Earth's biosphere witnessed its greatest ecological catastrophe in the latest Permian, dated to about 251.9 million years ago. The current model for biodiversity collapse states that both marine and terrestrial animals were ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 22, 2015
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(Phys.org) —The notion that we'll avoid serious damage to the world's climate if we limit the warming of the atmosphere to a 2-degree-Celsius rise in temperature is untrue, says Stanford climate scientist Chris Field.
Environment
Jul 10, 2013
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Scientists are reporting significant changes in the distribution of coastal fish species in south-east Australia which they say are partly due to climate change.
Ecology
Sep 28, 2010
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The rate at which Earth approaches critical levels of climate change could be as dangerous to our future as reaching these levels themselves, researchers have determined.
Earth Sciences
Aug 9, 2023
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When managing degraded tropical landscapes to achieve global biodiversity and ecosystem services targets, it is necessary to not only restore new forests but conserve natural remnants of old forests as well finds a new study ...
Ecology
Aug 1, 2022
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Climate change may expand suitable cropland, particularly in the Northern high latitudes, but tropical regions may becoming decreasingly suitable, according to a study published September 17, 2014 in the open-access journal ...
Environment
Sep 17, 2014
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By combining airborne laser technology, satellite mapping, and ground-based plot surveys, a team of researchers has produced the first large-scale, high-resolution estimates of carbon stocks in remote and fragile Madagascar. ...
Environment
Feb 14, 2012
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(Phys.org)—CO2 levels in fossil soils from the Late Jurassic confirm that climate, vegetation and animal richness varied across the planet 150 million years ago, suggesting future human changes to global climate will heavily ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 8, 2013
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The setting up of a network of Marine Protected Areas, developed since the 1960s in the Mediterranean, has proved to be an effective way of protecting some species such as fish. However, despite the efforts made, more attention ...
Ecology
Jul 12, 2011
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Waste is a natural by-product of life on Earth and of productive human economies. Living systems have evolved to reconstitute waste—creatures like dung beetles fill an ecological niche of breaking down other organisms' ...
Environment
Jan 18, 2024
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