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UrduSerengeti National Park is home to a breath-taking array of wild animals, from lions to elephants and migrating wildebeests. But an equally important part of this ecosystem is the local people living on the fringes of the area. They will…
Tag: Climate Change
Scientists and innovators present the Circular Carbon Economy at COP25
12/12/2019 – COP25 MADRID, International scientists and innovators present the concept and components of the Circular Carbon Economy, including nature-based elements, technological underpinnings and its potential as a solution to the climate challenge. Organized by the Ministry of Energy of…
The first nanotube applications award honors the scientist revolutionizing batteries
TUBALL Awards are the first to acknowledge R&D projects using SWCNTs across the whole range of their commercial applications.
Salmon lose diversity in managed rivers, reducing resilience to environmental change
Natural resilience is more important than ever in the face of unprecedented climate change
Wyss Academy for Nature founded at the University of Bern
Rapid biodiversity losses, accelerated climate change, and a growing demand for land resources – these developments and their consequences are closely interrelated. Where this is concerned, the following question is becoming increasingly pressing: How can the necessary nature conservation be…
Rutgers Experts Available to Discuss Report on Rising Seas and Changing Coastal Storms in N.J.
New Brunswick, N.J. (Dec. 12, 2019) – Rutgers University–New Brunswick experts are available to comment on “New Jersey’s Rising Seas and Changing Coastal Storms: A Report of the 2019 Science and Technical Advisory Panel.” The N.J. Department of Environmental Protection commissioned…
UCI-led team releases high-precision map of Antarctic ice sheet bed topography
Irvine, Calif., Dec. 12, 2019 – A University of California, Irvine-led team of glaciologists has unveiled the most accurate portrait yet of the contours of the land beneath Antarctica’s ice sheet – and, by doing so, has helped identify which regions of the continent are going to be more, or less, vulnerable to future climate warming.
Estimates of ecosystem carbon mitigation improved towards the goal of the Paris agreement
Approximately 30 percent of CO2 emitted to the atmosphere by human activities, mainly the use of fossil fuels and deforestation, is taken up by terrestrial ecosystems such as forests and grasslands. The recent reports from the IPCC concluded that new…
Beyond ‘shovelomics’: Growing cassava in the air helps study the plant’s mysterious roots
Scientists tossed aside the shovel and studied cassava roots as they grew in real-time, suspended in the air. The innovative use of aeroponics may usher in a new era of science for cassava genetic improvement and sustainable intensification
Model simulation experiments give scientists a clearer understanding of factors that influence monsoon behavior
Monsoons can have a significant impact on human populations all around the world, bringing heavy rainfall associated with flooding and mudslides that can damage crops and pose a health and safety risk. In countries such as India, monsoons also provide…
Transformative change can save humans and nature
The survival of Earth’s life is not a battle of humans versus nature. In this week’s Science , an independent group of international experts, including one from Michigan State University (MSU), deliver a sweeping assessment of nature, concluding victory needs…
Experiment suggests the best ways to tackle invasive Oregon grape in Belgian coastal dunes
The Belgian coastal dunes, a protected habitat of high conservation value, are getting severely impacted by one of its worst enemies amongst invasive species: the Oregon grape. To help mitigate the detrimental effect of this North American shrub invader, Belgian…
Significant potential demonstrated by digital agricultural advice
2019 Economics Nobel Laureate co-publishes paper demonstrating the potential for digital agricultural advice to ‘sustainably’ raise ‘agricultural productivity’ at low cost for 2 billion smallholder farming families
Why collapse is not always a bad thing
New book provides an analysis of the process of failure and collapse, and outlines principles that help us manage these challenges in our lives
The limits of ocean heavyweights: Prey curb whales’ gigantic size
Feeding strategy strongly influences their size cap, but all whales depend on rich ocean resources to be big
Beyond ‘shovelomics’: Growing cassava in the air helps study the plant’s mysterious roots
Scientists tossed aside the shovel and studied cassava roots as they grew in real-time, suspended in the air. The innovative use of aeroponics may usher in a new era of science for cassava genetic improvement and sustainable intensification
Harnessing nature’s defenses against tsunamis
International team led by Göttingen University studies protection of coastal communities in biodiversity hotspots
Transformative change can save humans and nature
The survival of Earth’s life is not a battle of humans versus nature. In this week’s Science , an independent group of international experts, including one from Michigan State University (MSU), deliver a sweeping assessment of nature, concluding victory needs…
Climate cycles and insect pests drive migration timing of reindeer’s North American cousin
In the largest-ever caribou study a University of Maryland-led team disputes long-held assumptions about migration timing and suggests warming summers may negatively affect calving.
Martian aurora offers climate change clues, Embry-Riddle reports
NASA, University of Colorado Boulder, Embry-Riddle present findings at AGU
Canadian tundra formerly covered in rich forest: Ancient plant fossil record shows
SASKATOON–The heady aroma of magnolia blossoms and lotus flowers might have wafted to your nostrils if you had gone for a walk 56 million years ago in the lush green forest which covered Canada’s northernmost islands. Now covered in ice…
Estimates of ecosystem carbon mitigation improved towards the goal of the Paris agreement
Approximately 30 percent of CO2 emitted to the atmosphere by human activities, mainly the use of fossil fuels and deforestation, is taken up by terrestrial ecosystems such as forests and grasslands. The recent reports from the IPCC concluded that new…
Significant potential demonstrated by digital agricultural advice
2019 Economics Nobel Laureate co-publishes paper demonstrating the potential for digital agricultural advice to ‘sustainably’ raise ‘agricultural productivity’ at low cost for 2 billion smallholder farming families
Model simulation experiments give scientists a clearer understanding of factors that influence monsoon behavior
Monsoons can have a significant impact on human populations all around the world, bringing heavy rainfall associated with flooding and mudslides that can damage crops and pose a health and safety risk. In countries such as India, monsoons also provide…
The limits of ocean heavyweights: Prey curb whales’ gigantic size
Feeding strategy strongly influences their size cap, but all whales depend on rich ocean resources to be big
Experiment suggests the best ways to tackle invasive Oregon grape in Belgian coastal dunes
The Belgian coastal dunes, a protected habitat of high conservation value, are getting severely impacted by one of its worst enemies amongst invasive species: the Oregon grape. To help mitigate the detrimental effect of this North American shrub invader, Belgian…
Why collapse is not always a bad thing
New book provides an analysis of the process of failure and collapse, and outlines principles that help us manage these challenges in our lives
Harnessing nature’s defenses against tsunamis
International team led by Göttingen University studies protection of coastal communities in biodiversity hotspots
Climate cycles and insect pests drive migration timing of reindeer’s North American cousin
In the largest-ever caribou study a University of Maryland-led team disputes long-held assumptions about migration timing and suggests warming summers may negatively affect calving.
