Press releases

Jul

2014

Carnegie’s Christopher Field Awarded Roger Revelle Medal

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, D.C.-—The American Geophysical Union (AGU) announced on June 30 that Christopher Field will receive the Roger Revelle Medal. Field is director of Carnegie’s Department of Global Ecology. ...

Apr

2014

Climate change: don't wait until you can feel it

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, D.C. — Despite overwhelming scientific evidence for the impending dangers of human-made climate change, policy decisions leading to substantial emissions reduction have been slow. New ...

Mar

2014

Studying crops from outer space

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, D.C. — Plants convert energy from sunlight into chemical energy during a process called photosynthesis. This energy is passed on to humans and animals that eat the plants, and thus ...

Mar

2014

Amazon’s canopy chemistry is a patchwork quilt

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, D.C. — In many ways, plants act as chemical factories, using energy from sunlight to produce carbon-based energy and taking nutrients from the soil in order to synthesize a wide variety ...

Feb

2014

News briefing: Global warming’s record-setting pace

By Carnegie HQ

YouTube Washington, D.C. — The pace of global warming over the last century has been about twice as rapid over land than over the oceans and will continue to be more dramatic going forward if ...

Jan

2014

Carnegie’s Chris Field Receives BBVA Climate Change Award

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, D.C.--Christopher Field, the founding director of Carnegie’s Department of Global Ecology and co-chair of the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC), Working ...

Dec

2013

Forest monitoring: bringing the power to the people

By Carnegie HQ

Audio Washington, D.C. — Forest conservation is an issue of major concern to communities large and small around the globe. But gathering the monitoring data needed to make the right decisions has ...

Nov

2013

Methane Emissions Vastly Surpass Previous Estimates

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, D.C. — Government calculations of total U.S. methane emissions may underestimate the true values by 50 percent, a new study finds. The results are published the week of November 25 in the ...

Nov

2013

Greg Asner: Ecology from the Air - TED talk

By Carnegie HQ

Greg Asner: Ecology from the Air: TED talk What are our forests really made of? From the air, ecologist Greg Asner uses a spectrometer and high-powered lasers to map nature in meticulous ...

Oct

2013

Gold Mining Ravages Perú

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC —For the first time, researchers have been able to map the true extent of gold mining in the biologically diverse region of Madre De Dios in the Peruvian Amazon. The team combined ...

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