Canada Fighting a Rising Tide of Support for NY Forest Bill
For years, Canada’s forest policy has been torn between two competing priorities: one, a desire for climate leadership, the other, an unflinching fidelity to an...
Category : CLIMATE CHANGE
NASA-supported Study Confirms Importance of Southern Ocean in Absorbing Carbon Dioxide
By Sofie Bates, NASA’s Earth Science News Team In Brief: Research shows the Southern Ocean (the continuous body of salt water around Antarctica) absorbs much...
Global Climate Change Impact on Crops Expected Within 10 Years, NASA Study Finds
By Ellen Gray, NASA’s Earth Science News Team In Brief: Climate change may affect the production of maize (corn) and wheat as early as 2030,...
Tracking Water in the Face of Drought
Forrest Melton, NASA project scientist for OpenET, adjusts a scientific instrument in a California vineyard. Credit: NASA/Environmental Defense Fund/Pam Hansen Farmers, ranchers, and community resource...
One Year From Launch: US-European Satellite to Track World’s Water
In Brief: The Surface Water and Ocean Topography spacecraft enters the home stretch as an international team prepares this next-generation satellite for launch in 2022....
Five Facts to Help You Understand Sea Ice
A still image visualizing Arctic sea ice on Sept. 16, 2021, when the ice appeared to reach its yearly minimum extent. On this date, the...
Calculate Truck, Boat, and Car Carbon Footprint Emissions in Seconds
Please note: We are working on expanding our ecological footprint calculator to allow users to calculate their specific carbon footprint for trucks, boats and more....
Schools for Earth
Von Klimakrise und Zoonosen über Artensterben bis Intoleranz und Populismus: Die großen Herausforderungen unserer Zeit erfordern grundlegende Antworten und entschlossenes Handeln. Die Forderung von Fridays...
Klimaschutz wachsen lassen
Wälder, Moore, Wiesen, Acker- und Grünland-Flächen, Salzmarschen und Seegraswiesen zählen zu unseren Verbündeten in der Klimakrise. Sie nehmen viel CO2 aus der Atmosphäre auf und...
Paris Climate Agreement: Everything You Need to Know
What Are the Paris Agreement’s Costs? There’s a lot of misinformation out there about the Paris Agreement, including the idea that it will hurt the...