Ice caps are melting, the ocean is acidifying and extreme weather is plaguing those who live in vulnerable areas. 

On a frigid morning in early December, a team of NASA rocket scientists will huddle in the control room in Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, a remote archipelago off the northern coast of Norway.

Utter the words “ocean acidification” in mixed company, and you’ll probably get blank stares. 

IIASA researchers have contributed to a major new report in The Lancet medical journal looking at the effects of climate change on human health, and the implications for society.

An international team led by researchers at The University of Manchester have discovered why some plants “live fast and die young” whilst others have long and healthy lives.

“We are not on track to meet climate change targets and rein in temperature increases,” said Petteri Taalas, Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

Professor Anthony O’Mullane said the potential for the chemical storage of renewable energy in the form of hydrogen was being investigated around the world.

Odds are rising that warm, dry conditions – the kind that can hurt crop yields, destabilize food prices and exacerbate wildfires – will strike multiple regions at once.

Ancient wildfires played a crucial role in the formation and spread of grasslands like those that now cover large parts of the Earth.

The new research documents how the North Atlantic communicates these extreme events to Antarctica, at the opposite side of the world.