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Dolphin Populations At-Risk Trans-Tasman Study Calls for Greater Collaboration

While consumers look out for the Dolphin Safe mark on seafood purchases, a major research stocktake of Australian-New Zealand waters gives new guidelines to managers of dolphin fisheries.

4 Mar 2021

Satellite Shows Atmospheric River Storms as Driver of Increased Snowfall

Researchers used NASA’s ice-measuring laser satellite to determine that atmospheric river storms are a main driver of elevated snowfall levels in West Antarctica during the austral winter in 2019.

3 Mar 2021

Study Explains Which Mountain Snowpacks are Most "At-Risk" from Climate Change

As the planet warms, scientists expect that mountain snowpack should melt progressively earlier in the year. However, observations in the U.S. show that as temperatures have risen, snowpack melt is relatively unaffected in some regions while others can experience snowpack melt a month earlier in the year.

2 Mar 2021

Extreme Rainfall Due to Climate Change in Amazonia Causes Adverse Birth Outcomes

Extreme rainfall associated with climate change is causing harm to babies in some of the most forgotten places on the planet setting in motion a chain of disadvantage down the generations, according to new research in Nature Sustainability.

2 Mar 2021

New Study to Assess the Impact of Global Warming on Siberia's Thawing Permafrost

Northumbria University is to play a leading role in a major study to assess the long-term impact of global warming on Siberia's thawing permafrost.

2 Mar 2021

Tundra Plant Communities Respond Similarly to Microclimate, Study Shows

Researchers are in the search for generalisable rules and patterns in nature. Biogeographer Julia Kemppinen together with her colleagues tested if plant functional traits show similar patterns along microclimatic gradients across far-apart regions from the high-Arctic Svalbard to the sub-Antarctic Marion Island. Kemppinen and her colleagues found surprisingly identical patterns.

2 Mar 2021

Global Warming Could Reduce the Efficiency of Food Chains

Rising temperatures could reduce the efficiency of food chains and threaten the survival of larger animals, new research shows.

2 Mar 2021

ABB Urges Greater Adoption of High-Efficiency Motors and Drives to Combat Climate Change - Global Electricity Consumption to be Reduced by 10%

In a new whitepaper published today, ABB reveals potential for significant energy efficiency improvements in industry and infrastructure enabled by the latest and most high-efficiency motors and variable speed drives.

From ABB Power Conditioning – Electrification Products Division 2 Mar 2021

Study Highlights the Importance of Social Resilience to Climate Change

Climate alone is not a driver for human behavior. The choices that people make in the face of changing conditions take place in a larger human context. And studies that combine insights from archaeologists and environmental scientists can offer more nuanced lessons about how people have responded -- sometimes successfully -- to long-term environmental changes.

1 Mar 2021

New Framework to Mitigate Irreversible Global Damage

Renowned researchers have warned that major ecosystems around Antarctica and Australia are disintegrating, and have recommended a three-step framework to mitigate the permanent global damage.

1 Mar 2021