Tag: Climate Change

April 22, 2021

Credit: Photo by Randy Montoya/Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- What do tiny dust particles, 22-foot-wide red balloons and "concentrated" ...

Warming seas might also look less colorful to some fish. Here’s why that matters.

Climate change is driving some fish into cooler, deeper waters. Now they may be faced with another challenge: how to ...

Central African forests are unequally vulnerable to global change

Credit: © IRD - Nicolas Barbier Central Africa is home to the world's second-largest area of dense tropical rainforest. This ...

To design truly compostable plastic, scientists take cues from nature

New technology could steer plastics from landfills, oceans -- and into your backyard compost binCredit: UC Berkeley photo by Ting ...

Improved management of farmed peatlands could cut 500 million tons CO2

Reduced emissions from halving drainage depths would be equivalent to 1% of all anthropogenic greenhouse gasesCredit: Picture: Alex Cumming Substantial ...

Energy transition is dominated by myths arising from beliefs in continuous economic growth

The Finnish energy transition is dominated by mental models drawing from competition, hierarchy and continuous economic growthCredit: Riikka Kalmi, University ...

Announcing the 2021 BioOne Ambassador Award Winners

Credit: BioOne WASHINGTON, D.C. -- BioOne (about.BioOne.org) is proud to announce the winners of the 2021 BioOne Ambassador Award. These ...

The COVID-19 is a unique opportunity to move towards more sustainable and equitable society

Credit: Potterf, Maria [email protected] Researchers at the University of Jyväskylä highlight how the struggles caused by the COVID-19 pandemic can ...

URI oceanographers reveal links between migrating Gulf Stream and warming ocean waters

Credit: (Animation by Afonso Gonçalves Neto) KINGSTON, R.I., -- April 20, 2021 -- The Northwest Atlantic Shelf is one of ...

Human land use wasn’t always at nature’s expense

Credit: Ganta Srinivas Nearly three-quarters of Earth's land had been transformed by humans by 10,000BC, but new research shows it ...

Can extreme melt destabilize ice sheets?

Credit: Farrin Abbott Nearly a decade ago, global news outlets reported vast ice melt in the Arctic as sapphire lakes ...

Stanford researchers use AI to empower environmental regulators

Credit: Nina Brooks Like superheroes capable of seeing through obstacles, environmental regulators may soon wield the power of all-seeing eyes ...

Archaeological data demand new approaches to biodiversity conservation

Credit: Erle Ellis Professor Nicole Boivin, Director of the Department of Archaeology at the Max Planck Institute for the Science ...

Northern Red Sea corals live close to the threshold of resistance to cold temperatures

Though these corals can tolerate very high temperatures, a new study reveals that even a slight cold spell can cause ...

Stone Age black bears didn’t just defecate in the woods – they did it in a cave too

Scientists have sequenced ancient DNA from soil for the first time and the advance will transform what is known about ...

Green hydrogen: “Rust” as a photoanode and its limits

Metal oxides such as rust are intriguing photoelectrode materials for the production of green hydrogen with sunlight. They are cheap ...

Ice cap study promises new prospects for accurate local climate projections

Credit: Christian Panton New, detailed study of the Renland Ice Cap offers the possibility of modelling other smaller ice caps ...

Human land-use and climate change will have significant impact on animal genetic diversity

Credit: Colourbox. Over the last 200 years, researchers have worked towards understanding the global distribution of species and ecosystems. But ...

Corals go hungry long before they bleach

As plant/animal diversity wanes, is microbial life changing too? A perilously ‘profound Ignorance’