Stories indexed under: Climate research

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• Snow in the Rockies, dry summers in the Southwest? Dec. 6, 2011 New simulations of summer rains in the arid American Southwest show that they are influenced by the previous winter's snowpack in the Rocky Mountains.
• Global commission delivers food security policy recommendations Nov. 16, 2011 A new report published by an independent global commission of eminent scientists states that the world's food system needs an immediate transformation to meet current and future threats to food security and environmental sustainability.
• Climate change and the oxymoron of sustainable growth Nov. 2, 2011 Climate change, often viewed as a burden for future generations, is, in fact, a problem at hand, and a significant one, contends Rudy M. Baum, editor-in-chief of Chemical & Engineering News.
• UW-Madison to collaborate on new federal Climate Science Center Oct. 20, 2011 The University of Wisconsin-Madison is among several institutions that will collaborate through a new federal Northeast Climate Science Center to study the effects of climate change on ecosystems, wildlife, water and other resources.
• Slide show: Northwoods partners Oct. 17, 2011 The complex interplay between the earth's climate on global and local levels drives UW-Madison atmospheric and oceanic sciences professor Ankur Desai's research. In September, students from the soils and waters course at the College of the Menominee Nation in Keshena, Wis., joined Desai's team to get a look at the high-tech methods researchers use to monitor carbon flux — the movement of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide in and out of plants, water and soil.
• Climate change could drive native fish out of Wisconsin waters Aug. 16, 2011 The cisco, a key forage fish found in Wisconsin's deepest and coldest bodies of water, could become a climate change casualty and disappear from most of the Wisconsin lakes it now inhabits by the year 2100, according to a new study.
• Sea level rise less from Greenland, more from Antarctica, than expected during last interglacial July 28, 2011 During the last prolonged warm spell on Earth, the oceans were at least four meters - and possibly as much as 6.5 meters, or about 20 feet - higher than they are now.
• Report assesses climate change impacts, adaptation strategies Feb. 7, 2011 A statewide collaborative of scientists and diverse stakeholders is proposing a multitude of measures to help protect and enhance Wisconsin's natural resources, economic vitality, and public well-being as the state's climate becomes warmer and wetter.
• Study: Mountain vegetation impacted by climate change Oct. 25, 2010 Climate change has had a significant effect on mountain vegetation at low elevations in the past 60 years, according to a study done by the University of California at Davis, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and U.S. Geological Survey.
• Seminars will make teachers climate-change ambassadors Feb. 1, 2010 The Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will join the Madison Metropolitan School District in a three-year project to prepare science teachers to be climate-literacy ambassadors in their schools and communities.
• Air-quality improvements offset climate policy costs Jan. 22, 2010 The benefits of improved air quality resulting from climate change mitigation policies are likely to outweigh the near-term costs of implementing those policies, according to a new study.
• Greenhouse gas carbon dioxide ramps up aspen growth Dec. 4, 2009 The rising level of atmospheric carbon dioxide may be fueling more than climate change. It could also be making some trees grow like crazy.
• TIP/Climate change experts Dec. 3, 2009
• After mastodons and mammoths, a transformed landscape Nov. 19, 2009 Roughly 15,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, North America's vast assemblage of large animals - including such iconic creatures as mammoths, mastodons, camels, horses, ground sloths and giant beavers - began their precipitous slide to extinction.
• Warmer means windier on world's biggest lake Nov. 16, 2009 Rising water temperatures are kicking up more powerful winds on Lake Superior, with consequences for currents, biological cycles, pollution and more on the world's largest lake and its smaller brethren.
• UW-Madison climate competition offers up to $100,000 in awards Oct. 6, 2009 Now in its second year, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Climate Leadership Challenge really means business.
• Study reveals dynamic Wisconsin climate, past and future Sept. 14, 2009 If the future scenarios being churned out by the world's most sophisticated computer climate models are on the mark, big changes are in store for Wisconsin's weather during the next century.
• 'Motion picture' of past warming paves way for snapshots of future climate change July 16, 2009 By accurately modeling Earth's last major global warming - and answering pressing questions about its causes - scientists led by University of Wisconsin-Madison and National Center for Atmospheric Research climatologists are unraveling the intricacies of the kind of abrupt climate shifts that may occur in the future.
• Hurricanes not likely to disrupt ocean carbon balance March 30, 2009 Hurricanes are well known for the trail of damage and debris they can leave on land, but less known for the invisible trail left over the ocean by their gale-force winds - a trail of carbon dioxide.
• Dust plays larger than expected role in determining Atlantic temperature March 26, 2009 The recent warming trend in the Atlantic Ocean is largely due to reductions in airborne dust and volcanic emissions during the past 30 years, according to a new study.