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NASA Satellite Provides New Insights into How Climate and Ecosystem Affect Phytoplankton

The greens and blues of the ocean color from NASA satellite data have provided new insights into how climate and ecosystem processes affect the growth cycles of phytoplankton—microscopic aquatic plants important for fish populations and Earth’s carbon cycle.

1 Oct 2014

Scientists Test Ability of Warning Systems to Identify Species Vulnerable to Climate Change

Climate change is expected to result in heightened risk of extinction for many species. Because conservation scientists are just starting to understand this threat, many have concluded that current risk assessment protocols, such as the International 'Red List' published by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and based on rules established in the 1990s, will fail to identify many species at risk from climate change.

30 Sep 2014

Australia Experiences Hottest Year Due to Human-Caused Global Warming

Australia's hottest year on record in 2013 along with the accompanying droughts, heat waves and record-breaking seasons of that year was virtually impossible without the influence of human-caused global warming.

30 Sep 2014

Human-Caused Climate Change Linked to Unprecedented Drought Afflicting California

The atmospheric conditions associated with the unprecedented drought currently afflicting California are "very likely" linked to human-caused climate change, Stanford scientists say.

30 Sep 2014

Wood Frogs Breed Earlier and Produce Fewer Eggs Due to Climate Change

Scientists have found amphibians worldwide are breeding earlier due to climate change, but how that affects species is just now being answered.

29 Sep 2014

Change in the Nordic Seas at Receiving End of Global Climate System Change

The melting Arctic is not the source for less saline Nordic Seas. It is the Gulf Stream that has provided less salt.

29 Sep 2014

Abundant Natural Gas May Not Help Lower Greenhouse Gas Emissions Significantly

Abundant supplies of natural gas will do little to reduce harmful U.S. emissions causing climate change, according to researchers at UC Irvine, Stanford University, and the nonprofit organization Near Zero. They found that inexpensive gas boosts electricity consumption and hinders expansion of cleaner energy sources, such as wind and solar.

26 Sep 2014

Climate Warming Does Not Accelerate Soil Organic Carbon Decomposition Despite Increases in Ecosystem Productivity

The Earth’s soils store four times more carbon than the atmosphere and small changes in soil carbon storage can have a big effect on atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations. A new paper in the journal Nature Climate Change concludes that climate warming does not accelerate soil organic carbon decomposition or affect soil carbon storage, despite increases in ecosystem productivity.

25 Sep 2014

NASA’s SRTM Data to be Released Publicly to Help Global Climate Resilience

High-resolution topographic data generated from NASA’s Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) in 2000, previously only available for the United States, will be released globally over the next year, the White House announced today. The announcement was made at the United Nations Heads of State Climate Summit in New York.

25 Sep 2014

Study on Sheep’s Adaptation to Climate Change

For thousands of years, man has domesticated animals, selecting the best traits possible for survival. Now, livestock such as sheep offer an intriguing animal to examine adaptation to climate change, with a genetic legacy of centuries of selected breeding and a wealth of livestock genome-wide data available.

24 Sep 2014