Press releases

Mar

2016

Greenhouse Gas “Bookkeeping” Turned on Its Head

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, D.C. —For the first time scientists have looked at the net balance of the three major greenhouse gases—carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide—for every region of Earth’s landmasses. ...

Mar

2016

Science: How do you save a sick coral reef? Pop an antacid

By Carnegie HQ

How big a role does ocean acidification play in the sickly state of many coral reefs? Science magazine reports on a new study from Ken Caldeira and Rebecca Albright that borrows from a common after- ...

Feb

2016

USA Today: Ocean acidification stunting growth of coral reefs

By Carnegie HQ

USA Today reports on a first-of-its-kind experiment led by Rebecca Albright and Ken Caldeira that found ocean acidification caused by global warming is already slowing growth of the world’s coral ...

Feb

2016

Ocean acidification already slowing coral reef growth

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC — A team of scientists led by Carnegie’s Rebecca Albright and Ken Caldeira performed the first-ever experiment that manipulated seawater chemistry in a natural coral reef community in ...

Feb

2016

Huffington Post: The California Drought's Alarming Toll On Forests

By Carnegie HQ

"If drought conditions continue or reoccur, even with temporary reprieves such as El Niño, we predict substantial future forest change," Greg Asner says in The Huffington Post. More

Feb

2016

Medium: The CAO and the "sensor revolution"

By Carnegie HQ

Planet Labs contributes an essay to Medium about Greg Asner and the Carnegie Airborne Observatory using LiDAR and satellite imagery to map the California drought, calls the CAO "a fire-fighter of a ...

Dec

2015

CBS Evening News: Nearly 1 billion trees threatened by California drought

By Carnegie HQ

CBS Evening News covers Greg Asner and the Carnegie Airborne Observatory team's work on the impact the drought has had on California's forests. The team found that 888 million trees have seen ...

Dec

2015

Tens of millions of trees in danger from California drought

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC—California’s forests are home to the planet’s oldest, tallest and most-massive trees. New research from Carnegie’s Greg Asner and his team reveals that up to 58 million large trees in ...

Dec

2015

Dan Rather Interviews Chris Field, Huffington Post

By Carnegie HQ

Dan Rather interveiws Chris Field, director of Global Ecology, about climate change. The interview was published by the Huffington Post.

Dec

2015

Science covers Carnegie and AAAS co-hosted 50 Years of Climate Change event

By Carnegie HQ

50 years after the first U.S. president was warned about climate change, it is "the defining issue of our time," Department of Global Ecology Director Chris Field told attendees. More

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