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Study Outlines Strategies to Achieve Overall Resilience in Hood River Watershed

Hood River, long an agricultural center for Oregon, faces an uncertain future of climate impacts, but a new Portland State University study lays out strategies that the watershed can adapt to become more resilient to the inevitable changes.

1 Sep 2021

Study Seeks Ways to Improve the Prediction of Climate Anomalies

Human beings have been facing climate change and meteorological disasters, which have now turned out to be a major problem.

1 Sep 2021

Lake Sediments Show Link Between Climate Change and Bushfires in Aussie Alps

Sediments in a lake near Kosciuszko may hold clues to plant conservation strategies amid rising temperatures and more frequent bushfires.

31 Aug 2021

WVU Researchers Use a Localized Flooding Event to Seek Community-Driven Solutions

Researchers at West Virginia University have used a localized flooding event to envision how human beings can live with the threat of water invading their living and working spaces.

31 Aug 2021

Global Models Underestimate Future Climate Change Impacts on the World's Marine Ecosystems

Protecting marine ecosystems and fisheries from climate change is a global priority but a new QUT-led, international study finds that our lack of understanding for how marine systems function is muddying the waters.

27 Aug 2021

Climate Terminology Used by Scientists Easily Confounds the Public

A new study finds that U.S. residents struggle to understand terms frequently used by scientists to describe climate change.

27 Aug 2021

New AI Tool can Help Accurately Forecast Arctic Sea Ice Conditions

A new AI tool is set to enable scientists to more accurately forecast Arctic sea ice conditions months into the future.

27 Aug 2021

Novel Global Ocean Surface Climate Likely to Emerge, Says Study

According to recent research, about 35.6% to 95% of the 20th-century ocean surface climates—determined by surface water temperature, pH, and the concentration of the mineral aragonite—might perish by 2100.

27 Aug 2021

Study Shows Temperature Increase will Interrupt El Niño and La Niña Events

In the eastern pacific, the cycling between cold La Niña and warm El Niño phenomena (commonly referred to as the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, ENSO) has constantly occurred without any strong interruption for the past 11,000 years.

27 Aug 2021

Volcanic Eruptions may have Stimulated Population Surges of Marine Microorganisms, Analysis Finds

A new analysis of 2.5-billion-year-old rocks from Australia finds that volcanic eruptions may have stimulated population surges of marine microorganisms, creating the first puffs of oxygen into the atmosphere.

26 Aug 2021