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New Research Finds Arctic Sea Ice Depletes Faster than Predicted

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Université Joseph Fourier and CNRS have explained the reasons for the striking level of ice shrinkage suffered by the Arctic sea ice during the last few decades, thus surpassing various climate model forecasts.

10 Oct 2011

Researchers Suggest New Methods to Forecast Soil Carbon Response to Climate Changes

A study brought out in the latest issue of Nature journal unveils the mystery of how certain organic compounds survive hundreds and thousands of years in soil while most of them quickly decay.

10 Oct 2011

Ecolab Included in 2011 Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) Performance Leadership Index

The name of Ecolab has been included in the 2011 Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) Performance Leadership Index recognizing its efforts to palliate climate change.

28 Sep 2011

Canopy Clock: Isoprene Emissions May Ozone Modelling

Ozone is not just created by human activities, the plant life on the planet also contribute to it. This is why most models that track emissions and predicted climate change have never come close to being accurate, until now!

26 Sep 2011

Power and Transport Sector Contribute to Increased Level of Global CO2 Emissions

A recent report titled, “Long-term trend in global CO2 emissions," indicates that worldwide discharges of carbon dioxide (CO2), which is considered to be an important reason for global warming has gone up by 45% between the period 1990 and 2010 and attained the maximum level of 33 Bt in 2010.

23 Sep 2011

Air Products to be Included in Global Disclosure and Performance Leadership Indexes of Carbon Disclosure Project

Air Products, a worldwide provider of technology and equipment solutions, materials and gases, has declared that its name figures among the 23 worldwide companies and one among the four U.S. - based companies to be named to the Global Disclosure and Performance Leadership Indexes for 2011 owned by Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP).

17 Sep 2011

IRD Researchers Explain the Reasons for the Melt of Andean Glacier

A recent publication in the journal, Nature explains the success of the IRD researchers and their associates in elucidating the reasons for the glacial melt in the Andes during the last 10,000 years.

14 Sep 2011

Researchers Forecast Regular Occurrence of Extreme Level of Summertime Temperature

The results of the study performed by the Boston University researchers published in the latest issue of Climate Change Letters journal indicates the imminent impacts of increase in the worldwide average temperature level and on the summer season temperature level in the U.S and other parts of the world.

13 Sep 2011

Research Finds Proper, In time Rainfall Forecasts Improve Agricultural Yields

The outlook of the Sub-Saharan Africa, which entirely relies on the potential of its agricultural sector to feed its growing population, suffers an alarming level of starvation deaths as much as 30%, considered as the highest globally.

13 Sep 2011

NCAR Research Found Substituting Use of Coal with Natural Gas Does Not Decelerate Climate Change

A new study performed by Tom Wigley, National Center for Atmospheric Research’s (NCAR), senior research associate indicates that the increased level of natural gas usage substituting the use of coal does not decelerate climate change.

12 Sep 2011