Scientists used a 600-year-old marine sponge to reconstruct a record of ocean temperature in the North Atlantic revealing past volcanic activity as well as the current global warming trend from the release of carbon dioxide and other heat trapping gasses into Earth's atmosphere and absorbed by the oceans.
A new study co-authored by researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society's Global Conservation Program and the University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry introduces a classification called Resistance-Resilience-Transformation that enables the assessment of whether and to what extent a management shift toward transformative action is occurring in conservation.
In a normal year, biologists Daniel Janzen and Winnie Hallwachs spend about six months in Costa Rica, where they conduct research and pursue conservation efforts in Área de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG), a World Heritage Site in the northwest that encompasses, a network of parks and preserves they helped establish in the 1980s and that has grown to more than 400,000 acres, including marine, dry forest, cloud forest, and rain forest environments.
According to Rutgers researchers, bacteria are the reason behind greater melting on the Greenland ice sheet, probably increasing the contribution of the island to sea-level rise.
The University of Surrey has been awarded £1.8m from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to investigate how increased construction of tall buildings will impact the meteorology, air quality, and climate of towns and cities in the UK.
Climate changes prompt many important questions. Not least how it affects animals and plants: Do they adapts, gradually migrate to different areas or become extinct? And what is the role played by human activities? This applies not least to Greenland and the rest of the Artic, which are expected to see the greatest effects of climate changes.
A study of biomass burning aerosols led by University of Wyoming researchers revealed that smoke from wildfires has more of a cooling effect on the atmosphere than computer models assume.
According to Penn State researchers, climate change affects wild bees more than disturbances to their habitats. Their findings indicate that mitigating land-use issues alone will not be adequate to safeguard these vital pollinators.
New research by the New England Aquarium reveals that the warming of oceans due to climate change has made baby sharks be born smaller, exhausted, malnourished, and into environments already hard for them to thrive in.
In a new study, Stanford researchers report that intensifying precipitation contributed one-third of the financial costs of flooding in the United States over the past three decades, totaling almost $75 billion of the estimated $199 billion in flood damages from 1988 to 2017.
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