20,000 tree ring samples shows remarkable growth resilience to droughts, but tree death could result in equivalent of Germany’s annual CO2 emissions.

As the need to find climate change solutions becomes ever more urgent, Cornell chemists are leading the way with innovative and far-reaching discoveries, including better electric batteries, carbon capture technologies, renewable plastics and improvements in solar cells. 

Humans have engineered climate change by manipulating the environment.

The typical start of fire season in California has shifted earlier by an average of more than one day every year in most of the state since the early 1990s, and up to a total change of month and half earlier in some areas, a trend driven by human-caused climate change, according to a UCLA study published in the journal Science Advances.

Research is about finding ways to do things that nobody has ever done.

As the climate warms and regional drying becomes more frequent, peatlands – some of the planet’s most important carbon sinks – are increasingly under threat.

Researchers say wildfires are evolving due to new fuels and the encroachment of urban areas on rural spaces necessitating new approaches to combatting wildfires.

As Greenland’s ice retreats, it’s fueling tiny ocean organisms. 

Sentinel-6B will measure sea surface height for nearly all of the world’s ocean, providing important data for information products, including weather and hurricane forecasts.

Few energy technologies divide public opinion quite like wind turbines.