Tag: Climate Change

Credit: Iowa State University News Service AMES, Iowa - A lot is riding on the continued advancement of plant sciences. ...

Scientists call for climate projections as part of more robust biodiversity conservation

Research in the Peruvian Andes highlights critical climate threats to montane forests and urges for current conservation plans to take ...

Alpine plants are losing their white “protective coat”

Credit: Photo: Lawrence Blem Snow cover in the Alps has been melting almost three days earlier per decade since the ...

A new drought monitoring approach: Vector Projection Analysis (VPA)

Credit: UNIST A team of researchers, affiliated with UNIST has proposed a satellite-aided drought monitoring method that can adequately represent ...

Highly dense urban areas are not more vulnerable to COVID-19, researchers say

Credit: Amir Reza Khavarian-Garmsir, Ayyoob Sharifi & Nabi Moradpour A person who owns a car or who has a college ...

Long-term consequences of CO2 emissions

Oxygen in the ocean will continue to decrease for many centuriesCredit: C. Kersten, modified from A. Oschlies, 2021, GEOMAR. The ...

Sunlight to solve the world’s clean water crisis

Credit: University of South Australia Researchers at UniSA have developed a cost-effective technique that could deliver safe drinking water to ...

AI pinpoints local pollution hotspots using satellite images

Technique could help find sources of heavy air pollution and allow researchers to better study its effects on human health ...

Agricultural trade across US states can mitigate economic impacts of climate change

Credit: University of Illinois. URBANA, Ill. - Agricultural producers deal firsthand with changing weather conditions, and extreme events such as ...

Environmental protection could benefit from ‘micro’ as well as ‘macro’ thinking

Credit: Luke Holman Scientists at the University of Southampton have conducted a study that highlights the importance of studying a ...

Drought-induced mortality of conifers

Credit: Manuela Schwendener / University of Basel The extreme summer drought of 2018 was a special situation for both nature ...

Coral reefs prevent more than $5.3 billion in potential flood damage for US property owners

Credit: Map by Chris Lowrie and Jessica Kendall-Bar Coral reefs provide many services to coastal communities, including critical protection from ...

Saving the planet, and ourselves

A philosopher for our troubled times: Brian MedlinCredit: Flinders University 2020 began with Australia ablaze, forests from Brazil to Siberia ...

Detoxifying exhaust gas from device production processes

Development of a low-energy, high-efficiency exhaust gas abatement systemCredit: Kanken Techno Co.,Ltd Manufacturing process for industries of electronics, such as ...

Satellite map of human pressure on land provides insight on sustainable development

Credit: Joe Mendoza/Colorado State University The coronavirus pandemic has led researchers to switch gears or temporarily abandon projects due to ...

Air pollution may affect severity and hospitalization in COVID-19 patients

University of Cincinnati researcher says preliminary findings for pilot study could have policy implicationsCredit: Colleen Kelley/University of Cincinnati Patients who ...

Impacts of coronavirus lockdowns: New study collects data on pollutants in the atmosphere

Credit: Copyright: Forschungszentrum Jülich One consequence of the coronavirus pandemic has been global restrictions on mobility. This, in turn, has ...

Indigenous land-use reduced catastrophic wildfires on the Fish Lake Plateau

Credit: S. Yoshi Maezumi If you were to visit the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau a thousand years ago, you'd ...

Airborne laser scanning of gaps in Amazon rainforest helps explain tree mortality

April 13, 2021

The researchers concluded that water stress, soil fertility and human-induced forest degradation cause gaps in the world's largest tropical forestCredit: ...

US power sector is halfway to zero carbon emissions