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Southern Ocean Sea Ice Could be Vital Resource to Improve Earth System Models

Sea ice across the Southern Ocean played a crucial role in controlling atmospheric carbon dioxide levels during times of past climate change - and it could provide a critical resource to improve Earth system models, a new study shows.

23 Jun 2020

Natural Climate Solutions are Not Enough to Meet Climate Mitigation Goals

The large-scale planting of new forests in previously tree-free areas, a practice known as afforestation, is hailed as an efficient way to remove excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere - a so-called natural climate solution.

23 Jun 2020

Study Finds Okmok Volcano Eruption in 43 B.C.E. Caused Global Climatic Changes

The assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March in 44 B.C.E. triggered a 17-year power struggle that ultimately ended the Roman Republic leading to the rise of the Roman Empire.

23 Jun 2020

New Approach to Designing International Climate Agreement

Many countries are failing to comply with the non-binding commitments of the Paris Agreement, making it increasingly clear that we have to reconsider how to ensure collective action to limit global warming to less than 2 °C above preindustrial levels.

22 Jun 2020

Study Analyzes Link Between Climate Change Heat Increase and Death Rates

Death records point to hundreds of U.S. deaths from heat each year, but even moderately hot weather may actually be killing thousands.

22 Jun 2020

Review of Health, Resiliency of Large River Systems to Climate Change

The livelihoods of millions of people living along the world's biggest river systems are under threat by a range of stressors caused by the daily economic, societal and political activity of humans - in addition to the long-term effects of climate change, researchers report.

22 Jun 2020