• Once fertile agricultural land in Kenya is being degraded by encroachment and the effects of climate change. (truthout.org)
  • Analysis and events focusing on the concrete steps we need to cut global emissions in half in this decisive decade, and to adapt to the mounting climate change impacts we can no longer avoid. (nrdc.org)
  • Protecting the Canadian boreal's carbon stores is a crucial element in our fight against climate change, but industrial logging is responsible for cutting down more than one million acres of the forest each year. (nrdc.org)
  • Arctic feedbacks accelerate climate change through carbon releases from thawing permafrost and higher solar absorption from reductions in the surface albedo, following loss of sea ice and land snow. (nature.com)
  • The climatic impacts focus on changes in the global mean surface temperature (GMST) and the economic impacts focus on the net present value (NPV) of the total cost associated with future climate change. (nature.com)
  • Methane is generally considered secondary to carbon dioxide in its importance to climate change, but what role might methane play in the future if global temperatures continue to rise? (skepticalscience.com)
  • It sets out a global framework to avoid dangerous climate change by limiting global warming to well below 2°C and pursuing efforts to limit it to 1.5°C. It also aims to strengthen countries' ability to deal with the impacts of climate change and support them in their efforts. (environmentamerica.org)
  • By rejoining the Paris Agreement on day one, the Biden administration can reestablish the United States as a global leader in the fight against climate change and recommit to achieving the emissions reductions necessary to avoid the worst impacts of global warming. (environmentamerica.org)
  • But a Bolsonaro victory, which polls suggest is almost assured on Oct. 28, would also have a major global implication: It could spell doom for the worldwide fight against climate change. (huffingtonpost.co.uk)
  • Few countries are more important to stemming climate change than Brazil, which is home to the Amazon rainforest and the Cerrado savanna ― two of the most crucial environmental defenses against global warming. (huffingtonpost.co.uk)
  • As Brazil's president, he would take office at a crucial and increasingly alarming time in the global battle to stave off the worst effects of climate change. (huffingtonpost.co.uk)
  • Instead the profession's efforts in recent years have centred on achieving social and economic sustainability, using established high-carbon-dioxide solutions, and delivering the United Nations' 17 sustainable development goals, even though only one involves the critical issue of climate change. (ice.org.uk)
  • This week we also have stories about UK's efforts to suck carbon dioxide from the air, how your hot showers and toilet flushes can help the climate, how the North Sea green energy could replace oil and gas, Arctic nations agreeing to fight global warming, and a sea star that is helping to fight against climate change. (happyeconews.com)
  • Water column gradients beneath the summer ice of a High Arctic freshwater lake as indicators of sensitivity to climate change. (ulaval.ca)
  • In the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), scientists found that daily rainfall during extreme precipitation events would increase by about 7 percent for each degree Celsius of global warming, increasing the dangers of flooding . (nrdc.org)
  • The overarching reason is climate change, which has warmed the Earth by 2.2 degrees Fahrenheit since the preindustrial era. (earthwiseradio.org)
  • The soil carbon leaching process should be incorporated into soil carbon models when estimating carbon balance in grassland ecosystems, especially considering the projected increase in EPEs with climate change. (copernicus.org)
  • This limited political response came during a year when the effects of manmade climate change were manifested by one of the warmest years on record, extensive wildfires, and quicker-than-expected melting of glacial ice. (transcend.org)
  • Climate change, also known as global warming, is one of the most pressing issues of our time. (neoobserver.com)
  • Polar bears are one of the most iconic species of the Arctic, but they are also under threat from climate change. (neoobserver.com)
  • Climate change may be putting cyanobacteria that are crucial to the functioning of the ocean at risk as the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increases and the acidity of ocean water changes. (constantinealexander.net)
  • Consequently, most climate policy assessments based on results from the GCMs underestimate the extent of global warming in response to anthropogenic emissions. (nature.com)
