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Study Provides Unique Insight into Past and Present-Day Mass Loss in Greenland Ice Sheet

A new study based on GPS measurements of the Earth’s crust suggests that previous calculations of past and present-day mass loss in the Greenland Ice Sheet may have been underestimated.

23 Sep 2016

New Study on Greenland Ice Sheet Provides Important Insight on Climate Change

A new study on the Greenland Ice Sheet provides valuable insight on climate change, using unique research methods to establish new estimates of ice loss for both modern and ancient times, says UB geologist Beata Csatho, one of more than a dozen team members on the international project.

22 Sep 2016

Paleomammalogist Hopes to Uncover Fossils of Ancient Climate Change

A record of shifts in the environment and animal diversity and distribution may help scientists predict effects of current climate change

22 Sep 2016

Researchers Explore Climate Change Effects on Species Associations

Climate changes are beginning to reorder species from Argentina's grasslands to the ice-free regions of Greenland.

22 Sep 2016

Climate Change may Alter Land Use to Meet Global Demand for Food Production

A group of scientists led by the University of Birmingham have warned that global crop yields may fall in the areas currently used to produce the world’s three main cereal crops if no significant improvements are made in technology, and this may force the production to shift to other areas.

21 Sep 2016

Appropriate Management of Agroecosystems Can Help Buffer Effects of Climate Instability

How will we feed our growing population in the face of an increasingly extreme climate? Many experts suggest the answer lies in breeding novel crop varieties that can withstand the increases in drought, heat, and extreme rainfall events predicted in the not-too-distant future.

21 Sep 2016

Stanford Research Shows What Aids or Degrades Coral Reefs

Around the world ocean coral reefs are threatened by climate change, however not all reefs are affected equally. Justin Rogers, a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford’s Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory, led a study that suggested when oceans begin to get warm, physical forces such as water flow and wave strength impact which reefs flourish and which die.

19 Sep 2016

EUMETSAT’s GOME-2 Maps Ozone from Space

The hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica became an international cause for concern in the latter half of the 20th Century, but as EUMETSAT’s Atmospheric Composition Product Development Team Leader Dr Christian Retscher points out, issues relating to ozone levels are complex and wide-reaching.

19 Sep 2016

UV-Led Study Shows Impact of 2015/2016 El Niño and Global Warming in Amazonia

A study led by researchers at the Global Change Unit at the Universitat de València (UV) shows the impact the current 2015/2016 El Niño is having in Amazonia. Areas of extreme drought and changes to their typical distribution in the region are among the most evident consequences.

15 Sep 2016

Researchers Use Small Aircrafts to Measure Atmospheric Methane Levels Over Amazon Basin

Research led by the National Centre of Earth Observation is going to new heights in the atmosphere to get a better handle on methane emitted from wetlands in the Amazon.

15 Sep 2016