Study shows how climate change can worsen impact of invasive plants
Synergy isn't always a good thing—take climate change and invasive plants.
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Experience of climate extremes increase Green voting in Europe
What role do experiences with climate change and extreme events play in shaping environmental attitudes and to what extent can they explain the recent rise in environmental concerns and willingness to vote for Green parties ...
Social Sciences
Feb 7, 2022
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Shifting rainfall patterns will affect whether an imperiled butterfly survives climate change
When we think of climate change, we often imagine how a warmer world will impact species, but a new study highlights the importance of changes in precipitation. The finding suggests that paying attention to the environmental ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 7, 2022
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US household air conditioning use could exceed electric capacity in next decade due to climate change
Climate change will drive an increase in summer air conditioning use in the United States likely to cause prolonged blackouts during peak summer heat if states do not expand capacity or improve efficiency, according to a ...
Environment
Feb 3, 2022
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Study shows widespread retreat and loss of marine-terminating glaciers in the northern hemisphere
Two researchers from the University of Ottawa are the first to map out all the glaciers that end in the ocean in the Northern Hemisphere and provide a measure of their rate of change over the last 20 years. Their findings ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 31, 2022
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Climate and soil determine the distribution of plant traits
An international research team succeeded in identifying global factors that explain the diversity of form and function in plants. Led by the University of Zurich, the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena and the ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 23, 2021
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Fire and ice: The puzzling link between Western wildfires and Arctic sea ice
"Some say the world will end in fire," wrote Robert Frost a century ago. The poet described one popular take on the world's end before shifting to its apocalyptic opposite, writing, "some say in ice."
Environment
Dec 16, 2021
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Stronger drought resistance of urban vegetation due to higher temperature, CO2 and reduced O3
Globally, plants are reaping the benefits of elevated CO2 levels in the atmosphere by increasing photosynthesis rates, a phenomenon known as the CO2 fertilization effect. However, those benefits might be offset by drier and ...
Environment
Dec 15, 2021
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Early bloomers: Using citizen-science data to investigate unseasonal flowering in Joshua trees
In November 2019, visitors to Joshua Tree National Park in California encountered a strange sight. Joshua trees and closely related Mojave yuccas, which normally remain reproductively dormant until late spring, were in full ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 14, 2021
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Planetary scientists discover brief presence of water in Arabia Terra on Mars
As part of a team of collaborators from Northern Arizona University and Johns Hopkins University, Northern Arizona University (NAU) Ph.D. candidate Ari Koeppel recently discovered that water was once present in a region of ...
Planetary Sciences
Nov 30, 2021
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