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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

Study Recreates Past to Understand Reaction of Arctic Wetlands to Climate Change in the Future

A recent study has used partly fossilized plants and single-celled organisms to explore the effects of climate change on the Canadian High Arctic wetlands and help foresee their future.

28 May 2019

Recent Survey Reveals Unexpected Melting Patterns Under Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf

The ROSETTA-Ice project, a multi-institutional data collection survey of Antarctic ice carried out for three years, has put together an unparalleled view of the Ross Ice Shelf, its structure, and how it has been transforming over time.

28 May 2019

British Fusion Energy Technology on Show at Key Climate Change Forum MI-4

First Light Fusion, the fusion energy company spun out from the University of Oxford, will be demonstrating the potential for British technology to tackle climate change in Vancouver next week.

From First Light Fusion Ltd 27 May 2019

Researchers Receive California State Grant to Develop a Cost-Effective Approach to Mitigate Methane Emissions

Methane is a powerful potent greenhouse gas that is known to capture roughly 30 times more heat when compared to carbon dioxide.

23 May 2019

Study Offers More Insight into the Impact of Melting Ice Sheets

Ice sheets melting across the Antarctic and Greenland and the ensuing sea level rise (SLR) this creates, is generally acknowledged as a substantial threat to coastal communities and ecosystems.

21 May 2019

Anemones Fight Back in Reef Bleaching

With climate change hitting coral reefs, Flinders University scientists have found one animal with a secret weapon against high temperatures and bleaching.

21 May 2019