Jun 18, 2013

Future Earth science committee announced


The International Council for Science (ICSU) and the International Social Science...
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

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


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

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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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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