Switchgrass hybrid yields insights into plant evolution
Credit: Courtesy of MSU Switchgrass is attractive as a potential bioenergy crop because it can grow for years without having ...
Tag: Climate Change
NASA catches development of Tropical Cyclone 02A
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Visible imagery from NASA's Terra satellite provided confirmation ...
A new picture of dengue’s growing threat
More than 6 billion people at risk by 2080 SEATTLE--Research published today in Nature Microbiology paints a startling new picture ...
Magnetism: An unexpected push for the hydrogen economy
For the first time, scientists have applied a magnetic field that directly enhanced the production of hydrogen via water splittingCredit: ...
Mysterious holes in Antarctic sea ice explained by years of robotic data
Credit: Dan Costa/University of California, Santa Cruz The winter ice on the surface of Antarctica's Weddell Sea occasionally forms an ...
Mapping the ocean’s unseen heroes, one microbe at a time
Online Citizen Science project Adrift launches on World Ocean DayCredit: David Lawrey The picture of how climate change is impacting ...
Older forests resist change — climate change, that is
With age, forests in eastern US and Canada become less vulnerable to climate change, study findsNew research finds that older ...
Rapid retreat of Arctic coastline revealed in images from the air
Credit: Noah Bell Extreme erosion of Arctic coastlines in a changing climate - up to a metre a day - ...
Rapid change in coral reefs prompts global calls for a rethink
Coral reef experts from around the world are calling for an urgent re-evaluation of our climate goals in the light ...
Antarctic glacier named after GFZ satellite mission ‘GRACE’
Special recognition of the contribution to the study of Earth's ice mass dynamicsCredit: GoogleEarth; Data: SIO, NOAA, U.S. Navy, NGA, ...
Understanding Amazonia’s mysterious ocelots
Credit: Julie Larsen Maher/WCS Researchers conducted a 12-year study from 2010 to 2017 on ocelots (Leopardus pardalis) in the Brazilian ...
Changing minds: How do you communicate with climate change skeptics?
UNLV researcher develops new method for categorizing climate change beliefs and shares tactics for communicating with deniersCredit: Aaron Mayes/UNLV Creative ...
Taking stock of Indonesia’s reef fishes
Credit: Fakhrizal Setiawan A research team estimated the natural stock of reef fishes from three regencies in the lesser Sunda-Banda ...
Counting the uncounted
Credit: WCS Though abundance is a fundamental measure in ecology and environmental management, detecting all individuals in a population is ...
Leopard coral grouper: Overexploited
Credit: Dhani Researchers measured the population stock in Saleh Bay, Indonesia of the commercially valuable leopard coral grouper (Plectropomus leopardus), ...
Social interactions impact climate change predictions, U of G study reveals
In a first-ever study measuring the impact of social behavior on climate change predictions, researchers found social processes, such as ...
Are penguins righties or lefties?
Credit: Julie larsen Maher/WCS Researchers in Punta Tombo, Argentina conducted a study to see whether Magellanic penguins (Spheniscus magellanicus) showed ...
Emerging frontiers in phenological research
Special issue of Applications in Plant Sciences presents innovative methods to understand how ecosystems react to climate changeCredit: Image credit ...
NASA estimates heavy Texas and Louisiana rainfall from gulf weather system
Credit: NASA/JAXA, Matt Lammers Earlier in the week, NOAA's National Hurricane Center was monitoring a low-pressure system in the Gulf ...
Analysis: World’s protected areas safeguard only a fraction of wildlife
Adequately resourced protected areas currently safeguard just 4-9% of terrestrial amphibians, birds, and mammalsCredit: Julie Larsen Maher/WCS NEW YORK (June ...
