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Climate Change Likely to Trigger the Possibility of the Next Pandemic

As continuous warming occurs in the Earth’s climate, scientists forecast wild animals will be compelled to shift their habitat, probably to areas with large human populations. This considerably increases the threat of a viral jump to humans that could result in the next pandemic.

29 Apr 2022

New Method Helps Predict How Individual Microalgae Might Behave Under Future Temperature Stress

Owing to the composition of their microalgae symbionts, coral species showcase different temperature tolerances.

28 Apr 2022

Study Highlights the Climate Risk Posed by Boreal Wildfires and Points to Fire Management as an Effective Way to Limit Emissions

A new study performed by US researchers determines that fires happening in the United States and Canadian boreal forests between now and 2050 could liberate nearly 3% of the leftover global carbon budget until bigger investments are made to restrict fire size in these carbon-rich forests.

28 Apr 2022

Rainforest Birds in Decline in Black Summer Bushfire Aftermath

Functional bird populations vital to rainforest regeneration are struggling to recover in the years after the black summer bushfires devastated Australia, according to a study from the Centre for Ecosystem Science at UNSW Sydney.

28 Apr 2022

ASM Report Examines the Relationship Between Microbes and Climate Change

The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has issued a new report, Microbes and Climate Change: Science, People, & Impacts, examining the relationship between microbes and climate change.

25 Apr 2022

Study Shows that Community-Based Climate Risk Management Committees Can Help Improve Farmer’s Harvests

One of the findings of the IPCC report, known as the Climate Change 2022: Impact, Adaptation, and Vulnerability report, is that enhanced design and delivery are required to level up the climate services, implying decision making is supported by the climate data. This has been reported by Dr Ana María Loboguerrero Rodríguez, the research director of climate action at the Alliance of Bioversity International and International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT).

21 Apr 2022

New Methodology for Robust Assessment of the Change in GHGs Induced by Dams

As far as dams are concerned, they are conventionally perceived as emitters of GHGs in big rivers.

20 Apr 2022

Researchers Created Artificial Rainfall to Examine its Effects on Plants

The mechanism present behind the good growth of plants is not about how much extra water is given to them, but when it is given, suggests new research performed at the University of California (UC Riverside).

19 Apr 2022

Microplastics are Finding Their Way into Human Food Supplies

Plastic rubbish has been found all over the place and currently, broken-down microplastics are discovered in variable concentrations in water and blue mussels and inside the intertidal zone at a few of the most famous and highly remote beaches in southern Australia.

19 Apr 2022

Adriatic Ecosystems Incredibly Resilient to Major Climatic Shifts, but Affected by Human-Induced Changes

An analysis of more than 70,000 fossils indicates that mollusk communities were incredibly resilient to major climatic shifts during the last ice age.

19 Apr 2022