Tag: Climate Change

Fossil site preserves animals killed within minutes of meteor impactCredit: Graphic courtesy of Robert DePalma The beginning of the end ...

New plant breeding technologies for food security

Genome editing and world hungerCredit: S Koppmair An international team, including researchers from the University of Göttingen, argues in a ...

Satellite finds Tropical Cyclone Joaninha slammed by wind shear

Credit: Credit: NOAA/NRL One day makes a big difference when you're a tropical cyclone. On March 28, Tropical Cyclone Joaninha ...

Ocean visions: Leading institutions gather to cultivate scalable, science-driven solutions

ATLANTA, March 29, 2019 - Leading ocean science and engineering institutions are joining forces to create Ocean Visions, an innovative ...

First-confirmed occurrence of a lambeosaurine dinosaur found on Alaska’s North Slope

Paper published in Scientific Reports describes paleontologists' unearthing part of a skull, illustrating that there is much to learn about ...

Air quality to remain a problem in India despite pollution control policies

According to an independent study released today by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the Council on ...

Modelled climate change impact on mosquito-borne virus transmission

Credit: NIAID (CC BY 2.0, 2016) Mosquito-borne viruses, such as dengue, chikungunya, and Zika, already threaten over a billion people ...

1 billion people will be newly exposed to diseases like dengue fever as world temperatures rise

WASHINGTON -- As many as a billion people could be newly exposed to disease-carrying mosquitoes by the end of the ...

MIT receives $30 million to help address energy challenges in Egypt

Award from USAID will support research collaborations through new Center of Excellence in Energy at Ain Shams University in Cairo. ...

Changes in onset of spring linked to more allergies across the US

UMD public health researchers say climate change is impacting disease burden in our backyards Human-induced climate change is disrupting nature's ...

Decision makers need contextual interactive guidance

As decision makers balance economic, environmental and social aspects of living, planners and others need decision-making tools that support the ...

Studying reintroduction of bull trout with simulations

Credit: Meryl Mims, Virginia Tech A multi-institutional team of researchers, led by Meryl Mims, has assessed how environmental, demographic, and ...

NASA finds Tropical Cyclone Joaninha maintaining an eye

Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Tropical Cyclone Joaninha is not yet ready to ...

Rhine-Main Universities undertake research into transport processes in the tropopause

RMU Initiative Funding for Research to finance joint meteorology and climate science project of the Rhine-Main UniversitiesCredit: photo/©: Peter Hoor ...

Data Science Day to showcase Columbia University’s most innovative research

Columbia researchers share latest advances in artificial intelligence, natural language processing, predictive healthcare, global radicalization and more Columbia is holding ...

In ancient oceans that resembled our own, oxygen loss triggered mass extinction

Credit: Stephen Bilenky TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Roughly 430 million years ago, during the Earth's Silurian Period, global oceans were experiencing ...

KIT expert comments on current topic: Trade war imperils Amazon rainforest

Last year, the United States of America imposed tariffs of up to 25% on goods imported from China. The Chinese ...

Cities under pressure

Cities to swelter as planners face unenviable trade-off between tackling climate change and quality of life, new research has shown. ...

Study shows arctic warming contributes to drought

March 27, 2019

When the Arctic warmed after the ice age 10,000 years ago, it created perfect conditions for drought. According to new ...

White people’s eating habits produce most greenhouse gases