  • Increasing greenhouse gas concentration from anthropogenic sources is predicted to cause a rise in global mean temperatures (Cubasch et al. (regimeshifts.org)
  • 2001). One of the most common anthropogenic greenhouse gases is carbon dioxide (CO2). (regimeshifts.org)
  • In this article we discuss the extent of these global stresses on the oceans after contextualising the disproportionate anthropogenic increase in CO 2 and examining how it is distributed. (metode.org)
  • The fundamental roles of the ocean and cryosphere in the Earth system include the uptake and redistribution of anthropogenic carbon dioxide and heat by the ocean, as well as their crucial involvement of in the hydrological cycle. (ipcc.ch)
  • Land ecosystems are considered the main sources of this asymmetry, although it has been suggested in 2007 that "the role of the Arctic Ocean is significantly underestimated. (wikipedia.org)
  • Mangrove ecosystems play an important role in global carbon budget, however, the quantitative relationships between environmental drivers and productivity in these forests remain poorly understood. (nature.com)
  • These results demonstrate the potential of the RS-based productivity model for scaling up GPP in mangrove forests, a key to explore the carbon cycle of mangrove ecosystems at national and global scales. (nature.com)
  • The estimate of the gross primary production (GPP) is important to understand the carbon cycle in mangrove ecosystems. (nature.com)
  • Environmental changes in the Arctic and the Antarctic are accelerating, affecting local species and ecosystems, and impacting the broader climate and ecological systems far beyond the polar regions. (pfbc-cbfp.org)
  • Limnology and Oceanography, 66(S1: Biogeochemistry and ecology across Arctic aquatic ecosystems in the face of change): S47-S63. (ulaval.ca)
  • Limnology and Oceanography, 66(S1: Biogeochemistry and ecology across Arctic aquatic ecosystems in the face of change): S117-S141. (ulaval.ca)
  • Limnology and Oceanography, 66(S1: Biogeochemistry and ecology across Arctic aquatic ecosystems in the face of change): S98-S116. (ulaval.ca)
  • I have particularly worked with quantifying and characterizing stocks of organic carbon stored in permafrost and peatlands of Arctic and Boreal ecosystems, often combining field sampling with the use of Earth Observation data and spatial modelling. (su.se)
  • Ocean ecosystems are degrading as temperatures rise, threatening coral reefs through warming and acidfying oceans, while pesticides threaten key pollinators, which will ultimately affect humans. (rutgers.edu)
  • It is important to be aware of the future entry of microplastic into the global environment from these sources, especially into the already fragile extreme ecosystems of the cryosphere. (oaepublish.com)
  • This special report assesses new knowledge since the IPCC 5th Assessment Report (AR5) and the Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C (SR15) on how the ocean and cryosphere have and are expected to change with ongoing global warming, the risks and opportunities these changes bring to ecosystems and people, and mitigation, adaptation and governance options for reducing future risks. (ipcc.ch)
  • 50 °N) has increased both photosynthesis and respiration which results in considerable uncertainty regarding the net carbon dioxide (CO2) balance of NHL ecosystems. (bvsalud.org)
  • Such seasonal compensation dynamics are not captured by dynamic global vegetation models, which simulate weaker respiration control on carbon exchange during the late-growing season, and thus calls into question projections of increasing net CO2 uptake as high latitude ecosystems respond to warming climate conditions. (bvsalud.org)
  • As greenhouse gas emissions have continued to rise, so have the impacts of global warming, from increased wildfires and hurricanes to heat-related illness. (environmentamerica.org)
  • Siberia has been experiencing warmer summers and shorter winters along with increasing numbers of wildfires. (planetcustodian.com)
  • Research published in Nature last week finds that "hydraulically diverse" forests are particularly resilient in the face of drought, which could help inform strategies for restoring forests after they've been degraded by wildfires or logging. (mongabay.com)
  • Wildfires produce a variety of particles and gases from the burning of vegetation such as organic carbon, black carbon, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide and hazardous air pollutants. (earthwiseradio.org)
  • Our results show that wildfires in boreal North America could, by mid-century, contribute to a cumulative net source of nearly 12 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide, about 3% of remaining global carbon dioxide emissions associated with keeping temperatures within the Paris Agreement's 1.5°C limit. (bvsalud.org)
