Category: Climate Change

Researchers at the Institut de Ciencies del Mar in Barcelona have discovered that global warming is accelerating the water cycle, which could have serious consequences on the global climate system. 

Wildfires in the expansive forests of Canada, Europe and the far Northern US could release an enormous amount of greenhouse gases between now and 2050, putting the world’s climate goals at risk.

According to new research, ozone may be a more significant greenhouse gas than previously thought. Changes in ozone levels in the upper and lower atmosphere were found to be responsible for nearly a third of the warming seen in ocean waters bordering Antarctica in the last half of the twentieth century. 

According to U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres the world is “perilously close to tipping points that could lead to cascading and irreversible” consequences. Many experts share this belief. 

For the first time, researchers have detected short-term, regional fluctuations in atmospheric carbon dioxide across the globe due to emissions from human activities. 

According to new research, the world’s forests play a far greater and more complex role in tackling climate change than previously thought, due to their physical effects on global and local temperatures.

Satellite images taken over the past several decades show that more than 75 percent of the Amazon rainforest is losing resilience, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change. The vegetation is dryer and takes longer to recover after a disturbance. Even the most densely forested regions struggle to bounce back. 

The global water cycle plays an important part of our environment and daily lives but rising global temperatures have been making this system more extreme. 

As rising global temperatures alter the landscape of the Arctic, scientists are observing a new record in Antarctica. 

New research shows that the Earth’s albedo affects our overall cloud cover which has a large impact on light absorbed rather than reflected from the Earth.