Climate change was the main cause of the extremely heavy rainfall that led to severe flooding, deaths and massive damage in cities across Minas Gerais state, Southeast Brazil, in January 2020, according to a study published in ...
Environment
Oct 19, 2021
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By the time Hurricane Ida made landfall on Sunday morning, the storm had strengthened dramatically. Picking up intensity overnight as it moved over warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico, it hit the Louisiana coast as a Category ...
Environment
Sep 7, 2021
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, has released the first of three climate reports expected in the coming months, and a University of Arizona faculty member is a lead author, continuing the university's ...
Environment
Aug 10, 2021
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Only between 2% and 3% of the Earth's terrestrial surface can be considered ecologically intact, according to a new study published in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. This percentage is drastically lower than past ...
Ecology
Apr 15, 2021
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The Tibetan Plateau, known as 'the roof of the world,' has warmed more rapidly than global average in the past decades. The observed warming of the Tibetan Plateau since 1960s can be attributed to human activities, particularly ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 6, 2021
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Extreme weather and climate events causing extensive damage are a fact of the Canadian climate, and this year is no exception.
Environment
Sep 7, 2020
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The chirp of cicadas ripples through the pine forest, carried along on the same breeze as the scent of lavender and wild thyme—with nearly no trace of man.
Ecology
Aug 18, 2020
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The nature of the sediments on the Basque continental shelf is very heterogeneous. From the point of view of distribution, two clearly differentiated sectors can be picked out in terms of grain size. "In the area of Bizkaia ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 26, 2020
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White-lipped peccaries have declined by as much as 87% to 90% from their historical range in Central America, signaling a population collapse of a key species in the region, according to a study published recently in the ...
Ecology
Feb 5, 2020
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How much climate change is natural? How much is man-made?
Environment
Sep 18, 2019
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