Does the European public understand the impacts of climate change on the ocean?
The oceans are our lifeline and the lungs of our planet producing 70% of the oxygen we breathe. They regulate our climate and provide us with food, new medicines, and energy. However, the ocean - and...
View ArticleKey to speeding up carbon sequestration discovered
Scientists at Caltech and USC have discovered a way to speed up the slow part of the chemical reaction that ultimately helps the earth to safely lock away, or sequester, carbon dioxide into the ocean....
View ArticleGlaciers may have helped warm Earth
It seems counterintuitive, but over the eons, glaciers may have made Earth warmer, according to a Rice University professor.
View ArticleSimulations suggests Venus may once have had an ocean
(Phys.org)—A team of researchers with Université Paris-Saclay has found evidence suggesting that the planet Venus may once have had an ocean. In their paper published in Journal of Geophysical...
View ArticleThis enzyme enabled life to conquer a hostile earth
Computers are simulating the ancestral versions of the most common protein on Earth, giving scientists an unparalleled look at early life's development of harnessing energy from the Sun and production...
View ArticleCurbing climate change—why it's so hard to act in time
This summer I worked on the Greenland ice sheet, part of a scientific experiment to study surface melting and its contribution to Greenland's accelerating ice losses. By virtue of its size, elevation...
View ArticleNew research delivers hope for reef fish living in a high CO2 world
Just as when a camera lens comes into focus, the latest research published today sharpens understanding of the implications of ocean acidification on reef fish behaviour, yielding promising results for...
View ArticleWarmer world may bring more local, less global, temperature variability
Many tropical or subtropical regions could see sharp increases in natural temperature variability as Earth's climate warms over coming decades, a new Duke University-led study suggests.
View ArticleAncient volcanic eruptions disrupted Earth's thermostat, creating a...
One of the most extreme climate episodes the Earth has experienced was during the so-called Snowball Earth, 720 million years ago. During this period glaciers spanned from the poles to the tropics,...
View ArticleOcean temperature as a vital sign revealing Earth's warming
Human activities have released carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and the result is an accumulation of heat in the Earth's climate system, commonly referred to as "global...
View ArticleWe may survive the Anthropocene, but need to avoid a radioactive 'Plutocene'
On January 27, 2017, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the arms of its doomsday clock to 2.5 minutes to midnight – the closest it has been since 1953. Meanwhile, atmospheric carbon dioxide...
View ArticleFormation of coal almost turned our planet into a snowball
While burning coal today causes Earth to overheat, about 300 million years ago, the formation of coal brought the planet close to global glaciation. For the first time, scientists show the massive...
View ArticleLying in bed for the sake of science
Twelve volunteers will arrive this week at the German Space Agency's (DLR) Institute of Aerospace Medicine's :envihab facility to lie in bed for a month in the name of science. NASA's Human Research...
View ArticleCarbon dioxide levels lower than thought during super greenhouse period
Concentration of carbon dioxide during an intense period of global warmth may have been as low as half the level previously suggested by scientists, according to a new Dartmouth College study.
View ArticleHow climate change is affecting polar fish at the tip of a warming world
Fish have been migrating to cooler water over the last several decades as the ocean warms. But in Antarctica, the coldest place on the planet, polar species have nowhere to go.
View ArticleFuture climate change may not adversely impact seafood quality, research...
The eating qualities of UK oysters may not be adversely affected by future ocean acidification and global warming, new research has suggested.
View ArticleBy 2100, climate change could alter key microbial interactions in the ocean
The ocean is rapidly absorbing carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuel and other human activities, resulting in warmer and more acidic waters. According to a new study,...
View ArticleHacking evolution, screening technique may improve most widespread enzyme
Plants evolved over millions of years into an environment that has dramatically changed in the last 150 years since the Industrial Revolution began: carbon dioxide levels have increased 50 percent, and...
View ArticleWhere is all that carbon dioxide going?
An international team of scientists announced today at the Bonn climate talks that human emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide are again rising this year, after three years of remaining...
View ArticleStudy settles prehistoric puzzle, confirms modern link of carbon dioxide,...
Fossil leaves from Africa have resolved a prehistoric climate puzzle—and also confirm the link between carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and global warming.
View ArticleGroundwater depletion could be significant source of atmospheric carbon dioxide
Humans may be adding large amounts of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by using groundwater faster than it is replenished, according to new research. This process, known as groundwater depletion,...
View ArticleNew CO2 device for unmanned ocean vessels
Carbon dioxide in remote parts of the world's oceans will be measured by a new instrument being developed by scientists.
View ArticleUnderstanding Earth's geologic history to predict the future
Pratigya Polissar is an organic geochemist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and a Center for Climate and Life Fellow. Polissar uses molecular fossils—the remnants of plants and animals preserved in...
View ArticleNorth Sea water and recycled metal combined to help reduce global warming
Scientists at the University of York have used sea water collected from Whitby in North Yorkshire, and scrap metal to develop a technology that could help capture more than 850 million tonnes of...
View ArticleClimate change may favor large plant eaters over small competitors
In the drive to survive changing climates, larger herbivores may fare slightly better than their smaller competitors, according to new research from the National Institute for Mathematical and...
View ArticleParis Climate Agreement targets challenged
New research into the targets set out in the Paris Climate Agreement challenges conventional wisdom on the way that global warming and climate change should be tackled in the long term.
View Article1.5 C climate goal 'very unlikely' but doable: draft UN report
The Paris Agreement goal of capping global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius will slip beyond reach unless nations act now to slash carbon pollution, curb energy demand, and suck CO2 from the air,...
View ArticleCoping with climate stress in Antarctica
Some Antarctic fish living in the planet's coldest waters are able to cope with the stress of rising carbon dioxide levels the ocean. They can even tolerate slightly warmer waters. But they can't deal...
View Article$60 million to save the Great Barrier Reef is a drop in the ocean, but we...
The Great Barrier Reef has never faced such a dire future. Amid increasingly doom-laden headlines, the federal government this week unveiled a recovery package aimed at securing the reef's prospects....
View ArticleInfluence of carbon dioxide leakage on the seabed
Storing carbon dioxide (CO2) deep below the seabed is one way to counteract the increasing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere. But what happens if such storage sites begin to leak and CO2 escapes...
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