Melt: Expedition to the Gorner Glacier [Documentary Video]
Glaciers across the globe have lost over nine trillion tonnes of ice in half a century. How will glaciers look over the coming decades? “It…
Climate Change
NASA Technology Innovations Will Help US Meet Sustainable Aviation Goals
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson recently joined federal government and industry leaders at a White House event highlighting sustainable aviation and the administration’s focus on medium-…
Sex and the Symbiont: Can Algae Hookups Help Corals Survive Climate Change?
Rice biologists’ discovery can be used to help climate-challenged reefs survive for now. A little more sexy time for symbionts could help coral reefs survive…
1,000 Years of Glacial Ice Reveals Unexpected Evidence of “Prosperity and Peril” in Europe
Evidence preserved in glaciers provides continuous climate and vegetation records during major historical events. Europe’s past prosperity and failure, driven by climate changes, has been…
Solving the Krill Paradox: Researchers Find Whales Eat (and Poop) Far More Than Previously Thought
Research on whale feeding highlights how the precipitous decline of large marine mammals has negatively impacted the health and productivity of ocean ecosystems. From 1910…
Autonomous Robotic Rover Provides New Insight Into Life on the Deep Abyssal Seafloor
Autonomous robotic rover helps scientists with long-term monitoring of deep-sea carbon cycle and climate change. The sheer expanse of the deep sea and the technological…
World’s Largest Whales Eat 3x More Than Previously Thought, Amplifying Their Role As Global Ecosystem Engineers
Recovery of baleen whales to pre-whaling levels could restore lost ocean function and may help curb climate change. New research co-authored by Nicholas Pyenson, curator of…
Hungry Caterpillars Can Alter Carbon Emissions on a Huge Scale
A study led by the University of Cambridge has found that periodic mass outbreaks of leaf-munching caterpillars can improve the water quality of nearby lakes…
Training Microbes To Make Sustainable, Carbon-Neutral Fuel
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have discovered a new way to train microbes to make a readily usable biofuel. A team of biologists…
Increased Global Flood Risk Due to Intense Frequency of Extreme Ice Melting in Greenland
Global warming has caused extreme ice melting events in Greenland to become more frequent and more intense over the past 40 years according to new…
NASA Warns: Global Climate Change Impact on Crops Expected Within 10 Years
This color-coded map in Robinson projection displays a progression of changing global surface temperature anomalies. Normal temperatures are the average over the 30 year baseline…
“Genetic Goldmine” Uncovered for Plant Survival in One of the Harshest Environments on Earth
Evolutionary genomics approach identifies genes that enable plants to live in the Atacama Desert, offering clues for engineering more resilient crops to face climate change….
Methane Observatory Launched To Boost Action on Powerful Climate-Warming Greenhouse Gas
The UN Environment Program (UNEP), with support from the European Union, today launched a new Observatory to drive action on reducing methane emissions – a…
Increased Temperatures Contributed to More Than 200,000 Cases of Kidney Disease in 15 Years in Brazil Alone
World’s largest study of the impact of temperature changes and kidney disease reveals that 7.4 percent of all hospitalizations for renal disease can be attributed…
Ripple Resonance: Economic Losses From Weather Extremes Can Amplify Each Other Across the World
“Ripple resonance, as we call it, might become key in assessing economic climate impacts especially in the future,” says Kilian Kuhla from the Potsdam Institute…
The Carbon Takeback: Affordable Policy That Could Stop Fossil Fuels From Causing Global Warming
Stop fossil fuels from causing global warming within a generation… The Carbon Takeback Obligation could do just that. Imagine a single policy, imposed on one industry, which…
Managing Western US Water Resources in a Low-to-No-Snow Future
With mountain snowpacks shrinking in the western US, new Berkeley Lab study analyzes when a low-to-no-snow future might arrive and implications for water management. Mountain…
Ancient Driftwood Tracks 500 Years of Arctic Warming, Currents, and Sea Ice
Fallen trees kept afloat in sea ice reflect accelerated ice loss in the last 30 years. A new study reconstructs the path of frozen trees…