The Gulf of Maine is warming faster than 99% of the world's oceans, raising concerns for its $2 billion-a-year American lobster fishery. Scientists at William & Mary's Batten School & VIMS have been studying the impacts of ...
Plants & Animals
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The planet's warming climate is having effects in Antarctica that increasingly resemble those observed in the Arctic, meaning global sea levels could rise faster than previously predicted, Danish researchers warned on Friday.
Earth Sciences
Oct 3, 2025
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A study published today in Earth System Dynamics provides a critical and previously underestimated connection between Antarctic sea ice, cloud cover, and global warming. This research is important because it shows that a ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 2, 2025
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UC Riverside researchers have discovered a piece that was missing in previous descriptions of the way Earth recycles its carbon. As a result, they believe that global warming can overcorrect into an ice age.
Earth Sciences
Sep 25, 2025
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Nearly a quarter of the global GDP per capita could be lost by 2100 compared to a "no further warming" baseline, if climate change continues to escalate unchecked, according to a study published in PLOS Climate by Kamiar ...
Environment
Sep 24, 2025
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Vibrio vulnificus, a bacterium that is potentially very dangerous to humans, is a natural component of marine plankton. The Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW) has now presented the first comprehensive ...
Ecology
Sep 24, 2025
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Temperature increases in mountain areas are known to stimulate an upslope shift of plant species that are adapted to colder temperatures. However, the research team has now found that under an intensified climate change scenario, ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 22, 2025
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More than 60,000 people died from heat in Europe during last year's record-breaking summer, a benchmark study said Monday, in the latest warning of the massive toll climate change is having on the continent.
Environment
Sep 22, 2025
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More than half of Earth's terrestrial surface is rangeland—vast open areas of native vegetation, suitable for grazing. These areas feed 50% of the world's livestock and support the livelihoods of more than 2 billion people. ...
Environment
Sep 18, 2025
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Permafrost, ground frozen for at least two years underlying the cold Arctic and alpine regions of the Northern Hemisphere, covers about 17% of the global land surface and stores an estimated one-third of the world's soil ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 17, 2025
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