Press releases

Jan

2009

New Rain Forest Mapping Technology Gets Huge Support

By Carnegie HQ

Stanford , CA — A lack of t echnology needed to explore and monitor vast regions of tropical rain forest has been a critical bottleneck for Earth scientists, conservationists, and forest managers. As ...

Dec

2008

Carnegie’s Field and Koshland Elected AAAS Fellows

By Carnegie HQ

Washington D.C. —Christopher B. Field, director of Carnegie’s Department of Global Ecology, and Douglas E. Koshland, staff scientist at the Department of Embryology, have been elected AAAS Fellows by ...

Dec

2008

Climate Change Alters Ocean Chemistry

By Carnegie HQ

Researchers have discovered that the ocean’s chemical makeup is less stable and more greatly affected by climate change than previously believed. The researchers report in the December 12, 2008 issue ...

Dec

2008

Tropical Forest Carbon Monitoring Gets Big Boost

By Carnegie HQ

Stanford , CA — A new and improved tool to monitor deforestation and degradation in tropical forests has just gotten a huge boost. The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has awarded the Carnegie ...

Nov

2008

Corralling the carbon cycle

By Carnegie HQ

Scientists may have overcome a major hurdle to calculating how much carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) is absorbed and released by plants, vital information for understanding how the biosphere responds to stress ...

Nov

2008

World Needs Climate Emergency Backup Plan, Says Expert

By Carnegie HQ

Stanford, CA— In submitted testimony to the British Parliament, climate scientist Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution said that while steep cuts in carbon emissions are essential to stabilizing ...

Sep

2008

Coral Reefs Need Deep CO2 Cutbacks Soon

By Carnegie HQ

Stanford, CA —How much carbon dioxide is too much? According to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, greenhouse gases in the atmosphere need to be stabilized at levels low ...

Sep

2008

Carnegie’s Chris Field Elected Co-chair of IPCC Working Group 2

By Carnegie HQ

Stanford , CA —Director of the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology, Christopher Field, has been elected co-chair of Working Group 2 of the Nobel-Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel ...

Jul

2008

Acidifying Oceans Add Urgency to CO2 Cuts

By Carnegie HQ

It’s not just about climate change anymore. Besides loading the atmosphere with heat-trapping greenhouse gases, human emissions of carbon dioxide have also begun to alter the chemistry of the ocean— ...

Jun

2008

Abandoned Farmlands Are Key to Sustainable Bioenergy

By Carnegie HQ

Stanford, CA—Biofuels can be a sustainable part of the world’s energy future, especially if bioenergy agriculture is developed on currently abandoned or degraded agricultural lands, report scientists ...

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