changing climate

(University of Oregon) Climate change in the Northwest is the focus of two federal grants totaling $3.2 million awarded to two University of Oregon researchers.

They will work together on a pair of multi-site projects designed to help enhance biodiversity while protecting people and property from wildfires in the face of a changing climate.

In August of 2007, the editorial team noticed a number of manuscripts about water technologies coming over the transom in just a few months.

Then more manuscripts arrived. Our instinct—that the serendipity represented by this uncoordinated and unplanned influx of articles is an especially telling one—is borne out both by the thematic insights found in this collection of articles and by the encouraging scholarly trends in the history of technology that the July issue demonstrates in microcosm.

Before ice first began to form in Antarctica around 34 million years ago, the Earth was a very different place - but then greenhouse conditions swiftly gave way to an icehouse climate, causing the oceans to become less acidic.

Scientists have been piecing together how Earth's changing climate affected ocean chemistry during this period of transition.

Their work sheds light on the links between glaciation and the ocean carbon cycle.