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Current Models Can Predict Climate Changes Several Decades into Future

The key reasons for decade-scale climate variations have been identified by a new reconstruction of global average surface temperature variation over the last 200 decades.

25 Jul 2019

Rising Global Temperatures Can Have Adverse Impact on Air Quality

According to a recent journal article on air quality across the Mid-Atlantic region, rising temperatures caused by climate change will considerably shift climatic conditions. This, in turn, will lead to worse air quality by raising the number of days with high ozone concentrations.

24 Jul 2019

Study Explores the Effect of Smoke on Weather and Climate

A DC-8 flying laboratory developed by NASA was flown recently to initiate an elaborate study into the life cycles of smoke caused by fires in the United States.

23 Jul 2019

Climate Change and Rising CO2 Could Reduce Vital Nutrients Availability in Food

The production of foods that supply sufficient calories while making adequate essential nutrients extensively available is one of the biggest challenges to reducing hunger and undernutrition worldwide.

19 Jul 2019

Climate Change Amplifies Heatwave Intensity in the Southwest United States

New research conducted by a scientist from the University of Arkansas reports that climate change is increasing the intensity and possibility of heatwaves during adverse droughts in the southern plains and the southwest United States.

18 Jul 2019

Understanding Climate Change through Model Development

According to Dr Qing BAO, a researcher and corresponding author of a newly published study, numerical models are an important tool for climate researchers to get a better understanding of the past, present, and future climate change emerging in response to changes or from natural, unforced variability.

18 Jul 2019

Increased AC use in Europe Causes More Greenhouse Gas Emissions

According to new research reported in Environmental Science and Policy, in the absence of sufficient and focused policies, several households will depend on air conditioners to adjust to climate change, thereby producing increased greenhouse gas emissions.

18 Jul 2019

Researchers Document Sea-Level Changes in the Arctic over Last Two Decades

In the last 22 years, sea levels in the Arctic have increased by an average of 2.2 mm every year, concluded a Danish-German research group after assessing 1.5 billion radar measurements of different satellites using uniquely designed algorithms.

18 Jul 2019

New Statistical Technique Shows a Simpler Pattern of Ocean Warming

The oceans underwent some drastic changes in the early 20th century. For instance, while the Northwest Pacific cooled over many decades, the Northeast Pacific and North Atlantic seemed to warm twofold as much as the global average.

18 Jul 2019

Preserving Biodiversity, Water and Mountain Ecosystems: Toulouse INP and AXA Create the AXA Chair on Functional Mountain Ecology

Whether we live in cities, rural areas or more remote areas like the mountains, we are reliant on nature and biodiversity for the air we breathe, the water we drink and the food we eat.

13 Jul 2019