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Study Analyzes Relationships Between Climate and Corn, Sorghum, Soybean Yield

If warming continues unabated in the Midwest, in 50 years we can expect the best conditions for corn and soybean production to have shifted from Iowa and Illinois to Minnesota and the Dakotas, according to Penn State researchers.

5 May 2020

Sea Level Rise will Cause Land Area to be Impacted by Flood Mechanisms

Today and as sea level continues to rise in the future, extreme high tide events cause Honolulu, Hawai'i's primary urban center to experience flooding not just from water washing directly over the shoreline, but also from groundwater inundation as the water table is pushed toward the surface, and reverse flow through the municipal drainage system.

5 May 2020

New Membrane Efficiently Separates CO2 from a Mixture of Gases

Researchers at Newcastle University have designed a new kind of self-forming membrane to isolate carbon dioxide (CO2) from a mixture of gases.

4 May 2020

Global Warming Could Lead to Increase in Large-Scale Glacier Detachments

A surprising event took place deep in the remote interior area of the largest national park in the United States, on the evening of August 5th, 2013.

29 Apr 2020

Climate Change Caused by Humans Leads to Slow-Moving Hurricanes

When compared to faster-moving storms, hurricanes traveling slowly across an area are said to inflict more damage.

23 Apr 2020

Standardized Procedure to Analyze Fine Particles in Experimental Chambers

What impact does the development of fine particles and the global warming exert on each other? The complete atmosphere cannot be heated for experimental purposes, so a portion of it is placed in a chamber and examined there.

20 Apr 2020

HKU Scientists Unravel Mystery of Corals’ Tolerance to Climate Change

Researchers at School of Biological Sciences and Swire Institute of Marine Science, The University of Hong Kong have developed a new method for determining what corals eat, and demonstrated that reliance on certain nutritional sources underpins their bleaching susceptibility in warming oceans.

16 Apr 2020