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Increasing Carbon Capture Could Help Mitigate Climate Change

As nations meet in Madrid for a debate on how to decrease greenhouse gas emissions to combat climate change, a new study makes the case that trapping emissions underground could be more beneficial in the long run for solving the issue.

10 Dec 2019

Study Identifies Importance of Forests for Mitigation of Climate Change

A research performed by scientists at Oregon State University has identified forests in the western United States that must be preserved for their capability to alleviate climate change through carbon sequestration, as well as to improve biodiversity.

10 Dec 2019

Analyzing Risk of Simultaneous Breadbasket Failures Due to Climatic Extremes

Severe climatic conditions could elevate the risk of abnormally low agricultural harvests, if more than one global breadbasket is influenced by drastic climate conditions simultaneously.

10 Dec 2019

MIT Symposium Focuses on Decarbonizing the Electricity Sector

The generation of electricity is a huge contributor to the world's emissions of climate-altering greenhouse gases, producing some 25 percent globally.

10 Dec 2019

Oxford Researchers Launch a 21st Century Conservation Plan

Nature is moving to the top of the international agenda. The loss of biodiversity is increasingly recognised as a crisis, linked to climate change, which needs urgent action. But without a framework that translates actio...

10 Dec 2019

Experts to Examine Darwin Hot Spots

Leading researchers and practitioners will examine how Darwin can cope with future temperatures that remain hotter for longer.

10 Dec 2019

As Temperatures Rise, The World’s Oceans are Losing Oxygen

Image Credit: Andrey_Kuzmin/Shutterstock.com Scientists have warned that the world’s oceans are being asphyxiated as they are losing oxygen at an alarming rate. The situation is made worse by the current climate...

9 Dec 2019

Global Temperatures Considerably Lower Due to Montreal Protocol

In 1987, an international agreement called the Montreal Protocol was signed to bring an end to the destruction of the ozone layer by chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs).

9 Dec 2019

Australia’s Role: Thawing Antarctica is Heating up Scramble for Territory

Nations are scrambling to control natural resources, research and tourism in Antarctica as rapid political, social and environmental changes open up new opportunities for Australia in the previously frozen landscape.

6 Dec 2019

Study Suggests that Climate Change has Resulted in Birds Getting Smaller

$$IMAGE$$ Image Credit: Karen Bean/ Field Museum Researchers at The Field Museum for Natural History, Chicago and the University of Michigan have revealed that birds are seemingly getting smaller while their wingsp...

5 Dec 2019