Study reveals past climate of Cape Town
New insights into the history of South Africa's climate have been revealed.
Earth Sciences
Sep 22, 2022
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Festivals forced to adapt as climate change disrupts historic weather patterns
When spring arrives, fragrant flower and sweet fruit festivals can't be far behind.
Environment
Mar 23, 2022
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Algae blooms, which can threaten drinking water and human health, pop up regularly and may increase
Barges carrying mounds of coal toward St. Louis passed by Starved Rock at a snail's pace, inching past yellow-orange trees and sandstone canyons. A bald eagle hovered above a path leading hikers toward Lover's Leap. Near ...
Ecology
Nov 19, 2021
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How climate change is erasing the world's oldest rock art
In caves on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, ancient peoples marked the walls with red and mulberry hand stencils, and painted images of large native mammals or imaginary human-animal creatures.
Archaeology
May 14, 2021
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Small things can have a major effect on the prevention of biodiversity loss
The population growth of an endangered butterfly species is greatest in habitats with microclimatic variability, according to a study carried out collaboratively by the Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences and ...
Plants & Animals
May 5, 2021
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Model comparison adds more value in simulating extreme temperatures in China
Against the background of global warming, more intense and frequent heat waves have brought huge impacts on society and the natural world. As such, the characteristics of extreme temperature changes in the future have become ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 13, 2020
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Extreme heat and rain: Thousands of weather stations show there's now more of both, for longer
A major global update based on data from more than 36,000 weather stations around the world confirms that, as the planet continues to warm, extreme weather events such as heatwaves and heavy rainfall are now more frequent, ...
Environment
Jul 6, 2020
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UK 'increasingly likely' to see +40C temperatures: study
Temperatures in Britain could exceed 40 degrees Celsius every three or four years by 2100 if greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated, research published Tuesday has found, as climate change increases the likelihood of ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 30, 2020
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Climate change will bring bigger swings in European summer temperatures
Summers in Europe will feature more unusually cooler days as well as hotter ones in the future due to climate change, new research has revealed.
Earth Sciences
May 18, 2020
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Irrigation alleviates hot extremes
Researchers from ETH Zurich and other universities found evidence that expanding irrigation has dampened anthropogenic warming during hot days, with particularly strong effects over South Asia.
Environment
Jan 15, 2020
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