Tag: Climate Change

Efforts to improve water quality of rivers could off-set the impact of climate change on river invertebrates Improvements in water ...

Solving the entrainment puzzle

EU supports cloud studies in Leipzig as part of Marie Sklodowska Curie ActionsCredit: Tilo Arnhold, TROPOS Leipzig. An important contribution ...

The history of Arctic ecosystems as a guide to the future

An international research collaboration will study the interplay of climate and grazing on shaping tundra vegetation over millennia -- coordinated ...

UNH researchers find slowdown in Earth’s temps stabilized nature’s calendar

DURHAM, N.H.--Sometimes referred to as nature's calendar, phenology looks at the seasonal life cycle of plants and animals and is ...

Research brief: Climate change is already affecting global food production — unequally

The world's top 10 crops -- barley, cassava, maize, oil palm, rapeseed, rice, sorghum, soybean, sugarcane and wheat -- supply ...

Community impacts from extreme weather shape climate beliefs

New study finds that how our community or neighborhood fares in an extreme storm or flood may have a stronger, ...

Native plant species may be at greater risk from climate change than non-natives

Credit: Kellogg Biological Station Long-Term Ecological Research Program at Michigan State University BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- As spring advances across the ...

Chasing species’ ‘intactness’

Credit: Rob Wallace/WCS In an effort to better protect the world's last ecologically intact ecosystems, researchers developed a new metric ...

Better conservation through satellites

Credit: A. Vila/WCS The use of satellite telemetry in conservation is entering a "golden age," and is now being used ...

New research shows how habitat loss can destabilise ecosystems

Whole plant and animal communities can be put at risk by different types of habitat lossCredit: Louis Haynes An international ...

Edible insects? Lab-grown meat? The real future food is lab-grown insect meat

May 30, 2019

Cultured insect tissue could combine the planet-saving best of insect farming, GM livestock, labriculture and plant-based meat substitutes Livestock farming ...

Thinning forests, prescribed fire before drought reduced tree loss

Treatments may reduce loss in future droughts and bark beetle epidemicsCredit: USDA Forest Service Thinning forests and conducting prescribed burns ...

Study finds link between ambient ozone exposure and progression of carotid wall thickness

UB-led research is first to report an association between long-term exposure to ozone and atherosclerosisCredit: University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y. ...

Colombia could lose 60% of land suitable for irrigated rice due to climate change

Unchecked emissions will reduce land suitable for rice in Colombia, underscoring how geography limits options for crops. Unlike China, where ...

Using nature to adapt to climate change

As the effects of a changing climate are felt with growing intensity, researchers, policymakers, and stakeholders are turning their attention ...

Fuels out of thin air: New path to capturing and upgrading CO2

Engineering researchers offer a promising technique for converting atmospheric CO2 into commercially valuable productsCredit: Marit Mitchell A research team from ...

Ocean and space exploration blend at URI’s Graduate School of Oceanography

Credit: Erin Ranney/Ocean Exploration Trust KINGSTON, R.I. -- May 29, 2019 -- Scientists with a NASA-led expedition are operating from ...

More safe havens for native plants and animals needed in New South Wales’ west

Credit: Wikimedia CC/Brisbane City Council Location matters for species struggling to survive under a changing climate. A new study led ...

Farmers and food companies hit the dirt to improve soil health

Big food brands, such as Kellogg, Campbell, Mars Wrigley and General Mills, have started investing in their ingredients by helping ...

Let’s clear the air