Tag: Climate Change

UMass Amherst ecologist and team synthesize climate change refugia science developments to dateCredit: UMass Amherst/Toni Lyn Morelli The notion of ...

Study shows today’s atmospheric carbon dioxide levels greater than 23 million-year record

New study published in GeologyCredit: Photo credit: A. Hope Jahren. Boulder, Colo., USA: A common message in use to convey ...

Rice scientist goes deep to improve environmental tracers

Laurence Yeung wins NSF CAREER Award to study biosphere's historyCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (June 1, 2020) - With ...

Mice are shrinking, but are climate change and cities to blame?

Credit: Bryan McLean GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- According to a well-studied but controversial principle known as Bergmann's Rule, species tend to ...

NASA catches short-lived Tropical Storm Amanda

Credit: NASA Worldview Tropical Storm Amanda, the first of the Eastern Pacific Ocean hurricane season, formed on Sunday, May 31, ...

Nanoparticles can make home refrigeration more accessible for low-income households

Credit: Photos supplied by Mr Taiwo O. Babarinde, University of Johannesburg. Power consumption of a home refrigerator can be cut ...

Ten years of ecosystem services matrix: Review of a (r)evolution

Credit: Pensoft In recent years, the concept of Ecosystem Services (ES): the benefits people obtain from ecosystems, such as pollination ...

Big vegetarians of the reef drive fish evolution

Credit: Victor Huertas A new study reveals the diets of reef fish dictate how fast different species evolve. The breakthrough ...

NASA-NOAA satellite sees Tropical Storm Bertha organizing

May 27, 2020

Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) The second tropical storm of the North Atlantic ...

Volcanic eruptions reduce global rainfall

May 27, 2020

Credit: Seung-Ki Min (POSTECH) Climate change is occurring all over the globe as 1°C increase in Earth's temperature has led ...

NASA catches the extra-tropical ending of Mangga

Credit: NASA/NRL By Sunday, May 24, Tropical Cyclone Mangga had already transitioned to an extra-tropical storm and was affecting the ...

Warming climate is changing where birds breed

Migratory behavior and winter geography drive differential range shifts of eastern birds in response to recent climate changeCredit: Credit: Clark ...

Bumblebees speed up flowering

Credit: Photograph: Hannier Pulido / ETH Zurich Spring has sprung earlier than ever before this year, accompanied by temperatures more ...

HKU ecologists and international team discover ongoing and future tropical diversity decline

Credit: Katsunori Kimoto How can patterns in the marine biodiversity of the past help us to understand how it may ...

Sugar turns brown algae into good carbon stores

Only highly specialized bacteria can carry out the degradation of brown algae with the help of more than hundred enzymesCredit: ...

Dinosaur-dooming asteroid struck earth at ‘deadliest possible’ angle

Credit: Chase Stone The simulations show that the asteroid hit Earth at an angle of about 60 degrees, which maximised ...

New molecules for innovative high-tech materials

German Research Foundation funds professor Peter Roesky's work on sandwich compounds within a Reinhart Koselleck projectCredit: Graphics: KIT Thanks to ...

Why are we still failing to stop deforestation?

Credit: Data from the Global Forest Watch While national and international efforts to reverse the trend of deforestation have multiplied ...

Ocean virus hijacks carbon-storing bacteria

Rice scientists analyze structure, mechanism of phage protein that steals electronsCredit: Illustration by Ian Campbell/Rice University HOUSTON - (May 22, ...

There is no escaping from climate change, even in the deep sea