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Study Reveals the Impact of Social Norms and Behavior on Energy Use

People have a tendency to consider what others think and do as right. Do these two social norms have an impact on electric energy consumption?

3 Nov 2020

Mega-Droughts are Tipped to Increase Due to Climate Change

According to a study headed by the University of Queensland, mega-droughts, or droughts that persist for more than twenty years or even longer, are expected to increase due to climate change.

2 Nov 2020

Increasing Temperature Increases Algal, Fish Biomass in Northern Finland Lakes

Subarctic regions are experiencing quick changes not just in climate but also in land-use intensity.

2 Nov 2020

Biologically Important Areas are Losing Ground to Agriculture and Urban Development

Between 1992 and 2015, the world's most biologically diverse places lost an area more than three times the size of Sweden when the land was converted to other uses, mainly agriculture, or gobbled up by urban sprawl.

30 Oct 2020

Study Highlights Human Resilience in the Face of Climate Change in Ancient Turkey

An examination of two documented periods of climate change in the greater Middle East, between approximately 4,500 and 3,000 years ago, reveals local evidence of resilience and even of a flourishing ancient society despite the changes in climate seen in the larger region.

30 Oct 2020

Converted Land Restoration Could Help Mitigate Climate Change, Extinction

According to a new study, a better way to stop or reverse the impacts of carbon dioxide and other earth-warming greenhouse gas emissions is to determine the main areas where the action can be economical.

30 Oct 2020

New Insight into How Wildfires are Impacting the Earth's Atmosphere

Researchers with the University of Saskatchewan's Institute of Space and Atmospheric Studies are part of a global team that has found that the smoke cloud pushed into the stratosphere by last winter's Australian wildfires was three times larger than anything previously recorded.

29 Oct 2020