Tag: Climate Change

May 18, 2021

The BMBF project "TRUST" (funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research) at the University of Stuttgart developed concepts ...

Oregon State research shows why some pockets of conifer survive repeated forest fires

May 18, 2021

Credit: Will Downing, OSU CORVALLIS, Ore. - Oregon State University researchers say "topographic templates" can help forest conservation managers develop ...

New tools needed to prevent plant disease pandemics

Plant disease surveillance, detection can preserve food securityCredit: NC State University Plant diseases don't stop at a nation's borders and ...

Slow research to understand fast change

Forty years of experiments, observation, modeling and theory may be just what's needed to see where the world is headedCredit: ...

Cypriot grapes perform well in heat and on taste

Credit: University of Adelaide Researchers at the University of Adelaide have found several grape varieties native to Cyprus, which tolerate ...

Bird data from Ethiopia fills in baseline data gaps

Credit: Ça?an ?ekercio?lu/University of Utah One of the projected effects of a warming climate for species living on mountain slopes ...

Greenhouse gas and aerosol emissions are lengthening and intensifying droughts

UCI study shows human-sourced boost to drying in Americas, Africa and AsiaCredit: Amir AghaKouchak / UCI Irvine, Calif., May 17, ...

Two biodiversity refugia identified in the Eastern Bering Sea

Credit: Irene D. Alabia, et al. Global Change Biology. April 25, 2021 Scientists from Hokkaido University have used species survey ...

Climate policies, transition risk, and financial stability

Credit: Adam Islaam | International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) The way in which banks react to climate risks ...

Fibre-optics used to take the temperature of Greenland Ice Sheet

Credit: Poul Christoffersen and RESPONDER team Scientists have used fibre-optic sensing to obtain the most detailed measurements of ice properties ...

MIT unveils a new action plan to tackle the climate crisis

The Institute commits to net-zero emissions by 2026, charts course marshaling all of MIT's capabilities toward decarbonizationCredit: Image: Christopher Harting ...

Climate change threatens one-third of global food production

New estimates show that if greenhouse gases continue growing at current rates, large regions at risk of being pushed into ...

NUS and Shell join hands to advance decarbonisation solutions

New S$4.6 million research programme aims to sustainably convert carbon dioxide into cleaner fuels and useful chemicalsCredit: National University of ...

Force-sensing PIEZO proteins are at work in plants, too

Proteins that enable the sense of touch in humans have an evolutionary cousin that helps plants grow their root systemsCredit: ...

The first frost is the deepest

Credit: John Innes Centre The first frost of autumn may be grim for gardeners but the latest evidence reveals it ...

Ticking upward: MU researcher studies rise of tick-borne diseases in Midwest

Credit: University of Missouri COLUMBIA, Mo. - When Ram Raghavan heard from a former colleague at the Centers for Disease ...

Kelp, maggots and mycoprotein among future foods that must be mass-farmed to combat malnutrition

Credit: Image courtesy of Vaxa, Iceland. Radical changes to the food system are needed to safeguard our food supply and ...

Ankle and foot bone evolution gave prehistoric mammals a leg up

Credit: Sarah Shelley The evolution of ankle and foot bones into different shapes and sizes helped mammals adapt and thrive ...

Orangutan finding highlights need to protect habitat

Iconic great apes in Borneo lost muscle during fruit shortagesCredit: Kristana Parinters Makur/Tuanan Orangutan Research Project Wild orangutans are known ...

Xerocrassa montserratensis, an endemic and threatened snail in Catalonia