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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

New Coral Conservation Initiative to Enable Coral Restoration Throughout the Caribbean and Florida Keys

Mote Marine Laboratory and The Nature Conservancy are partnering on a coral conservation initiative that will enable coral restoration at unprecedented scales throughout the Caribbean and the Florida Keys.

13 Sep 2016

Popular Marine Species Could Face Extinction due to Increasing Ocean Temperatures

A new Cornell study published in the Oceanography magazine reveals that several commonly known marine species that are economically and culturally important are expected to face a highly risky future due to the increasing ocean temperatures along the East and West Coasts of the United States.

12 Sep 2016

Multiple Environmental Influences Can Hamper Predictions of Mid-Latitude Storms Behavior

The effects of man-made climate change can hamper scientific projections of how key global weather patterns will act in the future, a new study has revealed.

9 Sep 2016

Operation Icebridge Studies Impact Caused by Summer Melt on Greenland Ice Sheet

Operation IceBridge is NASA’s airborne survey of polar ice, and for the second time this year it is flying in Greenland in order to observe the impact caused by the summer melt season on the ice sheet.

7 Sep 2016

Jasper Ridge Global Change Experiment Alters Four Aspects of Climate Change

One of the world’s longest-running, most comprehensive climate change experiments produced some surprising results. The extensive experiment subjected grassland ecosystems to sixteen possible future climates and measured many aspects of ecosystem performance and sustainability.

6 Sep 2016

New Discovery Contradicts Widely Accepted Hypothesis About How Climate Change Will Affect Food Production

An eight-year study of soybeans grown outdoors in a carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere like that expected by 2050 has yielded a new and worrisome finding: Higher atmospheric CO2 concentrations will boost plant growth under ideal growing conditions, but drought – expected to worsen as the climate warms and rainfall patterns change – will outweigh those benefits and cause yield losses much sooner than anticipated.

6 Sep 2016

Low Relative Humidity is Often Under-Appreciated Cause of Plant Stress in Dry Weather Conditions

Newly published research by Indiana University scientists finds that low relative humidity in the atmosphere is a significant, growing and often under-appreciated cause of plant stress in hot, dry weather conditions.

6 Sep 2016

Research Findings Offer New Insights into Africa’s Climate History

From the depths of Lake Malawi, Melissa Berke has helped uncover evidence that offers new insights into a long-held theory about Africa’s climate history.

2 Sep 2016

New Study Reveals Impact of Climate Change on Subantarctic Seabed Animals

A new marine biodiversity study in one of the largest Marine Protected Areas in the world reveals the impact of environmental change on subantarctic seabed animals and answers big questions about the extent of South Georgia's ice sheet during the Last Glacial Maximum around 20,000 years ago.

2 Sep 2016