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Climate Change Part of the Reason for Abandoning Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica City

Scientists have reconstructed the past climate for the region around Cantona, a large fortified city in highland Mexico, and found the population drastically declined in the past, at least in part because of climate change.

28 Jan 2015

CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology Release Climate Change Projections for Australia

The projections are the most comprehensive ever released for Australia and have been prepared with an emphasis on informing impact assessment and planning in the natural resource management sector. Information has been drawn from simulations based on up to 40 global climate models.

27 Jan 2015

Most Climate Models May Likely Underestimate Degree of Variability

A new Duke University-led study finds that most climate models likely underestimate the degree of decade-to-decade variability occurring in mean surface temperatures as Earth’s atmosphere warms. The models also provide inconsistent explanations of why this variability occurs in the first place.

27 Jan 2015

New Next-Generation Sequencing Tool for Studying Responses of Species to Climate Change

Environmental scientists have a new tool for studying the responses of species to climate change. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has made it possible to analyze enormous numbers of short pieces of DNA very quickly, and this technology is already revolutionizing the biomedical sciences. The hope is that NGS may prove similarly useful in ecological studies by providing researchers fresh insight into the way populations are adapting to a changing world.

23 Jan 2015

Climate Change Could Have Disastrous Effects on Sea Turtle Conservation Efforts

A new University of Central Florida study is sounding the alarm about climate change and its potential impact on more than 30 years of conservation efforts to keep sea turtles around for the next generation.

23 Jan 2015

Researchers Discover Impediments to Long-Term Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide

Carbon sequestration promises to address greenhouse-gas emissions by capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and injecting it deep below the Earth's surface, where it would permanently solidify into rock.

22 Jan 2015

Study Explores Effects of Climate Change on Trees in Boreal Forest

Visitors to northern forests in coming decades probably will see a very different set of trees as the climate warms, a new University of Minnesota study shows.

21 Jan 2015

Study Reveals Flexible Diets of Gentoo Penguins Help Them Tackle Climate Change

In a part of the world that is experiencing the most dramatic increase in temperature and climate change, two very similar species of animals are responding very differently. New research published today suggests that how these species have adapted to co-exist with one another might be to blame.

21 Jan 2015

Time Necessary for Ice Mass Loss from Greenland Ice Sheet Decreases Steeply with Increasing Temperature

Melting of glacial ice will probably raise sea level around the globe, but how fast this melting will happen is uncertain. In the case of the Greenland Ice Sheet, the more temperatures increase, the faster the ice will melt, according to computer model experiments by Penn State geoscientists.

21 Jan 2015

Researchers Explore Climatic Effects of Peat Fire Emissions

Wildfires, which send hot flames and smoke high into the air, create black carbon emissions associated with climate change and risk to human health. Carbon emissions from wildfires in the contiguous U.S. are expected to increase by 50 percent by 2050 and to double by 2100.

19 Jan 2015