Climate Change

As the Arctic warms at nearly four times the global rate, permafrost – frozen ground that has remained below 0 degrees Celsius for at least two consecutive years – is thawing rapidly, causing widespread ground collapse and infrastructure damage, threatening Arctic communities and releasing carbon into the atmosphere. To date, while vast amounts of high ...

A team of international researchers, led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), has announced the initial findings of a project to address the loss of cultures by measuring the impact that climate change has on communities. One finding from the joint project, titled Climate Crisis and Cultural Loss, or 3CL, is the practice of ...

El pasado mes de mayo se dio el pistoletazo de salida al proyecto ForesteCCo (FORtaleciendo la RESTauración Ecológica y la infraestructura verde para la adaptación de especies forestales al Cambio ClimáticO). Este proyecto de investigación e innovación se desarrolla con el apoyo de La Fundación Biodiversidad del Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica y el Reto ...

The earth beneath our major cities is heating up, morphing in ways that could damage buildings, bridges, and transport systems. Just ask any passenger sweltering on the London Underground or New York City subway, and they’ll perspire telling you about how underground transport systems are spewing heat. As that heat diffuses into the ground, it’s ...

Creating a net-zero carbon emissions power sector and economy is an immense endeavor that requires a host of intricate technologies and applications, and the CO2-Locate database is a centralized platform that allows users to quickly and accurately obtain the data they need. Now published on the Energy Data eXchange® (EDX), CO2-Locate is one of several ...

When Molly Burhans first started trying to map the Catholic Church’s global property holdings so the land could be put to work fighting climate change, the idea seemed so obvious to her that she was sure someone else must be doing it already. Burhans, a cartographer, was then an ecological-design grad student who had recently ...

Satish Kumar and his graduate research team at UC Santa Barbara’s Vision Research Lab have led the charge in developing an AI-based methane detection tool called MethaneMapper. This first-of-its-kind software can spot methane gas via complex algorithms. The algorithms analyze multiple visual spectrums of images taken from custom-built cameras 10,000 feet aboveground. “The amount of ...

A team of atmospheric and climatic scientists from several institutions in Europe has found that even if all human management of forestry land stopped immediately, it would not be sufficient to offset global carbon emissions. In their study, reported in the journal Science, the group used mapping and AI applications to model how much forest ...

Das Projekt UndercoverEisAgenten hat eine neue Mapping-Anwendung entwickelt, um dem auftauenden Permafrost auf die Spur zu kommen. Ab sofort können interessierte Bürgerforschende online direkt dazu beitragen, zuverlässige und aktuelle Daten über das Tauen der arktischen Permafrostlandschaften zu sammeln – und damit die Grundlage für Klimavorhersagen verbessern. Das Projekt UndercoverEisAgenten, eine Kooperation zwischen dem Heidelberg Institute ...

Deep learning is a fundamental technique in modern Artificial Intelligence and is being applied to disciplines across the scientific spectrum; earth science is no exception. Yet, the link between deep learning and Earth sciences has only recently entered academic curricula and thus has not yet proliferated. Deep Learning for the Earth Sciences delivers a unique ...

Nearly a quarter of the world’s population now lives in a flood zone, and that number is expected to climb as rising seas and heavier storms triggered by a changing climate put more people at risk. The ability to accurately map flooding events can be key to not only protecting people and property now but ...

El impacto de la crisis climática no será igual en toda Canarias. Nuevos datos difundidos por el Gobierno regional revelan que municipios como Pájara, en Fuerteventura, o Haría, en Lanzarote, sufrirán más los efectos del calentamiento global en sus costas que otras regiones del Archipiélago. Los resultados concluyen, de nuevo, que la dependencia del turismo ...

Carbon Brief reveals visually just how much the world’s most populous regions have been affected by extreme heat since 2013.

Nearly 150 students from around the world convened in person and virtually in March to take part in the Interplanetary Initiative pilot project SpaceHACK for Sustainability Hackathon at Arizona State University. Participants worked in teams to explore how satellite Earth observations and remote sensing technology from space can be used to better understand and address ...

Research published in Regional Environmental Change has shown that as climate zones shift toward hotter and drier conditions, ecological diversity will decline, posing a major threat to terrestrial ecosystems with far-reaching social and ecological impacts. The research team analyzed Kenya’s geographic distribution and arrangement of climate zones between 1980-2020. Over that time, tropical climate regions ...