  • Data gathered from camera trap surveys conducted across most of Nepal's tiger habitats between 2017 and 2018 show that there are now 235 of the big cats who call the South Asian country home. (mongabay.com)
  • ICE's Forensic Engineering journal has published two useful themed issues ( Thorniley-Walker, 2015a and 2017 ) by climate scientists and engineers, giving updates on the exponential temperatures, design needs and risk, Arctic sea ice melt, flood risks and new hurricane risks. (ice.org.uk)
  • 2 Research suggests that investing in nature is essential to kickstarting progress toward the 2050 climate goal of net-zero emissions that will keep global temperatures from rising by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius. (americanprogress.org)
  • It's not just warmer temperatures that pose a problem for the permafrost. (withradio.org)
  • However, he emphasizes that the study was conducted in a boreal ecosystem, a sub-arctic region with warmer temperatures and relatively warm permafrost. (withradio.org)
  • It's still below freezing, but it is kind of considered dying permafrost, and it's not how things work in the arctic tundra," Streletskiy says, where temperatures are colder. (withradio.org)
  • Widespread thinning at rates generally exceeding those are expected to occur due to recent warmer summers as the atmospheric temperatures are rising. (regimeshifts.org)
  • If we don't limit greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels, the consequences of rising global temperatures include massive crop and fishery collapse, the disappearance of hundreds of thousands of species, and entire communities becoming uninhabitable. (nrdc.org)
  • As global temperatures climb, widespread shifts in weather systems occur, making events like droughts , hurricanes , and floods more intense and unpredictable. (nrdc.org)
  • RCI affiliate Malin Pinsky joins Minnesota Public Radio 's Joel Light to discuss a new article in Nature about how fish are moving north due to warming ocean temperatures. (rutgers.edu)
  • As a result of rising global temperatures, 9 of the 10 warmest New Jersey summers on record have occurred in the last 20 years, and cooler summers are becoming less frequent. (rutgers.edu)
  • We have around 1000 of those sediments all over the global ocean, and we know the overlying sea surface temperatures from observations. (chemistryworld.com)
  • A warming planet leads to melting Arctic ice, which means less sunlight reflected back to the sun and more absorbed by a planet warming faster still, which means an ocean less able to absorb atmospheric carbon and so a planet warming faster still. (benmunoz.com)
  • Agroforestry also sequesters atmospheric carbon in trees and soil, and provides habitat for wild creatures. (mongabay.com)
  • Urban trees can reduce atmospheric carbon by reducing the urban heat island effect, reducing power use from heating and cooling and saving energy. (rutgers.edu)
  • Our models showed the correspondence between Δ 14 C and transit time and could allow to understand future interactions between terrestrial and atmospheric carbon. (copernicus.org)
  • Box twice stresses the need for grassland restoration to draw down excess atmospheric carbon and store it in soil. (soil4climate.org)
  • Essentially, there would need to be a government-mandated plan across the globe that would enable us to limit warming to 1.5 degrees centigrade (1.5°C) rather than the 2°C goal of the 2015 Paris climate talks. (truthout.org)
  • NRDC joins the United Nations global climate talks to hold global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, drive commitments to green finance, and promote nature-based solutions. (nrdc.org)
  • The science is clear: in order to preserve a livable climate we need to limit global warming this century to below 1.5 to 2 degrees Celsius. (environmentamerica.org)
  • On our current path, we face warming of at least 3 degrees Celsius and to get on the right path we need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 7.6 percent every year. (environmentamerica.org)
  • The sobering report, by 91 researchers and editors from 40 countries, details how difficult it will be to keep the planet's average temperature from warming 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels by - the aspirational goal of the 2015 Paris climate treaty. (huffingtonpost.co.uk)
  • We are likely to get about 3.2 degrees of warming. (benmunoz.com)
  • By 2100, the United Nations says, we are due for about 4.5 degrees of warming, following the path we are on today. (benmunoz.com)
  • The evidence suggests nearly total ice-sheet loss may result from warming of more than a few degrees above mean 20th century values, but this threshold is poorly defined (perhaps as little as 2oC or more than 7 o C) (Alley et al. (regimeshifts.org)
