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Study led by ORNL informs climate resilience strategies in urban, rural areas

Oak Ridge National Laboratory — Wed, 08 May 2024 11:05:34 EST

Local decision-makers looking for ways to reduce the impact of heat waves on their communities have a valuable new capability at their disposal: a new study on vegetation resilience.

In South Africa, tiny primates could struggle to adapt to climate change

University of Colorado Boulder — Tue, 07 May 2024 17:05:10 EST

Researchers led by CU Boulder primatologist Michelle Sauther walked the paths of the Lajuma Research Centre in South Africa at night, keeping an eye out for the glowing eyes of galago primates, or bushbabies. The team's findings reveal troubling hints about how small animals may adapt to extreme temperatures.

Demystifying the complex nature of Arctic clouds

University of Miami — Fri, 03 May 2024 11:05:56 EST

A team of University of Miami scientists and others recently spent weeks in the Arctic region studying marine cold-air outbreaks and how the clouds they produce can lead to extreme weather events and may be interacting with the rapidly warming Arctic.

Ocean temperatures helped make 2023 the hottest year ever recorded

Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 11:05:03 EST

A multi-national team of scientists (China, USA, New Zealand, Italy, and France) analyze the temperature of the Earth annually.

New Study Finds That the Gulf Stream is Warming and Shifting Closer to Shore

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 11:00:00 EST

The Gulf Stream is intrinsic to the global climate system, bringing warm waters from the Caribbean up the East Coast of the United States. As it flows along the coast and then across the Atlantic Ocean, this powerful ocean current influences weather patterns and storms, and it carries heat from the tropics to higher latitudes as part of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. A new study published today in Nature Climate Change now documents that over the past 20 years, the Gulf Stream has warmed faster than the global ocean as a whole and has shifted towards the coast. The study, led by Robert Todd, a physical oceanographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), relies on over 25,000 temperature and salinity profiles collected between 2001 and 2023.

Greenland Melted Recently, Shows High Risk of Sea Level Rise

University of Vermont — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 14:40:03 EST

A large portion of Greenland was an ice-free tundra landscape--perhaps covered by trees and roaming woolly mammoths--in the recent geologic past (about 416,000 years ago).

Human-caused climate change at the center of recent California wildfires

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 15:00:00 EST

A new study by a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientist and collaborators shows that nearly all the recent increase in summer wildfire burned area in California is attributable to human-caused (anthropogenic) climate change. Anthropogenic simulations yielded burn areas an average of 172% higher than natural variation simulations.

The ice in Antarctica has melted before

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 12:15:49 EST

Sixty per cent of the world's fresh water is bound up in Antarctic ice sheets. Thirty million cubic kilometres of ice is perhaps a difficult number to grasp.

Climate: lessons from the latest global warming

Universite de Geneve (University of Geneva) — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 10:55:12 EST

56 million years ago, the Earth experienced one of the largest and most rapid climate warming events in its history: the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), which has similarities to current and future warming.

North American mountain vegetation is rapidly shifting higher as the climate warms

PLOS Climate — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 14:00:00 EST

Study suggests some plants are responding unexpectedly quickly to climate change - often outpacing animals' adaptations.

Penguins, Robots, The Ocean and more

University of Delaware — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 11:10:17 EST

Climate change researchers from the University of Delaware are among those in Antarctica conducting fieldwork on penguins, ocean currents and glaciers

To save nature, focus on populations, not species

University of Massachusetts Amherst — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 11:40:27 EST

Human-released greenhouse gasses are causing the world to warm, and with that warming comes increasing stress for many of the planet's plants and animals.

UCI Study Finds 53 Percent Jump in E-Waste Greenhouse Gas Emissions Between 2014, 2020

University of California, Irvine — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 14:35:18 EST

Greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere from electronic devices and their associated electronic waste increased by 53 percent between 2014 and 2020, including 580 metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2020 alone, according to University of California, Irvine researchers.

Future emissions from 'country of permafrost' significant, must be factored into global climate targets

Northern Arizona University — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 14:25:15 EST

By the end of this century, permafrost in the rapidly warming Arctic will likely emit as much carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere as a large industrial nation, and potentially more than the U.S. has emitted since the start of the industrial revolution.

Half of the world's coral reefs may face unsuitable conditions by 2035

PLOS — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 14:00:00 EST

Researchers assess the dire consequences of climate change under a business-as-usual scenario.

Insects Struggle to Adjust to Extreme Temperatures Making Them Vulnerable to Climate Change, Study Finds

University of Bristol — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 09:00:43 EST

As more frequent and intense heat waves expose animals to temperatures outside of their normal limits, an international team led by researchers at the University of Bristol studied over 100 species of insect to better understand how these changes will likely affect them.

Study quantifies impact of human activity on Atlantic Rainforest's carbon storage capacity

Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 15:20:55 EST

Conservation of CO2 stocks in the biome is highly affected by forest degradation, which could lead to at least 30% higher emissions than those produced by climate change.

Ecological tipping point: 5+ El Nino events per century controls coastal biotic communities

University of Utah — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 14:00:00 EST

Along with implications for the future, the findings illuminate important moments in our past, including human migration into the Americas, the variable human use of coastal and interior habitats and the extinction of the flightless duck Chendytes.

Greenland's Indigenous population favours extracting and exporting sand from melting ice sheet

McGill University — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 15:30:31 EST

A national survey of close to 1000 adults in Greenland (where approximately 90% of the population is Indigenous) conducted by a McGill University-led research team has found that a surprisingly large majority - 3 out of 4 Greenlanders - support extracting and exporting sand left by the melting ice sheet.

GW Expert Available to Discuss Arctic Warming Happening Four Times Faster than Predicted

George Washington University — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 12:25:56 EST