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Study Analyzes the Impact of Paris Agreement Target on Energy Sector Jobs

Scientists developed a global dataset of job footprints in 50 countries and employed a model to analyze the effect of attempting to meet the Paris Agreement global climate target of staying well below 2 °C on energy sector jobs.

26 Jul 2021

The Fincons Forest Blooms: 1750 Trees to Fight Climate Change and Help Local Communities in Africa

Fincons Group, an established international family company providing IT business consulting and system integration, planted 1750 new trees in Africa, one for each member of the Group, to celebrate World Environment Day.

26 Jul 2021

Planting Seeds for Revival of Vital Drylands

Restoration of degraded drylands is urgently needed to mitigate climate change, reverse desertification and secure livelihoods for the two billion people who live there, experts warn in a major new paper in Nature Ecology & Evolution.

23 Jul 2021

Cornell Researchers to Develop First High-Resolution Carbon Monitoring System for East Africa

Cornell University researchers will develop the first high-resolution carbon monitoring system for East Africa that combines "bottom up" ecological modeling with "top down" satellite data, thanks to a three-year, $1 million NASA grant.

23 Jul 2021

Aggressive Approaches Needed to Curtail CO2 Emissions

Policymakers of California depend in part on shrublands and forests to remove CO2 from the atmosphere to attain the ambitious goal of carbon neutrality by 2045. However, scientists at the University of California, Irvine caution that future climate change might limit the ecosystem’s ability to provide this service.

23 Jul 2021

Challenges in Improving Carbon Capture

In the race to combat climate change, capturing carbon dioxide emissions has been touted as a simple road to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.

22 Jul 2021

Countries Could Face an Increased Risk of Malnutrition as Climate Change Threatens Fisheries

Millions of people in countries around the world could face an increased risk of malnutrition as climate change threatens their local fisheries.

21 Jul 2021

Tree-Ring Records Reveal Precipitation Variability in the Asian Summer Monsoon

Chinese researchers along with international colleagues recently reported a 6,700-year-long, precisely dated and well-calibrated tree-ring stable isotope chronology from the Northeastern Tibetan Plateau.

21 Jul 2021

Experts Call for New Commitments, Actions to Protect and Restore Coral Reefs

An international group of researchers representing thousands of coral scientists across the globe is calling for new commitments and actions by the world's policymakers to protect and restore coral reefs.

21 Jul 2021