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Amount of Carbon Burnt in Boreal Forest Depends More on Fuels than on Fire Weather

With climate warming triggering longer fire seasons and more devastating fires in the North American boreal forest, the ability to measure how much carbon each fire burns has become more critical.

13 Oct 2020

Guidelines for Sustainable Growth of Non-Native Trees to Safeguard Biodiversity Worldwide

An international group of researchers has partnered to suggest a series of global guidelines for the sustainable use of non-native tree species to help safeguard global ecosystems and biodiversity already endangered by climate change.

12 Oct 2020

Study Shows Proglacial Lakes Cause Glacier Ice to Recede Faster

According to a new study, meltwater lakes that develop at glacier margins cause ice to ebb relatively further and quicker than glaciers that end on land.

12 Oct 2020

N2O Emissions are Increasing at a Faster Rate than Global Predictions

The term "greenhouse gas" is often used interchangeably with carbon dioxide, due to its prevalence in our atmosphere - more than 80 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions, estimates the Environmental Protection Agency.

9 Oct 2020

Nitrous Oxide Emissions Could Hinder International Climate Goals

An international team of researchers - including Earth system scientists at the University of California, Irvine - recently completed the most thorough review yet of nitrous oxide from emission to destruction in the planet's atmosphere.

9 Oct 2020

Study Evaluates Day-to-Day Reliability of Solar Energy Under Climate Change

Although solar power is considered a popular form of renewable energy, a new study reports that deviations in regional climates due to global warming could render areas currently deemed suitable for the production of solar energy less feasible in the future.

8 Oct 2020

UNH Awarded $1.5 Million to Study the Carbon Interactions in Thawing Arctic

The University of New Hampshire will lead research as part of a $1.5 million award from the National Science Foundation to better understand how interactions between plants, microbes and soil minerals in permafrost, a subsurface layer of frozen soil covering a fourth of the Northern Hemisphere, stimulate the release of carbon which adds to the warming Arctic.

8 Oct 2020

Study Shows the Vicious Cycle Between Climate Change and Infectious Diseases

Climate change is affecting the spread and severity of infectious diseases around the world -- and infectious diseases may in turn be contributing to climate change, according to a new paper in Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

8 Oct 2020

Polar Ice and Water Vapor Drive Variability in Different Climate Models

A Florida State University researcher is part of a team that has found varying projections on global warming trends put forth by climate change scientists can be explained by differing models' predictions regarding ice loss and atmospheric water vapor.

8 Oct 2020

Past Tropical Forest Changes Influenced Megafauna, Ancient Human Extinctions

In a paper published today in the journal Nature, scientists from the Department of Archaeology at MPI-SHH in Germany and Griffith University's Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution have found that the loss of these grasslands was instrumental in the extinction of many of the region's megafauna, and probably of ancient humans too.

8 Oct 2020