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New Project Aims to Study the Impact of Ocean Acidification on Oysters

The excess carbon dioxide responsible for global warming also increases the acidity of seawater, challenging the growth and survival of oysters and other shellfish.

19 Feb 2021

Migratory Songbirds may be Adapted to Particular Climate Regimes

As climate change takes hold across the Americas, some areas will get wetter, and others will get hotter and drier.

19 Feb 2021

Increasing Temperatures may Impact Milk and Meat Productivity in East Africa

New research published in Nature Food warns that heat stress in animals caused by rising temperatures and humidity will occur more frequently and for longer periods, impacting milk and meat productivity for dairy cattle, beef cattle, sheep, goat, pigs and poultry across East Africa.

19 Feb 2021

Researchers Offer Roadmap for Calculating the Social Cost of Carbon

The Biden administration is revising the social cost of carbon (SCC), a decade-old cost-benefit metric used to inform climate policy by placing a monetary value on the impact of climate change.

19 Feb 2021

COVID-19 has not Made People any Less Concerned About Climate Change

A new study suggests that COVID-19 was not a reason for people to be less considerate about climate change—in spite of the pandemic disturbing and controlling several aspects of their lives.

19 Feb 2021

Varying Aerosols Impact Solar Radiation Levels Reaching Earth’s Surface

Back in the late 1980s and 1990s, scientists from ETH Zurich had detected the initial signs that the amount of solar light reaching the surface of the Earth had been progressively declining since the 1950s.

19 Feb 2021

Study: Fishes Contribute About 16% of the Sinking Carbon in Upper Ocean Waters

Scientists have little understanding of the role fishes play in the global carbon cycle linked to climate change

18 Feb 2021

Novel Expedition to Explore Arctic Ocean Paleoceanography and Climate

The Arctic Ocean is a very sensitive and important region for global climate change, and is unique in comparison to the other oceans on Earth.

18 Feb 2021

Scientists Investigate the Effects of Human-Driven Climate Change and Fire Suppression

The unprecedented and deadly blazes that engulfed the American West in 2020 attest to the increasing number, size and severity of wildfires in the region.

18 Feb 2021

Rare Earth Elements are Contaminating Consumer and Environmental Plastics

According to a new study, some of the rarest metals found on Earth - utilized in smartphones and other electrical equipment manufacturing - are increasingly being found in day-to-day consumer plastics.

18 Feb 2021

Microbes from Termite Gut Could Break Down Lignin in Wheat Straw to Produce Biofuel

Wheat straw, or the dried stalks of wheat remaining after grain production, is a promising source of biofuels and commodity chemicals.

18 Feb 2021

New Data Show Overuse of Reliever Medication in Asthma is Responsible for 250,000 Tonnes of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Every Year in the UK

New analysis of respiratory inhaler medicine use in the UK shows that 83% of all short-acting beta-2-agonist (SABA) relievers for asthma are prescribed to patients who are potentially overusing their reliever medication (prescribed =3 inhalers/year).

18 Feb 2021