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Effective Adaptation can Counter the Effect of Climate Change on Crop Yield

Changes in weather patterns caused by climate change will not only lead to increased extreme heat but will also result in decreased rainfall across major crop-growing areas.

14 Jun 2021

Pine Island Glacier's Ice Shelf Could Disappear Much Sooner than Previously Estimated

For decades, the ice shelf helping to hold back one of the fastest-moving glaciers in Antarctica has gradually thinned

14 Jun 2021

Combination of Phenology and Range Shifts Helps Lepidoptera Species Adapt to Changing Climate

Climate change exerts great pressure for change on species and biodiversity.

11 Jun 2021

Dinosaurs had to Deal with Greater Seasonal Differences than Previously Thought

Palaeoclimatologists study climate of the geological past. Using an innovative technique, new research by an international research team led by Niels de Winter shows for the first time that dinosaurs had to deal with greater seasonal differences than previously thought.

11 Jun 2021

Study of Flooding During Hurricane Harvey Could Help in Quantifying Climate Change

How much do the effects of climate change contribute to extreme weather events? It's hard to say--the variables involved are plentiful, each event is unique, and we can only do so much to investigate what didn't happen.

11 Jun 2021

Deep Decarbonization by 2050 Currently Not Plausible, Study Reports

Today the Hamburg-based Cluster of Excellence "Climate, Climatic Change, and Society" publishes a new, essential study on climate futures.

11 Jun 2021

International Energy Forum Launches Methane Measurement Project to Address Climate Change

The International Energy Forum has launched a new initiative to develop a measurement methodology for methane emissions from the energy industry, allowing its member countries to collect standardized data to address a major cause of climate change.

11 Jun 2021

Corals' Natural Sunscreen may Help them Withstand Climate Change

Researchers at Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute are one step closer to understanding why certain corals have the ability to endure climate change better than others and the secret may lie in a particular protein that creates a natural sunscreen.

10 Jun 2021

Embracing New Ways of Social and Economic Practices to Tackle Climate Crisis

Tackling the climate crisis will require embracing new ways of thinking and challenging dominant social and economic practices, a new book suggests.

10 Jun 2021

New Systematic Framework Helps Identify Feasibility Concerns Raised by Climate Mitigation Scenarios

While the IPCC is in the midst of the drafting cycle of the Sixth Assessment Report, whose publication will start in the second half of 2021 - one of the most relevant events for the global climate change community, there is an ongoing debate on how to assess the feasibility of ambitious climate mitigation scenarios developed through integrated assessment models and to what extent they are actually achievable in the real world.

10 Jun 2021