Christiana Figueres, the architect of the 2015 Paris Agreement, has dedicated her life to climate policy. In her new book “The Future We Choose,” she urges us to harness our technological, political ...

Climate news can seem dire with little hope for a better world. Talk to climate scientists, engineers and researchers, however, and they see a different future – a positive one that's well within our ...

Many of the world’s largest industrialized nations will lose population between now and 2050 as low birth rates, struggling economies and curbs on immigration stifle growth, says the author of a world ...

Fengqi You, professor in energy systems engineering and Ning Zhao, a doctoral student in the Process-Energy-Environmental Systems Engineering (PEESE) lab, examined a variety of carbon-neutral energy ...

SAN DIEGO — A new study from UC Santa Barbara is sounding the alarm on how human activity is accelerating changes in the world’s oceans — and warns that, without intervention, the damage could more ...

More than 1 million plant and animal species will vanish if global temperatures continue to rise as predicted in the next 50 years, scientists say in the first authoritative attempt to gauge the ...

A funny thing has happened in the way well-meaning greenies talk about the earth. Call it the Al Gore effect: Faced with so many climate skeptics who deny the reality that 99% of scientists back ...

How extreme will weather events become in the second half of the 21st century? This is what a recent study published in Earth’s Future hopes to address as an international team of researchers ...

A study published in the journal Global Environmental Change finds hope for the future with the revelation that it is feasible to reduce global energy consumption levels to those of the 1960s by 2050 ...

This lab is designed to complement the lecture material from ENVI.2050 - Earth Systems: Biosphere and Global Change. This course, along with the other Earth Systems courses and corresponding labs use ...