Tag: climate change
How is climate change affecting fishes? There are clues inside their...
Karin Limburg, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Climate change affects all life on Earth, but it poses unique challenges...
Deep sea carbon reservoirs once superheated the Earth – could it...
Lowell D. Stott, University of Southern California
As concern grows over human-induced climate change, many scientists are looking back through Earth’s history to events that...
The value of trees: 4 essential reads
Jennifer Weeks, The Conversation
Trees are leafing out across much of the United States, providing a welcome transition from winter to spring. It’s easy to...
To solve climate change and biodiversity loss, we need a Global...
Greg Asner, Arizona State University
Earth’s cornucopia of life has evolved over 550 million years. Along the way, five mass extinction events have caused serious...
For a flooded Midwest, climate forecasts offer little comfort
Shuang-Ye Wu, University of Dayton
Flooding in the Midwest, triggered by an intense “bomb cyclone,” has devastated parts of the region, which has been plagued...
Jamaica leads in Richard Branson-backed plan for a Caribbean climate revolution
Masaō Ashtine, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus and Tom Rogers, Coventry University
After hurricanes Irma and Maria tore through the Caribbean in 2017,...
Newly discovered cold-tolerant plants from Siberia could promote clean bioenergy
Charles Pignon, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Climate change is an urgent threat to societies around the world, driven by carbon dioxide emissions from fossil...
Fossil fuels are bad for your health and harmful in many...
Noel Healy, Salem State University; Jennie C. Stephens, Northeastern University, and Stephanie Malin, Colorado State University
Many Democratic lawmakers aim to pass a Green New...