Vegetation growth in Northern Hemisphere stunted by water constraints in warming climate
Shift may reduce plants' ability to absorb atmospheric CO2, increasing greenhouse gassesCredit: Photo courtesy Lixin Wang, IUPUI INDIANAPOLIS -- A ...
Tag: Temperature-Dependent Phenomena
Greater Yellowstone area expected to become warmer, drier
New report highlights climate change effects on greater Yellowstone ecosystemCredit: USGS Temperature significantly increased and snowfall decreased in the iconic ...
Marine sediments explain how part of Brazil’s Northeast region became semi-arid
The phenomenon is linked to gradual contraction of the tropical rain belt over the last 5,000 years, according to a ...
No northern escape route for Florida’s coral reefs
Florida Tech research shows climate change will suppress reef growth from north and southCredit: Alexander Modys, Florida Atlantic University Warming ...
Metal catalysts used for environmental sustainability found to degrade and become less effective
Credit: Professor Anna Klinkova of the University of Waterloo New research is showing that some tiny catalysts being considered for ...
New study on climate change impacts on plants could lead to better conservation strategies
Credit: Erika Zavaleta/University of California, Santa Cruz The loss of plant species that are especially vulnerable to climate change might ...
New modeling technique shows greater likelihood, frequency of urban extreme heat events
Credit: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Extreme heat waves in urban areas are much more likely than previously thought, according to ...
Subsurface geophysics is key to geological carbon dioxide storage
Using unique 3D imaging technology to find a negative carbon solutionCredit: University of Houston A crucial step in sequestering carbon ...
Reduced microbial stability linked to soil carbon loss in active layer under alpine permafrost degra
Credit: NIEER Chinese researchers have recently discovered links between reduction in microbial stability and soil carbon loss in the active ...
Most rivers run dry — now and then
Over half of the world's rivers cease to flow for at least one day a year on averageCredit: McGill University ...
NASA Snow Campaign Wraps for 2021
Credit: Courtesy of Alex Olsen Mikitowicz. As the last snow melts, NASA's SnowEx teams are packing up the snowshoes, skis, ...
A quarter of global harvests at risk if agriculture does not adapt to climate change
Credit: Sue Wing et al. 2021 Shifts in weather patterns induced by climate change will increase extreme heat and reduce ...
Dinosaurs lived in greenhouse climate with hot summers
New climate reconstruction method provides precise picture of climate 78 million years agoCredit: Niels de Winter Palaeoclimatologists study climate of ...
Climate protection: Deep decarbonization by 2050 currently not plausible
Credit: Universitaet Hamburg Today the Hamburg-based Cluster of Excellence "Climate, Climatic Change, and Society" (CLICCS) publishes a new, essential study ...
Food systems offer huge opportunities to cut emissions, study finds
Greenhouse gases from food production are systematically underestimated, researchers sayCredit: From Tubiello et al., Environmental Research Letters 2021 A new ...
Corals tell Arabian Sea story of global warming
Credit: Tsuyoshi Watanabe Coral insights into 1,000 years of seasonal changes in the Arabian Sea warn of significant impacts caused ...
Underwater ancient cypress forest offers clues to the past
Credit: LSU When saber-toothed tigers, woolly mammoths and giant sloths roamed North America during the last Ice Age about 18,000 ...
Is Earth’s core lopsided? Strange goings-on in our planet’s interior
Model of how Earth's inner core froze into solid iron implies it may be only 500 million years oldCredit: Graphic ...
If countries implement Paris pledges with cuts to aerosols, millions of lives can be saved
A strategic approach to reducing both greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution can reap major health and temperature benefits, according ...
Less is more? New take on machine learning helps us “scale up” phase transitions
Features of large systems yielded from tiny simulations with super-resolution techniquesCredit: Tokyo Metropolitan University Tokyo, Japan - Researchers from Tokyo ...
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