  • Already, the planet has warmed 1.1 degrees Celsius (1.9 degrees Fahrenheit) since the preindustrial era began 250 years ago. (nrdc.org)
  • The months of June, July, and August taken together were .41 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than any other summer on record as well as being 2.1 degrees warmer than the average summer between 1951 and 1980. (earthwiseradio.org)
  • Limiting warming to 1.5°C would, scientists have said, require a radical rethinking of virtually every facet of modern society, including an abandonment of our entire fossil-fuel based economy. (truthout.org)
  • Scientists estimate that 1.7 billion tons of carbon is released annually by permafrost melting in the region between the months of October to April. (planetcustodian.com)
  • Despite that fact, according to NASA scientists, the summer of 2023 was the Earth's hottest since global record keeping began in 1880. (earthwiseradio.org)
  • Scientists around the world have been tracking the warming that is driven primarily by human-caused greenhouse gas emissions. (earthwiseradio.org)
  • More carbon is removed from the climate system and stored deep underground in seafloor trenche s than previously thought , according to a study in Nature, contributed to by Rutgers scientists. (rutgers.edu)
  • From March 8th to the 19th 2017, Sea Shepherd's R/V Martin Sheen welcomed four scientists under the supervision of Dr. Jorge Urban, from Universidade Autonoma de Baja California Su r (UABCS) and sailed to the remote Archipelago of Revillagigedo for scientific studies. (constantinealexander.net)
  • Some scientists found that increased carbon dioxide in ocean waters caused a decline in nitrogen fixation, while others saw huge increases. (constantinealexander.net)
  • Excerpt: The NOAA Ocean Acidification Program on behalf of the National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP) announces $24.3M of funding aimed at bringing together academic researchers, federal scientists and industry to advance research in marine carbon dioxide removal. (lawrencehallofscience.org)
  • A recent study in a paper published August 31 in the journal Science warned that for each degree of rise in global temperature, insect-driven losses to the staple crops of rice, wheat and corn increase by 10-25 percent. (truthout.org)
  • Rising sea level as a result of warming tends to float marginal regions of ice sheets and force further retreat, so the generally positive relation between sea level and temperature means that typically both reduce the volume of the ice sheet (Alley et al. (regimeshifts.org)
  • This change in global average temperature-seemingly small but consequential and climbing-means that, each summer, we are likely to experience increasingly sweltering heat waves. (nrdc.org)
  • The combination of this background warming and the marine heatwaves set the stage for new temperature records. (earthwiseradio.org)
  • But there hasn't been a sudden increase in global temperature that would make this summer so much hotter. (earthwiseradio.org)
  • projected that an increase of global temperature by 1.5°C would warm the high mountains of Asia by 2.1 ± 0.1°C, which would lead to the disappearance of 49 ± 7% to 64 ± 5% of glaciers by the end of the century. (frontiersin.org)
  • The largest desert in North America is home to biodiverse grasslands that store large amounts of carbon and contribute to the livelihood of millions of people. (nrdc.org)
  • These animals once roamed the Arctic grasslands before becoming extinct - rhinos around 14,000 to 15,000 years ago and mammoths about 10,500 years ago, at the end of the last ice age. (planetcustodian.com)
  • Management for carbon sequestration in species-rich grasslands - can it be a win-win? (su.se)
  • We used radiocarbon ( 14 C) data and model predictions to understand how the transit time of carbon varies under environmental change in grasslands and peatlands. (copernicus.org)
  • He now believes - and his work so far shows - that a surprising factor can protect grasslands and even reclaim degraded land that was once desert. (soil4climate.org)
  • The study suggested that tropical wetland methane emissions were the culprit behind the recent growth trend, and this hypothesis was reinforced by a 2022 paper connecting tropical terrestrial emissions to 80% of the global atmospheric methane trends between 2010 and 2019. (wikipedia.org)
  • These numbers put Nepal firmly on the path to becoming the first nation to double its tiger population since the Tx2 goal - which seeks a doubling of the global tiger population by 2022, the next Year of the Tiger on the Asian lunar calendar - was adopted by the world's 13 tiger range countries at the St. Petersburg Tiger Summit in 2010. (mongabay.com)
