Eric Verbeten MADISON (UW-Madison ) - A new normal is taking shape as a warming planet is changing hurricane behaviors and patterns. Research over the last decade has shown alarming trends resulting in more destructive hurricanes.…
Lockdown saw modest drop in China air pollution…
Large improvements of air quality in China during the COVID-19 lockdown have been widely reported, but new research reveals that the two pollutants most harmful to human health, fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and ozone, were…
$25 million gift launches ambitious new effort tackling…
The King Climate Action Initiative at J-PAL will develop large-scale climate-response programs for some of the world’s most vulnerable populations. Peter Dizikes, MIT News Office CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- With a founding $25 million gift from King…
Research Reveals that Methane Emissions can Reduce the…
Researcher has discovered sustained methane emissions from the subtropical estuarine mangroves can reduce its climatic cooling effects by over 50%, over a period of 20 years. They produced the world’s first-ever multi-year dataset of ecosystem-scale…
Unusually Clear Skies Drove Record Loss of Greenland…
Summer 2019 anomalies in number of melting days (a), snowfall (b), albedo (c), cloudiness (d), and temperature two meters above the ice (e). Image: Tedesco and Fettweis, 2019 Study identifies unprecedented atmospheric conditions behind devastating…