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MIT Campus Climate Resiliency Framework Deals with Sustainability Challenges

Like most offices across MIT, the Office of Sustainability (MITOS) has in recent months worked to pivot projects while seeking to understand and participate in the emergence of a new normal as the result of the Covid-19 pandemic.

16 Jul 2020

Optimized Alarm Helps Mitigate Changes in European Climate

Laura Jackson and Richard Wood, both climate scientists from The Met Office in the United Kingdom, have detected metrics that may provide early warnings of sudden variations in the European Climate.

16 Jul 2020

Fish Reef Domes A Boon for Environment, Recreational Fishing

Manmade reefs can be used in conjunction with the restoration or protection of natural habitat to increase fish abundance in estuaries, UNSW researchers have found.

16 Jul 2020

Spread of Non-Native Species has Negative Consequences on Ecology

An increase of 20 to 30 per cent of invasive non-native (alien) species would lead to dramatic future biodiversity loss worldwide. This is the conclusion of a study by an international team of researchers led by Franz Essl and Bernd Lenzner from the University of Vienna. It has been published in the journal Global Change Biology.

15 Jul 2020

Overexploitation, Climate Change Account for Major Decline in Global Oyster Population

An interdisciplinary team of scientists studying thousands of oyster shells along the Georgia coast, some as old as 4,500 years, has published new insights into how Native Americans sustained oyster harvests for thousands of years, observations that may lead to better management practices of oyster reefs today.

15 Jul 2020

Significant Loss of Plant-Pollinator Networks is Linked to Climate Change

Climate change and an increase in disturbed bee habitats from expanding agriculture and development in northeastern North America over the last 30 years are likely responsible for a 94 per cent loss of plant-pollinator networks, York University researchers found.

15 Jul 2020

Study Shows Carnian Pluvial Episode was a Global Climate Event

The Triassic Period, about 252 to 201 million years ago, was a time of volatile change, particularly during an interval known as the Carnian.

14 Jul 2020

Study Analyzes Impacts of Climate Change on Fish Stocks in Mediterranean Sea

Mathematical modelling inspired by social media is identifying the significant impacts of warming seas on the world's fisheries.

14 Jul 2020

Study Predicts Climate Change Will Make Dry Seasons Drier, Wet Seasons Wetter

The world can expect more rainfall as the climate changes, but it can also expect more water to evaporate, complicating efforts to manage reservoirs and irrigate crops in a growing world, according to a Clemson University researcher whose latest work has been published in the journal Nature Communications.

14 Jul 2020