  • Eliminating that extra .5 of warming would save tens of millions of people from sea level rise inundation, and hundreds of millions from water scarcity and a myriad of other catastrophic impacts. (truthout.org)
  • Here, we include dynamic emulators of complex physical models in the integrated assessment model PAGE-ICE to explore nonlinear transitions in the Arctic feedbacks and their subsequent impacts on the global climate and economy under the Paris Agreement scenarios. (nature.com)
  • Take swift action to overhaul the global economy and rein in carbon emissions or prepare for devastating, perhaps irreversible, impacts. (huffingtonpost.co.uk)
  • The key issue is that civil engineers should be using simple risk assessments to address the hazards to and from projects, and particularly the incremental global impacts from the short-term emissions. (ice.org.uk)
  • Microbes living in the subsurface near trenches play a large role in storing carbon and quantifying this is important for evaluating human impacts on climate. (rutgers.edu)
  • A better understanding of how cryosphere change affects human systems and human security would provide much needed support to the planning of global and regional actions to mitigate impacts and facilitate adaptation. (frontiersin.org)
  • In this issue brief, the Center for American Progress shows that immediate conservation policy changes in pursuit of a 30×30 goal will not only set the United States on track to realize this level of carbon sequestration in the long run but also will deliver immediate emissions reductions. (americanprogress.org)
  • For example, a typical engineer has a carbon dioxide footprint of 1000 t/year, compared to the hard-won savings of just 2t/year from a vegan diet. (ice.org.uk)
  • The global footprint of mercury deposition makes it harder to motivate ourselves to reduce emissions, in a tragedy of the commons that is totally analogous to the carbon cycle. (realclimate.org)
  • Fires across the Arctic-boreal zone (ABZ) play an important role in the boreal forest succession, permafrost thaw, and the regional and global carbon cycle and climate. (bvsalud.org)
  • Here, we characterize the magnitude of recent and projected gross and net boreal North American wildfire carbon dioxide emissions, evaluate fire management as an emissions reduction strategy, and quantify the associated costs. (bvsalud.org)
  • These changes can accelerate global warming further through a variety of climatic feedbacks. (nature.com)
  • Thermokarst lake inception and development in syngenetic ice-wedge polygon terrain during a cooling climatic trend, Bylot Island (Nunavut), eastern Canadian Arctic. (ulaval.ca)
  • These small catchments are experiencing the greatest climatic warming while also storing large quantities of soil carbon in landscapes that are especially prone to degradation of permafrost (i.e., ice wedge polygon terrain) and associated hydrological regime shifts. (su.se)
  • Considering the nonlinear Arctic feedbacks makes the 1.5 °C target marginally more economically attractive than the 2 °C target, although both are statistically equivalent. (nature.com)
  • Tipping elements are physical processes acting as positive nonlinear climate and biosphere feedbacks that, after passing a threshold, could irreversibly shift the planetary system to a new warmer state 13 . (nature.com)
  • 6 If managed appropriately, research shows that they have the potential to store an additional 1,000 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent annually, although these benefits arrive gradually as forests grow and land use changes. (americanprogress.org)
  • The amount is almost twice as high as previous estimates and far exceeds the 1 billion tons of carbon soaked up during the growing season. (planetcustodian.com)
  • Presently, this carbon-rich soil covers 24 percent of land in the northern hemisphere and holds more carbon deposits than has ever been released by humans. (planetcustodian.com)
  • I have organized more than ten expeditions to different Arctic regions and has extensive experience of synthesis science and leadership in International networks, including as Steering Group member of the Permafrost Carbon Network, co-chair of the International Soil Carbon Network and founding-leader of a Permafrost Carbon group in the the International Permafrost Association. (su.se)
  • Compared to the respiration process, few studies have examined soil carbon leaching possibly enhanced by extreme precipitation events (EPEs). (copernicus.org)
  • We show that soil carbon leaching was much higher than CO 2 loss through respiration under EPEs in grassland soils through incubation experiments. (copernicus.org)
