California’s carbon mitigation efforts may be thwarted by climate change itself
UCI study: Higher heat will limit ecosystem's role in removing atmospheric CO2Credit: Shane Coffield / UCI Irvine, Calif., July 22, ...
Tag: Temperature-Dependent Phenomena
Visualizing a city’s energy use
Pitt civil engineers use Pittsburgh to create energy usage model in commercial buildingsCredit: Bilec Built Environment and Sustainable Engineering Group ...
Epicentre of major Amazon droughts and fires saw 2.5 billion trees and vines killed
A major drought and forest fires in the Amazon rainforest killed billions of trees and plants and turned one of ...
New long-term satellite analysis shows “plum” rainy season wetter now than ever before
Meiyu-Baiu fronts in the most recent decade the wettest on recordCredit: Tokyo Metropolitan University Tokyo, Japan - Researchers from Tokyo ...
Complexity yields simplicity: The shifting dynamics of temperate marine ecosystems
Researchers from the University of Tsukuba find that ocean warming and acidification are shifting temperate coastal reefs to simple turf-dominated ...
Wildfire smoke exposure linked to increased risk of contracting COVID-19
New study finds a 17.7 percent rise in COVID-19 cases after a prolonged 2020 wildfire smoke event in Reno, Nev.Credit: ...
Climate regulation changed with the proliferation of marine animals and terrestrial plants
Geoscientific study traces carbon-silicon cycle over three billion years on the basis of lithium isotope levelsCredit: photo/©: Ashleigh Hood Earth's ...
UTA researcher publishes study showing economic impacts of combating sea-level rise
Economic impacts of floodingCredit: UT Arlington Sea-level rise threatens to produce more frequent and severe flooding in coastal regions and ...
The pressure is off and high temperature superconductivity remains
Development of a new pressure-quench technique demonstrates superconductivity in iron selenide crystals sans pressureCredit: University of Houston In a critical ...
Ancient ostrich eggshell reveals new evidence of extreme climate change thousands of years ago
Credit: Philip Kiberd Evidence from an ancient eggshell has revealed important new information about the extreme climate change faced by ...
To predict underwater volcano eruptions, scientist looks at images from space
A new study monitored satellite images to obtain sea discoloration data as a novel indicator in detecting if an underwater ...
Climate changed the size of our bodies and, to some extent, our brains
Credit: Manuel Will The average body size of humans has fluctuated significantly over the last million years and is strongly ...
NASA space lasers map meltwater lakes in Antarctica with striking precision
Credit: Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Dr. Kelly Brunt From above, the Antarctic Ice Sheet might look like a calm, ...
Changes in Earth’s orbit enabled the emergence of complex life
Credit: University of Southampton Scientists at the University of Southampton have discovered that changes in Earth's orbit may have allowed ...