Clean Energy: Experts Outline How Governments Can Successfully Invest Before It's Too Late

Governments need to give technical experts more autonomy and hold their nerve to provide more long-term stability when investing in clean energy, argue researchers in climate change and innovation policy in a new paper published today.

Researchers Model Optimal Amount of Rainfall for Plants

Researchers have determined what could be considered a “Goldilocks” climate for rainfall use by plants: not too wet and not too dry. 

Satellite Tracking Provides Clues About South Atlantic Sea Turtles' 'Lost Years'

A University of Central Florida biologist whose groundbreaking work tracking the movements of sea turtle yearlings in the North Atlantic Ocean attracted international attention has completed a similar study in the South Atlantic with surprising results.

Decades-Past Logging Still Threatens Spotted Owls in National Forests

Logging of the largest trees in the Sierra Nevada’s national forests ended in the early 1990s after agreements were struck to protect species’ habitat.

ShakeAlert System Continues Progress toward Public Use

A decade after beginning work on an earthquake early warning system, scientists and engineers are fine-tuning a U.S. West Coast prototype that could be in limited public use in 2018.

Traffic pollution putting unborn babies' health at risk, warn experts

Traffic pollution, but not traffic noise, linked to low birth weight

Air pollution from road traffic is having a detrimental impact upon babies’ health in London, before they are born, finds a study.

Freezing trees, finding answers

Researchers study impact of ice storms, climate change

New species discovered in Malaysian rainforest during unprecedented, top-to-bottom survey

California Academy of Sciences team joins Malaysian colleagues to survey region’s rich biodiversity; data to support UNESCO nomination.

Stress Test: New Study Finds Seals are Stressed-Out by Sharks

Researchers test the effects predators have on their prey’s cortisol levels in the wild

More-severe climate model predictions could be the most accurate: study

The climate models that project greater amounts of warming this century are the ones that best align with observations of the current climate, according to a new paper from Carnegie’s Patrick Brown and Ken Caldeira published by Nature.  Their findings suggest that the models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, on average, may be underestimating future warming.

Climate model simulations are used to predict how much warming should be expected for any given increase in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.