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As nations gathered to address climate change at a United Nations summit in Glasgow, the University of Maryland joined Wednesday with a federal agency on the front lines of global warming and a major engineering group in an effort to accelerate the development of climate-smart engineering practices.

A new paper released today in Science demonstrates the critical need for ambitious climate pledges from every country around the world. The authors of this paper found that since 2015's Paris Agreement, pledges from over 100 countries have significantly increased the chances of limiting global warming to below 2°C and makes a 1.5 degree target reality in this century.

With help from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, University of Maryland researchers are developing a satellite-based effort to improve monitoring of humanity’s effect on the Earth—which could one day benefit the actual Amazon, along with other forests and natural areas around the globe.