Published:
June 18, 2013
The International Council for Science (ICSU) and the International Social Science Council (ISSC), on behalf of the Science and Technology Alliance for Global Sustainability has announced the members of the first science committee for Future Earth, a new 10-year research programme on global sustainability.
Published: June 12, 2013
The 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.
Future Earth science committee announced
The chair of the new committee is former IGBP vice-chair Mark Stafford Smith, Science Director of CSIRO’s Climate Adaptation Flagship in Canberra, Australia. Vice chairs are Melissa Leach,...
Published: June 12, 2013
Career development workshop for young polar scientists announced
The 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.
Published:
May 17, 2013
A major international symposium on "Innovations for a Sustainable Future", 5-7 November, 2014.
Published: May 14, 2013
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
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.
Published: April 24, 2013
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
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
Published: April 10, 2013
Water in the Anthropocene:
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 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.
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.
Urban air pollution:
a new look at an old problem
Large urban agglomerations inevitably lead to air pollution. But despite the significant impacts on human health and climate, we lack systematic measurements of air pollution in many cities. Megan L...
What to do while the water rises?
Rising sea levels will eventually threaten many coastal cities. But a dominant focus on the long-term endgame should not unduly restrict our options to deal with the more immediate consequences of...
Coping with a land-grab world:
lessons from Laos
Studies of large-scale land acquisitions tend to focus on the global or local scales, leading to insights that are either too general or too specific. Recent work on an intermediate scale – the...
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,...
A new data visualization, produced by IGBP and Globaia, charts how the global water cycle is changing as a result of human pressure. The three-minute film was commissioned by the Global Water System Project (GWSP) for its 2013 open science conference, Water in the Anthropocene, held in Bonn.
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.
Thorsten Kiefer from IGBP's core project Past Global Changes (PAGES) discusses the 2000-year climate records across continents.
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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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