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Study Focuses on How Crop Production Shocks are Affected by Variations in Planted and Harvested Areas

As the world faces more climate variability and extremes in the face of global warming, sudden environmental changes add an extra layer of stress to food production in the United States and around the world.

19 Jun 2023

An Analysis of Seaweed’s Efficacy to Help Reduce Climate Change

With the huge ocean regions needing to remove around 2.5 to 13 gigatonnes of atmospheric carbon every year to fulfill climate goals, the likelihood of global seaweed farming to aid in capturing considerable carbon does not seem practical, as per the research published in Communications Earth & Environment.

16 Jun 2023

Study Reveals How Climate Change Affects Sea Sponges

Sea sponges are essential to marine ecosystems. They play critical roles in the ocean, as they provide shelter and food to a plethora of marine creatures, recycle nutrients by filtering thousands of litres of sea water daily, and are hosts to microbes that may be the key to some of the most pressing medical challenges we face today.

16 Jun 2023

Arctic Sea Ice Likely to Disappear in the 2030s Regardless of Efforts to Reduce Greenhouse Gases

If the world keeps increasing greenhouse gas emissions at its current speed, all sea ice in the Arctic will disappear in the 2030s, an event that could at best be postponed until the 2050s should emissions be somehow reduced.

16 Jun 2023

Toyota’s Transformative Battery Technology Set to Revolutionize the Automotive Industry

Japanese Car Manufacturer Toyota has recently announced it will concentrate its efforts on battery electric vehicle (BEV) technology with the launch of a dedicated BEV factory which will produce revolutionary, evolving batteries to meet consumer expectations and lower the price of BEVs in the long term.

From Toyota 16 Jun 2023

IIASA Researchers Examine the Feasibility and Fairness of Emissions Targets for the European Climate Law

In two new reports, IIASA researchers, with support from colleagues at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), examined the feasibility and fairness of emissions targets and considerations for the European Climate Law.

15 Jun 2023

Carbon Stocks Found in Deep Soil As a Result of Climate Change

Subsoils are both the largest storehouses for carbon and one of the key sources of CO2 in the atmosphere.

15 Jun 2023

Heavier Rainfall Threatens the Existence of Giraffes

Giraffes in East African savannahs are adjusting very well to increased temperatures brought on by climate change. However, as scientists from the University of Zurich and Pennsylvania State University have revealed, they are under threat from increasing rainfall.

13 Jun 2023

NCEO Intensifies its Monitoring of the Devastating Smoke Plume

The National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO) is helping bring a group together to support data images for the public and analyst insight through its headquarters at Space Park Leicester.

13 Jun 2023

Anthropogenic Climate Change: A Major Driver of Wildfire Damage

Wildfires in California destroyed five times more areas between 1996 and 2020 than they did from 1971 to 1995. Investigators from the University of California and other international institutions have established that human-caused climate change is to blame for nearly all of the increase in scorched terrain.

13 Jun 2023