Climate change adaptation

CO2 ventilation breakthrough could turn city rooftops into bumper vegetable gardens

October 24, 2022 // 0 Comments

by Angharad Brewer Gillham, Frontiers science writer Image: Shutterstock.com Scientists find that expelled air from ventilation systems can make corn and spinach grow taller [...]

Climate change efforts should focus on ocean-based solutions

October 4, 2018 // 11 Comments

Image of wind turbines in the ocean. Ambitious and rapid action is needed to reduce climate change and its impacts -- and the first broad-scale assessment of ocean-based solutions shows the focus should be on the oceans: Frontiers in Marine Science

Call for ocean-based renewable energy and local marine conservation and restoration to be scaled-up and implemented immediately: Frontiers in Marine Science [...]

Amazon River carbon emissions nearly balance terrestrial uptake

May 15, 2017 // 1 Comment

New study finds Amazon River emits as much carbon as the forest stores with major implications for global climate policy.

Study, published in Frontiers in Marine Science, finds Amazon River emits as much carbon as the forest stores with major implications for climate policy. [...]

Did Humans Create the Sahara Desert?

March 14, 2017 // 6 Comments

New research challenges the idea that changes in the Earth’s orbit triggered Sahara desertification. [...]

To survive climate change, plants must adapt – and fast

August 23, 2016 // 7 Comments

Researchers read into the biological history of plants to reveal how plants will survive when birds and bees fly away. [...]

Networked solutions needed for climate change adaptation

April 5, 2016 // 0 Comments

By Michelle Ponto, Science Writer The 2015 Paris Climate Conference (COP21) led to a shift in focus in climate change research towards finding solutions. The hope is that [...]

News from #AGU15: Heat stress in dense populations and impacts of the 2015-16 El Niño

December 18, 2015 // 1 Comment

Gearóid Ó Faoleán, Journal Manager of Frontiers in Earth Science, is representing Frontiers at the AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, the world’s largest earth [...]