Press releases

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 ...

Oct

2013

Times-Herald Interview with Greg Asner About the Ecological Crisis in the Amazon

By Carnegie HQ

Sep

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

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

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 ...

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