Analysis: World’s protected areas safeguard only a fraction of wildlife
Adequately resourced protected areas currently safeguard just 4-9% of terrestrial amphibians, birds, and mammalsCredit: Julie Larsen Maher/WCS NEW YORK (June ...
Tag: Climate Change
The Earth’s rotation moves water in Lake Garda
A research team from the universities of Trento and Utrecht found that the rotation of the Earth influences the mixing ...
How deep-ocean vents fuel massive phytoplankton blooms
Stanford study shows how hydrothermal vents fuel massive phytoplankton blooms -- and possible hotspots for carbon storage Researchers at Stanford ...
Researchers identify link between more frequent, intense heat events and deaths in Las Vegas
Credit: DRI Over the last several decades, extreme heat events around the world--particularly in the American Southwest--have gotten hotter, occurred ...
Limiting warming to 2 degrees C will require emission cuts across entire food system
Feeding 10 billion people and keeping Earth from overheating this century require not only major changes to agriculture, but transformation ...
NASA-NOAA satellite sees system 91L’s eeach into the western gulf of Mexico
Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) System 91L is an area of tropical low pressure ...
Early lives of Alaska sockeye salmon accelerating with climate change
Credit: Jason Ching/University of Washington An ample buffet of freshwater food, brought on by climate change, is altering the life ...
Estimating the wear and tear of ice on structures over coming decades or even centuries
To face the challenges of a warming climate, a new technique determines the long-term effects of moving Arctic ice on ...
The epic search for oldest ice in Antarctica is starting
Credit: Robert Mulvaney, Massimo Frezzotti On 1st June 2019 the European Beyond EPICA Oldest Ice Core project started with the ...
NUS named top contributor for green building research
Credit: National University of Singapore NUS has been named the top contributing institution in the world for research on green ...
New center at the University of Copenhagen to predict climate tipping points
Current climate models are unable to predict sudden and violent changes to climate, known as tipping points. This is a ...
Salmon get a major athletic boost via a single enzyme
The findings, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, help explain how the fish undertake arduous upstream migrations, ...
Plant lineage points to different evolutionary playbook for temperate species
Credit: Rebecca Stubbs/Florida Museum GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- An ancient, cosmopolitan lineage of plants is shaking up scientists' understanding of how ...
Diets of Latinos and blacks have greatest environmental impact per dollar spent on food
Despite spending less than white households on food overall, black and Latino households have more impact on the environment per ...
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