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Growing Demand for Food Might Increase Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Concentration of dinitrogen oxide - also referred to as nitrous oxide - in the atmosphere increases strongly and speeds up climate change.

20 Oct 2020

Volvo Trucks Awarded $21.7M From U.S. EPA and South Coast AQMD to Deploy 70 Class 8 VNR Electric Zero-Emission Trucks

Volvo Trucks North America was awarded $21.7 million in grants to deploy 70 VNR Electric trucks in Southern California for regional freight distribution and drayage.

20 Oct 2020

Unprecedented Energy Use Has Pushed the Earth Towards a New Geological Epoch

A new study coordinated by CU Boulder makes clear the extraordinary speed and scale of increases in energy use, economic productivity and global population that have pushed the Earth towards a new geological epoch, known as the Anthropocene.

19 Oct 2020

RUDN Scientist Discovers the Effect of Fertilization on Soil's Ability to Retain Carbon

A soil scientist from RUDN University discovered the effect of fertilization on the ability of the soil to retain carbon.

19 Oct 2020

Research Initiative Presents Tools, Solutions for Energy Transition

To contribute to global climate protection, Germany has to rapidly and comprehensively minimize the use of fossil energy sources and to transform the energy system accordingly.

19 Oct 2020

New Research Demonstrates Recent Changes in Ocean Physics and Chemistry

New research published in Nature Communications Earth & Environment uses data from two sustained open-ocean hydrographic stations in the North Atlantic Ocean near Bermuda to demonstrate recent changes in ocean physics and chemistry since the 1980s.

19 Oct 2020

A New Model for Predicting Which Lentil Varieties may Thrive in New Environments

With demand for lentils growing globally and climate change driving temperatures higher, a University of Saskatchewan-led international research team has developed a model for predicting which varieties of the pulse crop are most likely to thrive in new production environments.

19 Oct 2020

Research Lays the Groundwork for More Accurate Global Measurement of Carbon Storage

Scientists from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and international collaborators demonstrated a new method for mapping the location and size of trees growing outside of forests, discovering billions of trees in arid and semi-arid regions and laying the groundwork for more accurate global measurement of carbon storage on land.

19 Oct 2020

Scientists and Public Expect to Receive Advanced Warning of Hazardous Weather Events

In this year of extreme weather events -- from devastating West Coast wildfires to tropical Atlantic storms that have exhausted the alphabet -- scientists and members of the public are asking when these extreme events can be scientifically linked to climate change.

19 Oct 2020

Deep Sea Coral Time Machines Provide New Insights into Ancient CO2 Burps

The Southern Ocean played a critical role in the rapid atmospheric carbon dioxide increase during the last deglaciation that took place 20,000 to 10,000 years ago, according to a new report by Boston College geochemist Xingchen (Tony) Wang and an international team in the online edition of Science Advances.

19 Oct 2020

New Evidence of Past Permafrost Thawing During Climate Warming Events

Sea floor sediments of the Arctic Ocean can help scientists understand how permafrost responds to climate warming.

19 Oct 2020

New System to Continuously Remove Carbon Dioxide from Waste Gases

A new system developed by chemical engineers at MIT could provide a way of continuously removing carbon dioxide from a stream of waste gases, or even from the air.

19 Oct 2020

Ancient Deep-Sea Corals Could Offer Insights into Effect of Ocean on Rising CO2 Levels

According to a new study performed by the Universities of Bristol, St Andrews, and Nanjing, the fossilized remains of ancient deep-sea corals may serve as time machines that offer new understanding of the effect the ocean has on the ever-increasing CO2 levels.

19 Oct 2020

Study Investigates Drivers Responsible for Madagascar Megafaunal Extinction

In the past thousand years, there was complete destruction of the endemic megafauna of Madagascar and the Mascarene islands. An international research team analyzed the probable drivers of this extinction by developing an 8000-year record of the previous climate of the island.

19 Oct 2020

Keeling Curve Carbon Dioxide Measurement Receives $1 Million in Continuation Funding

The Keeling Curve carbon dioxide measurement-the long-term atmospheric measurement that alerted the world to human-induced climate change- will receive $1 million in continuation funding from philanthropists Eric and Wendy Schmidt, Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego announced today.

16 Oct 2020