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Increasing Temperatures may Impact Milk and Meat Productivity in East Africa

New research published in Nature Food warns that heat stress in animals caused by rising temperatures and humidity will occur more frequently and for longer periods, impacting milk and meat productivity for dairy cattle, beef cattle, sheep, goat, pigs and poultry across East Africa.

19 Feb 2021

Researchers Offer Roadmap for Calculating the Social Cost of Carbon

The Biden administration is revising the social cost of carbon (SCC), a decade-old cost-benefit metric used to inform climate policy by placing a monetary value on the impact of climate change.

19 Feb 2021

COVID-19 has not Made People any Less Concerned About Climate Change

A new study suggests that COVID-19 was not a reason for people to be less considerate about climate change—in spite of the pandemic disturbing and controlling several aspects of their lives.

19 Feb 2021

Varying Aerosols Impact Solar Radiation Levels Reaching Earth’s Surface

Back in the late 1980s and 1990s, scientists from ETH Zurich had detected the initial signs that the amount of solar light reaching the surface of the Earth had been progressively declining since the 1950s.

19 Feb 2021

Novel Expedition to Explore Arctic Ocean Paleoceanography and Climate

The Arctic Ocean is a very sensitive and important region for global climate change, and is unique in comparison to the other oceans on Earth.

18 Feb 2021

Scientists Investigate the Effects of Human-Driven Climate Change and Fire Suppression

The unprecedented and deadly blazes that engulfed the American West in 2020 attest to the increasing number, size and severity of wildfires in the region.

18 Feb 2021

Icebergs are Melting Faster than Predictions of Current Melting Models

According to a new study by the University of Sydney mathematicians, icebergs are melting quicker compared to what existing models predict.

17 Feb 2021

Migration to the Coast Could Increase in Some Places Despite Sea-Level Change

In coming decades as coastal communities around the world are expected to encounter sea-level rise, the general expectation has been that people's migration toward the coast will slow or reverse in many places.

17 Feb 2021

Protected Areas to Conserve Planet's Biodiversity do not Consider the Effects of Climate Change

For more than a decade, governments in countries across the world have made significant progress to expand their protected areas network to conserve the planet's biodiversity.

17 Feb 2021

Climate and Ecological Changes Likely Drove Megafauna Extinctions in North America

A new study published in Nature Communications suggests that the extinction of North America's largest mammals was not driven by overhunting by rapidly expanding human populations following their entrance into the Americas.

16 Feb 2021