Climate Change News

RSS

Indigenous Property Rights can Reduce Deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest

One way to cut back on deforestation in the Amazon rainforest - and help in the global fight against climate change - is to grant more of Brazil's indigenous communities full property rights to tribal lands.

11 Aug 2020

Heritage Sites Could Transform to Adapt to Changing Climate

How much effort should be spent trying to keep Venice looking like Venice - even as it faces rising sea levels that threaten the city with more frequent extreme flooding?

11 Aug 2020

Seasonal Snowpack Reductions may Negatively Influence Forest Growth in Drier Climates

A new study suggests that future reductions in seasonal snowpack as a result of climate change may negatively influence forest growth in semi-arid climates, but less so in wetter climates.

11 Aug 2020

Intensified Rainstorms Due to Warming Climate Could Reduce Heat Damage to Crops

Intensified rainstorms predicted for many parts of the United States as a result of warming climate may have a modest silver lining: they could more efficiently water some major crops, and this would at least partially offset the far larger projected yield declines caused by the rising heat itself.

11 Aug 2020

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