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Deep-Water Controlled Experiment Aims to Verify Safety of Offshore CO2 Capture and Storage

The world's first 'real world' deep-water controlled experiment to simulate an emission from a submerged carbon dioxide storage reservoir aims to further verify the safety of offshore carbon dioxide (CO2) capture and storage (CCS).

2 Mar 2016

Development of Coal-to-Chemicals Industries Could Affect China’s Clean Energy Measures

China’s plan to ramp up production of new chemicals and synthetic fuels made from coal could derail recent efforts to lower its carbon dioxide emissions and instead lock the Chinese government into high-carbon investments for years to come, a new Duke University study finds.

2 Mar 2016

Grasslands Across North America to Face Higher Summer Temperatures and Widespread Drought

Grasslands across North America will face higher summer temperatures and widespread drought by the end of the century, according to a new Harvard study on the effects of climate change.

1 Mar 2016

ICES Journal of Marine Science Announces Publication of Special Issue on Ocean Acidification

Today, the ICES Journal of Marine Science publishes a special issue on ocean acidification, the most-studied single topic in marine science.

1 Mar 2016

Scientists Show Damage Costs Increase at Higher Rate than Sea-Level Rise

Damages from extreme events like floods are even more relevant than the mean sea level itself when it comes to the costs of climate impacts for coastal regions. However, while it is now rather well understood how sea-levels will rise in the future, only small progress has been made estimating how the implied damage for cities at the coasts will increase during the next decades.

29 Feb 2016

Researchers Develop and Test Framework Based on Consumer's Accountability for Carbon Emission

How much do consumers care about the carbon footprint of the products they buy? Would they care more if the goods were labeled with emissions data? Does it matter at which stage in the lifecycle of a product the carbon is emitted? Research published in the International Journal of Environmental Policy and Decision Making offers a way to find out.

29 Feb 2016

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