Woods Hole Research Center - Science, Education, and Policy for a Healthy Planet

One quarter of the carbon dioxide from fossil fuel emissions is absorbed by the ocean, causing it to acidify with probable profound and irreversible effects …

2014 Global Carbon Budget co-authored by WHRC's Acting President, Richard A. Houghton …

WHRC Board member, Jeremy Oppenheim pictured center right with UN Secretary-General Ban-ki Moon, Former President of Mexico Felipe Calderón and Lord Nicholas Stern at the launch of the New Climate Economy report …

WHRC's Scott Goetz and colleagues win NASA grant to monitor global forests from the International Space Station …

WHRC ranked world’s most influential climate change think tank by ICCG …

The Grand Challenge:
The climate is changing at an unprecedented rate in human history, tropical forests are being cut, freshwater resources are at risk, and biological diversity is declining...

Solutions Require Science:
We at the Woods Hole Research Center are convinced that answers are possible and that science is crucial for framing the debate and finding the solutions...

What We Do:
Using satellite images of the Earth and field studies in ecology and economics, our scientists measure, model and map how humans are changing the world...

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Timeless essays by eleven of the greatest environmental science and public policy thinkers of our era.

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WHRC's Scott Goetz contributing author in IPCC Working Group II report

Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability - a contribution to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report

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