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Rising Emissions from Global Land-Use Jeopardize Paris Climate Agreement Goals

One of President Joe Biden's first post-inauguration acts was to realign the United States with the Paris climate accord, but a new study led by researchers at the University of California, Irvine demonstrates that rising emissions from human land-use will jeopardize the agreement's goals without substantial changes in agricultural practices.

28 Jan 2021

Devonian Marine Faunas Shine New Light on Mystery of Warming Seas

Members of Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences are shining new light on an enduring mystery--one that is millions of years in the making.

28 Jan 2021

Tackling Short-Lived Climate-Forcing Pollutants Could Provide Benefits

Climate change mitigation is about more than just CO2. So-called "short-lived climate-forcing pollutants" such as soot, methane, and tropospheric ozone all have harmful effects. Climate policy should be guided by a clearer understanding of their differentiated impacts.

28 Jan 2021

Leading Scientists Release a Compilation of Top 10 Insights in Climate Science

With impacts from climate change threatening to be as abrupt and far-reaching in the coming years as the current pandemic, leading scientists have released a compilation of the 10 most important insights on the climate from the last year to help inform collective action on the ongoing climate crisis.

28 Jan 2021

Achieving Carbon-Neutrality by 2050 is Feasible and Affordable

Reaching zero net emissions of carbon dioxide from energy and industry by 2050 can be accomplished by rebuilding U.S. energy infrastructure to run primarily on renewable energy, at a net cost of about $1 per person per day, according to new research published by the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), the University of San Francisco (USF), and the consulting firm Evolved Energy Research.

28 Jan 2021

Newly Discovered Phenomenon in the Soil Could Exacerbate the Pace of Climate Change

Much of the earth's carbon is trapped in soil, and scientists have assumed that potential climate-warming compounds would safely stay there for centuries. But new research from Princeton University shows that carbon molecules can potentially escape the soil much faster than previously thought.

28 Jan 2021

World's Largest Public Opinion Survey Reveals Broad Support for Urgent Climate Action

The results of the Peoples' Climate Vote, the world's biggest ever survey of public opinion on climate change are published today. Covering 50 countries with over half of the world's population, the survey includes over half a million people under the age of 18, a key constituency on climate change that is typically unable to vote yet in regular elections.

28 Jan 2021

Study Performs Genome Analysis of Switchgrass, a Potential Biofuel Crop

Biologists are confident that they are now closer to achieving a long-term aim of creating an inexpensive and extensively available plant as a source for fuel and energy.

28 Jan 2021

The Long-Standing Mystery of Climate Change Resolved

According to a study under the guidance of Rutgers University, the main mystery behind climate change has been resolved by the researchers, which shows that the current yearly global temperature is the warmest of the last 10,000 years—in contrast to recent research.

28 Jan 2021

Researchers Study the Impact of Increasing Ocean Temperatures on Marine Life

Global warming or climate change. It doesn't matter what you call it. What matters is that right now it is having a direct and dramatic effect on marine environments across our planet.

27 Jan 2021