Tag: Climate Change

Credit: Qian Cheng/Columbia Engineering Climate change poses a serious challenge to the human society and it is generally believed that ...

Study: Reducing energy required to convert CO2 waste into valuable resources

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Surplus industrial carbon dioxide creates an opportunity to convert waste into ...

From coal to gas: How the shift can help stabilize climate change

Benefits of phasing out coal outweigh risks, new study finds Led by Katsumasa Tanaka, a senior climate risk researcher at ...

How does wildlife fare after fires?

La Trobe research in Wildlife Research journal looks at how wildlife recolonises burnt land Fire ecologists and wildlife specialists at ...

Rewriting the textbook on fossil fuels: New technologies help unravel nature’s methane recipes

Not all methane originated in buried, decayed remains of ancient life; some deep hydrocarbons aren't conventional 'fossil fuels' as popularly ...

Marine Skin dives deeper for better monitoring

Plants are also stressed out

April 19, 2019

Salk scientists uncover a link between RNA editing and chloroplast-to-nucleus communication that could help plants adapt to a changing worldCredit: ...

Giant tortoises migrate unpredictably in the face of climate change

Unlike many migratory species, Galapagos giant tortoises do not use current environmental conditions to time their seasonal migrationCredit: Photo courtesy ...

Disappearing bumblebee species under threat of extinction

York University research shows species is critically endangered The American Bumblebee - a species once more commonly seen buzzing around ...

Ocean currents bring good news for reef fish

Researchers have discovered some good news for fish populations living on coral reefs hit by climate change. Renato Morais is ...

Could computer games help farmers adapt to climate change?

Scientists from Sweden and Finland say gaming presents both challenges and benefits for communicating climate change methods to farmers Web-based ...

Green material for refrigeration identified

Researchers from the UK and Spain have identified an eco-friendly solid that could replace the inefficient and polluting gases used ...

U-M study: ‘Induced’ driving miles could overwhelm potential energy-saving benefits of self-driving

ANN ARBOR--The benefits of self-driving cars will likely induce vehicle owners to drive more, and those extra miles could partially ...

Plants and microbes shape global biomes through local underground alliances

Credit: Mingzhen Lu, Princeton Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Dense rainforests, maple-blanketed mountains and sweeping coniferous forests demonstrate the growth and ...

New research offers solution to riddle of ocean carbon storage

Credit: CSIRO Alicia Navidad However, researchers have identified that this process - the biological gravitational pump (BGP) - cannot account ...

Amazonian soils mapped using indicator species

Credit: Gabriela Zuquim Understanding the ecology and distributions of species in Amazonia is hampered by lack of information about environmental ...

How inland waters ‘breathe’ carbon — and what it means for global systems

Study reveals key relationship between storm events, ecology, and topography in carbon 'evasion' For a long time, scientists evaluating the ...

Climate engineering needs to look at the big picture, says researcher

Concordia study examines the potential effects of large-scale projects designed to offset the Earth's changing climateCredit: Courtesy Nadine Mengis Of ...

Corals in the Red Sea offer long-term view of the south Asian summer monsoon

Credit: Photo by Konrad Hughen, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution When it comes to understanding future climate, the south Asian summer ...

Bacterial mix helps predict future change