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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 ...

Apr

2016

Four Stanford professors join Carnegie as honorary adjuncts

By Carnegie HQ

Stanford, CA — Four additional members of Stanford University’s faculty have been named Honorary Adjunct Staff Scientists at Carnegie’s Department of Plant Biology. Stanford’s Dominique Bergmann has ...

Mar

2016

Ocean acidification takes a toll on California’s coastline at nighttime

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC — A new study, based on the most-extensive set of measurements ever made in tide pools, suggests that ocean acidification will increasingly put many marine organisms at risk by ...

Mar

2016

Greenhouse Gas “Bookkeeping” Turned on Its Head

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, D.C. —For the first time scientists have looked at the net balance of the three major greenhouse gases—carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide—for every region of Earth’s landmasses. ...

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