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Scientists Chart Best Course to Save California’s Native Plants from Impacts of Climate Change

In view of the IPCC warnings that humans have merely 12 years to decrease greenhouse gas emissions by almost 50% or face considerably greater effects from climate change, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) are now planning the best route to save the native plants of California from these human threats.

20 Nov 2018

Preventing Problems Related to Climate Change Requires Changes in How Countries Look at Growth and Progress

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) conveyed a strong message to the international community with its recent report, issued in early October in South Korea: the world has to act at once to decrease greenhouse gas emissions.

16 Nov 2018

Outdoor Labs Offer Realistic Insights of Plant Response to Future Climate Change

If a seed is zapped into the future to see how it will react to climate change, how accurate will that prediction be? After all, seeds that essentially grow in the future would have experienced generations of genetic variations and adaptations that these “time traveling” seeds do not experience.

14 Nov 2018

New Study Evaluates the Potential Carbon Storage Benefits of Streamside Forests

Since forests are capable of storing substantial amounts of carbon, both in the soil and the trees, restoration of degraded forests is an important strategy for dealing with climate change.

13 Nov 2018

Predictive Model Suggests Ragweed May Expand Its Range due to Climate Change

A new predictive model put together by an ecologist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a climate scientist at the University of Washington proposes that climate change may allow common ragweed to spread its growing range northward and into big northeast metro areas, worsening conditions for millions of people dealing with asthma and hay fever.

9 Nov 2018

Warmer, Drier Climate Expected to Increase Disturbances in World’s Temperate Forests

A new study, co-authored by a Portland State University (PSU) professor, shows that a warmer, drier climate is anticipated to increase the possibility of larger-scale disturbances in forests, for example, wildfires, disease, drought, and insect outbreaks.

8 Nov 2018

Bioenergy Coupled with Carbon Capture and Storage Could Reduce U.S. Coal Emissions

With the future consequences of rising global temperatures, the need for solutions has become progressively urgent. In parallel, a majority of people have voiced concerns regarding loss of jobs as coal-fired power plants and other current technologies are phased out.

2 Nov 2018

The Role of Black Carbon in Climate Change

Black carbon is formed during the incomplete combustion of carbon-based fuels: post-industrial surges in atmospheric black carbon have contributed massively to the warming of the Earth’s climate, but exactly how these tiny particles contribute to climate change is unclear.

2 Nov 2018

New Study Reveals Earth’s Oceans Absorb 60% More Heat than Formerly Thought

According to a research led by scientists at Princeton and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California-San Diego, for each year during the last quarter century, the world’s oceans have absorbed an amount of heat energy that is 150 times greater than the energy humans generate as electricity each year.

1 Nov 2018