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Rapid Climate Change Will Severely Affect Global Distribution of Biodiversity

All over the world, biodiversity is not uniformly distributed. A majority of the species live in the tropics and very few live toward the North and South Pole. But the fossil record reveals a completely different pattern during the period 252 to 247 million years ago.

23 Jul 2020

Research Reveals Sensitivity of Earth’s Climate to Carbon Dioxide

Researchers who performed the most detailed and advanced study of climate sensitivity have now reported more confidently about the sensitivity level of Earth’s climate to carbon dioxide.

23 Jul 2020

Study Calls for New Measures to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

A cave deep in the wilderness of central Nevada is a repository of evidence supporting the urgent need for the Southwestern U.S. to adopt targets aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, a new UNLV study finds.

23 Jul 2020

Scientists Detect Microplastics in the Guts of Sea-Bed Sharks

Microplastics have been found in the guts of sharks that live near the seabed off the UK coast.

23 Jul 2020

Prehistoric Interglacial Warm Period Accounts for Substantial Ice Loss in East Antarctica

Questions about the stability of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet are a major source of uncertainty in estimates of how much sea level will rise as the Earth continues to warm.

23 Jul 2020

Genetic Selection can Help Mitigate Greenhouse Gases

Researchers in Spain propose mitigating methane production by dairy cattle through breeding.

23 Jul 2020

MIT Students Explore Biological Engineering Approaches to Food and Water Security

Making corn salt-tolerant by engineering its microbiome. Increasing nut productivity with fungal symbiosis. Cleaning up toxic metals in the water supply with algae.

23 Jul 2020

Dragonflies can Help Measure Mercury Pollution

A citizen science program that began over a decade ago has confirmed the use of dragonflies to measure mercury pollution, according to a study in Environmental Science & Technology.

23 Jul 2020

Discovery of First Active Methane Seep in Antarctica Sheds Light on Methane Cycle

The discovery of the first active methane seep in Antarctica is providing scientists new understanding of the methane cycle and the role methane found in this region may play in warming the planet.

23 Jul 2020

Extreme Climate Events Make Forest More Vulnerable

Amazonia experiences seasonal fires each year. More than 90% of the fires are distributed across the southern boundary of Amazon Basin where the vegetation dominated by savannas are flammable in the dry season.

23 Jul 2020

Variations of Sea Surface Temperature can Influence European Climate

Our planet's climate system is complex. Different components, like atmosphere, ocean, sea and land ice influence each other and cause natural climate variations on a range of timescales from months to decades.

23 Jul 2020

Various Aspects of Climate Change Influence Spread of Invasive Marine Species

What factors influence the spread of invasive animal species in our oceans? This question was the focus for a team of experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bangor University, and the University of Greifswald's Zoological Institute and Museum in the context of the DFG-sponsored Research Training Group 2010 RESPONSE.

23 Jul 2020