Press releases

Apr

2017

Plants have been helping to offset climate change, but now it’s up to us

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC —Plants are currently removing more CO 2 from the air than they did 200 years ago, according to new work from Carnegie’s Joe Berry and led by J. Elliott Campbell of UC Merced. The team ...

Jan

2017

High-tech maps of tropical forest diversity identify new conservation targets

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC —New remote sensing maps of the forest canopy in Peru test the strength of current forest protections and identify new regions for conservation effort, according to a report led by ...

Jan

2017

Global Ecology’s Mary Whelan Receives Fifth Postdoctoral Innovation and Excellence (PIE) Award

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, D.C.—Global Ecology NSF Fellow Mary Whelan has been honored with Carnegie’s fifth Postdoctoral Innovation and Excellence (PIE) Award. These prizes are made through nominations from the ...

Nov

2016

Rainfall variation complicates nitrogen runoff management

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC —New research from two Carnegie scientists has serious implications for the development of management strategies to reduce nutrient runoff in waterways and coastal areas. Human ...

Oct

2016

How fast will we need to adapt to climate change?

By Carnegie HQ

Stanford, CA— What would we do differently if sea level were to rise one foot per century versus one foot per decade? Until now, most policy and research has focused on adapting to specific amounts ...

Sep

2016

New Tools Assess the Future of Wind Power

By Carnegie HQ

Stanford, CA—Using software tools developed by Near Zero , a research group hosted by the Carnegie Institution for Science’s Department of Global Ecology, a team of researchers has completed the ...

Sep

2016

Grassland tuned to present suffers in a warmer future

By Carnegie HQ

Stanford, CA—One of the world’s longest-running, most comprehensive climate change experiments produced some surprising results. The extensive experiment subjected grassland ecosystems to sixteen ...

Aug

2016

“Chemtrails” not real, say leading atmospheric science experts

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC — Well-understood physical and chemical processes can easily explain the alleged evidence of a secret, large-scale atmospheric spraying program, commonly referred to as “chemtrails” or ...

Aug

2016

Climate summaries “for grownups,” but not too difficult for policymakers

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC— Offering a rare insider analysis of the climate assessment process, Carnegie’s Katharine Mach and colleagues at the Department of Global Ecology examined the writing and editing ...

Jul

2016

Toxic waters and climate change, how are they linked?

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC — It is imperative that society learn more about how climate change contributes to episodic and very severe water quality impairments, such as the harmful algal bloom that caused ...

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