Courtesy of the University of Melbourne The first continental-scale reconstruction of temperatures over the past 2000 years has found 20th Century warming was a global event that has produced the hottest global average temperature in 1400 years. The study by 78 scientists from 24 countries was published in Nature Geoscience and combined Northern and Southern [...]

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Courtesy of Arizona State University News By Skip Derra Conversion of large swaths of Brazilian land for sugar plantations will help the country meet its needs for producing cane-derived ethanol, but it also could lead to important regional climate effects, according to a team of researchers from Arizona State University, Stanford University and the Carnegie [...]

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Courtesy of Ohio State University An Ohio State University statistician says that the natural human difficulty with grasping probabilities is preventing Americans from dealing with climate change. The situation is not hopeless. Instead of taking an extreme all-or-nothing view about climate change, we can think of it as a spectrum of possible problems, and look [...]

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The University of Melbourne and the Lord Mayor of Melbourne today launched Australia’s largest green roof research and outreach project at the University’s Burnley Campus near Richmond. The Burnley Green Roofs Project will determine the best plant species and soils to use on city roofs, demonstrate how green roofs can use storm water and reduce [...]

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Courtesy of UBC University of British Columbia researchers have found that when the animals at the top of the food chain are removed, freshwater ecosystems emit a lot more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. “Predators are disappearing from our ecosystems at alarming rates because of hunting and fishing pressure and because of human induced changes [...]

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Courtesy of  The University of Alberta A University of Alberta polar bear researcher and 11 international co-authors are urging governments to start planning for rapid Arctic ecosystem change to deal with a climate change catastrophe for the animals. U of A professor Andrew Derocher co-wrote a policy perspective urging governments with polar bear populations to [...]

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Courtesy of UBC – By Salina Marshall Katie O’Callaghan never imagined that her graduate studies in community and regional planning would involve police car chases. “It was exciting,” she says of riding in a squad car alongside officers. But the University of British Columbia student wasn’t in it for the action. Rather, she was interested [...]

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Courtesy of The University of Sheffield News Extremes of temperature and rainfall are affecting the survival of elephants working in timber camps in Myanmar and can double the risk of death in calves aged up to five, new research from the University of Sheffield has found. With climate change models predicting higher temperatures and months [...]

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Courtesy of Arizona State University ASU researchers have developed a new software system capable of estimating greenhouse gas emissions across entire urban landscapes, all the way down to roads and individual buildings. Until now, scientists quantified carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions at a much broader level. In a new BreakThrough Science video posted on the American [...]

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Courtesy of The Australian National University Ecosystems worldwide are in danger of losing large, old trees forever, without more research and policy changes to better protect them, warns a new study published in Science. Lead author of the paper, Professor David Lindenmayer from the Fenner School of Environment and Society in the ANU College of [...]

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