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Alcoa Employees Selected to Research Environmental Challenges

Alcoa Foundation announced today in partnership with Earthwatch Institute that 27 Alcoa employees have been selected to research environmental challenges in Brazil, Canada and China. Earthwatch is an environmental organization, whose mission is to promote the understanding and action necessary for a sustainable environment,

20 Aug 2013

Heriot-Watt University Professor Gives Climate Change Adaptation Seminars in Mexico

Professor Hamish Mair from the School of Life Sciences recently visited the Universidad Autonoma de Campeche and Universidad Autonoma del Carmen in Mexico. As part of his visit, he gave four days of seminars on climate change adaptation.

19 Aug 2013

NASA Changes Pollution-Climate Science Flights Media Day to Aug. 22

NASA has changed the day for a behind-the-scenes look at the agency's airborne campaign to study how storm systems combine with air pollution from wildfires and other sources to affect our climate. NASA now will host its pollution-climate science flights media day from 1-3 p.m. CDT on Thursday, Aug. 22, in Houston.

19 Aug 2013

Terrestrial Ecosystems Absorb Less Carbon Dioxide Due to Extreme Climate Events

When the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere rises, the Earth not only heats up, but extreme weather events, such as lengthy droughts, heat waves, heavy rain and violent storms, may become more frequent.

16 Aug 2013

Antarctic Warming May Have Begun Much Earlier Than Previously Thought

For more than a century scientists have known that Earth’s ice ages are caused by the wobbling of the planet’s orbit, which changes its orientation to the sun and affects the amount of sunlight reaching higher latitudes, particularly the polar regions.

16 Aug 2013

Low-Temperature Diesel Combustion May Lead to Broader Use of Cleaner Engines

As demand climbs for more fuel-efficient vehicles, knowledge compiled over several years about diesel engines and a new strategy known as “low-temperature combustion” (LTC) might soon lead auto manufacturers and consumers to broader use of cleaner diesel engines in the United States.

14 Aug 2013

Northrop Grumman Achieves Greenhouse Gas Reduction Goal Before Planned Time

Northrop Grumman Corporation has achieved its inaugural greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction goal of 25 percent in three years, two years ahead of plan. In 2012, the company realized a 25.3 percent GHG intensity reduction from its 2008 baseline, resulting in a 26.9 percent absolute emissions reduction.

14 Aug 2013

Climate Change Affects Adult and Juvenile Song Sparrows Differently

What’s good for adults is not always best for the young, and vice versa. At least that is the case with song sparrows and how they experience the effects of climate change, according to two recent studies by scientists at the University of California, Davis, and Point Blue Conservation Science.

13 Aug 2013

People Who Suffer Most are Least Responsible for Climate Change

When Ken Davis, Penn State professor of meteorology, used to think about climate change he looked at it as a scientific problem, with an economic dimension.

12 Aug 2013

Climate-KIC Awards over £125,000 Through Climate Market Accelerator Programme

Climate-KIC, Europe's largest public-private innovation partnership working to address the challenge of climate change, has awarded more than £125,000 through the Climate Market Accelerator (CMA) programme to a project aimed at shifting electricity usage towards renewable energy at off-peak times, supported by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL).

9 Aug 2013