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High-Resolution Map Reveals Changes in the Condition of European Forests

Rupert Seidl and his colleague Cornelius Senf for the first time produced a high-resolution map of all openings in the canopy of European forests.

16 Sep 2020

Climate Researchers Examine Links Between Droughts and Heat Waves

As wildfires continue to ravage the West Coast, UMass Lowell researchers analyzing the reasons behind hot and dry conditions hope their work will offer greater understanding of extreme weather events across the country.

16 Sep 2020

Research Recommends Federal Government to Increase Funding for Clean Energy Innovation

Research released today recommends that the U.S. federal government triple its annual investment in energy innovation over the next five years to speed clean energy transitions around the world and build advanced energy industries at home.

16 Sep 2020

Johns Hopkins Professor Explores the Effect of Climate Elements on COVID-19 Transmission

Johns Hopkins University expert Ben Zaitchik is a professor of Earth and planetary sciences and is currently available to discuss with the media about the intense studies that are still required to conclusively establish if and how meteorological, environmental, and climatic elements affect the spread of the ongoing COVID-19.

16 Sep 2020

Study Shows Impact of Climate Change on Migration Patterns

Environmental hazards affect populations worldwide and can drive migration under specific conditions.

15 Sep 2020

Fast-Warming Arctic is Transitioning to a New Climate Regime

The fast-warming Arctic has started to transition from a predominantly frozen state into an entirely different climate, according to a comprehensive new study of Arctic conditions.

15 Sep 2020

Dams Worsen the Effects of Climate Change on Fish Communities

A potential response of river fish to environmental changes is to colonize new habitats.

15 Sep 2020

Cracks in Antarctic Glaciers Accelerate Ice Shelf Instability

In recent years, the Pine Island Glacier and the Thwaites Glacier on West-Antarctica has been undergoing rapid changes, with potentially major consequences for rising sea levels.

15 Sep 2020

Human Emissions are Outpacing the Carbon Emitted by Ancient Volcanoes

A new study of an ancient period that is considered the closest natural analog to the era of modern human carbon emissions has found that massive volcanism sent great waves of carbon into the oceans over thousands of years--but that nature did not come close to matching what humans are doing today.

15 Sep 2020

Study Shows Most Europeans are not "Extremely Worried" about Climate Change

A majority of European citizens are not extremely worried about climate change. That was the remarkable finding from a new study on the views of 70,000 haphazardly sampled European men and women.

15 Sep 2020