UMD helps quantify how climate change has slowed global agricultural productivity growth
Collaborative research shows more severe slowdowns in warmer regions like Africa and Latin AmericaCredit: Edwin Remsberg, University of Maryland The ...
Tag: Climate Science
Palm oil production can grow without converting rainforests and peatland
Nebraska agronomist: 'Potential impact is huge'Credit: Hendra Sugianto/University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, Neb., March 25, 2021 -- Palm oil, the most ...
Size of grass blades offers better understanding of their vulnerability to climate change
Walt Whitman would be pleased, says UCLA plant biologist Lawren SackCredit: Alec Baird/UCLA One-third of the Earth's surface is covered ...
Biocrude passes the 2,000-hour catalyst stability test
Sewage and food waste biocrude conversion process reaches major milestoneCredit: (Illustration by Michael Perkins | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) RICHLAND, ...
Deadly heat waves will be common in South Asia, even at 1.5 degrees of warming
People living in South Asia already experience potentially deadly heat waves, but these events will likely become more commonplace in ...
Towards a better understanding of societal responses to climate change
Scholars of archaeology, geography, history and paleoclimatology lay out a new framework for uncovering climate-society interactionsCredit: Degroot et al., 2021 ...
With drop in LA’s vehicular aerosol pollution, vegetation emerges as major source
Plants that emit lots of isoprenes may be causing unhealthful aerosol levels during heat wavesCredit: UC Berkeley graphics by Clara ...
Sea-level rise in 20th century was fastest in 2,000 years along much of East Coast
Global increase from melting ice and warming oceans is most significant change since 1800Credit: Jennifer S. Walker, Rutgers University The ...
Drought over the southwestern Tibetan Plateau triggered by ocean warming more than ten thousand miles away
Credit: Shuai Hu El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a recurring climate phenomenon involving changes in the temperature of waters in ...
Twice as much carbon flowing from land to ocean than previously thought
Credit: Eun Young Kwon Every year 600-900 million tons of carbon flow through rivers to the ocean either as particles ...
A new satellite-measured “Solar-induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence” (SIF) product aims to improve carbon neutrality research
Credit: TanSat team Solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) is emitted during plant photosynthesis. SIF results from vegetation chlorophyll giving off red ...
Is there life on mars today and where?
Challenging assumptions about the possibility of modern life on MarsCredit: Credit Image: (b) NASA-JPL/MRO-University of Arizona (c) Lauro et al., ...
Migration routes of one of Britain’s largest ducks revealed for the first time
Much still remains a mystery as to the Shelduck's migrationCredit: ©Philip Croft/BTO New research, just published in the journal Ringing ...
There might be many planets with water-rich atmospheres
UChicago study finds way that hot, rocky planets in other systems could form and keep atmospheresCredit: Engine House VFX, At-Bristol ...
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