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Study Reveals Effect of Near-Real-Time Deforestation Alerts in Tropics

In African nations where a new satellite-based program offers free alerts upon detecting deforestation activities, forest loss has dropped by 18%.

5 Jan 2021

New Method Helps Predict Future Climate Change

Changes in the planet’s climate are mainly indicated by sea ice. Now, scientists from Brown University have made a recent discovery that could offer researchers a new way to rebuild the data related to the abundance and distribution of sea ice from the ancient past.

5 Jan 2021

Study of Asia's Rivers Helps Better Understand 800 Years of Paleoclimate Patterns

813 years of annual river discharge at 62 stations, 41 rivers in 16 countries, from 1200 to 2012. That is what researchers at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) produced after two years of research in order to better understand past climate patterns of the Asian Monsoon region.

4 Jan 2021

Researchers Uncover How Waves and Rainfall Impact Coastal Cliff Erosion

Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego researchers have uncovered how rain and waves act on different parts of coastal cliffs.

29 Dec 2020

A "Glocal" Approach is Needed to Better Predict and Prevent Flooding Disasters

Large-scale global forecasting and on-the-ground observations need to meld into one system to better predict and prevent wide-spread flooding disasters, according to an international research team who published a short view in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences on Dec. 23.

28 Dec 2020

Water Levels in Lakes are Falling Due to Climate Change

While global sea levels are rising due to the climate crisis and threatening near-coastal infrastructures, higher temperatures in other areas are having exactly the opposite effect. The water levels are falling and also causing massive problems.

23 Dec 2020

Study Sheds Light on the Subsea Permafrost Climate Feedback

In the far north, the swelling Arctic Ocean inundated vast swaths of coastal tundra and steppe ecosystems. Though the ocean water was only a few degrees above freezing, it started to thaw the permafrost beneath it, exposing billions of tons of organic matter to microbial breakdown.

22 Dec 2020

Climate Warming Linked with Prolonged Time Interval Between Leaf-Out and Flowering in Temperate Trees

An international team of researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhejiang A & F University and the University of Eastern Finland have found that regardless of whether flowering or leaf unfolding occurred first in a species, the first event advanced more than the second over the last seven decades.

22 Dec 2020

Novel Method to Predict Global Warming with Lower Uncertainties

According to a new study, the threshold for hazardous global warming will probably be encountered between 2027 and 2042, which is a considerably narrower window compared to the predictions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the period between now and 2052.

22 Dec 2020

CRISPR/Cas9 System Could Support Efforts to Conserve Fragile Reef Ecosystems

Researchers can now use the CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing system to gain insights into, and perhaps enhance, the response of corals to the environmental stresses caused by climate change.

22 Dec 2020