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Research Could Help Decision Makers Understand the Inherent Complexity of Climate Change

A team of researchers from the Africa Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI) led a global team of 21 climate risk scholars to better understand and inform decision making around climate change risks in Africa and globally by examining how the drivers of risk interact.

26 Apr 2021

Climate-Friendly Microbes Play an Important Role in the Global Carbon Cycle

The tree of life just got a little bigger: A team of scientists from the U.S. and China has identified an entirely new group of microbes quietly living in hot springs, geothermal systems and hydrothermal sediments around the world.

26 Apr 2021

Changing Clothes to Reduce Climate Change – Textiles 2030

Textiles 2030: UK Sustainable Textiles Action Plan, the most ambitious ten-year programme for clothing and textiles in the world, officially launches Monday 26th April.

25 Apr 2021

California's Wildfire Problem is Getting Worse with Each Passing Year

California's wildfire problem, fueled by a concurrence of climate change and a heightened risk of human-caused ignitions in once uninhabited areas, has been getting worse with each passing year of the 21st century.

23 Apr 2021

Study Evaluates China’s Measures to Achieve the 1.5°C Warming Limit

Almost all nations in the world agreed to take measures to restrict the average increase in worldwide surface temperature to within 2°C, or preferably 1.5°C than preindustrial levels, in accordance with the Paris Agreement.

23 Apr 2021

Wider Deployment of Solar Panels Could Replace Unsustainable Energy Generation

The most significant factor in finding the probability of a house having a solar panel, when compared to a host of demographic and socio-economic variables, is the number of solar panels present within the shortest distance from that house.

22 Apr 2021

Using Floodwaters to Combat Ongoing Drought

Floodwaters are not what most people consider a blessing. But they could help remedy California's increasingly parched groundwater systems, according to a new Stanford-led study.

22 Apr 2021

Updated Climate Change Atlas Includes Place-Based Summaries of Current Tree Species

For 20 years, the USDA Forest Service's Climate Change Atlas has been giving foresters in the Eastern United States insight into how future habitat conditions may affect tree species, from dramatic change (a big increase of cedar elm, for example, and a big loss in balsam poplar) to the fairly neutral (red maple).

22 Apr 2021

Reversing Global Warming Quickly Could Avert Consequences of Climate "Tipping Points"

The disastrous consequences of climate "tipping points" could be averted if global warming was reversed quickly enough, new research suggests.

22 Apr 2021

Study Shows the Significant Effect of Climate Change on Central African Forests

Global research coordinated by scientists from the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) and CIRAD has disclosed the composition of the tropical forests in Central Africa and their susceptibility to the rising pressure from human activity and climate change predicted in the forthcoming years.

22 Apr 2021