Climate Change
Climate change refers to long-term changes in temperatures and weather patterns. These changes may be natural, such as through variations in the solar cycle. Human activities have been the main driver of climate change, primarily due to burning fossil fuels like coal, oil, and gas.
Burning fossil fuels generates greenhouse gas emissions like a blanket wrapped around the Earth, trapping the sun’s heat and raising temperatures. Climate change puts people at risk of food and water scarcity, increased flooding, extreme heat, disease, and economic loss.
Researchers discover evidence of sea star species hybridization
Biologists use whole-genome data to study two types of sea stars.
How do trees influence cloud formation?
This finding could reduce uncertainties in climate models and help make more accurate predictions.
Half of the glaciers vanish with 1.5 degrees of warming
The world's glaciers could lose as much as 40% of their mass by 2100.
Scientists assembled the genome sequences of nearly 300 varieties of potatoes
It is the most extensive collection of genome sequence data for the potato and its relatives to date.
The role of Atlantification in declining Arctic sea ice
How does north Atlantic water influence the arctic ocean climate?
Balancing Biodiversity, Climate Change, and Food: A Trifecta
Scientists identify ways landowners in rural Brazil can find win-win situations, with biodiversity and farming.
Warming temperatures increase groundwater depletion rates in India
India's groundwater depletion rates could triple in the coming decades due to the warming climate.
The relationship between greenhouse gas emissions and polar bear survival rates
How do greenhouse gas emissions affect polar bears?
Arctic soil methane consumption increases in a drier climate
Well-drained soils remove methane from the atmosphere.
Heat stress in cattle is a global risk due to climate change
Expansion of cattle farming and unchecked climate change could expose over 1 billion cows to heat stress.
Climate distress linked to anxiety and action in youth
The psycho-social impacts of the climate crisis on young people in the UK.