A new way to fight climate change: Trap carbon dioxide in volcanic rocks
Climate change refers to the fluctuation of the climate system caused by the energy entering and leaving Earth. The greenhouse…
Sunscreen killing coral reefs
Oxybenzone, a UV-filtering compound used in sunscreens, has been found in high concentrations in the waters around popular coral reefs…
How climate change created the modern dog
Appearing in Nature Communications, a new study of dog fossils suggests that the evolutionary path of whole groups of predators…
Reusable shopping bags trigger junk food purchases
Bringing reusable bags to the grocery store can mean you’re an environmentally friendly shopper. But a new study in the…
Universe may be less crowded than we think
Detailing their work in Astrophysical Journal Letters, a team of scientists suggest there may be far fewer galaxies in the…
Sudden increase in ice loss in Antarctica
An international group of scientists has observed a sudden increase in ice loss on the Southern Antarctic Peninsula, what was…
Chinese tree planting reverses global forest loss
Although massive vegetation loss is still occurring in Asia and South America, an analysis of 20 years of satellite data…
Lightning increasing with global warming
A new analysis of climate change models predicts a 50 percent increase in lightning strikes across the United States during…
Tea flavors changing with shifting rainfall patterns
Tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world after water. In the United States, tea purchases have increased…
Strangely, the loss of forests may actually be cooling the planet
An intriguing study from Yale University shows that large-scale forest losses over the last 150 years – largely through the…
Rising CO2 causing nutritional content of crops to fall
Field tests by University of California – Davis scientists have shown conclusively that rising levels of carbon dioxide inhibit plants’…
Modern crops’ lack of adaptability threatens global food chains
Using the largest dated evolutionary tree of flowering plants ever assembled, new research suggests how plants developed traits to withstand…
Unclouding the behavior of clouds
How air pollution creates larger and longer lasting storm clouds has been a topic of intense debate in climatology circles.…
Siberian seabed methane more than double previous estimates
Ongoing international research led by scientists from the University of Alaska indicates that the East Siberian Arctic Shelf is releasing…
Mammals may shrink with warming climate
Mammal body size decreased significantly during two ancient global warming events, say paleontologists from the University of Michigan who believe…
Ocean currents explain rainfall riddle
Most of the rain on Earth falls in the Northern Hemisphere and scientists have long believed that this was a…
Crop pests relentless in their march polewards
A new study has revealed that our warming climate is pushing crop pests such as fungi, bacteria, viruses, insects, and…
Oz rains soak up sea level rise
Researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) report that when three atmospheric patterns came together over the Indian…
Oceanic food-chain undergoing dramatic changes
Increasing levels of carbon dioxide appear to be changing the biodiversity of the oceanic ecosystem, most notably the keystone bacterial…
Global warming getting El Niño all hot and bothered
Spawning droughts, floods, and other weather disturbances, the El Niño – Southern Oscillation affects the daily lives of millions of…
CO2 not to blame for global warming, claims new study that argues global cooling has already begun
Conventional thinking on climate change holds that human emissions of carbon dioxide have been the major contributor to global warming,…
Climate change, not humans, wiped out megafauna, say Aussie scientists
Most species of gigantic animals that once roamed Australia had disappeared by the time people arrived, a major review of…
Rising CO2 giving fish super-hearing
Ocean acidification is known to negatively impacta wide variety of marine animals, but new research indicates that a huge increase…
Greening of Arctic will be dramatic, say scientists
New computer models based on observations of plant growth in the Arctic suggest that rising temperatures will lead to a…
Volcanoes keeping a lid on global warming
Climatologists in the U.S. say that dozens of active volcanoes spewing sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere have been offsetting about…
Antarctic ice sheet warming much faster than previously thought
Remote monitoring equipment on the western part of the massive West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) is showing an increase of…
30ft sea level rise may be unavoidable
Climatologists examining the relationship between sea level and carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations over the last 40 million years have found…
Oops. Greenhouse gas levels appear to be significantly underestimated
Measuring greenhouse gas emissions has traditionally relied on estimating emissions from all the activities and processes that might generate the…
Tree plumbing stress approaching tipping point
The hydraulic system of trees is so finely-tuned that predicted increases in drought due to climate change may lead to…
Wild Arabica coffee facing extinction
Scientists who have predicted the possible extinction of wild Arabica coffee (Coffea Arabica) within 70 years say urgent conservation measures…