The world is getting hotter, causing shifts in seasonal patterns and increasing the amount of extreme weather such as severe droughts and heat waves, which can affect crop yields and food supplies. A recent study led by a ...
Ecology
Jun 2, 2023
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The increase in warmer and drier climates predicted to occur under climate change scenarios has led many scientists to also predict a global increase in the number of wildfires. But a new study in the May ...
Ecology
Apr 21, 2009
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Changes in air patterns as the world warms will likely push more and nastier hurricanes up against the United States' east and Gulf coasts, especially in Florida, a new study said.
Environment
Apr 7, 2023
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Climate change could cause abrupt shifts in the amount of vegetation growing in parts of Great Britain, new research shows.
Environment
May 29, 2020
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Australian scientists have discovered many tropical, mountaintop plants won't survive global warming, even under the best-case climate scenario.
Ecology
Aug 7, 2015
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Human-caused climate change will drive more extreme summer heat waves in the western U.S., including in California and the Southwest as early as 2020, new research shows.
Environment
Mar 19, 2018
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Top scientists have a better idea of how global warming will shape the 21st century: In a new report, they predict sea levels will be much higher than previously thought and pinpoint how dangerously hot it's likely to get.
Environment
Sep 28, 2013
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New research from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa (UHM) reveals a large part of the heavily urbanized area of Honolulu and Waikiki, Hawai'i is at risk of groundwater inundation—flooding that occurs as groundwater is ...
Environment
Mar 28, 2017
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Got any spaces left on that 2020 bingo card? Pencil in "another Dust Bowl in the Great Plains." A study from University of Utah researchers and their colleagues finds that atmospheric dust levels are rising across the Great ...
Environment
Oct 13, 2020
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Many marine organisms—such as coral, clams, mussels, sea urchins, barnacles, and certain microscopic plankton—rely on equilibrated chemical conditions and pH levels in the ocean to build their calcium-based shells and ...
Environment
Feb 3, 2015
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