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NPL Supports Decarbonathon Competition

The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is supporting a new competition to identify innovative technologies that reduce carbon emissions and bring them to market quicker.

28 Oct 2015

UC Riverside Names Climate Action Champion and Climate Neutrality Fellows

The University of California, Riverside has announced the name of the professor who has been named a climate action champion and the students who have been named climate neutrality fellows.

27 Oct 2015

Allocation of Greenhouse-Gas Emissions Reductions Key for Outcome of World Climate Summit

Though most countries around the globe agree that warming must be limited to 2 degrees Celsius to avoid the raft of climate risks, they clash about who should do what to reach this target.

27 Oct 2015

Ancient Permafrost Thawed by Changing Climate Could Release Massive Amounts of Carbon Dioxide

Researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey and key academic partners including the University of Colorado Boulder have quantified how rapidly ancient permafrost decomposes upon thawing and how much carbon dioxide is produced in the process.

27 Oct 2015

Unprecedented Deadly Heat due to Climate Change Could hit the Persian Gulf Region

Within this century, parts of the Persian Gulf region could be hit with unprecedented events of deadly heat as a result of climate change, according to a study of high-resolution climate models.

27 Oct 2015

Scientists Call on Policymakers to Plant More Trees to Help Protect River Habitats from Climate Change

New research has prompted scientists to call on policymakers to plant more trees alongside upland rivers and streams, in an effort to save their habitats from the future harm of climate change.

26 Oct 2015

Carbon Neutrality Conference to Focus on Scalable Solutions for Achieving Greenhouse Gas Reductions

UC Riverside Chancellor Kim Wilcox and Professor Juliann Allison have prominent roles in the University of California Summit on Pathways to Carbon and Climate Neutrality: California and the World event being held Oct. 26 and 27 at UC San Diego.

22 Oct 2015

Researchers Assess Effects of Land Use on Water Availability in Himalaya Mountain Basins

As part of an multi-disciplinary study, a team of Baylor researchers found that climatic changes, an increase in agricultural land use and population growth in the Himalaya Mountain basins could have negative impacts on water availability, further stressing a region plagued by natural disasters and food insecurity.

20 Oct 2015

MIT and Norwegian Scientists Gauge Fairness and Ambition of Top Three Emitters’ Pledges

Over two weeks in December, delegates from virtually every country in the world will gather in Paris for the 21st annual United Nations Climate Change Conference. Their ambitious goal: to hammer out a binding international agreement on climate action.

20 Oct 2015

Study Reveals Utility-Scale Solar Energy Development is a Source of Land-Cover Change

On Oct. 7, Gov. Jerry Brown of California signed legislation aimed at increasing renewable-energy generation. Among renewable energy systems, solar energy has high potential for mitigating climate change, resulting in diverse technologies that capture the sun's thermal energy.

20 Oct 2015