Campus change to fight climate change
Stephen Porder from Brown University will talk about how to move universities off of fossil fuels.
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Abrupt thaw could boost permafrost carbon emissions, new study finds
The abrupt thawing of permafrost may affect up to half of all carbon stored in the layer of frozen Arctic soil, according to a new study in Nature Geoscience, and could double permafrost’s contributions to global climate warming compared to Read more…
NAU, national partners win $3.3 million grant to study microbes’ role in a changing world
If the fate of carbon is a test that planet Earth is taking right now, one of the answer keys is likely to be found in soil, where microorganisms—which account for nearly 15 percent of global biomass, by some estimates—eat, Read more…
Ecoss researchers find that connector fungi offer new clues to fate of nitrogen in warming tundra
Like a long-distance food delivery app with no apparent highway, fungi that associate with shallow-rooted shrubs in the tundra are accessing deep stores of nitrogen being released by thawing permafrost. The findings by Northern Arizona University researchers, announced this week Read more…
Where to find Ecoss @ #AGU2019
Use this guide to find where Ecoss scientists will be presenting at the annual fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in San Francisco, Dec. 9 – 13, 2019. If you’re tweeting during AGU, or want to follow along Read more…
Changing the climate conversation in Arizona
NAU joins with ASU, UA and Arizona communities to confront climate crisis As Arizona confronts the impacts of a hotter world, Northern Arizona University is joining partners from Arizona State University, the University of Arizona and communities from throughout the Read more…
High-Tech Tree tells Climate Stories Online – led by Ecoss Researchers
Wired red oak is first of its kind in North America. As trees across the U.S. continue their picturesque march toward autumn, one 100-year-old oak tree in Massachusetts is attracting a crowd of admirers online. The tree is a scientific Read more…
Ecoss postdoc leads tree ring class with Grand Canyon Trust youth trip
Ecoss postdoc Drew Peltier led a 2 hour class on tree ring science and climate change at Mangum Ranch on the North rim of the Grand Canyon. Drew joined a Grand Canyon Trust Climate change research trip, where Flagstaff High Read more…
Ecoss researchers co-authored IPCC Special Report on Oceans and Changing Cryosphere
The world’s oceans are getting hotter and acidifying under climate change at unprecedented rates, threatening coastal and high-mountain communities, marine ecosystems, and global fishing stocks, according to a new Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate Read more…
Larger, more frequent fires in boreal forest threaten previously protected carbon stores
Pools of old carbon in the soil of boreal forests historically safe from combustion are being released by more frequent and larger wildfires, an Ecoss team led by Xanthe Walker and Michelle Mack announced in Nature this week. As the Read more…