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Study Shows Implications of Water Vapor Buoyancy on Earth's Climate

Conventional knowledge has it that warm air rises while cold air sinks. But a study from the University of California, Davis, found that in the tropical atmosphere, cold air rises due to an overlooked effect -- the lightness of water vapor.

7 May 2020

New Soil-Gas Diffusivity Model to Measure Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Soil

Agricultural soils contribute to 16% of total Greenhouse gas emissions, particularly nitrous oxide. Migration of gases in agricultural subsurface and emission across the soil-atmosphere interface is primarily diffusion-controlled and is explained by soil-gas diffusivity.

7 May 2020

Advocating Policy that Combines Land, Ocean Approaches to Address Climate Change

Debates around the Green New Deal have largely centered around climate change concerns on land. But a group of scientists are calling on policymakers to include oceans in the deal.

6 May 2020

New Webtool Predicts Past, Future Climate Change in European Agricultural Regions

A webtool giving an overview of climate change in Europe and predicting subsequent developments was created as a joint collaboration between French, Spanish, German and Estonian researchers.

6 May 2020

Study Predicts the US will be Exposed to Larger Number of Extreme Climate Events

By 2050, the United States will likely be exposed to a larger number of extreme climate events, including more frequent heat waves, longer droughts and more intense floods, which can lead to greater risks for human health, ecosystem stability and regional economies.

6 May 2020

Study Aims to Better Perceive How Climate Change in Arctic Impacts People

For people who live in the Arctic, sea ice that forms along shorelines is a vital resource that connects isolated communities and provides access to hunting and fishing grounds.

5 May 2020

Warming Ocean Environment Could Increase Fisheries-Related Conflicts

A team of experts, led by a University of Rhode Island researcher, examined how climate change is affecting the ocean environment and found that the changing conditions will likely result in increased fisheries-related conflicts and create new challenges in the management of global fisheries.

5 May 2020

Climate Change Influences Locations of Where Deadly Storms Occur

While the global average number of tropical cyclones each year has not budged from 86 over the last four decades, climate change has been influencing the locations of where these deadly storms occur, according to new NOAA-led research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.

5 May 2020

Study Analyzes Relationships Between Climate and Corn, Sorghum, Soybean Yield

If warming continues unabated in the Midwest, in 50 years we can expect the best conditions for corn and soybean production to have shifted from Iowa and Illinois to Minnesota and the Dakotas, according to Penn State researchers.

5 May 2020

Sea Level Rise will Cause Land Area to be Impacted by Flood Mechanisms

Today and as sea level continues to rise in the future, extreme high tide events cause Honolulu, Hawai'i's primary urban center to experience flooding not just from water washing directly over the shoreline, but also from groundwater inundation as the water table is pushed toward the surface, and reverse flow through the municipal drainage system.

5 May 2020