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Temperature and Weather Changes can Affect Life Cycle of Crawfish

The life cycle of a crawfish can be fairly straight forward. In the summer months, crawfish reproduce in underground mud burrows with a plug of mud on top of the burrow to protect them from predators.

1 Sep 2020

Warmer, Acidifying Ocean has a Dramatic Effect on Diversity of Coral Reefs

Changes in ocean chemistry and temperature have had a dramatic effect on the diversity of corals and sea anemones, according to a team of scientists who have traced their evolution through deep time.

1 Sep 2020

Increasing Sea Levels from Ice-Sheet Losses Match Worst-Case Climate Warming Scenario

Ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica whose melting rates are rapidly increasing have raised the global sea level by 1.8 cm since the 1990s, and are matching the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's worst-case climate warming scenarios.

1 Sep 2020

Study Maps the Extent of Human Development in Oceans

In a world-first, the extent of human development in oceans has been mapped. An area totalling approximately 30,000 square kilometres - the equivalent of 0.008 percent of the ocean - has been modified by human construction, a study led by Dr Ana Bugnot from the University of Sydney School of Life and Environmental Sciences and the Sydney Institute of Marine Science has found.

1 Sep 2020

Research can Help Produce Flood-Tolerant Crops

Enzymes that control a plant's response to lower oxygen levels could be manipulated to make vital crops resistant to the impacts of flooding triggered by climate change, new research shows.

1 Sep 2020

Better Simulation of El Niño Events Reduces Uncertainty in Future Climate Projections

A new study led by University of Hawai'i at Manoa researchers, published in the journal Nature Communications this week, revealed that correctly simulating ocean current variations hundreds of feet below the ocean surface - the so-called Pacific Equatorial Undercurrent - during El Niño events is key in reducing the uncertainty of predictions of future warming in the eastern tropical Pacific.

31 Aug 2020

Understanding the Past Warming Events can Help Preserve Future Biodiversity

Approximately 40 per cent of terrestrial ecosystems are projected to have experienced shifts in temperature during the past 21,000 years that are similar in pace and magnitude to regional-scale future forecasts.

31 Aug 2020

World’s Strongest Ocean Currents Likely to Experience More Intense Marine Heatwaves

The world's strongest ocean currents, which play key roles in fisheries and ocean ecosystems, will experience more intense marine heatwaves than the global average over coming decades, according to a paper published today in Nature Communications by researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes at the University of Tasmania and CSIRO.

31 Aug 2020

Local Climate Policy Change Could Depend on a Combination of Factors

Natural disasters alone are not enough to motivate local communities to engage in climate change mitigation or adaptation, a new study from Oregon State University found.

31 Aug 2020

Study Shows Rising Temperatures can Impact Coastal Ice Shelves in Antarctica

According to a recent study, many of the coastal ice shelves in Antarctica would be rapidly destroyed if growing temperatures continue to push the melt water into various fractures that are presently entering their surfaces.

27 Aug 2020