The UK’s oil and gas regulator does not take tax breaks or foreign ownership into account when deciding whether a license is in the national interest
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The Columbia ecologist will serve as the society’s president in 2023-2024.
Sage Solomine leveraged her master’s degree from the Environmental Science and Policy program to achieve her goal of protecting big cats with Panthera.
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 09 December 2021; doi:10.1038/s41558-021-01237-w
The climate system may respond in different ways to reductions in atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Work now shows a delayed recovery (hysteresis) of the tropical rainbelt, with widespread implications for water resources.
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 09 December 2021; doi:10.1038/s41558-021-01211-6
In idealized model experiments where CO2 increases four-fold before returning to its original level, temperature and precipitation show almost linear responses to CO2 forcing. In contrast, the response of the Intertropical Convergence Zone lags behind CO2 changes, associated with delayed energy exchanges.
