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Extreme Climate Events Pose Substantial Risks to Society and People's Health

Extreme climate events, such as heat waves and flooding, have become more common and intense in recent years.

29 Sep 2021

Study Shows How Climate Change Could be Altering the Marine Food Web

Climate change is redistributing biodiversity globally, and distributional shifts of organisms often follow the speed and direction of environmental changes.

29 Sep 2021

Tree Health Linked to How Birds Respond to Climate Change

New Research from Oxford University has revealed that shifts in the timing of egg laying by great tits in response to climate change vary markedly between breeding sites within the same woodland and that this variation is linked to the health of nearby oak trees.

29 Sep 2021

Research Sheds New Light on the Impact of Human Colonization on Island Ecosystems

Research has shed new light on the impact of humans on islands' biodiversity. The findings show how human colonization altered forest across the islands of Macaronesia including the loss of landscape authenticity.

29 Sep 2021

Novel Tools can Make Road Networks More Sustainable with Limited Budget

The share of federal spending on infrastructure has reached an all-time low, falling from 30 percent in 1960 to just 12 percent in 2018.

29 Sep 2021

Warning Signs of Ecosystem Collapse Identified in Papua New Guinea Wetland

Warning signs of ecosystem collapse at a wetland of international significance have been discovered in Papua New Guinea (PNG). This was found by a new study performed by scientists from The Australian National University (ANU).

29 Sep 2021

Climate and Geology to Play a Role in Shaping Earth's Biodiversity

Tropical rainforests are the most biodiverse habitats on Earth. They are home to a huge number of different plants, animals, fungi and other organisms.

28 Sep 2021

Younger Generations Threatened More by Inadequate Climate Action than Older People

Babies born in 2020 worldwide could expect to experience 2-7 times more extreme climate events – including heat waves, wildfires, crop failures, droughts, floods and tropical storms – under current global climate policy pledges than someone born in 1960, report Wim Thiery and colleagues in a Policy Forum.

28 Sep 2021

Study Reveals Double Benefit of Limiting Global Warming for Tropical Cyclone Exposure

The global ambition is to limit warming to well below two degrees, yet compared to unmitigated climate change even reaching two degree Celsius of global warming 50 years later could lead to a quite different outcome, as an interdisciplinary team of scientists from Germany, Switzerland and the US found in a computer-based analysis: Until 2100, population models project an unforced, regular declining population in cyclone prone areas on a global scale.

28 Sep 2021

New Bioinspired Membrane to Provide Fresh Water for Farming and Energy Production

Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories and their collaborators have developed a new membrane, whose structure was inspired by a protein from algae, for electrodialysis that could be used to provide fresh water for farming and energy production.

28 Sep 2021

New Stretchable Battery Technology Mimics Snake Scales

The Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM), an institute under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Science and ICT, has developed a flexible, stretchable battery that bends and stretches like a snake.

28 Sep 2021

Researchers Examine the Dynamics of Iceberg Calving Events

Glaciologists at the University of California, Irvine and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have examined the dynamics underlying the calving of the Delaware-sized iceberg A68 from Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf in July 2017, finding the likely cause to be a thinning of ice melange, a slushy concoction of windblown snow, iceberg debris and frozen seawater that normally works to heal rifts.

28 Sep 2021

DOE Announces Plans to Offer $14 Million for Atmospheric System Research

Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced plans to provide $14 million for new grants to universities, other academic institutions, non-profit organizations, for-profit organizations, and other federal agencies within the area of Atmospheric System Research (ASR).

28 Sep 2021

Palmetto and Solar Sister Collaborate to Bring Clean Energy Across Sub-Saharan Africa

Palmetto, a leader in residential solar and energy services, has made a transformational $5 million multi-year commitment to support Solar Sister's core operation of training and supporting women to deliver clean ene...

28 Sep 2021

Scientists to Explore if Pollution Increases the Severity of Thunderstorms

A team of atmospheric scientists from around the nation is descending on the Houston, Texas, area for the next 14 months to seek answers to a vexing question: Do tiny specks of soot, dust, smoke, and other particles suspended in Earth's atmosphere help determine the severity of thunderstorms?

28 Sep 2021