The researchers used leaf litter data in streams from 1,025 publications

New University of Leeds-led research calls into question a recent study from the University of Bristol that reported 45 cubic kilometres per year increase in ice loss from the sector

Researchers found that high CO₂ expected by the end of the century which causes ocean acidification will boost production at different levels of the food web, but ocean warming cancelled this benefit by causing stress to marine animals

UCI, CoalSwarm: Hundreds of new dirty power plants aren't needed

Accompanying the photos, the authors offer a concise overview of their own scholarly work on the retreat of glaciers, mostly stripped of the kind of jargon that can make such work impenetrable to the public-at-large

The team showed that observed snowpack loss between the 1980s and 2000s is consistent with results from climate simulations with combined changes in natural factors and human influences

“The key is that you have to compare the models to the observations in a consistent way,” said author Kyle Armour, a UW assistant professor of oceanography and atmospheric sciences

N2O, a greenhouse gas with 300 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide, persists for over a century in the Earth’s atmosphere and is known to cause significant damage to the Earth’s ozone layer

Using satellite data from 2002 to 2013, researchers examined nearly 23,000 fires worldwide, identifying 478 large, high-intensity fires which they defined as extreme wildfire event

Findings affirm estimates used in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change models