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New, Low-Cost Sensor Network may Help the Community Monitor Climate Change Effects

A University of Texas at Arlington civil engineer is working with a Texas coastal town to develop a low-cost sensor network that will help the community monitor climate change effects.

20 Sep 2021

Research Explains the Interplay Between Sea-Ice Decline, Wave Height, and Ice Clouds in the Arctic

Some of the most well-known and feared aspects of climate change are its potential effects on weather patterns and how this could accelerate the melting of natural ice.

20 Sep 2021

Climate Change Threatens to Destabilize Marine Food Webs in the Cold Polar Oceans

The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the largest food webs on Earth. And at their base are microscopic, photosynthetic algae.

20 Sep 2021

New Global Climate Assessment Report Highlights the Urgency of Decarbonization to Avoid Severe Impacts

Improved data, models and analyses from Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists and many other researchers in the latest global climate assessment report provide new levels of certainty about what the future holds for the planet and highlight the urgency of decarbonization to avoid the most severe impacts.

17 Sep 2021

Climate Crisis Likely to Cause Abrupt Changes to Algal Communities in the Oceans

Global warming is likely to cause abrupt changes to important algal communities because of shifting biodiversity 'break point' boundaries in the oceans – according to research from the University of East Anglia and the Earlham Institute.

17 Sep 2021

Natural Decadal Fluctuations can Accelerate or Reverse Ocean Acidification in the Gulf of Alaska

New research at the University of Alaska Fairbanks shows that the fluctuations of major wind and ocean circulation systems can temporarily accelerate or reverse the rate of ocean acidification in the Gulf of Alaska.

16 Sep 2021

Massive Algal Blooms Triggered Following the 2019 and 2020 Australian Wildfires

According to an international team of researchers led by Duke University, the Australian wildfires of 2019 and 2020 caused clouds of smoke and ash that triggered extensive algal blooms in the Southern Ocean thousands of miles downwind to the east.

16 Sep 2021

Better Analysis Tools Needed to Help Policymakers Tackle the Systemic Climate Crisis

Policymakers need better analysis tools to help them tackle the systemic climate crisis, experts say.

15 Sep 2021

Climate Change may Have a Large Impact on Ecosystems in Polar Regions

Many species will become extinct as a consequence of global warming. This is the prediction of a mathematical model developed at Linköping University, Sweden, presented in Nature Communications.

15 Sep 2021

Climate Change may Make Wood Frogs Less Resilient to Salt Pollution

Climate change may erode frogs' ability to withstand road salt pollution, according to researchers at Binghamton University, State University of New York.

15 Sep 2021