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Warming Associated with Deforestation Reduces the Safety of Outdoor Work for Millions

The tropics is becoming hotter due to a combination of warming associated with deforestation and climate change-;and that can reduce the ability of outdoor workers to perform their jobs safely.

20 Dec 2021

Human Disturbance Affecting Little Penguins

Flinders University ecologists are calling on summer holiday-goers to not interfere with wildlife and damage habitats, notably for shy animals such as little penguins.

20 Dec 2021

Blue Whales Showing Signs of Malnutrition, a Climate Warning says CDU Researcher

Blue whales that pass through the waters off Timor-Leste each year are showing signs of malnutrition according to a Charles Darwin University (CDU) researcher who has been studying the animals for almost a decade.

20 Dec 2021

Manipulating Photorespiration to Help Crops Withstand Heat

Researchers from the University of Illinois and the U.S. Department of Agriculture have grown genetically modified tobacco plants that exhibit less energy-intensive photorespiration characteristics. These plants have hig...

16 Dec 2021

Massive Heatwaves Could Entirely Restructure the Size Distribution of Corals

Sometimes nature surprises you. That's what happened when a massive marine heatwave took hold in the waters around Moorea, French Polynesia, in late 2018. Fortunately, UC Santa Barbara researchers turned this event into an opportunity to investigate coral bleaching.

16 Dec 2021

Insights into Antarctic Ice’s Deep Past Could Improve Future Predictions

Insights into how the West Antarctic Ice Sheet responded to a warmer climate millions of years ago could improve predictions of its future.

16 Dec 2021

Elkem Launches First TCFD Report on Climate Risks and Opportunities

Elkem has on Wednesday 8 December launched its first TCFD report as an initiative to address the potential financial impact of climate risks and opportunities.

From Elkem 8 Dec 2021

Study Finds Increasing Weather Persistence in European Summer

In our study, we show that persistent weather conditions have an increasing similarity in summer over the North Atlantic, Europe and Siberia, favoring more pronounced extreme weather events.

7 Dec 2021

Decarbonizing Steel Production: Metso Outotec Launches Next Generation of the 100% Hydrogen-Based Circored Process for Fine Ore Reduction

Finding new solutions to decarbonize the steelmaking value chain is a must for the industry to become fossil-free and to help limit global warming to 1.5 °C.

From Metso Outotec Corporation 7 Dec 2021

Arctic Rivers are Discharging Much More Water than Previously Thought, Satellite Data Reveals

A civil and environmental engineering researcher at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has, for the first time, assimilated satellite information into on-site river measurements and hydrologic models to calculate the past 35 years of river discharge in the entire pan-Arctic region.

30 Nov 2021