Deep in the Amazon, Brazil is building a network of towers arrayed in six rings set to spray carbon dioxide into the rainforest. The purpose is to understand how the world’s largest tropical forest responds to climate change.
There is an urgent need for a detailed understanding of the future climate on our planet. To address these needs, a group of DOE-funded scientists recently produced a set of high-resolution scenarios that span a range of plausible changes in U.S. climate over the 21st century. This approach is called thermodynamic global warming (TGW).
A new computational tool developed by researchers at the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change finds specific counties in the United States that are particularly vulnerable to economic distress resulting from a transition from fossil fuels to low-carbon energy sources.
For the first time, US climate scientists have quantified the extent to which greenhouse gases from the world’s top fossil fuel companies have contributed to wildfires.
According to a number of environmental groups, the true carbon cost of the forestry industry is being obscured by government accounting. Last month, the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development, an independent government watchdog within the auditor general’s office, upheld their long-standing argument.
A new artificial intelligence tool called PrevisIA is predicting where deforestation in the Amazon will happen next. It was created by researchers at the environmental nonprofit Imazon. Instead of trying to repair damage done by deforestation after the fact, they hope to prevent it from happening at all.
