Study Examines How Global Warming Will Affect Tropical Rainfall
A new study from scientists at MIT uses model simulations and observations to estimate the how global warming will affect extreme precipitation, finding that with…
Climate Change
Analysis of Ancient Hair Could Reveal How People Adjusted to Past Climate Change
Stable isotope analysis of ancient Eskimo hair found in Western Alaska could reveal how people in the region lived through times of climate change and…
Biodiversity on Earth Increases with Global Warming
It would seem logical that periods of global warming in Earth’s history started the extinction pulses that defined the geological record. However, that’s not the…
Impact of Plants on Cloud Formation and the Atmosphere
Using a new soil–water–atmosphere–plant model supported by comprehensive observational evidence, a new study published in the journal Nature Geoscience examines the role plants play in…
Computer Model Helps Remove Greenhouse Gases from Power Plants
A team of scientists have developed a computer model that can identify the best molecular candidates for removing greenhouse gases from power plants, providing accurate…
Diseased Trees May Be a Significant Source of Methane that Causes Climate Change
Scientists believe diseased trees may be a significant source of methane that causes climate change, finding concentrations of methane that were as high as 80,000…
Greenland Ice Sheet May Slow Its Melting Quicker Than Expected
While satellites have confirmed that Greenland has lost a significant part of its ice sheet, a recent study in Science indicates that the ice sheet…
Unusually High Frequency of Heatwaves Indicates Human Influence on Global Warming
There has been a definite, palpable impact on the Earth’s climate by global warming. The unusual high frequency of heatwaves indicate that there has to…
Warming Affects Economic Growth in Developing Nations
A new study from scientists at MIT examined how temperature increases affect economic growth in developing nations, finding that for every 1-degree-Celsius increase, over the…
Visual Evidence that Atmospheric Particles Can Undergo Liquid–Liquid Phase Separations
Data from a newly published study provides visual evidence that atmospheric particles separate into distinct chemical compositions during their life cycle and may play a…
Newly Discovered Connection between Climate Change & Ozone Layer Could Impact Health
Published in the journal Science, a new study from Harvard researchers suggests that a newly discovered connection between climate change and depletion of the ozone…
CERES and MODIS Help Track Earth’s Heat Balance
As research on greenhouse gases and global warming continues, this brief video from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center explains how instruments like CERES and MODIS…
Alterations in Seawater Chemistry Linked with Past Climate Change
A new study found that dissolution or creation of huge gypsum deposits changed sulfate content of the oceans, which resulted in drastic changes in seawater…
Satellites Confirm Extensive Ice Sheet Melt in Greenland
Using data from three independent satellites to analyze the extent of surface melt over Greenland’s ice sheet, NASA and university scientists found that ice melting…
Massive Ice Island Breaks Free from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier
Confirmed by data taken by MODIS, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer aboard NASA’s Terra and Aqua satellites, a 120 square km ice island has broken…
Global Warming Impacts Lake Water
A new study from the University of Zurich found that global warming is having a negative impact on lake water, resulting in rising lake water…
The First ‘Bottom-Up’ Estimates of China’s CO2 Emissions
A newly published study gives the first “bottom-up” estimates of China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions for 2005 – 2009, combining the results of Chinese field…
Tropical Oceans Role in Climate Change
A new report from the Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science and the Marine Institute describes for the first time a globally synchronous pattern…
