Press releases

Mar

2022

New faculty at Carnegie's Department of Global Ecology bring a range of expertise

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC— New powerhouse scientific talent with broad expertise ranging from marine and freshwater biogeochemistry to terrestrial ecosystem science to climate change adaptation and mitigation ...

Feb

2022

Nuclear power may be the key to least-cost, zero-emission electricity systems

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC— Nuclear power generation can play a crucial role in helping the world reach a key goal of zero carbon emissions by the middle of the century, especially in countries with low wind ...

Jan

2022

DGE Founding Director Chris Field Wins Japans Prize

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC— The founding Director of Carnegie’s Department of Global Ecology and former Co-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Working Group II has been awarded the 2022 ...

Jan

2022

Joseph Berry Honored as AAAS Fellow

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC— The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals, has elected Carnegie ...

Sep

2021

Carnegie Scientist Anna Michalak awarded AGU Simpson Medal

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC— Carnegie Department of Global Ecology Director Anna Michalak will be honored with the American Geophysical Union’s Simpson Medal. It will be presented at the organization’s annual ...

Jul

2021

Green hydrogen production from curtailed wind and solar power

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC— Designing future low-carbon energy systems to use power generated in excess of the grid’s demands to produce hydrogen fuel could substantially lower electricity costs, according to ...

Jun

2021

How to build a better wind farm

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC— Location, location, location—when it comes to the placement of wind turbines, the old real estate adage applies, according to new research published in Proceedings of the National ...

Jun

2021

“Surge protector”-like enzyme controls the speed and efficiency of photosynthesis

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC— The fact that photosynthesis uses sunlight and atmospheric carbon dioxide to produce sugars has been known for more than a century. But how photosynthesis manages to maintain sugar ...

May

2021

Midwestern farms doing heavy lifting on summertime carbon removal

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC— Models of the carbon cycle that are used to understand the effects of climate change in North America need to do a better job of accounting for the carbon dioxide removed from the ...

Mar

2021

Algae growing on dead coral could paint a falsely rosy portrait of reef health

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC— Algae colonizing dead coral are upending scientists’ ability to accurately assess the health of a coral reef community, according to new work from a team of marine science experts led ...

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