Press releases

Sep

2010

Termites Foretell Climate Change in Africa’s Savannas

By Carnegie HQ

Palo Alto, CA—Using sophisticated airborne imaging and structural analysis, scientists at the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology mapped more than 40,000 termite mounds over 192 ...

Sep

2010

Carbon Mapping Breakthrough

By Carnegie HQ

Spanish version http://carnegiescience.edu/news/progreso_excepcional_en_el_mapeo_de_carbono Palo Alto, CA—By integrating satellite mapping, airborne-laser technology, and ground-based plot surveys, ...

Aug

2010

Global Tropical Forests Threatened by 2100

By Carnegie HQ

Palo Alto, CA—By 2100 only 18% to 45% of the plants and animals making up ecosystems in global, humid tropical forests may remain as we know them today, according to a new study led by Greg Asner at ...

Jul

2010

Plant “Breathing” Mechanism Discovered

By Carnegie HQ

Palo Alto, CA—A tiny, little-understood plant pore has enormous implications for weather forecasting, climate change, agriculture, hydrology, and more. A study by scientists at the Carnegie ...

Jul

2010

Scrubbing CO2 from Atmosphere Could Be a Long-term Commitment

By Carnegie HQ

With carbon dioxide in the atmosphere approaching alarming levels, even halting emissions altogether may not be enough to avert catastrophic climate change. Could scrubbing carbon dioxide from the ...

Jun

2010

Whiter Clouds Could Mean Wetter Land

By Carnegie HQ

One proposed emergency fix to halt global warming is to seed clouds over the ocean to make them more reflective, reducing the solar radiation absorbed by the Earth. But the scheme could also change ...

Jun

2010

High Yield Crops Keep Carbon Emissions Low

By Carnegie HQ

The Green Revolution of the late 20th century increased crop yields worldwide and helped feed an expanding global population. According to a new report published in the Proceedings of the National ...

May

2010

CO2 Effects on Plants Increase Global Warming

By Carnegie HQ

Palo Alto, CA — Trees and other plants help keep the planet cool, but rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are turning down this global air conditioner. According to a new study by ...

Apr

2010

Carnegie’s Chris Field Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences

By Carnegie HQ

Palo Alto, CA — Christopher Field , director of the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology , is among the two hundred and twenty-nine leaders in the sciences, the humanities and the arts ...

Mar

2010

Carbon Emissions ‘Outsourced’ to Developing Countries

By Carnegie HQ

A new study by scientists at the Carnegie Institution for Science finds that over a third of carbon dioxide emissions associated with consumption of goods and services in many developed countries are ...

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