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Climate change could cause abrupt shifts in the amount of vegetation growing in parts of Great Britain, new research shows. The University of Exeter studied the country in high resolution, using models to examine the local impacts of two climate change scenarios at 1.5×1.5 km (0.9×0.9 mi) ...

The technology’s regional impacts depend on how much greenhouse gas emissions are reduced. Could we create massive sulfuric acid clouds that limit global warming and help meet the 2015 Paris international climate goals while reducing unintended impacts? Yes, in theory, according to a Rutgers co-auth...

Handling salty brines from CO₂ storage presents a major energy and emissions hurdle. Optimizing brine disposal and reservoir choices will be critical for the success of carbon capture strategies. Perhaps the best hope for slowing climate change — capturing and storing carbon dioxide emissions underg...

Analyses lay out a blueprint for speeding development of atmospheric removal and modeling how the approach could improve human health and have an outsized effect on reducing future peak temperatures. Earlier this month, President Biden urged other countries to join the U.S. and European Union in a c...

Stanford Earth scientists discuss climate-smart agriculture. A bill under debate in Congress would pave the way to verifying and paying for farms’ carbon savings. Stanford scientists explore this and other opportunities for growing climate change solutions on U.S. farms. A major bill with bipartisan...

Wildfires and prescribed burns potentially stabilize soil organic matter, offsetting initial carbon emissions by altering soil properties such as porosity, hydrophobicity, and microbial composition, which reduce organic matter decomposition. Wildfires and prescribed burns, which can promote soil org...

A team from MIT reveals that with special treatment, minerals called zeolites — commonly found in cat litter — can efficiently remove the greenhouse gas from the air. Methane is a far more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, and it has a pronounced effect within the first two decades of its p...

New research suggests ways to optimize US climate policy design for a just energy transition. U.S. inflation surged to its highest in nearly four decades, disproportionately affecting lower-income groups. MIT researchers explored various carbon-penalty recycling methods, concluding that rebates comb...

Scientists Say Whales Could Be a Valuable Carbon Sink Nature-based solutions to fight climate change take a holistic approach that promotes biodiversity and ecosystem preservation. While many efforts have focused on planting trees or restoring wetlands, researchers are advocating for the importance ...

Researchers Propose Using Lunar Dust To Block Sunlight and Combat Climate Change On a cold winter day, the warmth of the sun is welcome. Yet as humanity emits more and more greenhouse gases, the Earth’satmosphere traps more and more of the sun’s energy and steadily increases the Earth&#8...

Storing biomass in dry landfills by salting and burying it can economically preserve greenhouse gases for thousands of years. Lowering the worldwide greenhouse gas emissions is crucial to avoiding a climate disaster, but existing carbon removal techniques are proving to be inefficient and expensive....

A recent study, built to enable local action, highlights the severe climate impacts resulting from a 2°C temperature rise. This summer, the headlines have been dominated with reports of extreme weather: from raging wildfires in Canada to perilous floods in India, Japan, and the Eastern US; intense h...

BECCS is central to the UK’s net-zero strategy, but media coverage highlights deep divisions: while some view it as essential, others see it as ineffective, environmentally damaging, and a distraction from real climate solutions. A recent study delves into the polarizing public discourse surrounding...

An international team of scientists led by Oregon State University researchers has used a novel 500-year dataset to frame a “restorative” pathway through which humanity can avoid the worst ecological and social outcomes of climate change. In addition to charting a possible new course for society, th...

Simulations indicate that injecting aerosols into the stratosphere could mitigate the melting of ice sheets caused by global warming. One of the many effects of global warming is sea-level rise due to the melting and retreat of the Earth’s ice sheets and glaciers as well as other sources. As the sea...

Utah atmospheric scientists reveal that a proposed “geoengineering” strategy to remove a potent greenhouse gas could worsen air quality while offering minimal benefits. As human activities release increasing amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, numerous proposals have emerged...

Some birds with large ranges or big brains may be more vulnerable to climate change than expected due to their specialization in narrow climate niches, according to a new UT Austin study. Biologists have long sought to understand why certain plants and animals can adapt to a wide range of climates, ...

A two-year field experiment conducted in the world’s northernmost cultivated peatland, in Pasvik in Finnmark, found that greenhouse gas emissions can be sharply reduced by raising and maintaining the water table between 25 and 50 centimeters below the soil surface. Peatlands are among nature’s most ...

In a newly published study, scientists from Yale University detail the differences in ocean temperatures over the last 5 million years by creating a historical record for sea temperature gradients and comparing it with state-of-the-art climate model simulations. The study is published in the journal...

New research from the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry reveals that Boreal coniferous forests could see increased occurrences of fire as a result of global warming, with deciduous trees becoming more dominant in the future. Climate change is transforming the Earth, particularly in high-latitude ...

A newly published study shows that for the majority of Earth’s history, continental arc volcanism has been the main driver of long-term climate variability. A geology-based analysis of Earth’s climate history over the past 700 million years provides evidence that climate change has occurred traditio...