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Repercussions of Climate Change on Vermont’s Snowmobile Industry Could be Significant

Declining snowfall in Vermont, a likely byproduct of a warming climate, is sure to negatively affect the state’s $600 million snowmobile industry. New research provides a sobering look at just how much.

20 Apr 2016

Ocean Biodiversity More Resilient to Climate Change than Expected

The billions of single-celled marine organisms known as phytoplankton can drift from one region of the world's oceans to almost any other place on the globe in less than a decade, Princeton University researchers have found.

20 Apr 2016

New Study Proposes Novel Mechanism for Arctic Ocean Acidification

When organic material from thawing permafrost is transported to the sea and breaks down in the seawater it contributes to a more rapid acidification of the Arctic Ocean, finds new research by scientists from Stockholm University and colleagues.

19 Apr 2016

Better Stress Withstanding Trees More Resistant to Drought

Massive tree die-offs due to drought have ravaged forests across the American West and left ecologists struggling to predict how and when tree deaths will happen, and how rising temperatures due to climate change might affect the health of forests.

19 Apr 2016

Dartmouth Researchers Explore Impact of Clear-Cutting on Climate Change

Clear-cutting loosens up carbon stored in forest soils, increasing the chances it will return to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide and contribute to climate change, a Dartmouth College study shows.

18 Apr 2016

Climate Change and Copper-Contaminated Wetlands Could Lead to Amphibian Extinction

According to a team of researchers from the University of Georgia's Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, the disappearance of two amphibian species, which include the southern leopard frog and the southern toad, may be accelerated by the effects of copper-contaminated wetlands and climate change.

12 Apr 2016

Researchers Present Study on Mitigating Climate Change by Reducing Food Waste

A recent study has highlighted that by mid-century it would be possible to trace nearly a tenth of the total global greenhouse-gas emissions obtained from agriculture. For the very first time, a research team from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research have provided a global report on the overall food loss rate, and they have also calculated the associated emissions.

11 Apr 2016