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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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 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 Four of the world’s great rivers, including the Murray Darling, are all suffering from drastically reduced flows as a direct result of water extraction, according to new ANU research. The multi-author study – led by ANU researchers Professor Quentin Grafton, Dr Jamie Pittock, Professor Tom Kompas and Dr Daniel [...]

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From the University of Melbourne The world’s corals and coral reefs face severe degradation if global-mean temperatures rise 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels, an international study has found. The study was published today in Nature Climate Change. The study by a research team from Australia, Germany and Canada, looked at more than 2000 coral reef [...]

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As the summer winds down, I thought it would be nice to send people back to school with a few tools for thinking outside the books and inside of our global environment. The Nature Conservancy, The University of Washington and The University of Southern Mississippi have teamed up to make an exceptionally user friendly visualization of [...]

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By Cathy Cockrell, UC Berkeley NewsCenter When Jeff Benca moved to Berkeley last month, he came so loaded with valuables he had to rent a truck. Make that a cargo van, air-conditioned to accommodate its contents — thousands of plant starts, many of them incredibly rare and entirely new to cultivation, all of them members [...]

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