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Climate Change-Induced Temperature Favors West Nile Virus Transmission

Climate change-induced temperature rise is adding to the spread of the West Nile Virus (WNV) in regions of Europe. The temperature rise has created a favorable condition for the virus and the mosquito vectors to proliferate.

15 Oct 2021

UK Aquaculture Business Unveils Seaweed Solution to Address Climate Change

A UK-based aquaculture business aims to remove billions of tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere each year by growing and harvesting floating seaweed in the Atlantic Ocean.

From Seafields Solutions Limited 15 Oct 2021

Study Shows How Climate Change Could Impact the Ecosystems of Lakes

A new study has shown how climate change could impact the ecosystems of the planet's largest lakes by revealing varying levels at which their water layers are mixed together through the seasons.

13 Oct 2021

Arctic's 'Last Ice Area' and Ice-Dependent Ecosystems may Collapse with Warming Climate

With warming climate, summer sea ice in the Arctic has been shrinking fast, and now consistently spans less than half the area it did in the early 1980s.

13 Oct 2021

Study Traces the Effect of Solar Activity on Earth's Energy Budget

This is the result of a new study by researchers from DTU Space at the Technical University of Denmark and of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who have traced the consequences of eruptions on the Sun on clouds and Earth's energy balance.

13 Oct 2021

A Single Bad El Niño Drives Nearly 6 Million Children into Undernutrition

Over the last year and a half, the 1-in-100-year Covid-19 pandemic drove millions of children into hunger.

13 Oct 2021

Glaciers are Losing Mass Faster and Faster Due to Climate Change

For 20 years, a team from the VUB research group Ice and Climate Research, led by Professor Philippe Huybrechts, has been travelling to the Alps at the end of the summer to measure the mass balance of the Morteratsch and Pers glaciers.

13 Oct 2021

Study Reveals How Thinning Ice Sheet Impacts Greenland’s Groundwater System

For more than a decade, a team of University of Montana researchers and students have studied the dynamics of the Greenland Ice Sheet as it responds to a warming climate

13 Oct 2021

New Methods to Help Coral Reefs Survive Under Climate Change

Coral reefs are the rainforests of the seas, and 30 percent of all marine biodiversity depends on them. In economic terms, they support the livelihoods of around a billion people around the globe.

13 Oct 2021