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Will Ocean-based Climate Intervention Affect Sea Ecosystems?

The deep sea is one of the least-known areas in the world. It comprises numerous vulnerable ecosystems that play key roles in the carbon cycle.

13 Mar 2023

MSU Researchers Study How Warming Threatens Global Water and Food Security

Tibet is known as the "Water Tower of Asia," providing water to about 2 billion people and supporting critical ecosystems in High Mountain Asia and the Tibetan Plateau, where many of the largest Asian river systems originate

10 Mar 2023

The Impact of Synchronous Climate Hazards on Coffee Production

Coffee is essential to the economies of coffee-producing regions. According to research reported in PLOS Climate by Doug Richardson of CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, and co-workers, climate change may have a substantial impact on land where coffee is grown.

9 Mar 2023

Atmospheric Rivers Paired with Snow can be Especially Harmful to Vulnerable Communities

Residents in California are bracing for a strong atmospheric river event that could bring torrential rain and dangerous floods across the northern and central part of the state.

9 Mar 2023

Study Reveals Causes Behind the Occurrence of Large Earthquakes, Tsunamis in the Northwest Pacific Coast of Mexico

The Northwest Pacific coast of Mexico is an area struck by large earthquakes and tsunamis as a result of the interaction of two tectonic plates.

8 Mar 2023

Improved Understanding of Gas Exchange in High Latitudes can Lead to Better Climate Models

The injection of bubbles from waves breaking in turbulent and cold high-latitude regions of the high seas is an underappreciated way in which atmospheric gases are transported into the interior ocean

8 Mar 2023

Researchers Use Drones to Monitor the Fragile Ecosystem in Antarctica

Researchers have been using drones to map large areas of Antarctica this summer in efforts to monitor the effects on vegetation due to climate change with the support of the Federal Government's Australian Antarctic Division.

7 Mar 2023

Meeting All Pledges to Reduce Carbon Emissions can Help Reduce Flood Risks

Annual damage caused by flooding in the UK could increase by more than a fifth over the next century due to climate change unless all international pledges to reduce carbon emissions are met, according to new research.

7 Mar 2023

Gas Detection Expert Umicore Calls for Focus on Methane Emissions After ‘scary’ New Report Highlights Global ‘super-emitters’

Gas detection and spectroscopy expert Umicore Coatings Services has called for an immediate focus on methane after a shocking report highlighted how ‘super-emitters’ of the greenhouse gas risk derailing efforts to curb global warming, and could push climate change past the point of no return.

7 Mar 2023

Sea-Level Rise may Disproportionately Affect Certain Asian Megacities

Sea level rise this century may disproportionately affect certain Asian megacities as well as western tropical Pacific islands and the western Indian Ocean, according to new research that looks at the effects of natural sea level fluctuations on the projected rise due to climate change.

6 Mar 2023