‘Tis the season for flooding and road washouts. Not only can they create inconvenient, time-consuming detours and safety risks, but they’re also expensive to repair. And as climate change brings more extreme weather, including heavier rains, the cost of adapting infrastructure is expected to go up, along with the cost of repairing damage. But a ...

Small ponds emit a surprisingly large amount of methane compared with larger water bodies. Because ponds are so tiny, they have been difficult to track, and their contributions to terrestrial greenhouse gas emissions are largely unaccounted for. In a new study, Mullen et al. used deep learning to construct a fine-grained map of ponds in ...

Norwegian and Estonian researchers have developed a method to map hidden meltwater paths in glaciers. Having a better understanding of how water moves inside and under the glaciers helps to better predict the motion, melting rates, and possible sudden collapses of glaciers. The small floating drifters, about the shape, size, and weight of an average ...

The China National Space Administration published the first images taken by an advanced Chinese Earth-observation satellite on Tuesday afternoon. The 14 images were taken by the world-class apparatus on the Hyperspectral Multifunctional Observation Satellite, including a wide thermal infrared imager and an advanced hyper-spectral imager. They will help scientists track greenhouse gases such as nitrogen ...

Türkiye on Friday released a map of the projected distribution of trees and the migration of forests around the country’s internal Marmara Sea until the end of this century. The initiative was part of a project carried out to explore the potential of the northwestern forests in the Marmara region to adapt to climate change. ...

A trio of environmental engineers, two with the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, the third with the University of Maryland, has developed a way to illustrate the impact of sea level rise isolation associated with global warming. In their paper published in Nature Climate Change, Tom Logan, M. J. Anderson and Allison Reilly describe ...

Auf dem Geoportal des Bundes ist eine neue Karte aufrufbar. Die Karte stellt für jedes Schweizer Wohngebäude dar, wie viel CO2 unter Normbedingungen ausgestossen wird. Dies teilt das Bundesamt für Umwelt (Bafu) mit. Mit einem interaktiven CO2-Rechner kann demnach zudem simuliert werden, wie sich ein Heizungswechsel und energetische Sanierungen auf den CO2-Ausstoss auswirken. Die Karte ...

While the push to mandate EVs aims to reduce tailpipe emissions such as carbon dioxide — the federal government has set a target of complete EV adoption by 2035 — swapping every vehicle on the road still won’t eliminate all the sources of air pollution that can impact human health. That’s because brake pads, rotors ...

The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, developed the algorithm, which gives an accurate measurement of tree diameter, an important measurement used by scientists to monitor forest health and levels of carbon sequestration. “When you’re trying to figure out how much carbon a forest is sequestering, these ground-based measurements are hugely valuable, but also time-consuming,” ...

At the feet of mountain glaciers, melting ice forms pools of water that can be trapped behind moraines. And with warming temperatures, these pools are surging in both size and number. In Alaska and northwestern Canada, 183 new lakes appeared between 1984 and 2019, covering 483 square kilometers (190 square miles). New research showed that ...

A first count of trees in Africa’s drylands has enabled scientists to calculate how much carbon they store and could help devise better conservation strategies for the region and beyond, a study said Wednesday. The number of trees in the vast region—the count came to nearly 10 billion—has not been known up to now, and ...

Researchers from Florida Atlantic University, in collaboration with the United States Army Corps of Engineers Cold Regions Research & Engineering Laboratory, and Alaska Ecoscience, systematically analyzed the effects of six large fires that have occurred since 2000 on the Tanana Flats lowland in interior Alaska on land cover change, vegetation dynamics, and terrain subsidence, or ...

Above the islands of Hawaii on January 28, a green laser was seen piercing the night sky, silently tracing a path towards the horizon like a stutter in the Matrix’s code. The scene was caught on camera from a telescope atop Hawaii’s tallest peak. Originally, experts at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), which ...

Il progetto europeo Life C-FARMs è giunto alla fase di sperimentazione nelle aziende. Obiettivi di questo programma europeo, di cui Confagricoltura è partner, sono la realizzazione del Sistema Informativo Geospaziale Dimostrativo ad alta risoluzione (GIS-FARMs), che farà identificare il potenziale di mitigazione del settore agricolo della Regione selezionata, la Lombardia; lo sviluppo di un quadro ...

IBM and NASA are collaborating for initiating improved climate change research. It was announced on February 1, that IBM is going to work together with NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center to use artificial intelligence for climate change research in an effort to greatly improve research analysis of these large datasets. The aim is to make ...