Tag: Climate Change

Researchers' hybrid dataset includes satellite images, modeling and air samplesCredit: Martin Lab It is not unusual to come across headlines ...

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 ...

Papers concludes that incentives to afforestation can be harmful to the environment

Credit: Cristian Echeverría "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