Developing low-emission technologies for the chemical industry
This article was invited to provide a perspective from within the chemical industry on opportunities that one company (BASF) is pursuing to reduce its emissions…
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Sea level rise: The past as an indicator of the future
New research focused on the mechanisms and rates of how snow and ice is lost to the ocean from the land, along with studies of…
Self-driving vehicles and the environment
Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs), also known as driverless or self-driving cars, have been widely proposed as a strategy for reducing transportation energy use and…
The role of managed retreat in adapting to sea level rise
Figure 1. Who initiates managed retreat, and who benefits? Managed retreat is an adaptation measure that reduces the presence of people and assets in places…
Improving risk assessment of extreme events across past, present, and future
By Emily Jack-Scott
It’s a common phenomenon now – an extreme event such as a hurricane, flood, drought, or exceptionally cold winter creates devastating impacts,…
What nature’s feedbacks and tipping points portend for our future
What happens when greenhouse gas-driven climate change arouses an unwanted set of responses from the Earth’s natural systems? Can self-reinforcing feedbacks in the Earth system…
What do we know about wildfire attribution and climate change?
Photo credit: Emily Jack-Scott
2018 has been a grueling year for wildfires in the western U.S. More than 7 million acres have already burned in…
Clean energy and a stable climate: Progress and challenges from 1998-2018
Two interdisciplinary workshops at AGCI bracketed progress on the climate-energy problem across 20 years and yielded two major journal publications, one in Nature (Hoffert et al. 1998)…
Alternative pathways and actions to achieve a 1.5°C future
During the Paris Agreement negotiations in 2015, many leaders at the negotiating table felt that limiting global warming to 2°C was ambitious enough, but leaders…
Are winter extremes in the U.S. the result of amplified warming in the Arctic?
The Arctic is warming faster than the rest of the planet in a phenomenon known as ‘polar amplification.’ As reflective ice melts en masse in…