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Climate Change Has Dried Out the Colorado River Basin, Study Finds

From 2000 to 2021, climate change caused the loss of more than 40 trillion liters (10 trillion gallons) of water in the Colorado River Basin - about equal to the entire storage capacity of Lake Mead - according to a new study that modeled humans' impact on hydrology in the region.

26 Jul 2023

Methane Emissions From Biological Sources May be Higher Than Estimated

Recent research by Maarten van Herpen et al., reveals a new mechanism whereby blowing mineral dust mixes with sea-spray forms Mineral Dust-Sea Spray Aerosol (MDSA). The research was funded in part by the NGO Spark Climate Solutions.

25 Jul 2023

New Way to Measure Earth’s Response to Climate Change

A Chapman University researcher and his coworkers have discovered how the Earth reacts as it warms due to climate change.

25 Jul 2023

Catalyzing Sustainability and Fueling Change: The Next-Gen Catalyst that is Cutting Emissions

Researchers from the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Washington State University (WSU) have recently demonstrated a method that could remove methane from engine exhausts that burn natural gas.

24 Jul 2023

Greening in the South American Andes may Have Dramatic Impact on Environment and Ecosystems

Analysing satellite data spanning the past 20 years, the research team based at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge examined how vegetation has been changing along the Pacific coast of Peru and northern Chile. This area is known for its unique and delicate arid and semi-arid environments.

24 Jul 2023

New Research on Dynamics of Barents–Kara Sea-Ice Anomalies

One of the most important winter climate system change patterns in the mid-high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere is the “warm Arctic-cold Eurasia” pattern.

24 Jul 2023

Georgia Tech Researchers at the Forefront of Climate Change Research

From the thousands of feet of frozen glaciers to the rising seas off Savannah's coast, Georgia Institute of Technology researchers are measuring, modeling, and predicting just how climate change is impacting our oceans.

21 Jul 2023

Bird Extinctions More Likely Due to Local Factors Than Climate Change

Over the last 30 years European breeding birds have shifted their range by, on average, 2.4 km per year, according to new research.

21 Jul 2023

Greenland’s Ice Sheet Melted Much More Recently Than Previously Thought

A large portion of Greenland was an ice-free tundra landscape - perhaps covered by trees and roaming wooly mammoths - in the recent geologic past (about 416,000 years ago), according to a new study in the journal Science.

21 Jul 2023