As winters become milder and lake ice less stable, more children and young adults are falling through the ice and fatally drowning, say York University researchers.
Earth Sciences
Nov 18, 2020
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Future pandemics will happen more often, kill more people and wreak even worse damage to the global economy than Covid-19 without a fundamental shift in how humans treat nature, the United Nations' biodiversity panel said ...
Ecology
Oct 29, 2020
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The Arctic is warming two or three times faster than the rest of the planet. This amplified warming is due to several factors, but the relative importance of each one remains still unclear. "We do know, however, that clouds ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 1, 2020
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The severe droughts in the USA and Australia are the first sign that the tropics, and their warm temperatures, are apparently expanding in the wake of climate change. But until now, scientists have been unable to conclusively ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 25, 2020
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Heatwaves in the world's oceans have become over 20 times more frequent due to human influence. This is what researchers from the Oeschger Center for Climate Research at the University of Bern are now able to prove. Marine ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 25, 2020
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The warmer it gets, the faster Antarctica loses ice—and much of it will disappear forever. Consequences for the world's coastal cities and cultural heritage sites would be detrimental, from London to Mumbai, and from New ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 23, 2020
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Droughts impact millions of people and threaten the delicate ecosystems of the Amazon rainforest in South America. Now a study within the TiPES project by Catrin Ciemer of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 17, 2020
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The concentration of mercury in the fish in Alaska's Yukon River may exceed the EPA's human health criterion by 2050 if greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming are not constrained, according to scientific research ...
Environment
Sep 16, 2020
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Environmental hazards affect populations worldwide and can drive migration under specific conditions. Changes in temperature levels, increased rainfall variability, and rapid-onset disasters, such as tropical storms, are ...
Environment
Sep 14, 2020
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Greenland's massive ice sheet saw a record net loss of 532 billion tonnes last year, raising red flags about accelerating sea level rise, according to new findings.
Earth Sciences
Aug 21, 2020
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