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Rattlesnakes Likely to Benefit from a Warming Climate

When it comes to climate change, not all organisms will lose out. A new Cal Poly study finds that rattlesnakes are likely to benefit from a warming climate.

1 Jul 2021

Plant Responses to Floods are Crucial in Modeling Soil Carbon Storage

Plants absorb nearly one-third of the carbon dioxide discharged due to human activities and store it in soil, thereby preventing it from turning into a heat-trapping gas. Thus they play a vital role in controlling climate change.

1 Jul 2021

Australian Start-up Educates Professionals to Make Faster Climate Impact with World-First Program

World-first Australian climate change program, WorkForClimate, has launched this week giving professionals and corporations the resources to tackle the climate crisis in their day-to-day work lives.

1 Jul 2021

'They Just Kept on Rising': Data Reveals Alarming Increase in Greenhouse Gases

If we are to reduce net carbon emissions to zero by 2050, we haven’t made a good start – governments, industry and individuals need to do much more, a new study shows.

1 Jul 2021

Study Reveals the Direct Impact of Rising Carbon Dioxide Levels on the Amazon Rainforest

A 50% rise in the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could reduce rainfall in the Amazon as much as or even more than substitution of the entire forest by pasture.

30 Jun 2021

Global Study Explores the Use and Interpretation of Climate-Science Evidence in Lawsuits

Newly-available scientific evidence, which could prove critical to the success of climate-related lawsuits, is often not produced in court, according to a new study published today by the Oxford Sustainable Law Programme and Environmental Change Institute.

29 Jun 2021