Scientists have, for the first time, quantified carbon emissions in an urban landscape down to the scale of individual buildings, facilities, and road segments. The authors of the study, published in Environmental Science & Technology, used many sets of data and models, including traffic data, air pollution...
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Carbon Emissions Mapped at Building Scale
October 12, 2012 |
Environmental Science & Technology
Warmer Temperatures Limit SW Tree Growth
October 5, 2012 |
Nature Climate Change
Normal drought-induced forest stress by mid-century may be greater than the stress induced by the most severe droughts over the past 1,000 years, according to a new study published in Nature Climate Change. Using climate and tree-ring data from forests in the Southwest U.S., the authors of the...
Climate Change Shrinking Fish, Threatening Fisheries
October 5, 2012 |
Nature Climate Change/Oceana
Two new reports describe the potential impacts of climate change on marine species, and how these impacts will affect the human population. Authors of the first study, published in Nature Climate Change, found that under a high-emission scenario—a future with continued increase of global...
Loss of Species Make Ecosystems Less Resilient
October 5, 2012 |
Ecology Letters
Climate change will weaken the “insurance effect” that biodiversity has on ecosystems, rendering them less able to adapt to a changing environment, according to a new study in Ecology Letters. By experimentally subjecting a shallow-...
22-Foot Sea Level Rise by 3000?
October 5, 2012 |
Environmental Research Letters
Even if the world stopped emitting greenhouse gases today, global sea levels would continue to rise by about 3.6 feet by the year 3000, according to a recently published study in Environmental Research Letters. The authors used models with different levels of future greenhouse-gas emissions to determine how much sea levels...
Tree Mortality Down in 2011
September 28, 2012 |
U.S. Forest Service
The number of acres of forests across the country in which insects and diseases have caused mortality has substantially declined, from 9.2 million acres in 2010 to 6.4 million acres in 2011, according to a new report by the U.S. Forest Service. Over half of this mortality was due to the mountain pine beetle in western forests...
Drought Lessens in AZ, Persists in NM
September 28, 2012 |
CLIMAS
Temperatures in Arizona cooled off this month as monsoon rainfall brought relief to the state, according to the newest Climate Outlook from CLIMAS. New Mexico, however, experienced above-average temperatures as high pressure limited monsoon precipitation across the state. Moderate to severe...
Climate Change Costs Trillions Annually
September 28, 2012 |
DARA/Climate Vulnerable Forum
Climate change costs the world $1.2 trillion, or 1.6 percent of global GDP, per year, according to a new report by DARA, a European nongovernmental organization, and the Climate Vulnerable Forum, a semi-formal government group made up of developing countries. To produce the report, the...
U.S. Underestimates Benefits of Climate Mitigation
September 28, 2012 |
Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences
The U.S. government is underestimating the costs of carbon pollution, and thus the potential benefits of climate mitigation, according to a new study published in the Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences...
Wildfires Growing in the West
September 23, 2012 |
Climate Central
Wildfires in the western U.S. now burn about twice as much land area as they did in the 1970s, and the burn season lasts about two and a half months longer, according to a new report by Climate Central. The authors of the report...