Indian forest loss 'worse than feared' due to climate change
Forest loss in India could become an even bigger problem than anticipated in the coming years, with new research revealing climate change has caused significant recent losses.
Forest loss in India could become an even bigger problem than anticipated in the coming years, with new research revealing climate change has caused significant recent losses.
Environment
Mar 24, 2022
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A forest pest that bedevils Maine residents and tourists with hairs that cause an itchy rash appears to be spreading due to warming temperatures, a group of scientists has found.
Ecology
Feb 27, 2022
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When forecasting how storms may change in the future, it helps to know something about their past. Judging from historical records dating back to the 1850s, hurricanes in the North Atlantic have become more frequent over ...
Environment
Jan 5, 2022
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Several tree-ring studies have been carried out in the Hengduan Mountain (HM) region. However, long-term growth trends and physiological responses of high-elevation forests to atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) rise and climate ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 20, 2021
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The Lancang River is situated in a complex environmental setting with roughly two diverse topographies that gradually transform from grassland-dominated plateaus to tropical rainforest zones in the south. Previous studies ...
Environment
Dec 6, 2021
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As Earth's average temperature rises, climate change impacts grow around the globe. Hurricanes and wildfires are bigger and more destructive. Extreme rain events are more common. Droughts last longer.
Ecology
Oct 6, 2021
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Although annual concentrations of atmospheric greenhouse gases have increased continuously in past years, the global surface air temperature did not increase as much as expected during a period starting from 1997/1998 with ...
Environment
Sep 1, 2021
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The Mesozoic, which stretched from about 252 million to 66 million years ago, was a pivotal period in Earth's history. In addition to being the age of the dinosaurs, it was when the supercontinent Pangaea began to separate ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 2, 2021
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Climate change will fundamentally reshape life on Earth in the coming decades, even if humans can tame planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, according to a landmark draft report from the UN's climate science advisors obtained ...
Environment
Jun 23, 2021
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Icebergs crumbling into the sea may be what first come to mind when imagining the most dramatic effects of global warming.
Earth Sciences
Jun 3, 2021
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