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Sep

2016

New Tools Assess the Future of Wind Power

By Carnegie HQ

Stanford, CA—Using software tools developed by Near Zero , a research group hosted by the Carnegie Institution for Science’s Department of Global Ecology, a team of researchers has completed the ...

Sep

2016

Grassland tuned to present suffers in a warmer future

By Carnegie HQ

Stanford, CA—One of the world’s longest-running, most comprehensive climate change experiments produced some surprising results. The extensive experiment subjected grassland ecosystems to sixteen ...

Aug

2016

“Chemtrails” not real, say leading atmospheric science experts

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC — Well-understood physical and chemical processes can easily explain the alleged evidence of a secret, large-scale atmospheric spraying program, commonly referred to as “chemtrails” or ...

Aug

2016

Climate summaries “for grownups,” but not too difficult for policymakers

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC— Offering a rare insider analysis of the climate assessment process, Carnegie’s Katharine Mach and colleagues at the Department of Global Ecology examined the writing and editing ...

Jul

2016

Toxic waters and climate change, how are they linked?

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC — It is imperative that society learn more about how climate change contributes to episodic and very severe water quality impairments, such as the harmful algal bloom that caused ...

Jun

2016

“Rule-breaker” forests in Andes and Amazon revealed by remote spectral sensing

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC — It turns out that forests in the Andean and western Amazonian regions of South America break long-understood rules about how ecosystems are put together, according to new research ...

Jun

2016

Climate assessment must be relevant and useful to policymakers

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC — Climate change assessments must be more relevant to policymakers’ needs, say Carnegie’s Katharine Mach and Stéphane Hallegatte of the World Bank’s Climate Change Policy Team. In a ...

May

2016

Carnegie Amazon Mercury Project (CAMEP) Studies Used to Declare Emergency in Peru

By Carnegie HQ

The results from a suite of environmental mercury studies done by the Carnegie Amazon Mercury Project (CAMEP) was used by the Peruvian government for the decision to announce this state of emergency ...

May

2016

Carnegie Amazon Mercury Project (CAMEP) Studies Used to Declare Emergency in Peru

By Carnegie HQ

May

2016

Rebecca Albright Honored with 2nd Carnegie “Postdoctoral Innovation and Excellence” Award

By Carnegie HQ

Rebecca Albright, a postdoc in the Caldeira lab at Global Ecology since 2014, is the latest recipient of the newly formed Carnegie Postdoctoral Innovation and Excellence (PIE) Awards. She has been ...

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