Determining how climate change is affecting water supplies is difficult in a state like California that swings between floods and droughts, but a new study has found that climate models agree on key metrics that could help ...
Environment
Oct 8, 2020
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Researchers from the Interactive Technologies Institute (ITI) found that climate change communication has followed trends. They propose design guidelines to engage communities successfully in this field. Their results have ...
Environment
Jan 3, 2023
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A new study, co-authored by researchers at the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the University of British Columbia's Faculty of Forestry, offers a "scorecard" for climate adaptation projects—a set of 16 criteria ...
Environment
Nov 8, 2021
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In 2005, a small hydropower plant was installed in the Sukajaya district of West Java, Indonesia. This was an off-the-grid project, owned by the community, that provided electricity locally through a mini-grid to about 150 ...
Energy & Green Tech
Mar 27, 2019
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An interactive map developed by the Environmental Justice Atlas team at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) reveals that certain forms of wildlife conservation ...
Ecology
Oct 5, 2020
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Tropical forests are important to all of us on the planet. As well as being home for rare and fascinating biodiversity (like the lemurs of Madagascar), tropical forests lock up enormous amounts of carbon helping to stabilise ...
Environment
Jul 5, 2018
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The polar regions play a crucial role in balancing global climate—with the poles heating up much faster than the rest of the world. Yet, climate projections for these regions still have significant uncertainties. This is ...
Environment
Nov 30, 2021
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In the quest to better understand climate change, there is plenty we still don't know. But the question isn't whether or not climate change is happening. "What we sometimes hear on the news is political manufactured uncertainty," ...
Environment
Aug 17, 2017
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When we launched a citizen science project earlier this year, we didn't expect to get in so much trouble.
Plants & Animals
Sep 28, 2017
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Climate change is having an undeniable influence on coastal areas. A substantial proportion of the world's sandy coastlines are already eroding owing to increased storm surges, flooding and sea level rise. With our coastal ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 29, 2021
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