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New Evidence Boosts Scientific Community’s Confidence in Climate Modeling

For several years, researchers investigating a key climate occurrence have been contending with contradictory data that has threatened to destabilize confidence in the dependability of climate models on the whole.

25 Jun 2019

Boaty McBoatface Studies Changing Temperatures at the Bottom of Southern Ocean

For the first time, the first mission of the autonomous submarine vehicle Autosub Long Range (popularly referred to as “Boaty McBoatface”) has cast light on an important process that links increasing Antarctic winds with elevating sea temperatures.

18 Jun 2019

Study on Climate Change Offers Sobering Glimpse of Possible Social Upheavals

The latest study of climate changes and their impact on earlier societies provides a sobering signal of social disturbances that might occur in the future.

18 Jun 2019

Seaweed Feed Supplement May Not be a Viable Option to Fight Climate Change

According to researchers at Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), using seaweed in the place of cattle feed may considerably reduce methane gas belched by livestock.

18 Jun 2019

Mineral-Induced Carbon Sequestration May Explain Abundance of Oxygen in the Earth’s Atmosphere

Many people might recall the Earth’s carbon cycle from their grade school science class. The carbon cycle occurs something like this: plants release oxygen into the atmosphere after taking up carbon dioxide and changing it into organic carbon.

13 Jun 2019

Carbon Footprint of What We Eat Could be Greatly Reduced by Changing Just One Food Each Day

Food production is a main contributor to climate change, constituting around one-quarter of carbon emissions worldwide.

11 Jun 2019

Researchers Use New Mathematical Model to Investigate How Human Behavior Might Influence Climate Change Dynamics

A new climate modeling approach suggests that social processes strongly affect global warming predictions, and mitigation efforts should account for this influence.

10 Jun 2019

Curtin Research Finds Soil Carbon Key to Combatting Climate Change

Curtin University research has provided new insights to support more effective management of soil carbon in a bid to help combat global greenhouse gas emissions and climate change.

6 Jun 2019

Study Evaluates Potential Impact of Observed Climate Change on Global Food Production

The top 10 crops in the world, namely, barley, cassava, maize, oil palm, rapeseed, rice, sorghum, soybean, sugarcane, and wheat, provide a combined 83% of all calories yielded on cropland.

3 Jun 2019

IASS Experts Believe Democratic Engagement Will Revive Climate Change Goals

When the Paris Climate Agreement was adopted in 2015, expectation was high. Under the agreement, nations pledged to maintain global warming well below 2 °C.

31 May 2019