Collaborate Disseminate
The United Nations and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) have released the Statement on the State of the Global Climate in 2019. This annual report confirms that last year was another record-breaker, continuing a worrying trend that indicates… Continue reading UN annual climate report shows 2019 was another record-breaking year
The ability of the world’s tropical forests to sequester carbon dioxide, and by extension play a role in slowing the rate of global warming, is in rapid decline, according to a new study. The research analyzed hundreds of forests around the Amazon and … Continue reading Study finds tropical forests’ ability to capture carbon peaked in 1990s
From the Himalayas to the Arctic, global warming is making for longer and drier summer seasons with significant consequences to the landscape. Australia, which just experienced its hottest and driest year on record and was then ravaged by devastating b… Continue reading Australian summers now a full month longer, says climate change report
The European Space Agency (ESA) has released a series of maps that let viewers track the gradual thawing of permafrost around the Arctic pole between 2003 and 2017. The melting of permafrost could add massive amounts of greenhouse gasses to the atmosph… Continue reading Detailed new maps show thawing in Arctic permafrost
As ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft have surged in popularity in the past decade, so too has the emissions arising from the transportation sector, according to a new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists. The researchers conducted an an… Continue reading Study finds ride-hailing trips result in 69 percent more CO2 emissions
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault has received a major a new deposit of seeds from several hundred plant species. In a formal ceremony on February 25, 2020, hosted by the Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg and attended by international dignitaries, the… Continue reading Global seed bank gets largest deposit since it first opened
NASA and Air New Zealand have entered a first-of-a-kind agreement that will see the carrier equip one of its Q300 aircraft with special receivers to gather data for environmental monitoring. It is hoped this will assist scientists in better understandi… Continue reading Air New Zealand plane to moonlight as aerial climate monitor for NASA
A hotter climate poses a threat to our environment in all kinds of ways, but one ecosystem that is really feeling the brunt of it is the world’s coral reefs. New research suggests these habitats face an uphill battle to survive in the face of warming a… Continue reading Nearly all coral reefs set for collapse by end of century, study finds
It mightn’t get the attention that carbon dioxide does, but methane is a highly potent greenhouse gas that we know to be a powerful contributor to global warming. A new study suggests we may have been severely underestimating how much human activity is… Continue reading Humans responsible for much higher methane emissions than estimated
We may have just turned the page on a whole new decade, but it’s the same old story so far as the warming climate is concerned. New analysis from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has revealed January 2020 to be the hottest in … Continue reading 2020s kick off with Earth’s hottest January on record