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UCSD Climate Researcher Honored with UN Champions of the Earth Award

Veerabhadran Ramanathan, a distinguished professor of climate and atmospheric sciences at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, whose landmark research showed that cutting emissions of black carbon and other short lived climate pollutants can significantly lessen the impacts of regional and global climate change, improve the health of millions of rural poor, and avoid crop losses, will receive tonight (Sept. 20) a 2013 Champions of the Earth award, the United Nations’s highest environmental accolade.

21 Sep 2013

ASU Student Studies Impact of Climate Change on Nepali Farmers

In a country where she didn’t know anyone, couldn’t speak the language and was a stranger to the culture, Tayler Jenkins pushed through her mission to research sustainable agriculture and livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Nepal.

19 Sep 2013

Malaria Transmission in West Africa May not be Affected by Climate Change

As public-health officials continue to fight malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, researchers are trying to predict how climate change will impact the disease, which infected an estimated 219 million people in 2010 and is the fifth leading cause of death worldwide among children under age 5.

17 Sep 2013

Lockheed Martin Named Among Top 56 Companies on 2013 Global Carbon Performance Leadership Index

CDP, previously known as Carbon Disclosure Project, has recognized Lockheed Martin as one of the world’s top companies for addressing climate change in its operations.

From Lockheed Martin 13 Sep 2013

Climate Change Causing Trees to Speed up Life Cycles

Many climate studies have predicted that tree species will respond to global warming by migrating via seed dispersal to cooler climates. But a new study of 65 different species in 31 eastern states finds evidence of a different, unexpected response.

12 Sep 2013

Indy 500 Series Race Cars to Showcase Green Fuels

Experts at ACS a major scientific meeting today described how ethanol blends used as fuel in the race cars of the Indianapolis 500 actually make those emissions cleaner than cars on the street.

10 Sep 2013

Lungs-Inspired Filtering System to Remove Carbon Dioxide from Electric Power Station Smokestacks

The amazingly efficient lungs of birds and the swim bladders of fish have become the inspiration for a new filtering system to remove carbon dioxide from electric power station smokestacks before the main greenhouse gas can billow into the atmosphere and contribute to global climate change.

10 Sep 2013

NSF Center to Study Effect of Atmospheric Particles on the Environment and Climate

Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla will today announce a five-year, $20 million award from the National Science Foundation to support an innovative program of research and education on how interactions between air and sea alter the chemistry of the atmosphere to influence climate.

10 Sep 2013

UEA Researchers Report Upset in Natural Chemical Cycles Due to Rising Ocean Temperatures

New research from the University of East Anglia shows that rising ocean temperatures will upset natural cycles of carbon dioxide, nitrogen and phosphorous.

10 Sep 2013

New Study Reveals Impact of Global Warming on Likelihood of Record Heat

Drought shriveled crops in the Midwest, massive wildfires raged in the West and East Coast cities sweltered. The summer of 2012 was a season of epic proportions, especially July, the hottest month in the history of U.S. weather record keeping.

7 Sep 2013