Hurricane Maria had a significant impact on HIV care outcomes
Hurricane Maria in San Juan, Puerto Rico had a significant impact on HIV outcomes among people living with HIV and ...
Tag: Climate Change
NASA sees Tropical Cyclone Haleh weakening
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). Tropical Cyclone Haleh continued to move in a ...
Climate-driven evolution in trees alters their ecosystems
Credit: Ian Ware/University of Tennessee, Knoxville. A new study published in Global Change Biology and coauthored by researchers from UT, ...
Good news! Europe’s electric grid will still work even as the world crumbles
Credit: Kozarcanin et al./Joule Scientists at Aarhus University in Denmark studying the effects of climate change on weather-dependent electricity systems ...
Light from an exotic crystal semiconductor could lead to better solar cells
Rutgers-led team finds a new way to control light emitted by a hybrid crystalCredit: Vitaly Podzorov and Yaroslav Rodionov Scientists ...
Vast record of past climate fluctuations now available thanks to laser imaging of shells
Refined techniques for laser imaging of shell growth rings are tapping into previously hidden data of marine climate change; by ...
Dinosaurs were thriving before asteroid strike that wiped them out
Credit: Davide Bonadonna Dinosaurs were unaffected by long-term climate changes and flourished before their sudden demise by asteroid strike. Scientists ...
UM researchers study Alaska forest fires over past 450 years
Credit: Philip Higuera MISSOULA - In a recent study, University of Montana researchers explored the ways forest succession and climate ...
NASA’s infrared vision reveals Tropical Cyclone Haleh’s power
Credit: NASA JPL, Heidar Thrastarson Tropical Cyclone Haleh maintained an eye as NASA's Aqua satellite passed overhead and collected temperature ...
Story tips from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, March 2019
Credit: Jeff Warren/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy Neutrons--Fighting superbugs As the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria known as ...
Weather-responsive intersections could ease traffic congestion
Cities could ease congestion and improve safety during snowstorms by tweaking the timing of traffic lights to take road conditions ...
Discovering the next generation of catalysts
Energy The use of solar and wind energy must be doubled to meet the world's demand for clean energy over ...
Study: Climate change is leading to unpredictable ecosystem disruption for migratory birds
 Ithaca, NY--Using data on 77 North American migratory bird species from the eBird citizen-science program, scientists at the Cornell ...
UN declares decade of ecosystem restoration
Declaration will 'shine a light on the human and financial resources needed to implement restoration globally.'Credit: Julie Chenot The United ...
A faster, more accurate way to monitor drought
Thermal stress measurements sound the alarm about drought conditions soonerCredit: Duke Univ. DURHAM, N.C. -- More than 2 billion people ...
Forecasting mosquitoes’ global spread
An international team gauges the coming threat of mosquito-borne diseasesCredit: Moritz Kraemer for Nature Microbiology; DOI: 10.1038/s41564-019-0376-y. Outbreaks of mosquito-borne ...
Research provides insight on survivability of rare Wyoming plant
Credit: Greg Nickerson A rare plant found only at two sites in central Wyoming has persisted, in part, because it ...
Dying trees in cities? Blame it on the pavement
Credit: Adam Dale A North Carolina State University study examining urbanization, scale-insect abundance and latitudinal warming on tree health in ...
Team wins UCAR award for tool that could improve weather forecasting
Credit: MSU Photo by Adrian Sanchez-Gonzalez BOZEMAN -- When a hail storm unleashes on Montana's plains, a precise warning an ...
Global maps enabling targeted interventions to reduce burden of mosquito-borne disease
Now, with an unprecedented level of accuracy, an international team of researchers, led by Dr Moritz Kramer at the University ...