Climate Change News

RSS

Climate Tipping Points can be Better Understood with Ancient Climate Change Data

A new study reveals that climate change data from the ancient past can be useful to gain better insights into and better predict climate “tipping points.”

26 Oct 2021

Intercropping with Perennial Plants in Rainfed Woody Systems Helps to Mitigate Climate Change

Agriculture and the change in soil use produce 23% of the total emissions of greenhouse gases of anthropogenic origin.

25 Oct 2021

Research Helps Explains Increased Rainfall in the U.S. Pacific Northwest

The Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) is a tropical rainfall pattern that excites waves of air in the atmosphere.

25 Oct 2021

Food Quality at the Base of Aquatic Food Web Deteriorates with Climate Change

Climate change impacts on freshwater systems can lower nutrition and increase toxicity at the base of the food web, according to research from Dartmouth College and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.

25 Oct 2021

Study Shows No Precedent for Rate of Coal Decline Needed to Realize Paris Climate Agreement

A study of decadal episodes of drop in fossil fuel across 105 countries between the years 1960 and 2018 reveals that limiting climate change to the 1.5°C target fixed by the Paris Climate Agreement will probably necessitate coal and gas power use to decrease at rates that are unparalleled for any large country.

25 Oct 2021

Study Reveals Connection Between Climate Change and Plastics Pollution

University of Rhode Island researchers Andrew Davies and Coleen Suckling say that when a major hurricane churns up storm surges and heavy, drenching rains, the storm washes trash from the land into our rivers and coasts.

22 Oct 2021

Call for Immediate Action to Overcome Climate Change

The 2021 IPCC report made one thing crystal clear - global climate change is here to stay. Time is up. We need to act or climate change will lead to inconceivable suffering by billions of people.

22 Oct 2021

Northern Hemisphere Lakes may be Approaching a Tipping Point to Ice-Free Conditions

Lakes in the Northern Hemisphere are warming six times faster since 1992 than any other time period in the last 100 years, research led by York University has found.

22 Oct 2021

Algebraic Topology Could be Used to Predict if and When Earth’s Climate System will Tip

In the past, the Earth's climate system appears to have moved sharply between colder and warmer modes. Can humanity risk the same at present from anthropogenic climate change? Honestly, climate models still cannot offer answers to that question.

22 Oct 2021

Press Conference: Launch of 2021 Emissions Gap Report

Ahead of the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties the UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, and the Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme

22 Oct 2021