The newly released Global Carbon Budget 2021 report, co-authored by Department of Geographical Sciences professors George Hurtt and Louise Chini, as well as adjunct professor Benjamin Poulter, reveals that global carbon emissions are nearly right back to where they were pre-pandemic. In 2020, widespread lockdowns contributed to a 5.4% decrease in global carbon emissions, but 2021 carbon emissions are projected to make up most of that difference and increase by 4.9%. 

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.

Scientists at the University of Maryland have created a way to convert one of the primary greenhouse gases—methane—into a range of valuable commodity chemicals while releasing no climate-changing emissions in the process. The achievement, detailed Wednesday in the journal Advanced Energy Materials, is a major opportunity for the chemical and natural gas industries and a step forward in the fight to protect Earth’s climate.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) awarded a $126,000 Fire Prevention and Safety grant to the University of Maryland (UMD), College Park to fund a study on fireground contaminant exposure control approaches utilized by fire departments regionally and nationally.  

Released today by the Center for Global Sustainability (CGS) at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, a new analysis offers plant-by-plant strategies for retiring coal-fired power plants globally and highlights pathways from ten countries accounting for over 90% of global total coal power capacity and nearly 72% of total global GHG emissions.

Clark School engineering faculty and students who faced the shuttering of their campus labs to prevent the spread of COVID-19 are now repurposing them to meet the urgent needs of first responders and medical professionals fighting the virus on the front lines.

University of Maryland Extension (UME) faculty are partnering in a multi-institutional aquaculture research project, led by UMD’s A.

A new study identified 37 recently active volcanic structures on Venus. The study provides some of the best evidence yet that Venus is still a geologically active planet. A research paper on the work, which was conducted by researchers at the University of Maryland and the Institute of Geophysics at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, was published in the journal Nature Geoscience on July 20, 2020.