening of the Summertime Eurasian Westerly Jet

Air pollution increases in South East Asia, combined with pollution cuts in Europe, may have had an important influence on European and Asian weather patterns in recent decades, new research has found.

7 Mar 2022