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Researchers Explore Market Potential and Environmental Trade-Offs of Using Natural Gas in Marine Fuels

As the maritime shipping industry transitions toward cleaner fuels in response to new environmental regulations and emissions standards, abundant supplies of natural gas in the United States, and worldwide, appear to offer a promising solution in transportation industries.

25 Sep 2015

Deep-Sea Fossil Corals Help Understand Earth’s Last Deglaciation

In a paper published today in Science, researchers from the University of Bristol describe how they used radiocarbon measured in deep-sea fossil corals to shed light on carbon dioxide (CO2) levels during the Earth’s last deglaciation.

25 Sep 2015

NAUSICAA Announces Diary of Events and Press Trip Invitations

The ocean is essential for our life on Earth. It covers three-quarters of our planet, regulating the climate, playing a part in the life cycle of water and influencing the quality of the air we breathe. Preserving the world's oceans is therefore a major ecological issue.

24 Sep 2015

Study Reveals When and Where First Clear Signs of Global Warming Appeared

The indications of climate change are all around us today but now researchers have revealed for the first time when and where the first clear signs of global warming appeared in the temperature record and where those signals are likely to be clearly seen in extreme rainfall events in the near future.

24 Sep 2015

CAGE Deploys Two Methane Observatories in the Arctic Ocean

It is not only the space agencies that launch landers with sensors to far away places . Marine science institutions have a lot of unknown ground to cover in their quest for knowledge. Also they are depending on groundbreaking lander and sensor technology to lead them to that knowledge.

23 Sep 2015

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