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Personal Connections Key to Helping Communities Adapt to Climate Change

Connections with friends and family are key to helping communities adapt to the devastating impact of climate change on their homes and livelihoods, a new study shows.

11 Aug 2020

New Study Supports Predictions that Arctic Sea Could be Free of Ice by 2035

A new study, published this week in the journal Nature Climate Change, supports predictions that the Arctic could be free of sea ice by 2035.

11 Aug 2020

Study Highlights the Need to Urgently Protect World's Pristine Tropical Forests

The world's 'best of the last' tropical forests are at significant risk of being lost, according to a paper released today in Nature Ecology and Evolution.

11 Aug 2020

Intensive Land Use Decreases Pollination and Reproductive Success of Wild Plants

Human changes to the environment have been linked to widespread pollinator declines.

11 Aug 2020

Research Highlights Future Effects of Climate Change on Fish Stocks

New research out today highlights the future effects of climate change on important fish stocks for south-west UK fisheries.

10 Aug 2020

Climate Change Impact on Glaciers in New Zealand’s Southern Alps

A new study reports that glaciers in New Zealand’s Southern Alps have lost higher amounts of ice mass since pre-industrial times than what remains at present.

10 Aug 2020

Post-Lockdown Recovery Choices Could Help Fight Against Global Warming

A post-lockdown economic recovery plan that incorporates and emphasises climate-friendly choices could help significantly in the battle against global warming, according to a new study.

7 Aug 2020

New Study Suggests Climate Change has Increased Productivity of Forests

Climate change has increased the productivity of forests, according to a new study that synthesizes hundreds of thousands of carbon observations collected over the last quarter century at the Harvard Forest Long-Term Ecological Research site, one of the most intensively studied forests in the world.

5 Aug 2020

New Coupled Climate Model Could Help Tune Future Regional Earth System Model

Until now, researchers have extensively used regional climate models (RCMs) that include high-resolution topography and surface characteristics for applications spanning from process studies to climate change and paleoclimate simulations.

4 Aug 2020

Study Assesses Effects of Climate Change on Soil Biodiversity

Soils harbour a substantial part of the world's biodiversity, yet data on the patterns and processes taking place below ground does not represent all relevant ecosystems and taxa.

4 Aug 2020