Martian aurora offers climate change clues, Embry-Riddle reports
NASA, University of Colorado Boulder, Embry-Riddle present findings at AGU
Canadian tundra formerly covered in rich forest: Ancient plant fossil record shows
SASKATOON–The heady aroma of magnolia blossoms and lotus flowers might have wafted to your nostrils if you had gone for a walk 56 million years ago in the lush green forest which covered Canada’s northernmost islands. Now covered in ice…
Shrinking of Greenland’s glaciers began accelerating in 2000, research finds
Satellite data has given scientists clues about how, when and why Greenland’s glaciers are shrinking – and shows a sharp increase in glacial retreat beginning about 2000, according to new research presented this week.
Scientists Link Decline of Baltic Cod to Hypoxia – and Climate Change
If you want to know how climate change and hypoxia — the related loss of oxygen in the world’s oceans — affect fish species such as the economically important Baltic cod, all you have to do is ask the fish. Those cod, at least, will tell you that hypoxia is making them smaller, scrawnier and less valuable. A paper published today in the journal Biology Letters points to a link between hypoxia and fish well-being.
NASA finds Tropical Storm Belna’s heavy rainfall potential shrinks
Tropical Storm Belna weakened after it made landfall in northwestern Madagascar, and infrared imagery from NASA showed how the area of strong storms within had diminished. Cold cloud top temperatures can tell forecasters if a tropical cyclone has the potential…
Earth was stressed before dinosaur extinction
Fossilized seashells show signs of global warming, ocean acidification leading up to asteroid impact
Scrubbing carbon dioxide from smokestacks for cleaner industrial emissions
CORVALLIS, Ore. – An international team co-led by an Oregon State University chemistry researcher has uncovered a better way to scrub carbon dioxide from smokestack emissions, which could be a key to mitigating global climate change. Published today in Nature…
Shrinking of Greenland’s glaciers began accelerating in 2000, research finds
Satellite images show first 34-year record of ice melt on the island
Scientists link decline of Baltic cod to hypoxia — and climate change
Fishes’ ‘internal logbooks’ show decline in valuable species is caused by loss of seawater oxygen
New research pinpoints which of the world’s trees are climate-ready
Botanists from Trinity College Dublin have discovered that “penny-pinching” evergreen species such as Christmas favourites, holly and ivy, are more climate-ready in the face of warming temperatures than deciduous “big-spending” water consumers like birch and oak. As such, they are…
Mountain goats’ air conditioning is failing, study says
Glacier National Park’s iconic mountain goats seek out vanishing snow patches where they cool and reduce their respiration
NASA finds Tropical Storm Belna’s heavy rainfall potential shrinks
Tropical Storm Belna weakened after it made landfall in northwestern Madagascar, and infrared imagery from NASA showed how the area of strong storms within had diminished. Cold cloud top temperatures can tell forecasters if a tropical cyclone has the potential…
Earth was stressed before dinosaur extinction
Fossilized seashells show signs of global warming, ocean acidification leading up to asteroid impact
One-third of recent global methane increase comes from tropical Africa
Concentrations of methane, a greenhouse gas about 28 times more potent than carbon dioxide, have risen steadily in Earth’s atmosphere since 2007. Although several potential explanations, including an increase in methane emissions from the tropics, could account for this upsurge,…
Scrubbing carbon dioxide from smokestacks for cleaner industrial emissions
CORVALLIS, Ore. – An international team co-led by an Oregon State University chemistry researcher has uncovered a better way to scrub carbon dioxide from smokestack emissions, which could be a key to mitigating global climate change. Published today in Nature…
Recommendations for responding to the Fridays for Future movement
The level of public concern about climate change has risen significantly in recent years. The Fridays for Future movement enjoys broad political and public support, but this has so far not translated into tangible changes. The Institute for Advanced Sustainability…
Shrinking of Greenland’s glaciers began accelerating in 2000, research finds
Satellite images show first 34-year record of ice melt on the island
A likely trigger of tropical glacier melt 20,000 years ago
High-latitude warming initiated the onset of the last deglaciation in the tropics
Scientists link decline of Baltic cod to hypoxia — and climate change
Fishes’ ‘internal logbooks’ show decline in valuable species is caused by loss of seawater oxygen
Research confirms timing of tropical glacier melt at the end of the last ice age
Decrease in temperature differences may have forced warming at low latitudes
New research pinpoints which of the world’s trees are climate-ready
Botanists from Trinity College Dublin have discovered that “penny-pinching” evergreen species such as Christmas favourites, holly and ivy, are more climate-ready in the face of warming temperatures than deciduous “big-spending” water consumers like birch and oak. As such, they are…