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Reduced Consumption of Animal-Sourced Foods can Help Mitigate Climate Change

Nuts, beans, and lentils are examples of plant protein foods that can offer essential nutrients by using only a small portion of the land needed to produce dairy and meat.

8 Sep 2020

Study Finds Significantly Higher Net Flux of Carbon in Oceans

According to a new study, the world’s oceans absorb more carbon compared to the amounts proposed by a majority of the scientific models.

7 Sep 2020

New Method Reveals How Climate Change Caused the Rise and Fall of Ancient Civilization

A Rochester Institute of Technology researcher developed a mathematical method that shows climate change likely caused the rise and fall of an ancient civilization.

4 Sep 2020

New Technology Could Increase Rice Grain Yield Under Changing Climatic Conditions

Rice is the most consumed staple food in the world. It is especially common in Asia, where hunger concerns are prevalent.

3 Sep 2020

Forests Scorched by Wildfire may Turn into Grasslands and Shrublands

With flames racing across hundreds of square miles throughout Colorado and California this summer and a warming climate projected to boost wildfire activity across the West, residents can't help but wonder what our beloved forests will look like in a few decades.

3 Sep 2020

Study Shows the Impact of Aviation Emissions on Climate

Aviation has been calculated to be 3.5 per cent of all human activities that drive climate change, new research shows.

3 Sep 2020

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