Climate change is reducing the body size of many animal and plant species, including some which supply vital nutrition for more than a billion people already living near hunger's threshold, according to a study released Sunday.
Environment
Oct 16, 2011
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Record floods in southern China this month displaced more than half a million people, while searing heat buckled roads in other parts of the country.
Environment
Jun 25, 2022
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(Phys.org)—An international team of archaeologists and earth science researchers has compiled a precisely dated, high-resolution climate record of 2,000 years that shows how Maya political systems developed and disintegrated ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 8, 2012
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Researchers at CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, have painstakingly reconstructed the nation's 'once in a century drought' in the early 1900s, revealing that it caused mass ecosystem collapse and dramatic declines ...
Environment
Jul 16, 2019
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Nuclear bomb tests during the Cold War may have changed rainfall patterns thousands of miles from the detonation sites, new research has revealed.
Earth Sciences
May 13, 2020
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A 2,300-year climate record University of Pittsburgh researchers recovered from an Andes Mountains lake reveals that as temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere rise, the planet's densely populated tropical regions will most ...
Earth Sciences
May 11, 2011
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Record-breaking Victorian weather has been revealed after millions of archived rainfall records dating back nearly 200 years were rescued by thousands of volunteers during the first COVID-19 lockdown.
Environment
Mar 27, 2022
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The Great Lakes region is enjoying another year of lower water levels and wider beaches.
Earth Sciences
Aug 12, 2022
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Homes and communities across the UK have felt the full force of torrential downpours in recent weeks. And the UK's uplands could in future see significantly more annual rainfall than is currently being predicted in national ...
Environment
Nov 14, 2019
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University of Arkansas researchers have established a link between climate patterns in the Amazon and large parts of North and South America using their newly developed tree-ring chronology from the Amazon River basin.
Environment
Oct 9, 2020
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