Climate Science

Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NASA's Aqua satellite found Tropical Storm Danas moving over Japan's Ryuku island chain in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean. The Ruyku…

Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NASA's Aqua satellite provided a visible image of Tropical Storm Danas as it continued to move north and away from the Philippines. On July 17 at 12:40…

Research corrects decades of data and suggests that ocean warming occurred in a much more homogenous wayCredit: Duo Chan/Harvard Something odd happened in the oceans in the early 20th century. The North Atlantic and Northeast Pacific…

Credit: Fig. from Levermann et al 2019. A team of researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) is now scrutinising a daring way of stabilising the ice sheet: Generating trillions of tons of additional…

Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NASA's Aqua satellite provided a visible image of the clouds associated with Post-Tropical Cyclone Barry moving through the mid-Mississippi Valley on July…

The concept of a carbon budget has become a popular tool in guiding climate policy since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report was released in 2014. IIASA researchers were involved in the…

It identifies the relevant factors that affect estimates of these remaining carbon budgets and thereby untangles the differences to make estimates more easily comparable, which will help decision-makers in using them. From a climate…

Climate protests by young people hit the headlines this year - but could the theories of a 100-year-old man hold the key to protecting our planet? In the 1970s, James Lovelock created the Gaia Hypothesis, which views all life as…

Climate change could worsen ozone pollution; a study says it does not have to be thatCredit: Westervelt et al., 2019 If China takes strong measures to reduce its ozone pollution now, it could save hundreds of thousands of lives in the long…

Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the Northwester Pacific Ocean after the sixth tropical depression formed. Tropical Depression Danas formed…