  • 2007)). The mercury is carried to the ground in leaf litter, and it collects in the soil organic carbon pool. (realclimate.org)
  • Soil organic carbon cycling is important in the carbon cycle as well, so it has been well studied, but it is a complicated world. (realclimate.org)
  • The fate and lifetime of organic carbon in a soil is very different in, for example, a depositional swamp versus a rain-scoured and eroding hillside. (realclimate.org)
  • On a global scale, what happened to bomb radiocarbon ( 14 C) from nuclear weapons testing in the 1960's can tell us a lot about the behavior of the soil organic carbon system. (realclimate.org)
  • The Promise of Restorative Grazing & Other Ecological Innovations to Regenerate Soil, Secure Food & Water, Revive Rural Economies and Reverse Global Warming Cambridge, Massachusetts, Nov 20, 2013. (soil4climate.org)
  • Led by Dr. Richard Teague of Texas A&M, and convened by filmmaker Peter Byck of Arizona State University, the ASU-Soil Carbon Nation Whole Systems Science Team is positioned to do large scale science that's never been done before. (soil4climate.org)
  • The loss of the mountain cryosphere due to global warming is already evident in many parts of the world and has direct implications to people living in mountain areas and indirect implications to those who live downstream of glaciated river basins. (frontiersin.org)
  • While they represented between 25% and 45% of the CO2's potential impact on climate over a 100-year timescale, the review concluded that aerobic permafrost thaw still had a greater warming impact overall. (wikipedia.org)
  • This finding had substantially raised the overall warming impact represented by anaerobic thaw sites. (wikipedia.org)
  • ancient bacteria and viruses that could potentially rise from the dead and threaten humans if the layers of frozen permafrost where they're buried thaw as the Earth warms. (withradio.org)
  • At one particular site, permafrost thaw depth grew from 47 inches in 2013 to nearly 75 inches in 2017. (withradio.org)
  • The permafrost feedback is increasingly positive in warmer climates, while the albedo feedback weakens as the ice and snow melt. (nature.com)
  • Weak mineralization despite strong processing of dissolved organic matter in Eastern Arctic tundra ponds. (ulaval.ca)
  • The Great Barrier Reef has experienced several mass bleaching events in recent years, with the most severe event occurring in 2016 and 2017. (neoobserver.com)
  • ARCADE is a key step toward monitoring the pan-Arctic across scales and is publicly available: https://doi.org/10.34894/U9HSPV (Speetjens et al. (su.se)
  • describe the ways in which biological, geochemical, and physical systems influence methane concentrations and explore how methane levels in natural systems may alter in a warming climate. (skepticalscience.com)
  • And forests like the Amazon are key to accomplishing that and limiting future warming. (huffingtonpost.co.uk)
  • The nation's forests account for 15% of carbon emissions that are pulled from the air and stored and New Jersey is ahead of the curve with using tree cover to combat high carbon dioxide levels. (rutgers.edu)
  • It has emerged as one of the planet's leading producers of sustainable biofuels, and in 2017 it launched an ambitious effort to plant more than 70 million trees to help reforest the Amazon ― and thus increase absorption of carbon dioxide. (huffingtonpost.co.uk)
  • However, the planet's eco-system has already been degraded. (ice.org.uk)
  • Warmer oceans can absorb less heat, which means more stays in the air, and contain less oxygen, which is doom for phytoplankton - which does for the ocean what plants do on land, eating carbon and producing oxygen - which leaves us with more carbon, which heats the planet further. (benmunoz.com)
  • From among these activities, those that are accompanied by large emissions of carbon dioxide ( CO 2 ) affect our entire planet and, especially, the oceans. (metode.org)
  • Besides becoming warmer, the oceans are also growing progressively more acidic and less oxygenated. (metode.org)
  • In fact, a 2021 study indicated that the role of the Arctic was typically overerestimated in global methane accounting, while the role of tropical regions was consistently underestimated. (wikipedia.org)
  • In a paper published Thursday in Science , a team of researchers from Florida State University , Xiamen University in China and Princeton University argue that the acidification of seawater caused by rising carbon dioxide levels makes it difficult for a type of cyanobacteria to perform a process called nitrogen fixation. (constantinealexander.net)
