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  • Anthropology and Climate Change

    A recently published article in Nature Climate Change by former YCEI Postdoctoral Associate Jessica Barnes, YCEI Deputy Director Michael Dove, and participants of a YCEI funded workshop, discusses the contributions that anthropology can bring to the study of climate change.

  • 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.

In the News

400 ppm of CO2: How will sea-level respond?

Submitted by: Yige Zhang

We are currently on the eve of a world with ~400 parts per million (ppm) of atmospheric carbon dioxide (398.35 ppm as of May 2nd, Mauna Loa Observatory). How global climate, sea-level and ecosystems will respond to this level of CO2 level is a key question for global change research. Recently, Foster and Rohling (2013) looked back into Earth’s geological history to explore the relationship...

Shifts in Arctic plants could accelerate warming

Submitted by: Phoebe Zarnetske

Pearson and colleagues (2013) recently showed how the expansion of shrubs and trees in the...

Challenges of monitoring carbon dioxide in the subsurface

Submitted by: Christopher MacMinn

Large-scale carbon sequestration involves capturing...

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