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Researchers Identify Restoration Hotspots to Boost Climate and Environment

Scientists have identified over 100 million hectares of lost lowland tropical rain forests that are spread out across Southeast Asia, Africa, and South and Central America. These observations have been reported in a peer-reviewed report released recently.

4 Jul 2019

Conversion of Land to Irrigated Agriculture can Affect Regional Climate

A new study has shown that irrigated farms within Wisconsin’s vegetable-growing Central Sands region considerably cool the local climate when compared to adjacent rainfed farms or forests.

3 Jul 2019

Water Cycle Pictures Do Not Reflect Current Water Scarcity

A new study by an international group of hydrology experts has shown that there is an urgent need to update the Earth’s water cycle images used in research and education worldwide to demonstrate the influences of human interference.

2 Jul 2019

Not All Changes Proposed for Climate Mitigation are for the Better

Changes in lifestyle can minimize greenhouse gas emissions and help safeguard nature. Although some actions hold huge promise, some are not as effective as thought and may even need more land and water, such as turning to renewable energy.

1 Jul 2019

Model Simulations Reflect the Ongoing Ocean Changes

With the increase in temperature, gases dissolved in the water become lesser—this simple physical relationship describes, among other things, the quantifiable loss of oxygen in the warming ocean.

28 Jun 2019

Study Shows CO2 can be Stored in Hydrates that are Extracted for Energy

A new study performed by researchers from The University of Texas at Austin demonstrates that when carbon dioxide and air are injected into methane ice deposits buried underneath the Gulf of Mexico, enormous natural gas energy resources could be unlocked.

28 Jun 2019