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New System can Help Study Natural Climate Fluctuations

In their model simulations, climate researchers always have to make compromises. Even with the largest computers available worldwide, they can only reproduce the real world to a limited extent.

24 Jun 2020

Identifying Suitable Habitats for Vulnerable Species has Major Implications for Carbon Sequestration

Throughout California, the effects of climate change are evident from increasing frequencies of intense wildfires and mudslides to widespread and prolonged droughts.

24 Jun 2020

Majority of Americans Favor Initiatives that can Mitigate Climate Change

A majority of Americans (63%) continue to say they see the effects of climate change in their own communities, and 65% believe that the federal government is doing too little to reduce the impacts of climate change, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.

24 Jun 2020

Constantly Fluctuating Environment can Enable Some Species to Invade New Areas

University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists have found that a constantly fluctuating environment can enable some species to invade new areas by helping them maintain the genetic diversity they need to settle into their new homes.

23 Jun 2020

Study Analyzes Challenges of Climate Protection Policy During Current Crisis

With their ad-hoc-statement published today, "Energy transition 2030: Europe's path to carbon neutrality", the academies present a compact series of recommendations in light of the German EU Council Presidency starting on 1 July.

23 Jun 2020

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