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Two Additional Regions of Asia Were Sources of Banned Ozone-Destroying Chemicals
New research from Global Monitoring Laboratory has identified temperate western Asia and tropical Asia as two additional source regions for the rising emissions of CFC-11 identified by NOAA scientists in 2018.
Relocating Farmland Could Turn Back Clock Twenty Years on Carbon Emissions
The reimagined world map of agriculture includes large new farming areas for many major crops around the cornbelt in the mid-western US, and below the Sahara desert.
New Research Showing Link between Florida Current and Pacific Ocean could Improve Sea Level, Climate Prediction
Scientists found warming conditions in the Pacific (El Niño) resulted in low pressure anomalies in the Gulf of Mexico, and high pressure anomalies that extended into the Caribbean Sea from the tropical Atlantic.
Hawaiian Corals Show Surprising Resilience to Warming Oceans
A long-term study of Hawaiian coral species provides a surprisingly optimistic view of how they might survive warmer and more acidic oceans resulting from climate change.
We Need to Change Our Systems to Ensure a Sustainable World
While composting and taking the bus are helpful, we need to change the very systems we live and work in to truly address climate change.
