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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

Rising Nitrous Oxide Emissions from Agriculture Increases Climate Threat

According to the authors of a new study published in Nature, rising nitrous oxide emissions are putting reaching climate goals and the objectives of the Paris Agreement in jeopardy.

8 Oct 2020

Climate Change has Caused Lakes in Northern Hemisphere to Experience More Ice-Free Years

According to new research, climate change is causing warmer winters, which then result in more ice-free years for lakes in the Northern Hemisphere.

7 Oct 2020

Scientists Reveal Changing Feedback Mechanisms Between Climate and Carbon Cycle

Man-made global heating has long been presented as a relatively simple chain of cause and effect: humans disrupt the carbon cycle by burning fossil fuels, thereby increase the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere, which in turn leads to higher temperatures around the globe.

7 Oct 2020

New Aerosol Field Data can Lead to Improved Climate Models

Smoke from the many wildfires burning in the West have made air quality hazardous for millions of people in the United States.

7 Oct 2020

Climate-Friendly Cooling Could Help Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

A new IIASA-led study shows that coordinated international action on energy-efficient, climate-friendly cooling could avoid as much as 600 billion tonnes CO2 equivalent of greenhouse gas emissions in this century.

7 Oct 2020