Press releases

Apr

2013

Carnegie’s Greg Asner Elected to National Academy of Sciences

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, D.C.—Carnegie staff scientist Greg Asner has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. He is one of 84 new members and 21 foreign associates from 14 countries elected “in ...

Apr

2013

Surprising Predictor of Ecosystem Chemistry

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, D.C.— Carnegie scientists have found that the plant species making up an ecosystem are better predictors of ecosystem chemistry than environmental conditions such as terrain, geology, or ...

Apr

2013

What's causing aquatic dead zones?

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, D.C.—A research team, led by Carnegie’s Anna Michalak, has determined that the 2011 record-breaking algal bloom in Lake Erie was triggered by long-term agricultural practices coupled with ...

Mar

2013

Male lions use ambush hunting strategy

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, D.C. — It has long been believed that male lions are dependent on females when it comes to hunting. But new evidence suggests that male lions are, in fact, very successful hunters in ...

Feb

2013

Geoengineering by coalition

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, D.C. —Solar geoengineering is a proposed approach to reduce the effects of climate change due to greenhouse gasses by deflecting some of the sun’s incoming radiation. This type of ...

Feb

2013

Can we geoengineer our way out of climate change?

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, D.C.— Solar geoengineering is a proposed approach to reduce the effects of climate change due to greenhouse gasses by deflecting some of the sun’s incoming radiation. This type of ...

Feb

2013

Tree Die-off Triggered by Hotter Temperatures

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC—A team of scientists, led by researchers at Carnegie’s Department of Global Ecology, has determined that the recent widespread die-off of Colorado trembling aspen trees is a direct ...

Jan

2013

Preventing Climate Change: The Size of the Energy Challenge

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, D.C .— In 2004 a very popular study aimed to address climate change by deploying wedges of different existing energy technologies or approaches. According to the study by Robert Socolow ...

Dec

2012

Carnegie Airborne Observatory - AToMS

By Carnegie HQ

The Carnegie Airborne Observatory (CAO) is a revolutionary advancement in remote sensing and 3-D analysis of ecosystem composition, chemistry, and physiology.

Dec

2012

Carnegie debuts revolutionary biosphere mapping capability at AGU

By Carnegie HQ

San Francisco, CA —Researchers from the Carnegie Institution are rolling out results from the new Airborne Taxonomic Mapping System, or AToMS, for the first time at the American Geophysical Union ( ...

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