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  • CO2 sequestration and earthquakes

    Storing captured carbon dioxide underground in order to mitigate climate change can be done in a way that minimizes earthquake risk.

  • Climate-ecosystem carbon feedbacks

    New research by YCEI scientists shows that heterotrophic fungi acclimate rapidly and efficiently to temperature – a finding that has significant implications for understanding climate-ecosystem carbon feedback mechanisms through respiration.

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Increase in the range between wet and dry season precipitation

Submitted by: Xavier Levine

A simple thermodynamic argument suggests that as the water vapor content of the atmosphere increases with global warming dry regions may become drier and wet regions wetter. This enhanced hydrological contrast with global warming can be attributed to changes in the atmospheric water vapor concentration being comparatively larger than those of the moisture advecting winds in the lower...

Fungi, not plants, drive long-term carbon sequestration in boreal forest

Submitted by: Thomas Crowther

Soils contain two-thirds of the world’s terrestrial carbon (3,000 Pg C).

Hotter now than the last 11,300 years

Submitted by: Phoebe Zarnetske

In their recent Science article, Marcott and colleagues present a reconstruction of...

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