Ancient Antarctic ice sheet collapse could happen again, triggering a new global flood
It's happened before, and it could happen again.
Earth Sciences
Dec 21, 2018
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Climate change could lead to threefold increase in powerful storms across Europe and North America
Powerful storms that cause extreme weather conditions such as flooding across Europe and North America, with the potential to wreak social and economic havoc, could increase threefold by the end of the 21st century due to ...
Environment
Nov 26, 2018
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Climate change causing more severe wildfires, larger insect outbreaks in temperate forests
A warmer, drier climate is expected is increase the likelihood of larger-scale forest disturbances such as wildfires, insect outbreaks, disease and drought, according to a new study co-authored by a Portland State University ...
Environment
Nov 8, 2018
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Researchers connect the current mix of soil bacteria to climate conditions from 50 years ago
Scientists expect climate change influences the geographical distribution of microbes in the soil, but few studies have dug deeply into that relationship. A study published this week in mSystems suggests the connection can ...
Environment
Oct 23, 2018
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Designing a more productive corn able to cope with future climates
An international research team has found they can increase corn productivity by targeting the enzyme in charge of capturing CO2 from the atmosphere.
Biotechnology
Oct 1, 2018
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Novel framework to address uncertainty in water management
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) researchers have developed a general decision-making framework to support policy decisions on the management of water resources, which, for the first time, explicitly ...
Environment
Sep 14, 2018
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Researchers unlock secrets of plant development
University of British Columbia researchers have discovered an internal messaging system that plants use to manage the growth and division of their cells. These growth-management processes are critical for all organisms, because ...
Biotechnology
Aug 23, 2018
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What is the maximum possible number of Atlantic tropical cyclones? See the year 2005
Climate simulations and analyses of Atlantic hurricane activity indicate that the record number of tropical cyclones that occurred in 2005 (28 storms) is close to the maximum number that might occur in this region, given ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 22, 2018
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2018-2022 expected to be abnormally hot years
This summer's worldwide heatwave makes 2018 a particularly hot year. And the next few years will be similar, according to a study led by Florian Sévellec, a CNRS researcher at the Laboratory for Ocean Physics and Remote ...
Environment
Aug 14, 2018
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Climate shift may have spurred migration across now submerged land bridge
A new study by Canadian, UK and US researchers has found that climate conditions shifted to become wetter and warmer around 15,000 years ago and contributed to the first human migration between Asia and North America.
Earth Sciences
Jun 27, 2018
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