Without a significant reduction in usage, committed emissions from coal and gas plants in the United States are already incompatible with the country’s pledges under the Paris climate agreement.Read More »Biogeosciences
A unique fossil lake bed in New Zealand has revealed insights into global climate under elevated levels of carbon dioxide but is now off-limits to scientists.Read More »
New methods that help researchers understand the decision-making processes of neural networks could make the machine learning tool more applicable for the geosciences.Read More »Climate Change
A new metric for calculating snow water equivalence relies on three methodologies: modeling, satellite imagery, and direct observation.Read More »Climate Change
Air temperatures in coastal ecosystems of Australia routinely exceed the optimum range for photosynthesis, hindering plants’ ability to take up atmospheric carbon.Read More »Biogeosciences
Forest degradation may be as widespread as deforestation in the Amazon, but its impact on energy, carbon, and water fluxes is less well understood.Read More »Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface
Sea ice area in CMIP6 is similar to previous versions while its sensitivity to external forcing is subtly different and closer to observations, but still not in step with global surface temperature.Read More »Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Volcanology
The history of river system in southeast Tibet and Indochina reconstructed using the ages of thousands of zircon sand grains in modern and ancient river sediments.Read More »Climate Change
In 2018 in Japan, more than 1,000 people died during an unprecedented heat wave. In 2019, scientists proved it would have been impossible without global warming.Read More »
