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Study Predicts Climate Benefits Stemming from the Use of Advanced Biofuels

Biofuel and bioenergy systems are integral to scenarios for displacing fossil fuel use and producing negative emissions through carbon capture and storage.

25 Aug 2020

80% of Oil Workers Considering Career Impacts of Climate Change

Eight in ten Scots oil workers have considered that their careers could be impacted by actions being taken to tackle climate change, new research suggests.

25 Aug 2020

Study Shows Connnection Between Southeast Asia Megadrought and Drying in Africa

Physical evidence found in caves in Laos helps tell a story about a connection between the end of the Green Sahara, when once heavily vegetated Northern Africa became a hyper-arid landscape, and a previously unknown megadrought that crippled Southeast Asia 4,000 to 5,000 years ago.

24 Aug 2020

Understanding How Birds Adapt to Climate Extremes can Guide Conservation Efforts

When it comes to climate change, University of Wisconsin¬-Madison forest and wildlife ecology Professor Ben Zuckerberg says birds are the proverbial canary in the coal mine.

24 Aug 2020

Nutrients Worsen the Devastating Effects of Climate Change on Corals

A new study shows nutrients can aggravate the already negative effects of climate change on corals to trigger mass coral bleaching.

24 Aug 2020

Moorings Illuminate Cause for Arctic Ocean's Winter Ice Loss

The eastern Arctic Ocean's winter ice grew less than half as much as normal during the past decade, due to the growing influence of heat from the ocean's interior, researchers have found.

24 Aug 2020

23-Million-Year-Old Leaf Shows Link Between High Atmospheric Carbon and 'Global Greening'

Scientists studying leaves from a 23-million-year-old forest have for the first time linked high levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide with increased plant growth, and the hot climate off the time.

21 Aug 2020

Sea Level Variability May Increase with Warming Climate

A team of researchers from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology identified a global tendency for future sea levels to become more variable as oceans warm this century due to increasing greenhouse gas emissions.

21 Aug 2020

Greenland Ice Sheet Records Greatest Losses in 2019

The Greenland Ice Sheet recorded a new record loss of mass in 2019. This was the finding of a team of international researchers after evaluating data from satellite observations and modelling data.

21 Aug 2020