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Senior Defense Officials Gather to Address Need for Collaborative Research in Polar Regions

To address the need for collaborative research in the Polar Regions, Chief of Naval Research Rear Adm. Mat Winter met in Finland last week with counterparts from five nations in a first-ever gathering of senior defense officials to coordinate science and technology research in high latitudes.

29 Feb 2016

Researchers Follow Radioactive Waste to Understand Formation of Ocean Currents

After the Fukushima incident in Japan in March of 2011, where the nuclear power plant was hit by a tsunami, scientists used numerical models of ocean currents to predict the possible speed and direction of radioactive materials that had been released.

29 Feb 2016

Researchers Propose Carbon Budget for Keeping Global Warming Below 2°C

In a comprehensive new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change, researchers propose a limit to future greenhouse gas emissions--or carbon budget--of 590-1240 billion tons of carbon dioxide from 2015 onwards, as the most appropriate estimate for keeping warming to below 2°C, a temperature target which aims to avoid the most dangerous impacts of climate change.

25 Feb 2016

New Model Determines How Efficiently Oceans Will Continue to Soak Up CO2 Humans Emit

Since pre-industrial times, the world's oceans have absorbed 41 percent of the carbon dioxide humans have released into the atmosphere. The remainder stays airborne, warming the planet.

25 Feb 2016

New Model Helps Predict Impact of Changing Climate on Forests over Thousands of Years

It can take Mother Nature 1,000 years to grow a forest. But Nikolay Strigul, assistant professor of mathematics and statistics at Washington State University Vancouver, can grow one on a computer in three weeks.

25 Feb 2016

University of California Commits to Emit Net Zero Greenhouse Gases by 2025

For Susanna Hecht, the future of life on this planet as we know it is a matter of degrees — a scant few at that.

24 Feb 2016

Newly Exposed Edges of Deforested Areas Highly Susceptible to Drastic Temperature Changes

The newly-exposed edges of deforested areas are highly susceptible to drastic temperature changes, leading to hotter, drier and more variable conditions for the forest that remains, according to new research from the University of Colorado Boulder.

24 Feb 2016

Plants and Decomposing Material in Soil Emit More CO2 than Fossil Fuels

In the concrete jungle at the core of a city, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are dominated by the fossil fuels burned by the dense concentrations of cars and buildings.

24 Feb 2016

Reducing U.S. Climate Emissions Could Prevent Pollution-Related Premature Deaths by 2030

Reducing U.S. climate emissions enough to avoid a 2-degree Celsius increase in global warming could prevent up to 175,000 pollution-related premature deaths nationwide by 2030 and generate health benefits of about $250 billion annually, according to a new analysis by researchers at Duke University and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

23 Feb 2016

Despite Reduced Sulfur Emissions, Atmospheric Sulfate Particles are Still Acidic

When acidic materials are spilled, the clean-up procedure involves adding a base chemical to neutralize the acid. Up to a point, the more base added, the more neutral and less toxic the spill becomes.

23 Feb 2016