Climate extremes will cause forest changes
Credit: (Photos: Ansgar Kahmen / University of Basel) Until now, 2003 was considered as the driest and hottest year since ...
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Papers concludes that incentives to afforestation can be harmful to the environment
Credit: Cristian EcheverrÃa "Through a counterfactual analysis, we showed that between 1986 and 2011 the incentives to afforestation in Chile ...
Spider baby boom in a warmer Arctic
Climate change leads to longer growing seasons in the Arctic. A new study shows that predators like wolf spiders respond ...
Carbon cycling in wet soils
Credit: Courtesy of Adrian Mellage Under changing, increasingly dynamic climatic conditions, temperate soils are forecast to experience a high degree ...
Sunnier but riskier
Conservation efforts to open up rattlesnake habitat bring in much-needed sunlight but could attract more threatening predatorsCredit: Christopher Camacho UNIVERSITY ...
Simulations reveal how saltwater behaves in Earth’s mantle
Credit: Zhang et al Scientists estimate that the Earth's mantle holds as much water as all the oceans on the ...
Self-powered alarm fights forest fires, monitors environment
Credit: Michigan State University Smokey the Bear says that only you can prevent wildfires, but what if Smokey had a ...
NASA finds post-Tropical Cyclone Dolly exiting the tropical stage
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview NASA's Terra satellite provided a night-time look at what is now Post-Tropical Storm Dolly in the ...
Integrating health and climate agendas
Recommendations for a post-pandemic worldCredit: Nicole de Paula Climate change not only causes problems ranging from heat stress to increased ...
Movers and stayers: Surviving a range shift due to climate change
A new study shows a broad diet helps tropical fish survive a range shift due to climate changeCredit: Jack Hannan ...
NASA satellite gives a hello to tropical storm Dolly
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview During the morning of June 23, the fourth system in the Northern Atlantic Ocean was a ...
NOAA/NASA’s Suomi NPP satellite captures 63 mile smoke trail from bush fire
Credit: NASA Worldview NOAA/NASA's Suomi NPP satellite captured this image of the Bush Fire on June 22, 2020 showing clouds ...
Airborne mapping sheds light on climate sensitivity of California redwoods
Credit: Global Airborne Observatory, ASU Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science. Throughout California, the effects of climate change are ...
NASA analyzes the newest Atlantic Ocean subtropical depression
Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL NASA's Aqua satellite used infrared light to analyze the strength of storms in the North Atlantic Ocean's ...
Agricultural conservation schemes not enough to protect Britain’s rarest butterflies
Credit: Katie Threadgill Conservation management around the margins of agriculture fail to protect butterfly species at greatest risk from the ...
Better prepared for forest fires
Cross-institute project to understand the dynamics of forest fires and mitigate the riskCredit: Photo: Gabi Zachmann, KIT Long-lasting drought increases ...
Wet wipes and sanitary products found to be microplastic pollutants in Irish waters
NUI Galway study finds that wet wipes & sanitary towels are an underestimated source of white microplastic fibres in the ...
Get your hands dirty for health
Call to restore urban biodiversity, post-pandemicCredit: Flinders University Billions of people using the Earth's resources and changing or destroying ecosystems ...
Not so robust: robusta coffee more sensitive to warming than previously thought
Widely considered to better prepared for climate change than arabica coffee, a new study from Southeast Asia shows robusta coffee ...
Protecting natural forest in oil palm plantations crucial for conservation
Forest conservation areas in oil palm plantations play a vital role in storing carbon and boosting rainforest biodiversity, a new ...
