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Poultry Diet Instead of Beef May Help Reduce Impact on the Climate

Beef on our plates is one of the biggest climate villains, but that does not mean we have to adopt a vegan diet to reach climate goals. Research results from Chalmers University of Technology show that adopting a diet in which the protein derives from poultry is a smart and inexpensive way to reduce our impact on the climate.

3 Apr 2015

New Data About Northern and Arctic Climate Needed to Understand Climate Change

Novel data from the Artic and The North is needed to understand the changing climate. European, Russian and Chinese scientific leaders and researchers in climate issues gathered only recently in Helsinki, Finland for a conference on the Pan-Eurasian Experiment (PEEX).

2 Apr 2015

Flowers Bloom Earlier When the Sweet Spot for Seeds Comes Earlier Due to Climate Change

Scientists at the John Innes Centre have discovered why the first buds of spring come increasingly earlier as the climate changes.

2 Apr 2015

Soil Organic Matter May Be Much More Vulnerable to Climate Change than Suspected

Soil organic matter, long thought to be a semi-permanent storehouse for ancient carbon, may be much more vulnerable to climate change than previously thought.

2 Apr 2015

Activity Levels of Lizards are Less Constrained by Warming Temperatures

Spring is here and ectotherms, or animals dependent on external sources to raise their body temperature, are becoming more active. Recent studies have shown that as the average global temperature increases, some lizards may spend more time in the shade and less time eating and reproducing, which could endanger many species.

2 Apr 2015

Bacteria Contribute to Efficient Carbon Storage in the Ocean

Leipzig, Columbia (SC), Munich. The ocean is a large reservoir of dissolved organic molecules, and many of these molecules are stable against microbial utilization for hundreds to thousands of years.

1 Apr 2015

Climate Change Eats Into Profits of Soybean Farmers

Even during a good year, soybean farmers nationwide are, in essence, taking a loss. That's because changes in weather patterns have been eating into their profits and taking quite a bite: $11 billion over the past 20 years.

1 Apr 2015

Marine Ecosystems Can Take Thousands of Years to Recover from Climate-Related Upheavals

A 30-foot-long core sample of Pacific Ocean seafloor is changing what we know about ocean resiliency in the face of rapidly changing climate. A new study reports that marine ecosystems can take thousands, rather than hundreds, of years to recover from climate-related upheavals.

31 Mar 2015

Study Shows Global Warming Actually Tends to Reduce Temperature Variability

Cold snaps like the ones that hit the eastern United States in the past winters are not a consequence of climate change. Scientists at ETH Zurich and the California Institute of Technology have shown that global warming actually tends to reduce temperature variability.

30 Mar 2015

Natural, Anthropogenic Disturbances Can Reduce Resistance of Ecosystems to Changing Climatic Conditions

Undisturbed ecosystems can be resistant to changing climatic conditions, but this resistance is reduced when ecosystems are subject to natural or anthropogenic disturbances. Plants are particularly sensitive to climatic changes in early life stages and even small climatic changes can cause vegetation shifts when ecosystems are disturbed by fires, insect outbreaks or other disturbances.

30 Mar 2015