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Why the Wettest February on Record is Causing Climate Concerns to Grow

A total of three extreme rainfall events hit the UK in the second month of the year, causing experts and the general population to feel raising concern over the increasingly severe impacts of climate change.

3 Mar 2020

Policy Strategies to Mitigate Climate Change by Reducing Global Methane Emissions

In the climate debate, the methane gas merits considerable attention as it contributes approximately half of the human-induced global warming in the short-term.

2 Mar 2020

Experts Outline Steps to Achieve Global Carbon Neutrality in the Future

How can the world cut its greenhouse gas emissions in time to avert the most catastrophic impacts of global climate change? It won't be easy, but there are reasons to be optimistic that the problems can still be solved if the right kind of significant actions are taken within the next few years, according to panelists at the latest MIT symposium on climate change.

28 Feb 2020

Study Examines Effect of Climate Change on Tibetan Plateau’s Seeds

Seeds provide a degree of resilience to the adverse impacts of climate change in ecosystems worldwide.

26 Feb 2020

Amount of Methane Emitted by Human Activity has been Vastly Underestimated

Methane is known to be a potent greenhouse gas and contributes considerably to global warming. In the past three centuries, emissions of this gas in the air have increased by around 150%.

22 Feb 2020

Ancient Carbon Reservoirs Do Not Contribute to High Emissions of Greenhouse Gas

Permafrost present in the soil and in methane hydrates that occur deep within the ocean serve as huge reservoirs of carbon.

21 Feb 2020

Coral Reefs Face Elimination by the End of the Century

The life of coral reefs is persistently under threat due to destructive fishing practices, coastal development, and land-based pollution, but perhaps its greatest threat is now climate change.

21 Feb 2020

Artificially Pumping Iron into the Oceans may not Impact Climate Change

Historically, the oceans have done much of the planet's heavy lifting when it comes to sequestering carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

18 Feb 2020

Study Shows Increases in Aridity May Produce Abrupt Changes in Ecosystems

A major study by a Swansea University academic shows that elevated aridity in certain parts of the world may cause sudden changes in ecosystems in regions where over two billion people live.

17 Feb 2020

January 2020 was the Hottest January Since Records Began

With Antarctica experiencing record-breaking temperatures twice in the space of one week, it has been declared that January 2020 was the hottest January on record, according to a report released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

14 Feb 2020