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World Can Avert Financial and Environmental Costs of Resource Depletion and Save Millions in Efficiency Gains – New UN Report Shows How

As the financial and environmental costs of resource depletion begin to affect economic growth worldwide, countries need to find ways to manage finite resources while meeting the needs of a growing and increasingly urban...

5 Jun 2015

Carbon Dioxide-Caused Warming Exceeds Amount of Heat Released by Combustion-Caused Warming

The heat generated by burning a fossil fuel is surpassed within a few months by the warming caused by the release of its carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, according to new work from Carnegie's Xiaochun Zhang and Ken Caldeira published in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union. The release of CO2 into the atmosphere contributes to the trapping of heat that would otherwise be emitted into outer space.

3 Jun 2015

Norwegian Climate Researchers and Ecologists Offer Insight on Impact of Climate Change on Seabirds

Collaboration between ecologists and climate researchers in Norway has generated fascinating new insight into how seabirds are affected by climate change.

30 May 2015

Research Predicts Broad-Scale Global Climate Change That Could Last For Years

A new study, by scientists from the University of Southampton and National Oceanography Centre (NOC), implies that the global climate is on the verge of broad-scale change that could last for a number of decades.

28 May 2015

Climate Change May Cause More Powerful Hurricanes, Tropical Storms

Climate change may be the driving force behind fewer, yet more powerful hurricanes and tropical storms, says a Florida State geography professor.

27 May 2015

New Light on Ice Sheet Evolution and Their Contribution to Sea Level Rise

ULB study sheds a new light on the stability of the Antarctic ice sheet. It shows for the first time that ice rises (pinning points that keep the floating parts of ice sheets in place) are formed during the transition between glacial and interglacial periods, which significantly slows down the response of the ice sheet to climate change.

27 May 2015

Implementation of the Montreal Protocol Benefits the Ozone Layer

We are already reaping the rewards of the Montreal Protocol, with the ozone layer in much better shape than it would have been without the UN treaty, according to a new study in Nature Communications.

27 May 2015

Climate Geoengineering May Help Save Coral Reefs from Mass Bleaching

Geoengineering of the climate may be the only way to save coral reefs from mass bleaching, according to new research.

26 May 2015

New North American Energy Ministers' Working Group on Climate Change and Energy Created

The Honourable Greg Rickford, Canada's Minister of Natural Resources; Ernest J. Moniz, United States Secretary of Energy; and Pedro Joaquín-Coldwell, Mexico Secretary of Energy, today announced the creation of the North American Energy Ministers' Working Group on Climate Change and Energy.

26 May 2015

Scientists Use Mineral Cave Deposits to Find Clues about Prehistoric Climate Changes

When the conversation turns to the weather and the climate, most people's thoughts naturally drift upward toward the clouds, but Jessica Oster's sink down into the subterranean world of stalactites and stalagmites.

25 May 2015