Thawing Arctic hillsides are major climate change contributors
Thawing Arctic hillsides release a significant amount of organic carbon that has been locked in frozen ground for thousands of ...
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European cities need more legal flexibility to prepare and protect residents from the climate emergency, study warns
Laws intended to protect the environment in European cities must be more flexible in order to protect residents from the ...
Synthetic genetic circuits could help plants adapt to climate change
Increasingly, global food production is being threatened by the effects of climate change. As floods, droughts, and extreme heat waves ...
Simultaneous climate events risk damaging entire socioeconomic systems
The cascading effects of extreme weather – such as recent heatwaves which combine heat and drought – and the interconnectedness ...
The cost of climate change on economic growth
From crop damage to cooling failures at cloud-based data centers, climate change affects a wide variety of economic sectors. It’s ...
Study: Even modest climate change may lead to sweeping changes in northernmost forests
Photos // Video Even relatively modest climate warming and associated precipitation shifts may dramatically alter Earth's northernmost forests, which constitute ...
Climate change leads to invasive insect expansion on West Coast
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. -- Climate change has led to warming temperatures in the Pacific Northwest, leading some insect species to expand ...
DOE announces $19 million to small businesses for climate, energy, and scientific R&D
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced a plan to provide $19 million for small businesses pursuing ...
‘Dream’ discovery could sow crops better equipped to weather the climate change storm
Scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) and James Cook University (JCU) have identified an “exquisite” natural mechanism that helps ...
Climate change predicts southerly shift of great whale species in New Zealand
New research sheds light on how climate change will impact the distribution of great whales in New Zealand waters. Credit: ...
Assessing the risk of spread of Zika virus under current and future climate scenarios
It is of great significance to estimate the urban cycle area and the sylvatic cycle area of ZIKV worldwide and predict its future trends ...
Experts warn that climate change and increasing populations are threatening the resilience of UK wastewater infrastructure
Researchers from the University of Portsmouth have examined the dynamic changes in the resilience of UK wastewater treatment works, now ...
Worrying finding in California’s multi-billion-dollar climate initiative reveals problem with using forests to offset CO2 emissions
Researchers have found that California’s forest carbon buffer pool, designed to ensure the durability of the state’s multi-billion-dollar carbon offset ...
BSC gets 5 million from the EU to research climate change and its effects on health, society and environment
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) has obtained 5 million euros this year from European funds in competition with other international institutions to ...
Future-proofing the Great Lakes region through climate research: Improved regional climate models will help the Great Lakes Region become more informed, ready and resilient
Researchers are studying the way warming water temperatures will impact the Great Lakes region. Their work shows that small differences ...
Research suggests that change in bird coloration is due to climate change
The work, which was conducted over a 15-year period (2005-2019) through a partnership between scientists from the UPV/EHU and the ...
New technology can help combat climate crisis
Scientists have created a novel technology that can help to tackle climate change and address the global energy crisis. Credit: ...
Weddell seal moms sacrifice their diving capacity to provide iron to their pups: Climate change could make seals more vulnerable
Woods Hole, Mass. (August 2, 2022) --Weddell seals, which are excellent divers, provide so much iron to their pups during ...
Climate change: Potential to end humanity is ‘dangerously underexplored’ say experts
Global heating could become “catastrophic” for humanity if temperature rises are worse than many predict or cause cascades of events ...
Most but not all Texas coaches say they’ll plan for climate change
HOUSTON – (Aug. 1, 2022) – A survey of coaches and athletic officials in Texas indicates many of them would be ...
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Reinvigorating ‘lost cause’ exhausted T cells could improve cancer immunotherapy
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A new method boosts wind farms’ energy output, without new equipment
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Researchers fabricate cobalt copper catalysts for methane on metal-organic framework Contributes to goal of methane production from carbon dioxide emissions
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New insights on how some individuals with obesity can lose weight – and keep it off
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Brightest stars in the night sky can strip Neptune-sized planets to their rocky cores
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The North American Menopause Society releases its 2022 Hormone Therapy Position Statement