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Cutting Down Emissions May Be the Perfect Option to Fight Global Warming

Forget about positioning giant mirrors in space to reduce the amount of sunlight being trapped in the earth's atmosphere or seeding clouds to reduce the amount of light entering earth's atmosphere. Those approaches to climate engineering aren't likely to be effective or practical in slowing global warming.

2 Jun 2014

NPL Launches New Mobile Laboratory to Measure Airborne Emissions

The Environmental Measurements Group and the Centre for Carbon Measurement at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have launched a new mobile laboratory to detect and measure emissions that are harmful to the environment.

31 May 2014

Simulating Climate Change Effects with High Tunnels

Okra, peanuts, cotton and bananas are not exactly staple crops on Ithaca farms and home gardens.

31 May 2014

Heriot-Watt University, BioFuelNet Canada and Bio-Char Network Sign New MoU for Biochar Research

Current collaboration between the UK and Canada in the area of biochar as an effective way to capture CO2 has been strengthened by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Professor Raffaella Ocone at Heriot-Watt University (UK) and BioFuelNet Canada (BNF) and Bio-Char Network (Bio-Char) in Canada.

20 May 2014

Excess Heat from Air Conditioners Increases Temperatures, Worsens Urban Heat Island Effect

A team of researchers from Arizona State University has found that releasing excess heat from air conditioners running during the night resulted in higher outside temperatures, worsening the urban heat island effect and increasing cooling demands.

19 May 2014

Climate Change Causes Earth to ‘Rebound’ Due to Shrinkage of Overlying Ice Sheet

At the surface, Antarctica is a motionless and frozen landscape. Yet hundreds of miles down the Earth is moving at a rapid rate, new research has shown.

13 May 2014

NASA Hosts Media Teleconference on Stability of West Antarctic Ice Sheet

NASA will host a media teleconference at 9:30 a.m. PDT (12:30 p.m. EDT) Monday, May 12, to discuss new research results on the stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and its potential contribution to future sea level rise.

12 May 2014

UK Deriving Emissions Linked to Climate Change Network Awarded £918,000 Renewed Funding

A network of integrated greenhouse gas measurements in the UK and Ireland – the first of its kind in Europe – has been awarded renewed funding of £918,000 for continued operation.

8 May 2014

Climate Change Likely to Get Worse in the U.S., says Berkeley Lab Climate Scientist

By the end of this century climate change will result in more frequent and more extreme heat, more drought, and fewer extremes in cold weather in the United States. Average high temperatures could climb as much as 10 or more degrees Fahrenheit in some parts of the country. These are some of the projections made by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) climate scientist Michael Wehner and his co-authors on the National Climate Assessment (NCA).

7 May 2014

NASA-CNES Sign Agreement to Implement Surface Water and Ocean Topography Mission

NASA and the French space agency Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES) have agreed to jointly build, launch, and operate a spacecraft to conduct the first-ever global survey of Earth's surface water and to map ocean surface height with unprecedented detail.

5 May 2014