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Post-Lockdown Recovery Choices Could Help Fight Against Global Warming

A post-lockdown economic recovery plan that incorporates and emphasises climate-friendly choices could help significantly in the battle against global warming, according to a new study.

7 Aug 2020

New Study Suggests Climate Change has Increased Productivity of Forests

Climate change has increased the productivity of forests, according to a new study that synthesizes hundreds of thousands of carbon observations collected over the last quarter century at the Harvard Forest Long-Term Ecological Research site, one of the most intensively studied forests in the world.

5 Aug 2020

New Coupled Climate Model Could Help Tune Future Regional Earth System Model

Until now, researchers have extensively used regional climate models (RCMs) that include high-resolution topography and surface characteristics for applications spanning from process studies to climate change and paleoclimate simulations.

4 Aug 2020

Study Assesses Effects of Climate Change on Soil Biodiversity

Soils harbour a substantial part of the world's biodiversity, yet data on the patterns and processes taking place below ground does not represent all relevant ecosystems and taxa.

4 Aug 2020

Worst Case Scenario of CO2 Emissions can Help Assess Climate Change Impacts by 2050

The RCP 8.5 C02 emissions pathway, long considered a "worst case scenario" by the international science community, is the most appropriate for conducting assessments of climate change impacts by 2050, according to a new article published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

4 Aug 2020

ANSTO’s National Science Week Hackathon will Capture Some Big Ideas from School Kids on How to Manage Climate Change

National Science Week kicks off 13 August this year with the theme ‘deep blue’ centring on protecting the future of our oceans and its inhabitants.

4 Aug 2020

Calculating a Gap in Atmospheric Chemistry

Volatile organic hydrocarbons from road traffic, agriculture, refrigerants and solvents can turn into particles which lead to cloud formation. In Finland, Lukas Pichelstorfer is working on simulation models in order to understand how gases released by human activities react in the atmosphere and how this affects climate and air quality.

3 Aug 2020