Arctic Ocean could be ice-free for part of the year as soon as 2044
It's hard to imagine the Arctic without sea ice.
Environment
Nov 15, 2019
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Climate change expected to shift location of East Asian Monsoons
More than a billion people in Asia depend on seasonal monsoons for their water needs. The Asian monsoon is closely linked to a planetary-scale tropical air flow which, according to a new study by Lawrence Berkeley National ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 13, 2019
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Nitrous oxide emissions set to rise in the Pacific Ocean
The acidification of the Pacific Ocean in northern Japan is increasing the natural production rate of N2O, an ozone-depleting greenhouse gas. That's the finding of a study carried out jointly by scientists at EPFL, Tokyo ...
Environment
Nov 12, 2019
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Abrupt shifts in Arctic climate projected
Researchers from McGill University project that as the permafrost continues to degrade, the climate in various regions of the Arctic could potentially change abruptly, in the relatively near future. Their research, which ...
Environment
Oct 30, 2019
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Exposing blind spots in the carbon budget space
The impact of 1°C of global heating is already having devastating impacts on communities and ecosystems across the globe. An international research group that included researchers from IIASA and Japan, identified biases ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 29, 2019
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Rising emissions are turning arctic permafrost into a carbon source, research shows
Arctic regions have captured and stored carbon for tens of thousands of years, but a new study shows winter carbon emissions from the Arctic may now be putting more carbon into the atmosphere than is taken up by plants each ...
Environment
Oct 22, 2019
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Transform land use to hit 1.5C target: experts
Better management of the world's farms and forests could contribute up to a third of the emissions cuts needed to stave off devastating climate change, an international team of scientists said Monday.
Environment
Oct 21, 2019
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Plant physiology will be major contributor to future river flooding, study finds
he next time a river overflows its banks, don't just blame the rain clouds. Earth system scientists from the University of California, Irvine have identified another culprit: leafy plants.
Environment
Oct 21, 2019
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How uncertainty in scientific predictions can help and harm credibility
The more specific climate scientists are about the uncertainties of global warming, the more the American public trusts their predictions, according to new research by Stanford scholars.
Earth Sciences
Oct 15, 2019
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Using loss of resilience as an early warning signal to predict the likelihood of forest mortality
A team of researchers from Duke University and Princeton University has found that it is possible to use loss of resilience as an early warning signal to predict the likelihood of forest mortality. In their paper published ...
