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…
Climate Change
New DNA Research Shows Humans Did Not Cause Woolly Mammoths To Go Extinct – Climate Change Did
New DNA research shows the world got too wet for the giant animals to survive. For five million years, woolly mammoths roamed the earth until…
Compounding Threats to US Infrastructure Pinpointed by New “Risk Triage” Platform
Modeling tool showcases emerging MIT Joint Program research focus on multi-sector dynamics. Over a 36-hour period in August, Hurricane Henri delivered record rainfall in New…
Consensus Revisited: Do Scientists Still Believe in Anthropogenic (Human-Caused) Climate Change?
How has scientific agreement on the anthropogenic nature of climate change evolved in 10 years? Scientific support for the link between human activity and climate…
Five Fascinating Facts to Help You Understand Sea Ice
One way that scientists monitor climate change is through the measure of sea ice extent. Sea ice extent is the area of ice that covers…
Shrinking Glaciers and Growing Lakes As Temperatures Rise on the Tibetan Plateau
As temperatures rise on the Tibetan Plateau, lakes are growing larger and deeper. Glaciologists often call the Tibetan Plateau and its many mountain ranges the “Third Pole” because the…
UN: Long-Term Outlook Bleak for Building Sector CO2 Emissions Despite COVID Pandemic Dip
The economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic caused CO2 emissions from buildings and construction to fall significantly in 2020, but a lack of real transformation in…
Drones Show Glaciers Are Melting Faster and Faster Due to Climate Change
VUB research team uses new drone technique to study glaciers in the Alps. For 20 years, a team from the VUB research group Ice and…
Scientists: By 2500 Earth Could Be Alien to Humans
Climate projections should not stop at year 2100. To fully grasp and plan for climate impacts under any scenario, researchers and policymakers must look well…
NASA Releases Climate Action Plan
NASA released a climate action plan on October 7, 2021, aimed at averting mission impacts due to climate change, ensuring the resiliency of facilities and…
Extreme Sea Levels Will Become 100x More Frequent Along Coastlines Across the World
Global warming will cause extreme sea levels to occur almost every year by the end of the century, impacting major coastlines worldwide, according to new…
Growing Climate Solutions: Climate-Smart Agriculture
Stanford Earth scientists discuss climate-smart agriculture. A bill under debate in Congress would pave the way to verifying and paying for farms’ carbon savings. Stanford…
Strong El Niño Drives Nearly 6 Million Children Into Severe Hunger
Up to 3 times more children suffer severe hunger with each El Niño than from Covid-19. El Niño events provide a snapshot of the future…
Worldwide Decline in Quantity and Diversity of Insects in the Light of Land Use and Climate
Worldwide, the quantity and diversity of insects are declining: scientists have reported more and more evidence for this in recent years. In politics and society,…
A Concrete Solution: Recycled Concrete and CO2 From the Air Are Made Into a New Building Material
A new kind of concrete could reduce emissions from the construction industry. Calcium carbonate concrete is made from waste concrete and carbon dioxide from the…
The Climate-Driven Mass Extinction No One Had Seen – Until Now
Fossils from Duke collection uncover a previously unknown mass extinction event in Africa. Sixty-three percent. That’s the proportion of mammal species that vanished from Africa…
California’s Surge of Large Wildfires: A Multi-Dimensional Fire Challenge
This is the second part of a story about fires in California. Read part 1 here. Accumulating fuels and rising populations are contributing to California’s…
Human Sustainability Challenges: Deep Roots of the “Anthropocene” Can Be Found in Tropical Forests
Tropical forests regularly appear in the news as the front line of climate change and human sustainability challenges. They are some of the most threatened…