AGAGE News

  • October 15, 2018
  • Cabot Institute Blog

Monitoring greenhouse gas emissions: Now more important than ever

Why are measuring stations and networks like AGAGE so valuable and more important than ever? The answer to this question is straightforward.

  • December 22, 2017
  • Careers @ MIT

AGAGE Jobs: New Openings for Research Scientist, Postdoc Associate (Dec 2017)

MIT Center for Global Change Science (CGCS) seeks a Research Scientist and a Postdoctoral Associate. Apply to work in the Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment (AGAGE) and a large atmospheric chemistry group at MIT.

  • October 31, 2017
  • The Conversation

World greenhouse gas levels made unprecedented leap in 2016

AGAGE scientists Paul Fraser and Paul Krummel co-authored an article in The Conversation about the rise of global average carbon dioxide concentrations during 2016. This is the highest level for at least 3 million years, having climbed by 3.3 ppm relative to the 2015 average.

  • October 31, 2017
  • The Conversation

World greenhouse gas levels made unprecedented leap in 2016

According to figures released by the World Meteorological Organisation, atmospheric CO₂ concentrations reached the highest level for at least 3 million years.

  • September 14, 2017
  • The Conversation

After 30 years of the Montreal Protocol, the ozone layer is gradually healing

AGAGE scientist Paul Krummel co-authored an article in The Conversation about the Montreal Protocol, which is slowly but surely reversing the damage caused to the ozone layer by industrial gases such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs).

  • September 14, 2017
  • The Conversation

After 30 years of the Montreal Protocol, the ozone layer is gradually healing

The treaty, signed in September 1987, is slowly but surely reversing the damage caused to the ozone layer by industrial gases.

  • August 8, 2017
  • BBC Radio

BBC Radio: Counting Carbon

What do Indian cows, Russian CD-ROMs and Italian refrigeration have in common? They're all symptoms of a massive problem.

  • May 31, 2017
  • The Conversation

Global stocktake shows the 43 greenhouse gases driving global warming

AGAGE scientists Paul Fraser and Paul Krummel co-authored an article in The Conversation about the most comprehensive collection of atmospheric greenhouse gas measurements, which confirms the relentless rise in some of the most important greenhouse gases.

  • May 31, 2017
  • The Conversation

Global stocktake shows the 43 greenhouse gases driving global warming

The data cover the past 2,000 years without gaps, and are the result of a compilation of measurements analysed by dozens of laboratories around the world.

  • April 17, 2017
  • University of Bristol

Banned industrial solvent sheds new light on methane mystery

Since 2007, scientists have been searching to find the cause of a sudden and unexpected global rise in atmospheric methane, a potent greenhouse gas, following almost a decade in which concentrations had stayed relatively constant.