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Extreme Heat Events Are Becoming More Frequent in U.S. and Canada
Extreme heat events are happening more often in the summer and winter across the U.S. and Canada, while extreme cold events are declining, a new study shows. These out-of-place hot spells could have many negative impacts on the environment, agriculture and human health. In the study, researchers from Kent State University looked at the trends… Read More
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Natural Solutions Could Cut One-Fifth of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions
U.S. lands and wetlands could absorb a fifth of greenhouse gas emissions — equal to that from all U.S. vehicles, researchers find. This promising news comes at a pivotal time, as the worldwide transition to clean, renewable energy is taking more time than we have. “One of America’s greatest assets is its land,” Joe Fargione,… Read More
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Climate Change Is Causing More Destructive, Wetter Hurricanes
Some of the most destructive, devastating hurricanes in recent years were intensified by climate change, researchers from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory find. Their supercomputer simulations proved that climate change increased the amount of rainfall in hurricanes Katrina, Irma and Maria by 5-10 percent. And the future looks bleak. If humans don’t… Read More
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New Study Could Spur Pivotal Mediterranean Climate Action
An international group of researchers has combined the risks of accelerated climate change in the Mediterranean Basin with the region’s additional environmental changes. The study is the first of its kind. It was led by Wolfgang Cramer from the Mediterranean Institute for Biodiversity and included researchers from the City University of Hong Kong (CUHK). The… Read More
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How Climate Change Could Intensify Flash Flooding Globally
Climate change and other human activities are amplifying the likelihood and intensity of flash floods, a new study by engineers at Columbia University suggests. The study, which uses long-term weather data from across the world to decipher climate trends, demonstrates that increasing atmospheric temperatures are causing higher storm runoff and precipitation extremes, in turn making… Read More
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Ask the Expert: College Students Should Lead Energy Transition
Climate change is happening right now. Humans are endlessly pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, causing global temperature rise. And without an effective, ethical switch to clean energy, climate change will only grow as a threat to the world as we know it. The past generations have failed us, so educating young people on the… Read More
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Climate Predictions Could Be Wrong in UK and Europe
Current climate change predictions in the UK and parts of Europe may be inaccurate, a study conducted by researchers from the University of Lincoln, UK, and the University of Liège, Belgium, suggests. Existing computer model simulations have failed to properly include air pressure changes that have occured in the Greenland region throughout the past 30… Read More
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Why the World Should Turn to Ocean-Based Climate Solutions
Transitioning to ocean-based renewable energy sources has a high potential for slowing down climate change and its impacts, a new study published in Frontiers shows. The world is already seeing the effects of climate change — from more damaging hurricanes to megafires — that take a toll on human health. And even if the Paris… Read More
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Why Mental Illness Should Be One of our Largest Climate Concerns
Most people can agree that natural disasters, such as hurricanes, droughts, wildfires and floods devastate communities. They injure, kill, displace and change people’s lives forever. Major disasters often receive at least some coverage and aid immediately after they happened, but they rarely get the attention they deserve in the years that follow. People move on.… Read More
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Global Warming Will Intensify Mediterranean Wildfires, if We Don’t Change
Global warming will increase the potential of wildfire damage in Mediterranean Europe, a study led by researchers from the University of Barcelona (UB) finds. The good news is, if the world can limit global warming to just 1.5 degrees Celsius, the damage from wildfires will be significantly less. “To draw this conclusion we combined regional… Read More
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Thickening Plant Leaves: A New Threat to Climate Change
In some parts of the world, CO2 levels have risen so high that plant leaves have begun to thicken. Because thicker plant leaves are less efficient at absorbing carbon dioxide, this seemingly harmless physiological response to rising carbon dioxide levels may worsen the effects of climate change, according to researchers at the University of Washington.… Read More
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Why Can’t Devastating Weather Events Convince Climate Skeptics?
Extreme weather events are becoming much more destructive. In the past six years Americans have experienced four of the five costliest hurricanes in U.S. history. But extreme weather events, alone, are not enough to convince skeptics that humans are causing climate change, researchers from the University of Exeter, University of Michigan and University of Texas… Read More
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Ice Caps Are Melting in Unheard-Of Ways
Sea-level rise may be the biggest threat posed by climate change. And that’s not breaking news. When global temperatures rise, glaciers and ice caps begin to melt at an accelerated rate. The water that melts off the frozen structures funnels into the ocean and increases sea levels. While melting ice isn’t the only factor that… Read More
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Climate Change Costing US $250 Billion Annually
A recent report from the University of California San Diego (UCSD) shows that the U.S.’s economy will suffer worse from climate change than nearly any other country in the world. This groundbreaking research marks the first time scientists have measured the economic harm carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions pose on individual countries. The researchers calculated each… Read More
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Climate Change Has the World Underwater
Floods are destructive, devastating and the most common natural disaster. All year round they storm through cities and crop fields tearing up trees, destroying buildings, causing millions of dollars in damage, and killing people and animals. The number of floods worldwide have quadrupled since 1980 and doubled since 2004. In 2017, alone, flooding caused more… Read More
