Tag: Climate Change

Credit: Manuela Nagel/ IPK The first experimental seed samples will be brought into the Svalbard Global Seed Vault on the ...

NASA infrared imagery shows Hagupit nearing landfall in China

Credit: Credit: NASA JPL/Heidar Thrastarson NASA's Aqua satellite provided a look at Typhoon Hagupit as it was nearing landfall in ...

Tracking and forecasting outbreak risk of dengue, Zika and other Aedes-transmitted diseases

New system infuses 'R0' models with climate information to help public health agencies forecast places and times when environmental conditions ...

Green energy and better crops: Tinted solar panels could boost farm incomes

Credit: Paolo Bombelli/University of Cambridge Researchers have demonstrated the use of tinted, semi-transparent solar panels to generate electricity and produce ...

Food menu fit for pandemic times

Ethical eating with health, environment in mindCredit: Flinders University In the midst of a global pandemic, eating well in a ...

COVID-19: Lower incidence at high altitudes?

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, August 3, 2020--Despite recent reports of lower COVID-19 incidence among high-altitude ...

Identifying the blind spots of soil biodiversity

Only few studies investigate soil biodiversity in tropical and subtropical regionsCredit: Andy Murray Soils harbour a substantial part of the ...

NASA satellites show two views of California’s Apple Fire

Credit: NASA/NOAA NASA's satellites were working overtime as they snapped pictures of the large Apple Fire in Banning Canyon near ...

NASA puts visible and water vapor eyes on Tropical Storm Isaias

Credit: Image Courtesy: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). NASA's Aqua satellite obtained visible and water ...

NASA finds an eye and a giant ‘tail’ in Typhoon Hagupit

Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite provided forecasters with a visible ...

Open source for a global ‘energiewende’

Open-access software, benchmarks and data records: The Energy Computing Initiative of the Helmholtz Association supports the climate-friendly transformation of energy ...

Study calls for urgent plan to manage invasive weed which threatens livelihoods in Africa

CABI scientists have conducted research which is calling for an urgent integrated management strategy, including biological control, to fight the ...

Scientists led by NTU Singapore identify new catalysts for more efficient water splitting

Research offers promise for wider adoption of water splitting to produce hydrogen fuelCredit: NTU Singapore A team of scientists led ...

Satellite survey shows California’s sinking coastal hotspots

Credit: Source: USGS NED. A majority of the world population lives on low lying lands near the sea, some of ...

Inbreeding detrimental for survival

House sparrows on islands in northern Norway help researchers understand fundamental biological issues.Credit: Photo: Henrik Jensen, NTNU Biologists have long ...

A new chemical analysis upends conventional explanation for global cooling

Researchers say cooling 13,000 years ago involved a major volcanic eruptionCredit: Nan Sun, University of Houston Scientists have long known ...

Tiny plants crucial for sustaining dwindling water supplies: Global analysis

Credit: David Eldridge A global meta-analysis led by UNSW scientists shows tiny organisms that cover desert soils - so-called biocrusts ...

NASA examines water vapor and structure in Hurricane Isaias

Credit: Credits: NASA/NRL When NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the North Atlantic Ocean, it gathered water vapor data on Isaias, ...

Berkeley lab part of multi-institutional team awarded $60M for solar fuels research

New partnership between DOE national labs and universities builds on JCAP's advances in artificial photosynthesis, renewable fuelsCredit: Image courtesy of ...

Reduced coral reef fish biodiversity under temperatures that mirror climate predictions