Climate
Isabelle Anguelovski, selected by the U.S. government for the First National Nature Assessment
Isabelle Anguelovski, researcher at the Instituteof Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), in Span, is...
April research news from the Ecological Society of America
The Ecological Society of America (ESA) presents a roundup of four research articles recently published across its six esteemed journals....
AMS Science Preview: Hawaiian climates; chronic pain; lightning-caused wildfires
The American Meteorological Society continuously publishes research on climate, weather, and water in its 12 journals. Many of these articles...
Genetic hope in fight against devastating wheat disease
Fungal disease Fusarium head blight (FHB) is on the rise due to increasingly humid conditions induced by climate change during...
Anthropologist documents how women and shepherds historically reduced wildfire risk in Central Italy
In the last several decades, large forest fires have increasingly threatened communities across the Mediterranean. Climate change is expected to...
Reno/Sparks selected to be part of Urban Heat Mapping Campaign
Several municipal, county, and Tribal governments and community groups based in the Reno-Sparks area are teaming up to map the...
Climate change could become the main driver of biodiversity decline by mid-century
Global biodiversity has declined between 2% and 11% during the 20th century due to land-use change alone, according to a...
Voluntary corporate emissions targets not enough to create real climate action
Companies’ emissions reduction targets should not be the sole measure of corporate climate ambition, according to a new perspective paper....
First-of-its-kind study definitively shows that conservation actions are effective at halting and reversing biodiversity loss
A new study published online today, April 25, in the scientific journal Science provides the strongest evidence to date that...
Warming Arctic reduces dust levels in parts of the planet
Climate change is a global phenomenon, but its impacts are felt at a very local level. Climate change is a...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Warm seawater speeding up melting of ‘Doomsday Glacier,’ scientists warn
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Probiotics during pregnancy shown to help moms and babies