While not nearly as prevalent or long-lived in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, increasing methane emissions are a problem for the environment. Responsible for about one-third of the Earth’s warming, methane is about 80 times more powerful in terms of global heating than carbon dioxide. Oceanographer Tessa Hill talks about what can be done to mitigate this.
The intersection between climate change and art history opens new pathways for understanding how visual and material culture mediates human relationships to the natural world. This year's Alan Templeton Colloquium in Art History will feature art historians Andrew Patrizio and Alan C. Braddock in conversation on March 6 from 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art.
As humanity reckons with a climate shaped by a legacy of burning fossil fuels, implementing solutions we already have requires large-scale coordination and overcoming social challenges that stunt action.
Every year, the Bodega Marine Laboratory hosts summer sessions for undergraduate students interested in coastal systems and marine science. During the roughly five-week program, students take classes in topics like coastal oceanography, marine environmental issues and biological oceanography. They conduct fieldwork and go on field trips to nearby sites like the Hog Island Oyster Company. Students can even live at the lab’s on-site dormitory during the session.
Fossil fuel consumption, among other sources of pollution, have resulted in increasing atmospheric and oceanic temperatures, leading to ice sheet melt and unprecedented shifts in our environments. New research from an international team of scientists suggests that these recent, rapid warming conditions exist within a larger climatic pattern — one that has been persistently driven by extraterrestrial forcing.
Walk through the "Breath(e)" exhibit with various scholars from different departments across the College of Letters and Science as they reflect on the art and how it connects to their own work and the world.
UC Davis Professor Tessa Hill spoke about the benefits that can come from fast action on methane with the hosts of We Don’t Have Time during this year’s Climate Week NYC, held Sept 21-28. She was joined by Fatima Denton, director of the United Nations University-Institute for Natural Resources in Africa.
Two exhibitions that invite visitors to reflect on the present by considering the past and our shared future are on view this fall at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at University of California, Davis. The exhibitions are on view through Nov. 29.
Explore new interpretations of classic land ethics, multiple cases of climate action and land sovereignty and witness how past generations reacted to the changing climate. Scholars from across the College of Letters and Science provide insight into how human action and inaction has influenced the natural environment around us.
Some of the rainiest places on Earth could see their annual precipitation nearly halved if climate change continues to alter the way ocean water moves around the globe. In a new study, scientists revealed that even a modest slowdown of a major Atlantic Ocean current could dry out rainforests, threaten vulnerable ecosystems and upend livelihoods across the tropics.
