The Middle East's expertise in handling heat could be of benefit worldwide, writes Aly Abousabaa, director general of the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) and CGIAR's regional director ...
Ecology
Oct 31, 2023
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Australasia has likely overlooked a pollination crisis, according to new research published today in the journal Ecology and Evolution. The research, led by Macquarie University, also underscores a pressing need for intervention ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 30, 2023
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Deforestation in the Amazon causes land surfaces up to 100 kilometers away to get warmer, according to a new study. The research, by a team of British and Brazilian scientists, led by Dr. Edward Butt at the University of ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 30, 2023
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Are you frustrated with your employer's lack of commitment to sustainability? Maybe "climate quitting" is for you. Climate quitting means leaving your job due to concerns about your employer's impact on the climate or because ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 30, 2023
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NISAR will help researchers explore how changes in Earth's forest and wetland ecosystems are affecting the global carbon cycle and influencing climate change.
Earth Sciences
Oct 27, 2023
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Agriculture in Europe is increasingly affected by extreme weather conditions that lead to crop losses. In 2018, the damage in Germany alone amounted to around 770 million euros. Making wheat plants more resilient to these ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 26, 2023
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Discussions around science and technology can become controversial, such as public conversations around climate science or gene-editing tools.
Social Sciences
Oct 19, 2023
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Greenland is the second largest permanently ice-covered surface on the Earth; only Antarctica is larger. The Greenland ice sheet is drastically impacted by the effects of climate change. If the ice sheet melts completely ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 18, 2023
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Climate change and the rapid increase in frequency of extreme weather events around the globe—such as wildfires and floods—reinforces the reality that these events are not only not random but, rather, interconnected. ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 17, 2023
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Many parts of the Brazilian Amazon are neglected in ecological research, for several reasons, according to an article published in the journal Current Biology.
Ecology
Oct 16, 2023
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