Jun 12, 2013
Career development workshop for young polar scientists announced
The Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) is organizing a 1-day...
May 17, 2013
A major international symposium on "Innovations for a Sustainable Future", 5-7...
May 14, 2013
The call for abstracts for the Land Transformations conference, Berlin 19-21...
Seventh International Symposium on Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gases (NCGG7) call for papers
A major international symposium on "Innovations for a Sustainable Future", 5-7...
May 14, 2013
Global Land Project major conference call for abstracts
The call for abstracts for the Land Transformations conference, Berlin 19-21...
Coping with a land-grab world:
lessons from Laos
Studies of large-scale land acquisitions tend to focus on the global or local...
Methane:
Not a damp squib, not yet a time bomb
A potent greenhouse gas, an energy source, a culinary delicacy for some microbes – methane is all of these and more. But is it also the harbinger of impending catastrophe? There’s no smoking gun, finds Ninad Bondre.
Zooming in over the northern latitudes
The Arctic is warming twice as quickly as the rest of the world, with significant consequences for northern Eurasia. Cat Downy discusses how the European Space Agency is working with researchers to combine remotely sensed, field and laboratory data in this hard-to-access region.
Water in the Anthropocene data visualization
A new data visualization, produced by IGBP and Globaia, charts how the global water cycle is changing...
Ticking time bombs in the human-earth system:
This Second Australian Earth System Outlook Conference, explored a small selection of globally...
Stockholm Seminar: 2000-year climate records
Thorsten Kiefer from IGBP's core project Past Global Changes (PAGES) discusses the 2000-year climate...
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June 12, 2013The Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) is organizing a 1-day science and career development workshop before the start of the Davos Atmosphere and Cryosphere Assembly (DACA-13), in Davos Switzerland July 7, 2013. Sign up here. -
May 17, 2013A major international symposium on "Innovations for a Sustainable Future", 5-7 November, 2014. -
May 14, 2013The call for abstracts for the Land Transformations conference, Berlin 19-21 March 2014, is now open. Deadline for submissions, 30 June 2013. -
April 30, 2013The 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. -
April 24, 2013NASA'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. -
April 24, 2013From the ozone hole to acid rain, in the last 40 years the sky really was the limit for major scientific breakthroughs in atmospheric research. -
April 10, 2013This 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. -
April 10, 2013German 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. -
April 3, 2013The IGBP-sponsored Surface Ocean-Lower Atmosphere Study has published its mid-term strategy outlining "evolving research directions" in the journal Environmental Chemistry. -
March 22, 2013In the wake of last week’s meetings at the UN on the definition of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a group of international scientists have published a call in the journal Nature (21 March 2013) arguing for a set of six SDGs that link poverty eradication to protection of Earth’s life support. The researchers suggest that in the face of increasing pressure on the planet’s ability to support life, adherence to out-dated definitions of sustainable development threaten to reverse progress made in developing countries over past decades.
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Jun 20, 2013
Aug 19 - Aug 23, 2013
IMBER Scientific Steering Committee Meeting 2013
Aug 19 - Aug 23, 2013
24th LOICZ Scientific Steering Committee Meeting
Global Change Magazine No. 80
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...
Global Change Magazine No. 79
This issue highlights various aspects of Arctic climate change, including sea ice and methane. We also look at a new tool for analysing complex global challenges, the path ahead for the Earth-system...
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