Tropical crops could suffer as climate change brings longer dry spells
Longer, hotter and drier spells in countries around the world due to climate change could hit important global crops within the next 50 years.
Longer, hotter and drier spells in countries around the world due to climate change could hit important global crops within the next 50 years.
Environment
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The Congo basin is home to the world's second-largest rainforest, whose 500 million acres have been slowly drying out for the last four decades. To figure out why the dry season is getting longer, scientists have been asking: ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 25, 2021
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A million years ago, dry seasons became more frequent and forests retreated before the encroaching savanna. Meanwhile, clustered around a nearby lake, our ancient ancestors fashioned stone tools.
Earth Sciences
Jul 8, 2021
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Hippopotamus aren't the first thing that come to mind when considering epidemiology and disease ecology. And yet these amphibious megafauna offered UC Santa Barbara ecologist Keenan Stears a window into the progression of ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 15, 2021
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An international research team led by Professor Dr. Frank Schäbitz has published a climate reconstruction of the last 200,000 years for Ethiopia. This means that high-resolution data are now available for the period when ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 14, 2021
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A team of researchers from Taiwan, Canada and the U.S. has found a link between the water cycle in Taiwan and the timing of earthquakes there. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, the group describes ...
Southern California can now expect to see post-wildfire landslides occurring almost every year, with major events expected roughly every ten years, a new study finds. The results show Californians are now facing a double ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 25, 2021
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While deforestation levels have decreased significantly since the turn of the 21st century, the United Nations (UN) estimates that 10 million hectares of trees have been felled in each of the last five years.
Environment
Feb 10, 2021
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Often, when populations and economies boom, so does air pollution—a product of increased fossil-fuel consumption by vehicles, industry and households. This has been true across much of Africa, where air pollution recently ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 8, 2021
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The start of California's annual rainy season has been pushed back from November to December, prolonging the state's increasingly destructive wildfire season by nearly a month, according to new research. The study cannot ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 4, 2021
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