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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 1-Jul-2025 09:10 ET (1-Jul-2025 13:10 GMT/UTC)

Tool identifies ecologically equivalent areas to guide restoration projects

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Model designed to comply with current legislation uses biodiversity, landscape, and ecosystem services data and could support public policies.

Journal: Environmental Impact Assessment Review
Funder: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

Cloud observations in the southern ocean pave the way to better climate models

Research Organization of Information and Systems
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Climate models often overestimate ice clouds and underestimate supercooled liquid water (SLW) clouds in polar regions, skewing predictions of surface warming. To address this issue, researchers from Japan conducted a four-month observational study on the Southern Ocean. Through shipboard measurements, they found SLW clouds dominated as mid-level cloud layers, even at very low temperatures. These findings offer crucial data to improve the accuracy of climate models, which are critical in the face of climate change.

Journal: Scientific Reports
Funder: Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, National Institute of Polar Research

New oil and gas fields incompatible with Paris climate goals

University College London
Reports and Proceedings

Opening any new North Sea oil and gas fields is incompatible with achieving the Paris Climate Agreement goals of limiting warming to 1.5°C or holding warming to “well below 2°C” relative to preindustrial levels, finds a new report published by UCL academics.

Nationally recognized for sustainability in health care

University of California - San Diego
Grant and Award Announcement

Jacobs Medical Center and Hillcrest Medical Center at UC San Diego Health have been named Top 25 hospitals in the nation for exceptional sustainability efforts.

Rings of time: unearthing climate secrets from ancient trees

Florida Atlantic University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers studied an ancient forest of bald cypress trees preserved in subfossil form at the mouth of Georgia’s Altamaha River. Using radiocarbon dating and tree-ring analysis, they revealed a dramatic shift in growth patterns: around 500 A.D., these trees began growing faster – but living far shorter lives. Their average lifespan plunged from more than 470 years to just 186, coinciding with the Vandal Minimum, a sixth century climate crisis marked by global cooling and upheaval, likely caused by volcanic eruptions and possibly even a comet impact.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation

Mount Sinai Health System earns several prestigious national honors for environmental excellence

The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Business Announcement

“Mount Sinai Health System is committed to helping create a cleaner tomorrow by elevating our environmental stewardship and strengthening our organizational culture and operational excellence,” says Muoi A. Trinh, MD, Medical Director of Sustainability, Mount Sinai Health System. “These awards are a visible testament to our work to support the health of our planet and the people who live on it.”

AMOC decline increases rainfall in parts of the Amazon rainforest

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New research led by IIASA reveals a surprising link between two major climate tipping elements: the Southern Amazon rainforest and the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC).

Journal: Environmental Research Letters

MBARI research and technology play integral role in new Decade of Action for Cryospheric Sciences

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Business Announcement

This year marks the opening of the United Nations Decade of Action for Cryospheric Sciences, an international initiative focused on the rapid changes occurring in glaciers, snow cover, ice sheets, sea ice, and permafrost and their impacts on the planet. MBARI’s advanced technology will play a critical role in this effort, providing important data about the Arctic seafloor and the Southern Ocean. MBARI research is answering fundamental questions about polar environments and other components of the cryosphere. This information can help resource managers and policymakers make decisions about the future of this important ecosystem.

Funder: David and Lucile Packard Foundation

Urgent action needed to protect corals fleeing warming seas

University of Hawaii at Manoa
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Coral reefs are creeping away from the tropics in response to warming oceans, but the pace is too slow to beat the heat and escape impacts of climate change, according to a breakthrough study published June 6 in Science Advances. The study, authored by researchers at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) Marine Ecological Theory Lab, also offers a hopeful alternative: immediate actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions can significantly improve the future outlook for coral reefs globally.

Journal: Science Advances

Hurricanes create powerful changes deep in the ocean, study reveals

University of California - Merced
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A group of researchers on an oceanic research expedition ran into a hurricane and turned it to their advantage, studying the water in the storm's wake. Professor Michael Beman and his team discovered that powerful storms draw deep-water low-oxygen zones closer to the ocean's surface, along with the organisms that inhabit them, creating smorgasbords for some sea creatures but potentially endangering those that depend on higher oxygen concentrations for survival.

Journal: Science Advances

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