The benefits of updating agricultural drainage infrastructure
Credit: Michael Castellano AMES, Iowa - Massive networks of drains, pipes and tiles that enable food production on much of ...
Tag: Climate Change
Early breeding season for some Arctic seabirds due global warming
When Spring arrives earlierCredit: Sébastien Descamps The breeding season of some seabirds in Arctic regions takes place earlier as a ...
Pressure may be key to fighting climate change with thermoelectric generators
New way to use compression techniques to improves thermoelectric performance, bringing researchers closer to practical applications that could help fight ...
China is on track to meet its ultra-low emissions goals for 2020
Credit: Ling Tang, Beijing University of Chemical Technology and Beihang University; Jiabao Qu, Ministry of Environmental Protection and HeBei University ...
Researchers find antibiotic resistant genes prevalent in groundwater
Scholars warn attention needed to make wastewater potable and ensure public safety nationwide against emerging threat of antibiotic resistanceCredit: Adam ...
A fortress of ice and snow
MOSAiC expedition begins its ice drift on a floe at 85 degrees north and 137 degrees eastCredit: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Esther ...
NASA finds a transitioning cyclone Mitag filling the sea of Japan
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). NASA's Terra satellite passed over the Sea of ...
Study finds managed forests in new hampshire rich in carbon
Credit: Photo by Genevieve Goebel A Dartmouth-led study examining carbon stocks in an actively managed mixed wood forest in New ...
NASA sees Post-tropical Cyclone Lorenzo affecting Ireland
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). NASA's Terra satellite passed over the eastern North ...
The American Institute of Physics announces 2019 Science Communication Award winners
Diverse selection of 2019 Science Communication Award-winning literature includes works on animal-inspired robotics, the far reaches of outer space, climate ...
UNH researchers find northern forests have lost crucial cold, snowy conditions
Credit: MaxPixel DURHAM, N.H.--As the popular saying goes, "winter is coming," but is it? Researchers at the University of New ...
NUS SDE4 receives international recognition for building designed to improve health and wellness
The state-of-the-art net-zero energy building is the first university building in the world to be WELL Certified™ Gold, and the ...
The phenological index
A tool to understand how ecosystems are responding to a changing climateCredit: Love et al., 2019 As climate change accelerates, ...
Besides hot water, coral bleaching also about location, location, location
Study in Nature Climate Change analyzed many factors that led to widespread coral bleaching in Indo-Pacific during 2016 El NiñoCredit: ...
Seagrass meadows harbor wildlife for centuries, highlighting need for conservation
Credit: Conor MacDonnell Seagrass meadows put down deep roots, persisting in the same spot for hundreds and possibly thousands of ...
NASA finds Mitag’s areas of heavy rainfall over Korean Peninsula
Credit: NASA/NRL Tropical Storm Mitag was dropping heavy rainfall along coastal areas of South Korea and lighter rainfall over the ...
Plant diversity a casualty of high-severity wildfires
Extreme wildfires are transforming forestlands into shrublandsCredit: Courtesy Clark Richter Sierra Nevada forests are losing plant diversity due to high-severity ...
NASA examines extra-tropical large Lorenzo’s rainfall
Credit: Credit: NASA/JAXA/NRL Lorenzo is still at hurricane force in the eastern North Atlantic has now transitioned to an extra-tropical ...
African evidence support Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis
First African evidence to support hypothesis of an asteroid impact that contributed to the extinction of large animals 12,800 years ...
Species could buffer reproduction against climate change through sperm and egg plasticity
Credit: University of East Anglia Beetles have evolved sophisticated mechanisms to reproduce despite warmer temperatures - according to new research ...
