Tag: Climate Change

This phenomenon affects cloud production and rainfall, with consequences for the local and global climate, which researchers have warned about ...

NASA sees strong storms in developing gulf system 91L

Credit: NASA/NRL NASA's Aqua satellite used infrared light to analyze the strength of storms in the developing low pressure area ...

Researchers find seaweed helps trap carbon dioxide in sediment

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Every beachgoer can spot seaweed in the ocean or piling up on the beach, but Florida State ...

Harmful algal blooms research — Fulbright US Scholar Award to New Zealand

Credit: Virginia Tech The U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board announced that David Schmale, ...

Improvements in water quality could reduce ecological impact of climate change on rivers

Efforts to improve water quality of rivers could off-set the impact of climate change on river invertebrates Improvements in water ...

Solving the entrainment puzzle

EU supports cloud studies in Leipzig as part of Marie Sklodowska Curie ActionsCredit: Tilo Arnhold, TROPOS Leipzig. An important contribution ...

The history of Arctic ecosystems as a guide to the future

An international research collaboration will study the interplay of climate and grazing on shaping tundra vegetation over millennia -- coordinated ...

UNH researchers find slowdown in Earth’s temps stabilized nature’s calendar

DURHAM, N.H.--Sometimes referred to as nature's calendar, phenology looks at the seasonal life cycle of plants and animals and is ...

Research brief: Climate change is already affecting global food production — unequally

The world's top 10 crops -- barley, cassava, maize, oil palm, rapeseed, rice, sorghum, soybean, sugarcane and wheat -- supply ...

Community impacts from extreme weather shape climate beliefs

New study finds that how our community or neighborhood fares in an extreme storm or flood may have a stronger, ...

Native plant species may be at greater risk from climate change than non-natives

Credit: Kellogg Biological Station Long-Term Ecological Research Program at Michigan State University BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- As spring advances across the ...

Chasing species’ ‘intactness’

Credit: Rob Wallace/WCS In an effort to better protect the world's last ecologically intact ecosystems, researchers developed a new metric ...

Better conservation through satellites

Credit: A. Vila/WCS The use of satellite telemetry in conservation is entering a "golden age," and is now being used ...

New research shows how habitat loss can destabilise ecosystems