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Berkeley Lab China Energy Group Participates in U.S.-China Climate Leaders Summit

The China Energy Group of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) participated in the two-day U.S.-China Climate Leaders Summit in Los Angeles this week.

21 Sep 2015

Study Reveals Methane Emissions from Arctic Tundra Increase When Sea Ice Melts

Methane emissions from Arctic tundra increase when sea ice melts, according to a new study from Lund University in Sweden. This connection has been suspected before, but has lacked strong evidence until now.

18 Sep 2015

Researchers Could Predict Climate Changes Based on Arctic Ecosystems

Through reconstruction we are able to understand the ecological processes which took place in the past, extrapolate our results to the future, predicts the changes in biocenoses under specific ecological and climatic conditions, - explains Larissa Frolova, Research Associate at the Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology, and Paleomagnetism Lab of the Institute of Fundamental Medicine and Biology. - This is very important and is directly tied to the economy. Climatic changes influence biota, environment, and our lives.

18 Sep 2015

Vocational Education and Training Skills Inadequate for Adoption of Heat-Pump Technology to Reduce Carbon Emissions

The UK Committee on Climate Change has specifically identified heat-pump technology as part of their low-carbon strategy to replace gas boilers in buildings. However, new research suggests that if the UK is to meet its climate and energy goals then the current vocational education and training is inadequate and ill-prepared to do so.

16 Sep 2015

Climate Change Induces Upslope Migration of Tropical Plants in Ecuador

The plants on the highest mountain in Ecuador have migrated more than 500 meters to higher altitudes during the last two centuries. This is determined in a new study, in which Aarhus University researchers compared Humboldt's data from 1802 with current conditions.

15 Sep 2015

Study Shows Protected Areas Preserve Mangrove Habitats, Prevent Carbon Dioxide Emissions

Protected areas not only keep significant swaths of Indonesia's shrinking mangrove habitats intact, but also prevent emissions of carbon dioxide that would have been released had these mangroves been cleared, according to a study in the journal Ecological Economics.

15 Sep 2015

Study Reveals Antarctic Ice Would Completely Melt if All Global Fossil-Fuel Resources are Burnt

Burning all of the world's available fossil-fuel resources would result in the complete melting of the Antarctic ice sheet, a new study to be published in Science Advances shows. The Antarctic ice masses store water equivalent to more than 50 meters of sea-level rise.

14 Sep 2015

First Online Global Permafrost Database Could Serve as Early Warning System

This Saturday at a conference in Quebec, Canada an international research team will present the first online data portal on global permafrost. In the Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost researchers first collect all the existing permafrost temperature and active thickness layer data from Arctic, Antarctic and mountain permafrost regions and then make it freely available for download.

14 Sep 2015

Citizen Science Project to Monitor Air Pollution Using Spectropolarimeter-integrated Smartphones

One of the biggest ever citizen science projects needs volunteers from Manchester to help measure air pollution in our environment. And all you need to take part is a smart phone.

11 Sep 2015

Researchers Awarded NSF Grant to Develop Tree-Ring Chronologies to Monitor Climate Change

University of Arkansas researchers have received a grant to develop the first multicentury tree-ring chronologies in the Amazon River basin to help build a historical record of climate change in one of the most ecologically diverse areas on Earth.

11 Sep 2015