Tag: Climate Change

Credit: Meryl Mims, Virginia Tech A multi-institutional team of researchers, led by Meryl Mims, has assessed how environmental, demographic, and ...

NASA finds Tropical Cyclone Joaninha maintaining an eye

Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Tropical Cyclone Joaninha is not yet ready to ...

Rhine-Main Universities undertake research into transport processes in the tropopause

RMU Initiative Funding for Research to finance joint meteorology and climate science project of the Rhine-Main UniversitiesCredit: photo/©: Peter Hoor ...

Data Science Day to showcase Columbia University’s most innovative research

Columbia researchers share latest advances in artificial intelligence, natural language processing, predictive healthcare, global radicalization and more Columbia is holding ...

In ancient oceans that resembled our own, oxygen loss triggered mass extinction

Credit: Stephen Bilenky TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Roughly 430 million years ago, during the Earth's Silurian Period, global oceans were experiencing ...

KIT expert comments on current topic: Trade war imperils Amazon rainforest

Last year, the United States of America imposed tariffs of up to 25% on goods imported from China. The Chinese ...

Cities under pressure

Cities to swelter as planners face unenviable trade-off between tackling climate change and quality of life, new research has shown. ...

Study shows arctic warming contributes to drought

When the Arctic warmed after the ice age 10,000 years ago, it created perfect conditions for drought. According to new ...

White people’s eating habits produce most greenhouse gases

White individuals disproportionately affect the environment through their eating habits by eating more foods that require more water and release ...

NASA’s Aqua Satellite keeps an ‘eye’ on Tropical Cyclone Joaninha

Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Visible imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite showed a ...

Freshwater coastal erosion alters global carbon budget

Credit: Ethan Theuerkauf CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Shoreline erosion can transform freshwater wetlands from carbon-storage pools to carbon sources, according to ...

Global partners meet to develop sustainable cooling solutions that won’t over-heat the planet

Experts from the University of Birmingham are working with the World Bank Group and the UK Department of Business Energy ...

2019 Global Food Policy Report: Crises in rural areas threatens progress in hunger and poverty reduction

Urgent need for rural revitalization, strong policies and accountability March 27, 2018, Washington, D.C.: Marked by deepening cycle of hunger ...

EU consumption results in high carbon emissions from tropical deforestation, studies show