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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 26-Apr-2025 11:08 ET (26-Apr-2025 15:08 GMT/UTC)

Arctic rivers project receives “national champion” designation from frontiers foundation

Marine Biological Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

The Frontiers Planet Prize, the world’s largest science competition to enhance planetary health by fast-tracking innovative research, has announced National Champions from 19 different countries who now advance to the International competition, which will award three winners $1M each to scale up their research. Suzanne Tank and co-authors from the Arctic Great Rivers Observatory (ArcticGRO), a multinational project founded at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), were recognized for their publication, “Recent trends in the chemistry of major northern rivers signal widespread Arctic change,” published in Nature Geosciences.

Yale-related nonprofit wins global carbon removal prize

Yale University
Grant and Award Announcement

New Haven, Conn. — Normally, throwing rocks at a problem isn’t the best idea.

But in the multi-faceted fight to combat climate change, scientists are finding that crushed rocks judiciously applied to farmers’ fields may be a powerful force in removing heat-trapping carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and storing it safely for thousands of years.

How powerful is this idea? Powerful enough to win the four-year, $100 million XPRIZE Carbon Removal competition.

On Earth Day, April 22, XPRIZE officials announced that Mati Carbon, a non-profit based in part on the research of Yale geochemist Noah Planavsky, won the competition’s grand prize of $50 million. More than 1,300 groups from 88 countries took part in the competition, which required teams to create and demonstrate a system for pulling CO2 directly from the atmosphere or oceans and durably sequester it. (Another $50 million in prize money will be distributed to other winners.)

‘Cryosphere meltdown’ will impact Arctic marine carbon cycles and ecosystems, new study warns

UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study has found worrying signs that climate change may be undermining the capacity of Arctic fjords to serve as effective carbon sinks. The findings suggest that the capacity of polar oceans to remove carbon from the atmosphere may be reduced as the world continues to heat up.

Journal: Communications Earth & Environment

Prepare today to save lives tomorrow: SFU study finds gaps in B.C. extreme heat response plans

Simon Fraser University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Local authorities must do more to prepare communities in British Columbia for the dangers of extreme heat, according to a new research paper from Simon Fraser University.

Four years after the infamous 2021 heat dome, which killed more than 600 people in B.C. alone, the ground-breaking study found significant differences in how municipalities within the Metro Vancouver and Fraser Valley regional districts are preparing for heat events.

Journal: Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning

UCLA study: How to break through climate apathy

University of California - Los Angeles
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new UCLA study finds that presenting the same continuous climate data, such as incremental changes in temperature, in binary form — such as whether a lake did or did not freeze in the winter — significantly increases people’s ability to see the impact of climate change.

Journal: Nature Human Behaviour

Finding 'win-win-wins' for climate, economics and justice

University of Michigan
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In examining how different countries have rolled out climate change mitigation strategies, research led by the University of Michigan has found reasons to be optimistic about preserving our environment while promoting prosperity and well-being.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Study of ‘spatial synchrony’ using long-term data exposes ecological trends and could boost conservation, farming

University of Kansas
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study from the University of Kansas in Ecology Letters reveals the study of spatial synchrony over a long enough timescale leads to better testing of ideas, improved statistical results and new conceptual realms for understanding ecology, conserving species and farming more profitably.

Journal: Ecology Letters

Climate change is now the leading threat to imperiled species, new study finds

American Institute of Biological Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Authors of a recent article in BioScience reveal that climate change has become the most pervasive threat to imperiled species, marking the first time that this driver has been identified to surpass other causes of biodiversity loss.

Journal: BioScience

Trawling-induced sediment resuspension reduces CO2 uptake

Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR)
Peer-Reviewed Publication

24 April 2025/Kiel. When bottom trawls are dragged across the seafloor, they stir up sediments. This not only releases previously stored organic carbon, but also intensifies the oxidation of pyrite, a mineral present in marine sediments, leading to additional emissions of carbon dioxide (CO₂). These are the findings of a new study conducted by the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel. Based on sediment samples from Kiel Bight, the researchers investigated the geochemical consequences of sediment resuspension. Their conclusion: areas with fine-grained sediments, which play a crucial role in CO₂ storage in the Baltic Sea, should urgently be placed under protection. The study has now been published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment.

Journal: Communications Earth & Environment

Canadian experts urge protection for children from escalating heat in schools and child care settings

Canadian Partnership for Children’s Health and Environment / Canadian Child Care Federation
Reports and Proceedings

Amid warnings of near record heat ahead in 2025, the Canadian Partnership for Children’s Health and Environment (CPCHE) and the Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA) say Canada’s schools and child care facilities are ill-prepared and children are paying the price. CPCHE’s summary of evidence and Collective Call for Action, signed by 40+ partners and collaborators, is complemented by twin CELA reports elaborating on the need for climate-resilient infrastructure.

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