Global Warming And The Environment

Assessing the impacts of global climate change on population trends

December 9, 2020 sarah Jonas Climate Change, Demographics, Fertility, global warming, Global Warming And The Environment, Mortality, Population

The European Research Council (ERC) will fund groundbreaking research led by IIASA World Population Program Deputy Director Raya Muttarak, which will comprehensively address the impacts of climate change on population dynamics.

Announcement

UNH Receives NSF Grant to Research Carbon Interactions in Thawing Arctic

October 7, 2020 sarah Jonas Arctic permafrost, global warming, Global Warming And The Environment, Global Warming Climate Change, Greenhouse Gas, Permafrost, permafrost carbon network, permafrost thaw

The University of New Hampshire will lead research as part of a $1.5 million award from the National Science Foundation to better understand how interactions between plants, microbes and soil minerals in permafrost, a subsurface layer of frozen soil covering a fourth of the Northern Hemisphere, stimulate the release of carbon which adds to the warming Arctic.

Research Results

Consideration of both the potential and constraints of reforestation is needed to achieve climate mitigation goals: NUS-led study

August 17, 2020 sarah Jonas Climate Change, Conservation, global warming, Global Warming And The Environment, Global Warming Climate Change, Pollution, Reforestation

A recent study led by NUS researchers showed that practical considerations, beyond where trees could be planted, may limit the climate change mitigation potential of reforestation. Hence, there is a need to understand how these constraints operate to inform climate policies.

Research Results

Energy Regulation Rollbacks Threaten Progress Against Harmful Ozone

October 25, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Affordable Clean Energy, Air Quality, Air Quality and Health, Attainment, CAFE standards, Carbon Dioxide, carbon dioxide (CO2), carbon dioxide effects, Carbon Emissions, Clean Air Act, Clean Power Plan, Climate Change, Coal fired power plants, Corporate Average Fuel Economy, Executive Order, Forecast, global warming, Global Warming And The Environment, Global Warming Climate Change, Global Warming Concerns, nitrogen oxides, NOX, Noxious, Obama Administration, Ozone, ozone attainment, Ozone Exposure, Ozone Levels, Regulations, Trump Administration

The fight against harmful ozone is under legal threat. Air quality and carbon emissions regulations are currently in limbo in courts and congress, from core legislation from the 1970s to rules from the last U.S. administration. This study models the future losses in the fight to drive down respiratory-damaging, ground-level ozone if the regulations go away.