Le Quéré, C., Moriarty, R., Andrew, R. M., Peters, G. P., Ciais, P., Friedlingstein, P., Jones, S. D., Sitch, S., Tans, P., Arneth, A., Boden, T. A., Bopp, L., Bozec, Y., Canadell, J. G., Chevallier, F., Cosca, C. E., Harris, I., Hoppema, M., Houghton, R. A., House, J. I., Jain, A., Johannessen, T., Kato, E., Keeling, R. F., Kitidis, V., Klein Goldewijk, K., Koven, C., Landa, C. S., Landschützer, P., Lenton, A., Lima, I. D., Marland, G., Mathis, J. T., Metzl, N., Nojiri, Y., Olsen, A., Ono, T., Peters, W., Pfeil, B., Poulter, B., Raupach, M.

The study, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, found that streams draining oil palm plantations can be up to 7 degrees Fahrenheit warmer and have up to 550 times higher sediment concentrations than streams draining intact forests.

The 2014 Global Carbon Budget is a part of IGBP-sponsored Global Carbon Project efforts (GCP), which provides an annual report of carbon dioxide emissions, land and ocean sinks and accumulation in the atmosphere, incorporating data from multiple research institutes from around the world. This year total 68 institutions from 12 different countries participated in this project.

The NASA LCLUC program would like to invite you to the 2014 Live Webinar Series on LCLUC Urban Inter-Disciplinary Studies (IDS). Click on the link above to register. The 2014 LCLUC Webinar Series features LCLUC IDS projects.

This session will provide a forum for researchers from both North and South countries (developing and emerging countries) to present their research on the impact of landuse and climate change on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems in developing countries. Urbanisation, industrialisation and the intensification of agriculture are bringing about change in tropical ecosystems at an alarming rate and the consequences of this change are still not fully understood.

http://cce.nasa.gov/meeting_2015/index.html

The Future Earth program, initiated by ICSU and ISSC, is now established, and researchers around the world are working with stakeholders on the development of the trans-disciplinary research needed to resolve some of the key challenges for global sustainability. A significant aspect of Future Earth is that it is building on the global environmental change programs that have successfully promoted international collaboration for some decades.

NEESPI scientists are invited to participate in a special NEESPI Session (Global Change Session ID 1604) Environmental, Socio-Economic and Climatic Changes in Northern Eurasia and their Feedbacks to the Global Earth System to be held in the framework of the American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, December 15-19, 2014. Deadline for abstract submission is August 6, 2014. Session description is available at http://neespi.org/news/upcoming.html

New research from the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment and Stanford University shows that freshwater stream ecosystems are highly vulnerable to oil palm plantation expansion. The three-year study compared streams draining watersheds dominated by four land uses — intact forest, manually logged forest, community agroforest and oil palm plantation — in West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, which is ground zero for palm oil production. Kimberly Carlson, an IonE postdoctoral scholar and lead author on the study, says the research yielded some unexpected findings.

Carlson, K. M., L. M. Curran, A. G. Ponette-González, D. Ratnasari, Ruspita, N. Lisnawati, Y. Purwanto, K. A. Brauman, and P. A. Raymond (2014), Influence of watershed-climate interactions on stream temperature, sediment yield, and metabolism along a land use intensity gradient in Indonesian Borneo, J. Geophys. Res. Biogeosci., 119, doi:10.1002/