Tag: Climate Change

December 21, 2020

Credit: Paige Nesbit/WVU One silver lining to COVID-19 restrictions, based on a recent report, is a 2.4 billion-ton plummet in ...

Identifying where to reforest after wildfire

A future of fewer Christmas trees and other conifersCredit: Joseph Stewart, USGS/UC Davis In the aftermath of megafires that devastated ...

Roadmap to renewables unites climate and sustainability goals

Vision and research gaps for a low-carbon, biodiverse futureCredit: Rebecca R. Hernandez, UC Davis While the pressures of climate change ...

Water limitations in the tropics offset carbon uptake from arctic greening

Credit: Credits: NASA/Nima Madani More plants and longer growing seasons in the northern latitudes have converted parts of Alaska, Canada ...

Devastating skin disease covering up to 70% of a dolphin’s body tied to climate change

In collaboration with Australian researchers, The Marine Mammal Center has found that the increasing frequency and severity of storm systems ...

NASA finds what a glacier’s slope reveals about Greenland Ice Sheet thinning

Credit: Credits: Denis Felikson As glaciers flow outward from the Greenland Ice Sheet, what lies beneath them offers clues to ...

Fire-resistant tropical forest on brink of disappearance –

Research on Indonesia shows effect of human modificationCredit: T. Smith A new study led by researchers in the Geography Department ...

A no-meat diet everywhere will not solve the climate crisis

Livestock are globally criticized for adverse environmental impacts; but promoting a no-meat diet is not a blanket solution to the ...

How much greenhouse gas emission comes from tropical deforestation and peatland loss?

New research on forest loss and degradation in Cameroon and Indonesia, and peatland degradation in Peru, can help countries better ...

How climate change is disrupting ecosystems

Credit: Photograph: Christian Roesti The world is getting warmer and warmer - and many organisms native to lower latitudes or ...

UBCO research takes the chill off icy build-up on planes and wind turbines

Ice detection from microwave sensors rising to new heightsCredit: UBCO New UBC Okanagan research is changing the way aircraft and ...

Taking greenhouse gas analysis on the road, er, rails

Train-mounted sensors are a cost-effective way to monitor emissions over an entire cityCredit: University of Utah Research-grade air quality sensors ...

UMD finds more West Nile virus-infected mosquitoes in lower-income areas of Baltimore

Preliminary results point to a need for more research and education to improve environmental justice and protect urban public health ...

West coast wildfires create rare opportunity to track black carbon

Research aims to better understand the impact of wildfires on the global carbon cycleCredit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute TROY, N.Y. -- ...

Skinnier but resilient geese thriving in the high Arctic

Long-term study shows decreasing body condition but no effect on populationCredit: Photo: Photo: Ronald Cornelisse The world is changing in ...

Satellite tracking supports whale survival

Study traces pygmy blue whale migration from Australia to IndonesiaCredit: Pixabay Extensive satellite tracking has revealed important new knowledge about ...

Change in global precipitation patterns as a result of climate change

Variation in temperature differences between tropics and polar regions plays a fundamental role in controlling atmospheric circulation and in consequence ...

New discovery opens novel pathway for high-titer production of drop-in biofuels

Using an unusual, light-dependent enzyme and a newly discovered enzymatic mechanism, researchers from Aarhus University and MIT have enabled the ...

Greenland ‘knickpoints’ could stall spread of glacial thinning

Credit: Tim Bartholomaus The jagged terrain of Greenland's mountains is protecting some of the island's outlet glaciers from warm coastal ...

Biodiversity collections, vital for pandemic preparedness, face drop in specimen deposits