Press releases

Nov
25
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
20
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
28
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 ...
Sep
30
2013

Climate change: fast out of the gate, slow to the finish

By Carnegie HQ
Washington, D.C. — A great deal of research has focused on the amount of global warming resulting from increased greenhouse gas concentrations. But there has been relatively little study of the pace ...
Jul
31
2013

Is the planet warming faster than we thought?

By Carnegie HQ
Washington, DC—Researchers reviewed the likelihood of continued changes to the terrestrial climate, including an analysis of a collection of 27 climate models. If emissions of heat-trapping gases ...
Jul
22
2013

How can we accurately map and monitor carbon stocks?

By Carnegie HQ
Watch the Carnegie Airborne Observatory make the world's highest resolution carbon map of a country (Panama) in less than one minut Washington, DC—A team of researchers has for the first time mapped ...
Jul
17
2013

80% of Malaysian Borneo Degraded by Logging

By Carnegie HQ
Washington, DC—A study published in the July 17, issue of the journal PLOS ONE found that more than 80% of tropical forests in Malaysian Borneo have been heavily impacted by logging. The Malaysian ...
Jun
28
2013

Major Changes Needed For Coral Reef Survival

By Carnegie HQ
Washington, D.C. —To prevent coral reefs around the world from dying off, deep cuts in carbon dioxide emissions are required, says a new study from Carnegie’s Katharine Ricke and Ken Caldeira. They ...

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