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First Spatial Field Reconstruction of European Summer Hydroclimate Based on Tree-Ring Isotopes

The 2015–2018 summer droughts have been exceptional in large parts of Western and Central Europe over the last 400 years, in terms of the magnitude of drought conditions. This indicates an influence of man-made global warming.

17 Feb 2023

New Review Revisits the Holocene Global Temperature Conundrum

Accurate climate models play a critical role in climate science and policy, helping to inform policy- and decision-makers throughout the world as they consider ways to slow the deadly effects of a warming planet and to adapt to changes already in progress.

16 Feb 2023

Rapid Upward Shifts in North American Mountain Vegetation Due to Warming Climate

In mountainous western North America, vegetation cover has moved upward at a rapid rate over the past several decades, according to a study published in PLOS Climate by James R. Keller at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States and colleagues.

16 Feb 2023

Climate Change Poses a Threat to Land-Based Mammals in the Brazilian Amazon

From jaguars and ocelots to anteaters and capybara, most land-based mammals living in the Brazilian Amazon are threatened by climate change and the projected savannization of the region.

16 Feb 2023

Planktonic Microorganisms Shift Poleward Under Global Warming Scenarios

The tropical oceans have the most diversified plankton populations on the planet, and they serve as the foundation of marine food chains.

16 Feb 2023

Machine Learning-Based Ensemble Approach Quantifies the Effects of Fire-Induced Permafrost Thaw in Alaska

About 40 percent of interior Alaska is underlain by ice-rich permafrost – permanently frozen grounds made up of soil, gravel and sand – bound together by ice. Certain conditions, such as climate warming, have intensified tundra wildfires which have profound implications for permafrost thaw.

15 Feb 2023

New Model Estimates Shipping Emission Patterns on High Seas

Countries impose strict carbon emission regulations on shipping activities in their territorial seas or exclusive economic zones to satisfy the climate change commitments under the Paris Agreement.

14 Feb 2023

Corals Increase Heat Stress Tolerance by Shuffling Symbionts

Researchers from the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science identified that certain reefs in the tropical Pacific Ocean could retain high coral cover into the second half of the current century by shuffling the symbiotic algae they host.

14 Feb 2023

Soil's Moisture Plays a Key Role in the Terrestrial Carbon Cycle

Soil is the Earth's second-biggest carbon storage locker after the ocean, and a research collaboration has shown that it's moisture, not temperature or mineral content, that's the key to how well the soil carbon warehouse works.

14 Feb 2023

Lowest-Ever Sea Ice Cover Recorded in the Antarctic

There is currently less sea ice in the Antarctic than at any time in the forty years since the beginning of satellite observation: in early February 2023, only 2.20 million square kilometres of the Southern Ocean were covered with sea ice.

13 Feb 2023