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How Climate Change is Changing the Distribution and Ecology of Marine Plankton

Marine plankton plays an important role in the food chain, which is said to be undergoing a transformation due to climate change. Assistant Professor Kohei Matsuno of the Faculty of Fisheries Sciences spoke about how climate change is changing the distribution and ecology of marine plankton and what impact this will have on higher-trophic predators, including humans.

8 Sep 2023

Understanding the Impact of Climate Change on the Terrestrial Carbon Cycle

Before Leila Mirzagholi arrived at MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) to begin her postdoc appointment, she had spent most of her time in academia building cosmological models to detect properties of gravitational waves in the cosmos.

7 Sep 2023

Majority of Carbon Offset Schemes Overestimate Deforestation Prevention

The majority of carbon offset schemes are significantly overestimating the levels of deforestation they are preventing, according to a study published today in Science.

25 Aug 2023

Climate Change Driving Tree Mortality in the Black Forest

Climate impacts such as dry, hot summers reduce the growth and increase the mortality of trees in the Black Forest because they negatively influence the climatic water balance, i.e., the difference between precipitation and potential evapotranspiration.

24 Aug 2023

Urban Expansion Squeezing Tidal Flats in the Contiguous U.S.

Tidal flats, also known as mud flats, make up coastal wetlands that protect against destructive powers from the ocean such as waves, tsunamis and hurricanes.

23 Aug 2023

Environmental Pollutants Influence How Biodiversity Helps or Hinders Disease Outbreaks in Wildlife

Conventional wisdom among ecologists holds that the more species there are inhabiting an ecosystem, the less vulnerable any one species will be to a threat like a parasite.

18 Aug 2023

Enhanced Rock Weathering Could Help Meet IPCC Carbon Removal Goal for Slowing Climate Change

Farmers around the world could help the planet reach a key carbon removal goal set by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) by mixing crushed volcanic rocks into their fields, a new study reports.

17 Aug 2023

Restoring Degraded Forests Could Boost Climate and Biodiversity Goals

A new study mapping the potential scale of forest restoration globally shows that prioritizing 1.5 billion hectares of degraded forest – an area almost the size of Russia - could significantly boost effectiveness of meeting climate and biodiversity goals.

17 Aug 2023

Climate Change is Driving Perch to Outcompete Cold-Water Fish in Arctic Lakes

Scientists analyzed the condition of ecosystems of high latitude lakes and found out that increasing of water temperature leads to increasing of population, rapid growth and early maturation of perches.

14 Aug 2023

Poaching Threatens to Drive Kordofan Giraffes to Extinction

Without intervention, poaching of two Critically Endangered Kordofan giraffes might likely result in extinction in just 15 years within Cameroon’s Bénoué National Park.

7 Aug 2023