  • Using estimates constrained from atmospheric observations from 1980 to 2017, we find that the increasing trends of net CO2 uptake in the early-growing season are of similar magnitude across the tree cover gradient in the NHL. (bvsalud.org)
  • In the late summer of 2017, three major hurricanes arose in the Atlantic at once. (benmunoz.com)
  • In 2017, Hurricanes Irma and Maria significantly damaged human infrastructure and changed coastal environments across the U.S. Caribbean. (climate.gov)
  • Global warming could potentially accelerate its release, due to both release of methane from existing stores, and from methanogenesis in rotting biomass. (wikipedia.org)
  • It finds that by avoiding the loss of existing natural areas though better protections and increasing the capacity of natural places to sequester carbon through ecologically sound restoration and reforestation, U.S. lands could absorb more than 150 MMT of carbon dioxide equivalent above today's baseline every year by 2030. (americanprogress.org)
  • A rapidly warming planet poses an existential threat to all life on earth. (nrdc.org)
  • Warmer air also holds more moisture, making tropical cyclones wetter, stronger, and more capable of rapidly intensifying. (nrdc.org)
  • The Arctic is rapidly changing. (su.se)
  • MPs may be degraded more rapidly since plastic molecules are squeezed in the ice and produce an excited state that leads to accelerated oxidation and degradation [ 13 ] . (oaepublish.com)
  • When permafrost thaws as a consequence of warming, large amounts of organic material can become available for methanogenesis and may ultimately be released as methane. (wikipedia.org)
  • The dominant role of sunlight in degrading winter dissolved organic matter from a thermokarst lake in a subarctic peatland. (ulaval.ca)
  • 2010). The mercury attached to the carbon is re-released to the environment, primarily as dissolved Hg 2+ , when the organic carbon degrades. (realclimate.org)
  • Mercury that goes to ground in the longest-lived organic carbon pools will continue to dribble back out to the environment for thousands of years. (realclimate.org)
  • Paleoenvironmental reconstructions documenting the inception and development of these ecologically important water bodies are generally limited to Pleistocene-age permafrost deposits of Siberia, Alaska, and the western Canadian Arctic. (copernicus.org)
  • Here we present the gradual transition from syngenetic ice-wedge polygon terrain to a thermokarst lake in Holocene sediments of the eastern Canadian Arctic. (copernicus.org)
  • Such conditions likely prevailed until ∼2000 BP , when peat accumulation stopped as water ponded the surface of degrading ice-wedge polygons, and the basin progressively developed into a thermokarst lake. (copernicus.org)
  • Catches of species such as tuna and swordfish did not decrease after a marine protected area the size of New York State was established off the coast of Mexico in 2017. (lawrencehallofscience.org)
  • 40 000 catchments that drain into the Arctic Ocean and range in size from 1 to 3.1 × 10 6 km 2 . (su.se)
  • So, just like carbon, the "fast" surface cycle gets charged up with the extra load (mercury or carbon), until the slow leak flux to the solid Earth, by way of ocean sediments, finally cleans up the load. (realclimate.org)
  • Thermokarst lakes are widespread and diverse across permafrost regions, and they are considered significant contributors to global greenhouse gas emissions. (copernicus.org)
  • Other teleconnections trigger a high-pressure anomaly, forcing downward motion that suppresses cloud formation and increases solar radiation reaching the ground to warm the surface air as well as brings drier air downward to reduce surface relative humidity. (bvsalud.org)
  • The New Jersey legislature passed a bill requiring the NJDEP to create regulations to bring emissions down 80% below 2006 levels by 2050, strengthening the 2007 Global Warming Response Act. (rutgers.edu)
  • Human activities are estimated to have caused approximately 1.0°C of global warming above pre-industrial levels (SR15). (ipcc.ch)
  • What humanity chooses to do (or not do) in the next year or two-and over this decade-to lower greenhouse gas (carbon) emissions will determine how catastrophic things will get in the future and how quickly. (thegreenspotlight.com)
  • Currently, GPP models for terrestrial forest are applicable on a global scale (e.g. (nature.com)
  • The Arctic region is one of the many natural sources of the greenhouse gas methane. (wikipedia.org)
  • Aerial view of deforestation in the Amazon's western Amazon region in Brazil in September 2017. (huffingtonpost.co.uk)
  • I leads the work for the Permafrost region in the Global Carbon Project synthesis RECCAP2. (su.se)
  • Substantial non‐growing season carbon dioxide loss across Tibetan alpine permafrost region. (permafrostcarbon.org)