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Challenges of Farming in Unpredictable Climate Discussed at Reunion Weekend Lecture

Thor Oechsner ’87 spent years cultivating a rich layer of topsoil essential to growing lush fields of organic wheat, rye and buckwheat. But it took just a few minutes for those years of hard work to be washed away when more than 5 inches of rain fell on his Newfield, New York, farm last summer.

20 Jun 2016

Mimicking Ancient West African Farming Practices Could Help Develop Climate Smart Agricultural Systems

A farming technique practised for centuries by villagers in West Africa, which converts nutrient-poor rainforest soil into fertile farmland, could be the answer to mitigating climate change and revolutionising farming across Africa.

17 Jun 2016

Scientists Turn Carbon Dioxide into Rock to Combat Climate Change

Researchers have discovered a potential way to eliminate anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the atmosphere by turning CO2 into a rock. Anthropogenic CO2 emissions are generally caused by humans.

13 Jun 2016

New Study Examines Local Heat-Stress-Related Productivity Reductions that Contrubute to Global Effects

The susceptibility of the global economic network to workers' heat-stress has doubled in the last decade, a new study published in the journal Science Advances finds.

13 Jun 2016

New Study Links Melting Ice in Greenland to Arctic Amplification

A new study provides the first evidence that links melting ice in Greenland to a phenomenon known as Arctic amplification--faster warming of the Arctic compared to the rest of the Northern Hemisphere as sea ice disappears.

10 Jun 2016

Understanding Imbalance in World’s Carbon Budget Could Help Predict Course of Global Climate Change

A high-resolution model of how soil erosion impacts the carbon cycle of a small South Carolina watershed may help explain an apparent imbalance in the world’s carbon budget. Explaining that apparent imbalance is necessary for understanding and predicting the course of global climate change.

8 Jun 2016

NASA’s Airborne Survey of Polar Ice Completes Eighth Spring Arctic Campaign

Operation IceBridge, NASA’s airborne survey of polar ice, ended its eighth spring Arctic campaign on May 21. During their five weeks of operations, mission scientists carried out six research flights over sea ice and ten over land ice.

7 Jun 2016

AAAS Symposium Highlights Steps to Reduce Carbon Dioxide Emissions

A range of policy solutions is necessary to reduce carbon dioxide emissions generated by the energy and transportation sectors, speakers at a 6 May symposium on energy and the economy said.

3 Jun 2016

NASA Evaluates Impact of Climate Change on Arctic Vegetation

The northern reaches of North America are getting greener, according to a NASA study that provides the most detailed look yet at plant life across Alaska and Canada. In a changing climate, almost a third of the land cover – much of it Arctic tundra – is looking more like landscapes found in warmer ecosystems.

3 Jun 2016

Study Links Perceptions of Climate Change to Infrastructure

Irrigation systems designed to buffer farmers from the effects of a warming planet may be causing them to think their local area is cooler and wetter than it is, says research published June 1 in the journal Global Environmental Change -- perceptions that other studies suggest may slow their efforts to address climate change.

2 Jun 2016