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Climate Change Affects Ecosystems in Coastal Waters of Buzzards Bay

An analysis of long-term, water quality monitoring data reveals that climate change is already having an impact on ecosystems in the coastal waters of Buzzards Bay, Mass. The impacts relate to how nitrogen pollution affects coastal ecosystems.

22 Jan 2016

NASA's Aqua Satellite Image Shows Cloud Top Temperatures Warming in Tropical Cyclone Victor

Warmer cloud top temperatures means that convection (rising air that leads to the development of thunderstorms that make up a tropical cyclone) has started to weaken.

22 Jan 2016

Study Results Help Define Regional Emissions Targets

The world has decided to adopt measures to prevent average global warming from exceeding the two-degree mark. But what does this mean for temperature and the distribution of heavy precipitation on a regional level? Climate researchers have now calculated this.

21 Jan 2016

New Study Analyzes Impact of Rising Carbon Dioxide Emissions on Ocean Fish

UNSW researchers have found that carbon dioxide concentrations in seawater could reach levels high enough to make fish “intoxicated” and disoriented many decades earlier than previously thought, with serious implications for the world’s fisheries.

21 Jan 2016

Mollusks Might be More Resilient to Changing Conditions than Previously Thought

Pearls have adorned the necklines of women throughout history, but some evidence suggests that the gems' future could be uncertain. Increasingly acidic seawater causes oyster shells to weaken, which doesn't bode well for the pearls forming within. But, as scientists report in ACS' journal Environmental Science & Technology, the mollusks might be more resilient to changing conditions than previously thought.

21 Jan 2016

Researchers Map How Climate Changes in Response to Cumulative Carbon Emissions Worldwide

Earth’s temperature has increased by 1°C over the past century, and most of this warming has been caused by carbon dioxide emissions. But what does that mean locally?

21 Jan 2016

Study Reveals Half of Global Ocean Heat Content Increase Has Occurred in Recent Decades

Lawrence Livermore scientists, working with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (link is external) and university colleagues, have found that half of the global ocean heat content increase since 1865 has occurred over the past two decades.

20 Jan 2016

Novel Methodology to Evaluate Impact of Human-Induced Climate Change

The past century has seen a 0.8°C (1.4°F) increase in average global temperature, and according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the overwhelming source of this increase has been emissions of greenhouse gases and other pollutants from human activities.

20 Jan 2016

Jason-3 Satellite Launched to Measure Global Ocean Height Changes

Jason-3, a U.S.-European oceanography satellite mission with NASA participation that will continue a nearly quarter-century record of tracking global sea level rise, lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California Sunday at 10:42 a.m. PST (1:42 p.m. EST) aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

19 Jan 2016

New Study Reveals Carbon Dioxide Could Emerge from Deep Deposits in Surprising Way

A new scientific journal article reports that carbon dioxide can emerge from the deep ocean in a surprising way — a new piece of the global carbon “puzzle” that researchers must solve to fully understand major issues like climate change.

19 Jan 2016