India’s first regional climate change assessment warns of accelerated glacier melt.
Climate Change
In Vegetation Growth Studies, What You Measure Matters
Different satellite-based metrics for global vegetation coverage tell complementary, but not identical, stories.
Experiments Reveal How Permafrost Carbon Becomes Carbon Dioxide
Field samples from Alaska show how sunlight and iron convert permafrost carbon to carbon dioxide. Climate models ignore this process.
Corals Make Reliable Recorders of El Niño Fluctuations
A new tool that reconciles modeling and paleoclimate data builds confidence that tropical Pacific corals reliably archive natural variability in the El Niño–Southern Oscillation climate pattern.
Worsening Water Crisis in the Eastern Caribbean
Scientists, policy makers, and residents are concerned that ongoing water shortages and longer periods of drought may worsen as the climate changes and that the Paris Agreement has fallen short.
Cómo la Ciencia del Clima Está Expandiendo la Escala de la Investigación Ecológica
Las herramientas desarrolladas para la ciencia del clima pueden ayudar a los investigadores a predecir los dipolos ecológicos: los efectos contrastados del clima en poblaciones separadas por miles de kilómetros.
¿Cuántas Modificaciones Puede Aguantar el Ciclo de Agua de la Tierra?
El marco teórico que estudia los límites planetarios define cuánta perturbación humana pueden soportar los diversos procesos del sistema terrestre, pero puede que no describa adecuadamente el ciclo del agua o la medida en que lo hemos alterado.
Eyes in the Sky Improve Pollen Tracking
Physicians, public health officials, and experts in remote sensing and ecology recently met to identify ways that satellites, webcams, and crowdsourced science could help them manage asthma and allergies.
Estuary Research Suffers from Scientific Bias
Researchers are calling for a closer look at nutrient cycling in tropical and low-nutrient estuaries, which have long been overlooked in the scientific literature.
Modeling Water Stress for Shared Water Resources
Billions of people rely on water resources that originate across borders. New research evaluates how climate change and increased water demand could affect future water stress.
