Seventh International Symposium on Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gases (NCGG7) call for papers

A major international symposium on "Innovations for a Sustainable Future", 5-7 November, 2014.

Published: May 14, 2013

Global Land Project major conference call for abstracts

The call for abstracts for the Land Transformations conference, Berlin 19-21 March 2014, is now open. Deadline for submissions, 30 June 2013.

Published: April 30, 2013

Latest Global Change issue available online

The cover story in this issue explores the phenomenon of land grabs by taking a closer look at the Southeast Asian nation of Laos. Also featured are articles on resilience in the face of sea-level rise, air pollution in large urban agglomerations and communication between various research communities.

Download articles here.

Published: April 24, 2013

North American Future Earth consultation announced

NASA's Jack Kaye will chair the first webinar to discuss the new Future Earth initiative with North American academics. The consultation, on 2 May, will pave the way for North American participation in Future Earth and is intended to provide inputs to the governing bodies of Future Earth.

Published: April 24, 2013

Blue skies: a homage to fundamental research

From the ozone hole to acid rain, in the last 40 years the sky really was the limit for major scientific breakthroughs in atmospheric research.

Published: April 22, 2013

First 2000-year temperature reconstructions for individual continents published

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An international team of 78 researchers has published the most comprehensive reconstruction of past temperature changes at the continental scale. The research confirms an overall cooling trend across nearly all continents during the last one to two thousand years.

Published: April 10, 2013

Water in the Anthropocene:
Challenges for Science and Governance

This conference, to be held in Bonn, Germany on 21-24 May 2013, is organized by the Global Water System Project and its International Project Office based in Bonn, Germany.

Published: April 10, 2013

“German National Committee Future Earth” established

German academics have formed a national committee for Future Earth, launched by national funding agencies in the country. The “German Committee Future Earth” succeeds the German National Committee on Global Change Research.

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Ticking time bombs in the human-earth system:

This Second Australian Earth System Outlook Conference, explored a small selection of globally significant “ticking time bombs” which pose risks of unmanageable, undesirable change unless anticipatory actions are taken that fall well outside the corrective capacity of the invisible hand of economic market forces.