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Study Reports New York Agriculture Can Mitigate its Own Greenhouse Gas Emissions

In a state-funded report commissioned by the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets, two researchers from Cornell University state that New York agriculture has the potential to compensate for its own greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

14 Aug 2020

Warming Climate in Tropical Forests Could Increase Harmful Emissions of Soil Carbon

Billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide risk being lost into the atmosphere due to tropical forest soils being significantly more sensitive to climate change than previously thought.

13 Aug 2020

Human Influence Identified as Key Agent of Future Ocean Warming Patterns

The oceans play an important role in regulating our climate and its change by absorbing heat and carbon.

13 Aug 2020

Scientists Identify Successful and Cost-Effective Ways to Restore Coral Reefs

The most successful and cost-effective ways to restore coral reefs have been identified by an international group of scientists, after analysing restoration projects in Latin America.

13 Aug 2020

MIT Researchers and Wyoming Representatives Discuss Ways to Strengthen Climate-Friendly Energy Economy

The State of Wyoming supplies 40 percent of the country's coal used to power electric grids.

12 Aug 2020

Seasonal Rainfall Expected to Increase in East Africa Due to Climate Change

According to research led by The University of Texas at Austin, seasonal rainfall is expected to rise significantly in East Africa over the next few decades in response to increased greenhouse gases.

12 Aug 2020

Indigenous Property Rights can Reduce Deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest

One way to cut back on deforestation in the Amazon rainforest - and help in the global fight against climate change - is to grant more of Brazil's indigenous communities full property rights to tribal lands.

11 Aug 2020

Heritage Sites Could Transform to Adapt to Changing Climate

How much effort should be spent trying to keep Venice looking like Venice - even as it faces rising sea levels that threaten the city with more frequent extreme flooding?

11 Aug 2020

Seasonal Snowpack Reductions may Negatively Influence Forest Growth in Drier Climates

A new study suggests that future reductions in seasonal snowpack as a result of climate change may negatively influence forest growth in semi-arid climates, but less so in wetter climates.

11 Aug 2020

Intensified Rainstorms Due to Warming Climate Could Reduce Heat Damage to Crops

Intensified rainstorms predicted for many parts of the United States as a result of warming climate may have a modest silver lining: they could more efficiently water some major crops, and this would at least partially offset the far larger projected yield declines caused by the rising heat itself.

11 Aug 2020